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Berg is a senior partner at private equity firm 26North Commissioner will succeed Don Garber The Major League Soccer board of governors has voted to install LAFC co-managing owner Larry Berg as the league’s next commissioner, according to a source familiar with the vote. Sportico was first to report the news. Berg will succeed Don Garber as the head of the 30-year-old league, with a term starting…

Owners led by Gabriel Brener paid £15m in 2023 Buyer would be the club’s fifth owner in six years Charlton’s US owners have put the club up for sale just three years after taking over at the Valley. The Championship’s ownership group is understood to have engaged Oakwell Sports Advisory to find what would be the club’s fifth owners in the past six years. In a sales deck sent to potential investor…

Filipino sensation beats Jessica Pegula 4-6 6-4 6-0 21-year-old has five straight wins over top-10 players Alexandra Eala dismantled top seed Jessica Pegula 4-6 6-4 6-0 after the weather-hit ⁠DC Open final in Washington resumed on Monday, completing a remarkable comeback to become the first player from the Philippines to win a ⁠WTA ​Tour-level singles title. The 21-year-old resumed play on Monday…

Norwegian breaks clear in stage three to take overall lead Haugset: ‘I never thought it was possible, it’s unreal’ Sigrid Haugset, the Norwegian national champion, shocked the established order in the Tour de France Femmes, breaking away alone for 90km, to take the overall lead after winning stage three to Poligny. “I never thought it was possible,” she said, after realising she had taken both th…

2021 US Open champion out with stress fracture in leg Raducanu also missed Wimbledon through injury Emma Raducanu will miss the US Open because of the stress fracture in her right leg that she sustained during the grass-court season and forced her to pull out of Wimbledon. It is understood that following consultation with her medical team, Raducanu has concluded she will be unable to play in New …

Irish golfer one of four wildcard picks for Europe Rookies Ramirez, Nadaud and Rhodes also selected Leona Maguire has retained her place in Europe’s Solheim Cup team despite a disappointing 2026, with the Irish golfer one of four wildcard picks named by Anna Nordqvist on Monday. Maguire joins three rookies – Julia López Ramirez, Nastasia Nadaud and Mimi Rhodes – in completing the European side wh…

Chalobah to join Cesc Fàbregas at Como for £27.5m Henderson adds experience to Xabi Alonso’s squad Trevoh Chalobah’s long association with Chelsea is set to end after Como agreed a deal worth an initial £25.7m (€30m). The England World Cup defender ’s departurte was agreed on the same day the club completed the signing of Jordan Henderson. Chalobah will depart after playing 105 Premier League gam…

Pair last played doubles at the 2022 US Open Serena returned to action at Wimbledon before injury US Open begins 31 August in New York Serena Williams and Venus Williams are ⁠set to make their Cincinnati Open doubles debut this ⁠month after being ⁠awarded ​a wild card on Monday, marking their return ⁠to doubles action for the first time since 2022. The Williams sisters ⁠have won 14 major doubles …

In giving the head coach another World Cup cycle, US Soccer is tempting fate for negligible benefit Mauricio Pochettino and US Soccer enjoyed their time together. Or, rather, they enshoyed it, as Pochettino would pronounce it in his thick Argentinian accent, which charmingly carries over when he speaks English. Continue reading...

Premier League champions have £70m offer turned down Brazil midfielder has arrived at Newcastle training camp Arsenal have stepped up their attempt to sign Bruno Guimarães by finally beginning formal transfer negotiations and making an opening offer, which Newcastle have rejected. Guimarães met Newcastle’s incoming manager, Matthias Jaissle, for the first time on Monday at the team’s pre-season t…

He divided opinion but made the most of a small budget – his successor must work with youngsters not big signings “If we want to compete at this later stage, we’ve seen what we’ve got to do, as a club. It’s our choice now, isn’t it? We have to look at what we seriously want to achieve … It takes, sometimes, a punch in the face to wake up.” Those were the words of the Manchester United head coach …

Glasgow proved that a streamlined programme could hold the key to reviving the prospects of a seemingly doomed event How good are you at judging a sun salutation or scorpion pose? I ask because yoga is under consideration as a sport at the next Commonwealth Games in India. Less surprisingly, so is kabaddi. But if Amdavad 2030 really wants to find experts in landing seemingly impossible manoeuvres…

Mikel Arteta’s team and the Brazilian star could be a perfect match. It also could be a risk that ends in disaster Sometimes what is needed is something different. There is a long history in football of counterintuitive thinking being successful, of the benefits of creative tension, of adding grit to the oyster to generate the pearl, but even so, the news that talks between Vinícius Júnior and Ar…

The creator of the viral game Footy Redraft says he has been shocked by the positive feedback after 300,000 players signed up in under a month An online AFL game has drawn more than 300,000 players since it was launched less than a month ago, creating a social media sensation that burst forth to become a talking point at bars and even in MCG bathrooms. Just who must be delisted, and who then draf…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Here we go again. And, no, we are not talking about the start of the new Scottish Premiership season or the preliminary round of the Carabao Cup – although that Tranmere v Rochdale shootout was a cracker. Yes, after a week of talk about money, greed and Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s brother, the hot topic around the water cooler on Monday was agai…