Author: James Martin
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Half-time: PSG 0-0 Real Sociedad Peep! Referee Marco Guida draws the first half to a close and the players troop towards the tunnel. PSG haven’t been firing on anything approaching all their cylinders, while Real Sociedad have been quite impressive. The deadlock remains resolutely unbroken in Paris, in a game that could really do with a goal. Ideally a goal scored by the visiting underdogs. 45 min: Real Sociedad go close again, with Mikel Merino, their captain for the night, shooting from…
It has taken patience and perspective after her tentative first steps back into the brutal world of professional tennis, but Naomi Osaka’s comeback is beginning to pick up steam as she reached her first quarter-final in nearly two years, at the Qatar Open. On Wednesday, Osaka had been due to face Lesia Tsurenko in their third-round match but the Ukrainian withdrew with an elbow injury. The walkover had been preceded by two strong victories for Osaka at the WTA 1000 event. She played an excellent opening match to avenge her Australian Open first-round loss to Caroline Garcia, the 15th seed…
Thousands of drivers for ride-share platforms Uber and Lyft, as well as the food delivery service DoorDash are expected to strike on Wednesday, in what organizers say will be the largest nationwide protest action to date against the gig economy giants. Strikes lasting 24 hours on Valentine’s Day — a busy day for the apps — have been planned in at least 17 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, Philadelphia and Orlando, according to two ride-share labor organizations. Drivers say that Uber and Lyft are taking an increasingly large cut out of fares, forcing drivers to work…
The Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, has been handed a Football Association charge for his bizarre rant about a sandwich-eating linesman. Wilder was incensed when one of the referee Tony Harrington’s assistants was consuming a sandwich when the Blades manager went to see him after the 3-2 defeat at Crystal Palace last month. Wilder described it as a “complete lack of respect” and also called Harrington’s performance “ridiculous” in an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield after the game. He said: “It’s yet again another ridiculous performance from the referee. Every 50/50 or tight decision goes against us and if that’s…
Welcome to Super League 2.0: well, the latest version of it, at least. For what has felt like an eternity, rugby league has repeatedly tried to reinvent itself. Super League and the switch from winter to summer was the sport’s biggest switch, back in 1996, but since then there have been plenty of other iterations all with the aim of broadening its appeal. Somewhere at the Rugby Football League’s headquarters there is a room filled with marketing gimmicks – licencing, Super 8s, Every Minute Matters – gathering dust but this season maybe there is cautious optimism that things are changing.…
WARREN, Mich. — Wearing a lab coat, Eve Vitale asked a chemistry class at Warren Mott High School if anyone had heard anything bad about plastics. Hands shot up. It doesn’t degrade, said one student. It hurts the environment, said another. But “that’s not really the plastic’s fault,” said Vitale, chief executive of the Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation, a group of industry professionals. “That’s the fault of humanity.” After warning what a “mess” it would be in supermarkets and hospitals without plastics, Vitale instructed that the plastic pollution crisis could be addressed through stepped up personal responsibility, product innovation…
Faulty egg-freezing products which affected more than 100 women at a London fertility clinic have also affected a fertility clinic in Sheffield, the fertility regulator has said.The Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority (HFEA) confirmed that the issue was limited to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Assisted Conception Unit in London, and Jessop Fertility in Sheffield.But the fertility regulator said it was satisfied that Jessop “undertook a thorough investigation when they first became aware of the issue and contacted and supported any patient affected”.The statement follows a leading London hospital having apologised to more than 100 women after their eggs and embryos were…
Thunderbastard. A football goal scored usually from long-range with high degrees of velocity and power. Think Davie Cooper in the 1987 Scottish League Cup final. Steven Reid for Blackburn against Wigan. Roughly 93% of Tony Yeboah’s goals for Leeds. You can volley your xG into the stands. Here is a football term that should be celebrated.Helpfully the Urban Dictionary definition gives an example of a memorable goal that happens to be the subject of this piece. The word may not have been on the lips of many in April 1986, but the phrase “title-chasing West Ham” was definitely part of…
I have always hated the term “helicopter parent.”It’s used as a criticism of parents who are overly involved in their children’s lives. Sometimes it’s the look (face wrinkled in disapproval) they get when they mention an adult child is living at home.But the findings of two reports from Pew Research Center show an interdependence between parents and their young adult offspring is both welcome and needed.Millennials have found a way to buy houses: Living with mom and dadAbout a third of young adults (ages 18 to 34) are living with their parents. And here’s the kicker: “A majority of young…
A South Korean court has sentenced two former senior police officers for destroying evidence linked to Seoul’s deadly 2022 Halloween crush.Tens of thousands of people, mostly in their 20s and 30s, had been out on 29 October 2022 to enjoy the first post-pandemic holiday celebrations in the popular Itaewon nightlife district. The night turned deadly when crowds poured into a narrow, sloping alleyway between bars and clubs, leading to nearly 160 people being crushed to death.The two former police officers were found to have ordered in the aftermath of the disaster the deletion of four internal police reports that had…