England T20 World Cup contender Chris Woakes has blasted Ian Botham’s insinuation that England’s players had previously tried to avoid signing up for the Ashes Test by using quarantine restrictions as a handy excuse. He said if indeed people were living in a normal and disease-free world, the team would ….
Former Headingley cricketer Azeem Rafiq is accusing Yorkshire of trying to protect those players who racially abused him during his two spells with the club. This after the club refused to make public its report following a formal investigation into his allegations. Yorkshire has however in the meantime admitted that ….
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) this week announced that it has launched a formal investigation into allegations of domestic abuse made against Alexander Zverev. The Olympic champion’s troubles began when former girlfriend and junior player Olga Sharypova accused him of a series of domestic assaults. According to an interview ….
Attracting enormous criticism last week had been former English Premier League ref Mark Clattenburg – for his allegedly outdated comments about female referees in sport. Clattenburg made a controversial string of comments during a recent radio interview when he commented on Sara Cox recently becoming the first female referee in ….
A potentially explosive investigation into the 2016 Rio Olympics has revealed that up to 10 boxing matches may have involved some form of bout manipulation. Rumour has it one of the fights thought to have been manipulated may have been a bantamweight quarter-final brawl between Ireland’s Michael Conlan and Russia’s ….
Argentina head coach Mario Ledesma on Saturday voiced extreme unhappiness on behalf of his team after the Argentinian Rugby Championship side got left out of the captain’s photoshoot in Townsville. Ledesma in a post-game conference delivered an unexpected message: one of reacting to a situation he said he deemed disrespectful. ….
Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin says the Demons’ first AFL Grand final win in 57 years isn’t the end of anything, but rather the beginning of many more great things to come. The Demons on Saturday night made for a thrilling grand final at the Optus Stadium in Perth by making ….
Team USA Ryder Cup contender Brooks Koepka is everything but impressed with the media after a recent interview portrayed him as someone adverse to team sports and as such, not fully committed to his role as part of the team at Whistling Straights. Koepka spent the biggest part of Thursday’s ….
US golfer and Ryder Cup contender Bryson DeChambeau says even if he landed 18 holes-in-one, folks would still find something to criticize him about. DeChambeau has been avoiding the media since early August when he sparked a massive outcry over his refusal to be vaccinated. The controversy since then has ….
Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns says that while happy and grateful to be here to tell the story, the past 6 weeks have been “big”. Cairns in a heartfelt video posted to Twitter on the weekend provided an update on his condition. The Kiwi says he faces a long ….