Nunavut's Jake Higgs guides team to territory's 1st-ever win at Brier
Nunavut has its first-ever victory at the Canadian men's curling championship in London, Ont.
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Infantino backs IFAB moves to stop time-wasting
LONDON :Matches spanning 100 minutes could become commonplace with FIFA president Gianni Infantino calling for more accurate calculations regarding added time to be implemented in competitions around the world.
IFAB agrees extension of VAR broadcast trial
LONDON : A trial to broadcast the VAR decisions to fans inside stadiums and television audiences was confirmed by soccer's law-making body the International Football Association Board (IFAB) at its annual meeting in London on Saturday.
Defending champion Gushue wins opening game at Tim Hortons Brier
Defending champ Brad Gushue defeated British Columbia's Jacques Gauthier 6-5 on Friday night in the opening draw at the Canadian men's curling championship in London, Ont.
Wimbledon To Scrap Russia Player Ban - Reports
British tennis chiefs are set to abandon their controversial ban on Russian and Belarusian players ahead of this year's Wimbledon championships, it was reported Friday. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, the UK's governing Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) came under pressure from the British government to impose a ban. Russian and Belarusian players were eventually barred from all five ATP tournaments staged by the LTA, including the longstanding Queen's Club event in London.
Eddie Howe denies feeling ‘pressure’ after Amanda Staveley’s bullish Newcastle title claims
NEWCASTLE: Eddie Howe said on Friday that any talk of Newcastle United winning the Premier League and the Champions League are long-term goals, and he does not feel any added pressure as a result of recent, very public title predictions of title successes by Amanda Staveley.
Michael Beale 'knows' Rangers contract decisions from Kent and Morelos as brutal Ibrox exodus reality mapped out
Pundit Tam McManus reckons Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos have already told Michael Beale they won't renew their Rangers contracts.
Vaughan denies racism as Rafiq accused of being ready to play ‘race card’
LONDON: Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan told a hearing into accusations of racism at Yorkshire on Friday it was “inconceivable” he would make the comment attributed to him by Azeem Rafiq as his former county team-mate was accused of being ready to play the “race card.”Vaughan and a number of other former players at the county cricket club face charges related to the use of racially discriminatory language.Pakistan-born Rafiq, 32, first went public with allegations of racism and bullying in September 2020, related to his two spells at Yorkshire.Rafiq alleged Vaughan told him and three other Yorkshire players of Asian origin “there’s too many of you lot, we need to do something about it,” before a 2009 Twenty20 match between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) lawyer Jane Mulcahy asked Vaughan at the ongoing Cricket Discipline Commission hearing in London whether the words “there’s too many of you lot” were “totally unacceptable” as well as “racist and discriminatory.”“Absolutely,” said Vaughan, 48, who in his witness statement said: “I consider it to be inconceivable that I would use the words contained in the allegation.”Rafiq’s conduct, however, was also called into question later Friday when Matthew Wood, a former personal development manager at the Professional Cricketers’ Association and an ex-Yorkshire cricketer, said in a witness statement: “In my dealings with Azeem, I was aware of two occasions in which he (directly or indirectly) acknowledged that he would be prepared to use the ‘race card’.“By that, I understood Azeem to mean that he would make, or allude to, an allegation of racism in bad faith in order to gain an advantage.”Wood’s statement also