The franchise has won just two playoff games in the past 11 seasons. But a talented young roster look like they could make a deep run this time around One of the NBA’s great recent runs of futility could finally be nearing an end. The Orlando Magic don’t carry the league’s longest active playoff drought […]
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Fraser Brown believes the abuse of officials and players has brought rugby union to the edge of a “precipice”.
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World number two Judd Trump makes an early Scottish Open exit in Edinburgh, with the Englishman losing 4-2 to China’s Zhang Anda.
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Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee Pierluigi Collina has reinforced his statement that abuse of officials is a “cancer” on football, after Turkish referee Halil Umut Mele was punched in the face by Ankaragucu’s president Faruk Koca.
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Sunderland are in talks with Reims coach Will Still in an attempt to persuade the highly rated 31-year-old to quit the Ligue 1 club to take charge of the EFL Championship team, sources have told ESPN.
Angel Di Maria scores from a corner as Benfica beat Red Bull Salzburg to secure third place in their Champions League group and qualify for the Europa League.
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Australian opener says ‘all lives are equal’ message is not politicalCaptain Pat Cummins confirmed Khawaja would observe ICC rule Usman Khawaja has pledged to fight a decision by the ICC to bar him from displaying human rights messages on his shoes while representing Australia this summer in support of people in Gaza. Khawaja was pictured
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Referees body (PGMOL) chief Howard Webb said the official in charge of Manchester City’s 3-3 draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Dec. 3 made a mistake by not allowing play to continue after a foul on Erling Haaland.
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As nation-state ownership within football becomes normalized, growing numbers of fans are willing to make excuses for autocrats It was the clearest definition of ‘sportswashing’ you could hope for. Buried within Foreign Office exchanges unearthed in a recent investigation by The Athletic into the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United, one line stuck out: “The takeover
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Fly-half Billy Burns says victory over Racing 92 in the Investec Champions Cup can end Ulster’s recent slump in form and be a “springboard” for their season.
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