Last week, when asked about Sam Kerr’s performance during Chelsea’s Community Shield win over Manchester City, head coach Emma Hayes responded in a way that was at odds with the melodramatic “Wembley nightmare” headlines written in the game’s wake.
“She caused problems and created chances,” Hayes said. “If you’ve got a striker who’s not creating chances, that’s a concern. Sam has been outstanding in pre-season and I expect that she’ll be on the training pitch tomorrow, working on her finishing.”
A week later, it was Kerr’s goal that secured Chelsea’s first point in their opening Women’s Super League clash against Manchester United. Even though – like in the Community Shield – the …
Manchester City have signed the Australia forward Mary Fowler from Montpellier, with the Women’s Super League club’s manager, Gareth Taylor, describing the 19-year-old as “one of the most exciting young talents in the game”.
Fowler, who has joined on a four-year contract, last month won Professional Footballers Australia’s young women’s footballer of the year award. A release by Football Australia marking that referred to Fowler’s “speed, tight ball control, creativity and vision”.
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Fowler has spent the past two and a half seasons with Montpellier and made her international debut aged 15 in 2018. She has 24 caps and seven goa…
August seems like a long time ago. On the balmy evening on which Harry Kane was introduced to an ecstatic Allianz Arena, it was actually RB Leipzig that ran the show, and how.
Back then the newly-arrived Xavi Simons had been dumbfounding his new fans with just how good he was, leaving Germany’s biggest club wondering why they didn’t have a player like that and leaving, perhaps, Paris Saint-Germain wondering why they hadn’t held on to him rather than sending him on loan. Since that impressive Supercup display from Leipizig, their Netherlands midfielder has spent much of the season doing a passable impression of being the best player in the Bundesliga, or close enough. Yet on Saturday, at direct rivals in Stuttgart, they had to do withou…
Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney won for the second time in five races by taking The Great American Getaway 400 Sunday afternoon at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. Blaney's No. 12 Team Penske Racing Ford jetted away on a restart with 23 laps left and easily topped Denny Hamlin by 1.312 seconds to back up his win last month at Iowa Speedway that put him into the playoffs. The victory was his second at Pocono in 15 starts and the 12th of his career. His first-ever win was June 11, 2017, at the Pennsylvania speedway while driving the Wood Brothers' iconic No. 21. Alex Bowman, William Byron and Joey Logano followed behind the two frontrunners in the eight-caution race that featured eight leaders. After securing his second career pole position Saturday, Joe Gibbs…
For all the trouble that the NBA and NHL are having with their current seasons, it’s all the more remarkable what Major League Baseball was able to achieve outside of a bubble last year. While baseball was rightly hammered at the start of its shortened season, as coronavirus outbreaks ravaged the Marlins and Cardinals, among others, MLB and the players’ union made adjustments, and went 59 days without a single positive test… right up until Justin Turner’s idiotic misadventure at the World Series cast everything in a bad light all over again. So, it makes sense that the health and safety protocols for the upcoming season, announced on Tuesday, are for the most part running it back on what MLB and the MLBPA agreed to in 2020. The problem is that, even as successful as last year�…
Arizona State, coming off a comeback win at Stanford on Friday in which it led for only the last 31 seconds, hopes to keep its momentum going at California on Sunday in Berkeley, Calif. The Sun Devils' win, which snapped a three-game losing streak, was highlighted by seven straight points by Alonzo Gaffney. The stretch included a dunk with 1:34 left that tied the game at 73. Frankie Collins' pull-up jumper with 31 seconds left gave the Sun Devils their first lead of the game. Arizona State (7-5, 1-0 Pac-12) trailed by as many as 12 points in the second half. "We were able to use our quickness to get a couple of key defensive deflections late in the game," Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley said. "After Christmas now, it's like we're zero and zero, and …
It’s official: John Calipari can’t coach. No college basketball coach has done less with more than Calipari. And Thursday night’s loss to St. Peter’s in the opening round of March Madness had to seal the deal for many on the fence about Calipari’s career on the bench. Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats were upset in overtime by the Peacocks, 85-79. Coming into the game, Kentucky (26-9) was seeded No. 2 in that Indianapolis region and the Peacocks (21-11) were seeded 15th. In Vegas, Kentucky had the second-best odds to cut down the net when the dust cleared. Hence, there’s no way to put it other than it was a historic, horrendous loss by Kentucky. And it ended ugly in OT where the Wildcats couldn’t make free throws, going 1-for-6 after actually taking a four-point lead in t…
It's the final week of 2013, so we're wrapping the year up the way
movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Friday, we each
gave our five worst films of 2013. Yesterday, we each counted down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year. Today, we finish off with our top fives. Just to remind: As we established yesterday, as you read our top 10s know that neither
one of us will be reading each other's. This is the first—well, the
second, counting yesterday's—blog post that requires spoilers for the
people who wrote it. Here goes. Leitch 5. Her, directed by Spike JonzeWhat a relief, to have a movie that's essentially about people falling in love with their computers be so cheerful, good-hearted and optimistic about the whole experience. This is a g…
We have our own delicate sensibilities about our favorite posts of the year. You can find them on many of our other year-in-review lists. But this isn't our show alone. Deadspin is a community, with lots of readers, all with their own favorites. So here is our attempt at democracy—a list of the top 100 Deadspin posts of 2012, measured by unique visitors. This is what you like. "They Won't Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster": Chris Kluwe Explains Gay Marriage To The Politician Who Is Offended By An NFL Player Supporting It Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has spoken out in favor of a Maryland ballot initiative that would legalize gay marriage. Yahoo has published a letter that Maryland state delegate Emmett C. More » Here's The Openi…
This is what happens when it's August and your team has a 13-game lead in the division. There's no telling which Braves player put the gum on poor Chris Johnson's hat, but it is clear that Reed Johnson totally blew it by making his sunglasses available for use as a mirror. Way to go, Reed. You earned the ensuing Johnson-on-Johnson crime. This has been your latest reminder that all baseball player's are essentially large ninth graders. …