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Former linebacker questions QB’s character Duo won Super Bowl together in 2005 season Joey Porter Sr says Ben Roethlisberger, the quarterback he won a Super Bowl with at the Pittsburgh Steelers, is not “a good person”. Porter was speaking on a podcast during Super Bowl week when he made the comments. He and Roethlisberger won Super Bowl XL with Pittsburgh at the end of the 2005 season. Continue r…

Evangelos Marinakis often takes action when the crowd turns against a head coach. The Nottingham Forest owner watched from his throne, enduring 90 minutes of inept finishing and sloppy play in a desperate goalless draw against rock‑bottom Wolves, resulting in boos and insults aimed at Sean Dyche at full time, which sealed a third head coach sacking of the season. Thirty-five shots came and went f…

PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’ Keir Starmer has said Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for his comments that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants. In an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, Britain’s seventh-richest man, who moved to tax-free Monaco in 2020 , took aim at people receiving state s…

Celtic close gap at top with dramatic win over Livingston Rangers’ title hopes suffer blow in draw with Motherwell Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain netted a late winner on his Celtic debut to earn a 2-1 Premiership win at home to Livingston . The rock-bottom visitors looked set to earn an unlikely point after Robbie Muirhead’s penalty had cancelled out a first-half opener from Marcelo Saracchi. But with t…

On a night when James Milner made history, equalling his former teammate Gareth Barry’s Premier League appearance record, his former club Aston Villa created more unwanted headlines for Fabian Hürzeler. A Tyrone Mings header, deflected in off Jack Hinshelwood with four minutes of the 90 to play, was sufficient to defeat Brighton and extend their miserable run. Continue reading...

Burnley were dead and buried. Trailing 2-0 to the £48m striker Jørgen Strand Larsen’s first goals for Crystal Palace after half an hour, it looked inevitable that Scott Parker’s side would match their club‑record 17-match winless run in the top flight that dates all the way back to 1890. Yet after all the misery since their last victory in October, everything changed in the space of seven scintil…

IOC has told Vladyslav Heraskevych he will be banned ‘I will not betray these athletes,’ says Ukrainian The Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says he is ready to be disqualified on Thursday because he does not want to betray his country’s dead athletes. In what is likely to be an extraordinary scene in Cortina when the skeleton begins at 9.30am local time (8.30am GMT), Heraskevych ha…

British pair finish seventh after stumble in free dance Gold goes to France’s Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron Lewis Gibson did his best to smile, but the pained pinch on Lilah Fear’s face gave the game away. The Team GB pair had spent years dreaming of becoming the first British Olympic skating medallists since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. But when it really mattered they suffered a nightmare…

Manchester City’s week is moving along sweetly, this win closing the gap to three points to Arsenal, who travel to Brentford on Thursday. On Sunday, they beat Liverpool at Anfield, on Wednesday they downed Fulham at home, to reel off a 20th consecutive victory against them. The rosiest moment for the title challengers was Erling Haaland’s 39th‑minute strike, a first in the competition from open p…

Arne Slot has said he does not believe his job security hinges on Liverpool securing Champions League qualification this spring but the Dutchman would much prefer not to put that assertion to the test. On this evidence there seems a decent chance the Champions’s manager will not have to. In finally ending Sunderland’s proud unbeaten home record in the Premier League this season, sixth placed Live…

American crashed out of Olympic downhill event Bryan Graham: Crash a violent but honest ending Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results Lindsey Vonn says she has had a successful third surgery on the broken leg she suffered during the women’s Olympic downhill on Sunday. Vonn posted an update on Instagram that included photos of her giving a thumbs up in her hospital bed with a metal frame…

31-year-old faces first-degree murder charge Former linebacker could face death penalty Former New York Jets first-round draft pick Darron Lee has been kept in jail without bond as he faces a first-degree murder charge over the death of his girlfriend in Tennessee. The ruling by Judge Tori Smith came after Lee was arrested and charged late last week. He also faces a charge of tampering with or fa…

Heitinga could be interim option to end of season De Zerbi available after leaving Marseille Tottenham are exploring their options after sacking Thomas Frank on Wednesday morning, with Roberto De Zerbi and one of their current coaches, John Heitinga, in the conversation. It is unclear whether the chief executive, Vinai Venkatesham, and the sporting director, Johan Lange, who are overseeing the pr…

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Mark Langdon and Jacob Steinberg as Tottenham Hotspur lose at home to Newcastle. On the podcast today; another defeat for Spurs. Thomas Frank was still in his job at the time of recording. Not any more. Elsewhere, Benjamin Sesko scores a late equaliser against West Ham to deny them the chance to move level on points with Spurs and there’s a brilliant co…

US star forced to wait through rival Wennemars’s reskate Stolz delivers 1:06.28 finish in his signature event Jordan Stolz had to wait a little longer than expected on Wednesday night. But when confirmation finally came, the 21-year-old American could celebrate his first Olympic gold medal – and the opening chapter of what could become one of the defining campaigns of the Milano Cortina Winter Ol…