Pep Guardiola press conference LIVE Man City team news ahead of Liverpool FC fixture
Pep Guardiola will talk to the press on Friday afternoon ahead of Sunday's massive clash with rivals Liverpool.
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Drake's logo to replace Spotify on Barcelona shirt for el clasico with Real Madrid
Barcelona will sport the owl logo of Drake's OVO Sound label on their jerseys instead of main sponsors Spotify when they take on Real Madrid in Sunday's clasico to mark the Canadian rapper surpassing 50 billion streams on the music platform.
'You have to pick a side' - Phil Mickelson confident in decision to join LIV Golf from PGA Tour
Phil Mickelson is convinced he has chosen the “winning side” in making the move to LIV Golf, claiming he sees the PGA Tour “trending downwards". Mickelson was the first high-profile recruit for the Saudi-funded LIV Golf, despite courting controversy by labelling the Saudis «scary motherf*****s” and saying he was well aware of their „horrible record on human rights” only to move anyway. Ad The left-hander is in Saudi Arabia for the latest LIV event, which takes place at Royal Greens in Jeddah starting on Friday.
FIA to re-evaluate its World Touring Car competition
The FIA is set to carry out an in-depth assessment of its World Touring Car category ahead of a future format change for its premier competition for combustion engine touring cars. Motor sport’s global governing body has awarded a world title each year since 2005, initially with the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) until 2017, then with the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup run since 2018 as a multi-event series utilising the TCR category technical regulations.However, 2022 is set to be the fifth and final season of the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup in its current format, with any future evolution of the competition to be evaluated and announced at a later time.
Indonesia task force wants FA chief to resign over stadium disaster
JAKARTA: The task force investigating a stadium tragedy that killed 132 people in Indonesia has called on the country's football association chief to resign, a top minister said on Friday (Oct 14).
'They are Federer, Nadal and Djokovic of snooker' – Neil Robertson hails O'Sullivan, Higgins, Williams
Neil Robertson will play his first ranking event of the season at the Northern Ireland Open on Sunday feeling blessed the sport's holy trinity are still top of the pots. The 2010 world champion faced six-time world champion Steve Davis and seven-time Crucible winner Stephen Hendry in the death throes of their competitive career, but continues to confront Class of '92 icons Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins and Mark Williams in their prime.
Canadian short track speed skating team set up for success in post-Hamelin era
When Jordan Pierre-Gilles stepped up to the starting line for Canada in the men's 5,000-metre relay at the Beijing Olympics in February, the moment — even beyond skating for his first Olympic medal at his first Olympic Games — was not lost on him.
Sideshow to money-spinner: The rise and rise of T20 cricket
cricket has gone from being a light-hearted sideshow to a money-spinning, central plank of the sport's global calendar. With the eighth T20 World Cup starting in Australia on Sunday, AFP Sport looks at the rise and rise of the game's big-hitting, crowd-pleasing format. The end of the Benson and Hedges Cup one-day competition in 2002, due to a ban on tobacco advertising, left a gap in English cricket's domestic calendar. Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the England and Wales Cricket Board, proposed a 20-overs-per-side event, a format already known in amateur and junior cricket. The aim was to attract a younger audience who might not have the time to engage with longer formats.