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New York Giants 6-28 Los Angeles Rams Giants quarterback suffers knee injury in first quarter Davante Adams has eight catches for 195 yards Davante Adams made eight catches for 195 yards and hauled in two of Matthew Stafford’s four touchdown passes, and the Los Angeles Rams welcomed Aaron Donald back to the NFL with a 28-6 victory over the New York Giants on Monday night. Stafford passed for 327 …

McCullum: Brook has ‘grown as captain and person’ England begin ODI series against Sri Lanka this week England’s white-ball coach, Brendon McCullum, was full of praise for the captain, Harry Brook, after Saturday’s eight-wicket victory over Sri Lanka completed a T20 series whitewash and took the side to No 1 in the world. Brook, player of the T20 series against Sri Lanka, has now won 23 of his 26…

New Zealander plans to add ‘a bit of cricket sense in key moments’ to Bazball template and make England the world’s best Test team “Flemball? That’s a medical condition.” Stephen Fleming’s first press conference as England Test coach was exactly what you would expect from a man appointed to bring calm to a team that had started to career off course. While the Manchester rain did its worst outside…

Brighton have impressed in a goal-laden start to the season, in a league that remains a brutally strong attraction Get ready for the dopamine crash. And this one really is a proper autumn nosedive. The past 17 days up to and including Sunday’s cut-off gave us 30 Premier League games and 79 goals. Which, if you take Spurs out of it – and this is fair because Spurs are now post‑goal, an entertainme…

President writes to council and member nations Infantino says he is ‘fully committed to leading Fifa’ The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, proposed an outside review of how the governing body ⁠makes major decisions on ⁠Monday, acknowledging in a ​letter to members that its handling of a now-abandoned investment plan had caused concern. “First, I will ask the council whether it wishes to commissi…

Norwegian is meticulous in his training regime – ‘if there’s anything that’s out of my control, then I’ve not done my job properly’ On a snowy Norwegian morning in January, Jakob Ingebrigtsen was on his treadmill, shooting the breeze about his running philosophy before our more formal interview. I should write something on this, I told him. Sure, came the reply. In recent weeks, the 26‑year‑old h…

Eagles coach says game was ‘hot as shit’ Cam Jurgens had to replace cleats several times The Tennessee Titans were happy to get off the field on Sunday, and not just because they lost their second game in a row . Amid sweltering conditions in Nashville, the temperature on the artificial turf at Nissan Stadium reached 157F (69.4C), according to the Fox broadcast. Continue reading...

Quarterback sustained injury in loss on Sunday Tyson Bagent lined up to replace Williams Bears quarterback Caleb Williams’s hamstring injury is going to be a “week-to-week thing,” Chicago coach Ben Johnson said Monday in a ⁠radio interview on ESPN 1000. Johnson did not put a definitive timeline on Williams’s recovery. Continue reading...

Liverpool look stronger at the back, youngsters shine for Brighton and Brentford, and James Trafford makes his England case with Leeds Premier League table | Top scorers In the week that 16-year-old Max Dowman has been thrust into the spotlight , it was another teenager who gave us a glimpse of the future in Brighton’s impressive win over Arsenal. Charalampos Kostoulas – nicknamed ‘Babis’ in his …

Captain says bowler ‘is working on a few things’ England v Sri Lanka ODIs come a year before World Cup Harry Brook is hopeful that Brydon Carse will break back into his England white-ball teams once the fast bowler is clear of his ongoing disciplinary, describing him as a “very good mate” who is “working on a few things behind the scenes”. Carse has recently discovered he will not face a criminal…

Teams are running further and set-piece strikes are in decline as end-to-end football takes over the division Goals in the Premier League are up. Chaos is returning. End-to-end football is back. The division is more open, in more ways than one. The figures show a rise from 2.75 goals per game last season to 2.82 so far this year, which is a small average increase – but one that could easily widen…

Pre-season thoughts of European qualification are already beginning to look bafflingly optimistic for Roberto De Zerbi’s team Sign up for our free newsletter here In March, Tottenham, fearing possible relegation, spent big to bring in Roberto De Zerbi, who will probably never go into a negotiation with a stronger hand. There was obvious improvement and they stayed up on the final day of the seaso…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! For an elite head coach who isn’t used to seeing his team lose, suffering a rare defeat on the weekend before an international break is particularly hard to take. With the vast majority of your players hightailing it out of Dodge to rack up more air miles than Santa Claus across a decade’s worth of Christmas Eves, the chance to quickly put thing…

Facing Diego Simeone 13 years on, José Mourinho brought a print-out and paranoia. Some things don’t change. Some people don’t, either There were many questions to emerge from the Madrid derby, which Atlético won 2-1 in front of 70,514 very, very noisy people at the Metropolitano on Sunday afternoon, even if not the one José Mourinho was asking. Like: what year is this? Or: what was Dean Huijsen t…

Lens finished second in Ligue 1 last season and won the Coupe de France. Building on that success is proving tricky By Get French Football News It was under cover of darkness that Yannick Cahuzac took his place in the Lens dugout at the Stade Louis II on Friday night. The lights dimmed as the players made their entrance and Cahuzac, who had been named interim manager just three days earlier, sat …