Despite the loss of veterans Jason Witten and Dez Bryant, Prescott says “there’s definitely still some big voices in that locker room.”
Dak Prescott likes energy in Cowboys’ locker room
NBA Draft 2018: Suns GM says Mohamed Bamba is ahead of Rudy Gobert at same age
Mohamed Bamba worked out for the Suns on Saturday and clearly impressed Suns general manager Ryan McDonough.
England’s Anderson out for six weeks with shoulder problem
LONDON: England paceman James Anderson has been ruled out for six weeks with a shoulder problem but aims to be fit for the test series against India later in the summer.
The break from all county cricket is intended to manage what is described as a long-term injury.
“We have five tests against India in a six-week period from 1 August, which will be an intense and challenging period for all our bowlers,” said England coach Trevor Bayliss.
“Therefore it’s vital that we ensure Jimmy goes into that series in the best possible condition.”
The Lancashire seamer played in both tests in the drawn series against Pakistan but is not involved in England’s upcoming one-day series against Australia.
The first of five tests between England and India begins on Aug. 1 at Edgbaston.
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30th over: Scotland 200-2 (MacLeod 52, Munsey 0) “The question about the England batsman with three 150+ scores in ODIs – is the answer something brilliant like Ronnie Irani?” says Eamonn Maloney. “If not, can you devise a question (perhaps using some sort of Jeopardy-style reverse function on statsguru) to which the answer is, brilliantly, Ronnie Irani?”
Sadly, I already know the question: when England left Robin Smith out of the Test team for the final time in 1996, who replaced him?
Plunkett returns to the attack and takes his second wicket. Berrington drove high towards long off, where Root took a calm running catch.
Continue reading…Stan Collymore: ‘The thing white men hate most is outspoken black men’
The former England forward-turned-broadcaster has become a strident voice on football’s relationship with race and, despite the backlash on social media, he stands by every word
Stan Collymore has agreed to speak to me on the Tuesday afternoon just gone but it has to be over the phone as he is driving to St George’s Park for England’s pre-World Cup media day. So I call him at 1pm and connect immediately. But the line is bad and I fear our interview will not go well. Or proceed at all.
I need not have worried. The sound improves and, as it does, Collymore bursts into life. The next half an hour or so is a whirlwind as the former England forward speaks passionately, honestly, intelligently and controversially about a topic that means a lot to him: race. Collymore has a lot to say, a lot to get off his chest, a lot of targets to fire at, and it is riveting.
Continue reading…Messi and Ronaldo primed for final World Cup hurrah as England get real | Daniel Taylor
At least this time nobody has fallen into the trap of thinking England might actually win the damn thing. Nobody inside the England camp has proclaimed they are going to Russia to bring the trophy back home. And perhaps just as important, nobody in the media is feverishly backing our boys to do it. Not yet, anyway.
Instead, the mood seems restrained compared to previous tournaments, as if the penny has dropped that England have not done a great deal in the World Cup since the year – the one between 1965 and 1967 – that Jürgen Klopp has suggested we no longer mention because of the pressure it puts on the team.
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Justify, primarily owned by WinStar Farm, China Horse Club & SF Racing, was purchased as a yearling for $500,000.
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Change of pace leaves England at a loss and clubs playing catch-up | Paul Rees
When the Premiership clubs raise the issue of Eddie Jones’s national squad training sessions this summer, bristling at a high attrition rate, Twickenham should show a video of England’s latest defeat against a nascent South Africa side who were able to recover from an appalling start because of an ability, honed in Super Rugby, to play at sustained pace.
It was a Premiership player, the Sale scrum-half Faf de Klerk, who was his side’s catalyst, but the difference was at forward, where the Springboks retained their shape in the loose when a crazy game was at its most frenetic. England took an early 24-3 lead through the passing ability of George Ford that exploited a narrow, naive defence, but once the home side got hold of the ball, the failings that addled this year’s Six Nations campaign surfaced.
Continue reading…Tyson Fury wins farcical fight after Sefer Seferi quits on his stool
• Outclassed Albanian four and a half stone lighter than Fury
• Boos ring out after Seferi does not come out for fifth round
Tyson Fury’s quest to regain his heavyweight title began with a kiss to the crowd, a brawl at ringside, and more showboating than fighting until he finally decided to step on the gas and stop his outgunned opponent Sefer Seferi at the end of the fourth round.
Before then Fury had poked his tongue out at his opponent, performed a 360-degree spin in the ring and, as a brawl broke out close to ringside, seemed more interested in that than the punches his opponent was throwing at him.
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