Sources told Sporting News that the Celtics have expressed interest in Texas big man Mo Bamba, including interviewing him at the Chicago pre-draft combine two weeks ago.
NBA trade rumors: Celtics interested in Mo Bamba, could move up in draft, SN sources say
Nigeria vs Congo DR: TV channel, live stream, squad news & preview
Gernot Rohr will begin finalising his World Cup strategies with an encounter against Florent Ibenge’s men in Port Harcourt
Neymar: I’m not at 100 per cent yet
With just three weeks until Brazil’s World Cup opener, the PSG star has admitted he is not yet back to full fitness
Mexico vs. Wales: TV channel, live stream, team news & match preview
El Tri begin to put the final touches on their World Cup preparations but may be shorthanded at the Rose Bowl because of injuries
England defender Tarkowski off World Cup standby list with hernia injury
The defenders’s hopes of playing in Russia are over following the news that he requires an operation
England v Pakistan: second Test, day one – live!
- Over-by-over updates from the Headingley Test
- Vic Marks: defeat could spell big trouble for England and Bayliss
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Strong morning for England, and despite suggestions that they should have more wickets by this point, I’d wager they would have whipped your arm off like a hungry shark if you’d offered them this at the start of play. Of the three bowlers only Curran has looked a bit innocuous, and we’ll let him off that for now as he’s not old enough to rent a car.
26th over: Pakistan 68-4 (Usman 3, Sarfraz 6) Sarfraz spends a decent amount of time complaining about movement behind the bowler’s arm, which brings up two thoughts: 1) is it really that distracting if someone shifts a little bit near the sight screen and 2) the players’ balconies are right above said sight screen – isn’t that going to cause a few problems? Anyway, Sarfraz settles himself enough to drive Broad through the covers for four, despite a despairing dive from Curran, then flick another round the corner. And that’s lunch.
Continue reading…‘When Real Madrid call, you have to listen’ says Mauricio Pochettino
• Pochettino ‘happy’ at Spurs after recently signing new deal
Mauricio Pochettino has said that “when Real Madrid call you, you have to listen” after the Champions League winners identified him as the manager they want to replace Zinedine Zidane.
Pochettino signed a new five-year Tottenham contract just over a week ago but was quoted by the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial: “When Real Madrid call you, you have to listen to them. Although in this case it doesn’t depend on me. I have just signed a long contract with Tottenham and I am very happy here.
Continue reading…French Open 2018 day six: Zverev and Djokovic in action, Dimitrov out – live!
- Live updates as No4 seed is beaten by Fernando Verdasco
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Somehow Dzumhur has got to pick himself up after that disappointment, as he’s still but a tiebreak away from victory.
Djokovic has now won four games on the spin, taking a 2-0 lead in the second set against Bautitsta Agut. Meanwhile Dzumhur’s attempt to serve for the match against Zverev didn’t go well – he’s just been broken to love!
Continue reading…Viv Anderson picks his all-time England XI
The former full-back selects a well-balanced 4-3-3 with a mouth-watering attack consisting of Charlton, Shearer and Barnes. Now you can do the same with our interactive tool
This is the most difficult thing, to choose a team of players, transcending different eras, some of whom I’ve played with and others I’ve seen only briefly. But there are also some very easy decisions and the goalkeeper is one of them.
Peter Shilton was a fantastic keeper who was nearly 41 when he played the last of his 125 games for his country, but there’s one thing missing from his CV: he never won the big one. So Gordon Banks is in for what he achieved in 1966, and that fantastic save from Pelé in 1970.
Continue reading…Tom Prydie: ‘I have fought for a long time to get back into the Wales side’
Even at the start of the year, Tom Prydie’s international career look to have dissolved into a quiz question. When the wing won his first cap at the end of the 2010 Six Nations, less than a month after his 18th birthday, he was the youngest player to have been capped by his country, and to have appeared in the championship. A long career beckoned, but after winning his fifth cap in 2013, he languished in the international wilderness – until a surprise recall last month.
Prydie will win his sixth cap against South Africa in Washington on Saturday having joined the Scarlets from the Dragons last summer, a move that raised his profile. Prydie has endured some dark periods since making his Test debut when he had only made two starts for Ospreys, not least two long-term injuries, but he never abandoned hope of playing for his country again.
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