Former world champion Tony Bellew and top heavyweight David Price are set to support a charity boxing event that sees former footballers step into the ring on April 17 at the Titanic Hotel, Liverpool.

Organised by Pro Project Promotions, the initiative was founded by former Arsenal goalkeeper Graham Stack and aims to provide ex-players with renewed structure and purpose post-retirement while raising significant funds for good causes. The first event raised £127,500, with organisers now targeting more than £120,000 for Children’s Charity Merseyside and Autism Merseyside. On the event – billed A Night to Remember II – Stack said:

“The city will be bouncing during the Merseyside derby weekend, and I can’t wait to showcase 10 ex-professional footballers battling it out once again in the ring. This event will have a mixture of Scouse boxers and other northern-based fighters. We’ll have some of this country’s best ever boxers in attendance, including Tony Bellew, The Smith Brothers, David Price, and Natasha Jonas.

“Johnny Nelson will host a boxing Q&A and judge the bouts alongside Steve Bunce, with Ian Saint John refereeing. Plus, a football Q&A with our ambassador and Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher alongside Everton legend Francis Jeffers. We’re raising money for Children’s Charity Merseyside and Autism – our goal is to raise in excess of £120,000 and get closer to our £500,000 target.”

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Bellew and Price will attend alongside Natasha Jonas and the Smith brothers, offering guidance and adding boxing pedigree to the occasion.

On the card, former Stoke City, Wolves and Burnley striker Chris Iwelumo meets Swansea favourite Lee Trundle, while ex-Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme faces former QPR and Blackburn defender Bradley Orr. Former Leeds, Fulham and Aston Villa forward Ross McCormack also features against ex-Leeds and Sheffield United defender Matthew Kilgallon.

The white-collar bouts will see the former professionals test themselves physically once more, this time switching boots for boxing gloves, with the focus firmly on fundraising and community impact. The event is open to fans, with ticket details available via the organisers.

After the dust settles, Cardinals QB1 Kyler Murray is likely to venture to a team like the New York Jets. He’s super talented but flawed, in large part due to injury alongside some bizarre past concerns about preparation (or lack thereof).

Going toe-to-toe with the Jets in a battle of cap space and coveted picks means Minnesota will lose. So, a trade bidding war won’t end in the Vikings securing the Arizona passer.

Nevertheless, there’s still the possibility of the Minnesota Vikings. After all, these two teams have been somewhat linked in recent history, most notably in the 2018 free agency competition for Kirk Cousins. Furthermore, there has been the Sam Darnold situation since he was a Jet before becoming a Viking (and then doing something special as a Seahawk). After leaving New York, Aaron Rodgers wanted to move to the Twin Cities. Is Murray just another link in the chain of connected QBs?

Buzz Builds Around Kyler Murray as Vikings Search for QB

The simple declaration that Murray is going to find a new employer in 2026 isn’t breaking news. There is, nevertheless, some fascination relating to how that (seemingly inevitable) eventuality materializes.

Over on the NFL’s website, there has been further confirmation. Author Bobby Kownack relays the update courtesy of league insiders Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero, and Mike Garafolo: “A new head coach is likely to usher in a new era at quarterback for the Cardinals […] Such a decision seemed like more and more of a possibility as Murray’s 2025 season with the Cards progressed. The two-time Pro Bowler made just five starts.”

Consider, as well, at least some general background on Murray’s career.

The NFL piece: “Murray, the 2019 NFL Draft’s No. 1 overall pick, was never able to sustain success even before his most recent lost season, having gone 38-48-1 in his career with only one campaign above .500 and a lopsided loss in his lone playoff appearance.”

Switching from former Head Coach Jonathan Gannon to new hire Mike LaFleur appears to be the final straw on the camel’s back.

Consider the cap implications of a swap: “Murray has a cap number of $52.7 million in 2026. He’s guaranteed $36.8 million regardless of what happens, but if he’s on the team’s roster past the first week of the new league year, which begins March 11, he is guaranteed an extra $20 million going into next season, per Rapoport.”

“Thus, the Cardinals have a pretty obvious deadline to make a final decision,” Kownack clarifies.

In the NFL, there’s seldom a situation where teams employ bad players. Rather, NFL teams employ players who are operating on bad contracts and/or who are forced into bad roles. Oh, and then there’s bad context, such as trying to be the starting passer for the Cardinals.

Working in Murray’s favor is that he’s a talented quarterback who has a pile of experience. The former No. 1 pick is a playmaker who is accurate and who throws lasers. Playing in Minnesota would easily be his best support structure, possibly allowing him to reach new heights.

Working against Murray are the injuries alongside the concerns about preparation. Plus, there’s the questionable scheme fit.

The Vikings want to be lethal off of play action, usually demanding a QB who is under center, but Murray often plays out of shotgun. The only season where he played every game over the past five years was in 2024. In that season, Murray was under center for 121 passes. He was working out of shotgun for 420 passes. The overall tally of play-action passes came in at 127 versus 414 for passes not using play action.

Looking at the full season splits for Kirk Cousins from 2022 and Sam Darnold from 2024 means seeing that the situation could work — the difference isn’t staggering — but it’s nevertheless a factor. In the future, Minnesota should be working toward more play action.

Kyler Murray is working on a deal that totals $230.5 million. However, any acquiring team would only be accepting three more seasons that run from 2026 through to 2028. Crucially, there would be smaller cap charges for any team that pulls off a trade since some of the cap charges wouldn’t leave Arizona.

The veteran passer is a good starter. What remains to be seen if he can become a very good or elite passer, a QB1 who pushes his team not just into the playoffs but who thrives once there. So far, Murray has been in the playoffs just a single time, a contest where he lost after completing 55.9% of his passes for 137 passing yards, 0 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions.

The Vikings trading for Murray would mean demoting J.J. McCarthy even if there would be (largely meaningless) words about a true competition.

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US Ambassador Sergio Gor on Saturday landed in Mumbai to cheer for his team for the T20 World Cup.

Gor said it was a big day for his team.

In a post on X, he said, “Just landed in Mumbai for the T20WorldCup game! Big day for team USA. Go Team USA”

Indian cricketers Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy, along with members of the support staff, visited the Shri Siddhivinayak Ganpati Temple in Mumbai ahead of Team India’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 campaign opener against the USA at Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.

The Indian cricket team members also offered prayers at the Shri Siddhivinayak Ganpati Temple. India, led by Suryakumar Yadav, will be defending their T20 World Cup title in the 2026 edition.

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is starting today (February 7) and is set to conclude on March 8. The first match of the 20-team tournament features Pakistan and the Netherlands, who are playing the campaign opener at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on Saturday.

The USA is a part of Group A in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 and will start against India at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai from February 7 onwards. In the previous edition, the USA put the entire world on notice with a Super Eight finish in their debut World Cup across both formats and even went on to defeat Pakistan. Besides this win, they also had close matches with India and South Africa, the eventual champions and runners-up, almost chasing down 195 set by the Proteas in the Super Eight stage but falling 18 runs short.

USA T20 WC Squad: Monank Patel (C), Jessy Singh, Andries Gous, Shehan Jayasuriya, Milind Kumar, Shayan Jahangir, Saiteja Mukkamala, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Harmeet Singh, Nosthush Kenjige, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Saurabh Netravalkar, Ali Khan, Mohammad Mohsin, Shubham Ranjane.

Afghanistan’s Noor Ahmad and Rashid Khan (AP)

Afghanistan head coach Jonathan Trott described his side’s defeat to South Africa as “devastating”, admitting the narrow loss in a dramatic T20 World Cup contest would linger with his players. The Proteas edged Afghanistan after a gripping encounter that required two Super Overs, leaving South Africa relieved and Afghanistan heartbroken in one of the most remarkable matches since the tournament began in 2007. Addressing the media after the game on Wednesday, Trott reflected on the emotional toll of back-to-back defeats in a demanding group.

“Just shows what we have as a side. So we’ve got some amazing players and it’s just really devastating for the guys after a tough loss a few days ago against New Zealand and now against South Africa in a tough group as well,” Trott said. The South African-born former England Test batter acknowledged that such losses can hurt deeply. “These guys are never shy of rising up against the challenges that they face throughout their lives on and off the field. “So today they should be very proud and obviously these types of losses sometimes they can hurt and sting for a while but I think it’s important we look at those areas that we did really well in, but also areas that we could improve and things we could have done better. “I think South Africa fielded pretty well actually as well. The run out, a few catches on the boundary, on the ring, those sorts of things. I think they fielded really well. Maybe that was the difference today a little bit,” the Afghanistan head coach said. Under Trott’s guidance, Afghanistan have made significant strides, reaching the semifinals in the previous edition of the T20 World Cup and the quarterfinals of the 2023 ODI World Cup. Though he is set to step down after this tournament, Trott declined to reflect on his tenure, insisting his focus remains on the remaining fixtures. Trott also reserved special praise for Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who smashed 84 off 42 balls in the chase of 187 and followed it with a blistering 18 off 4 balls in the second Super Over. “Those innings as we saw today, I think he should play more often if I’m honest, with the amount of talent that he has and the physique and the sporting ability and natural hand-eye coordination. “He wears his heart on his sleeve and he’s quite an animated character. I think the years that I’ve been with him now, I’m just trying to get him to be a little bit more consistent in everything that he does.”

Midweek soccer is back, and for Manchester City, they’ll need to keep up their winning ways in order to push league leaders Arsenal in their upcoming match. City are still six points behind the Gunners, but after Sunday’s comeback victory over Liverpool, it was one that meant more as star striker Erling Haaland ended his slump with a goal and an assist. But with a plucky Fulham team coming to the Etihad, City will need to be defensively sound to avoid this clash being like the last time that these two clubs met, a crazy 5-4 win for City where Pep Guardiola’s side flirted with blowing a four goal lead.

How to watch Manchester City vs. Fulham, odds

• Date: Wednesday, Feb. 11 | Time: 2:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Etihad Stadium — Manchester, England
• Live stream: Peacock 
• Odds: Manchester City -300; Draw +450; Fulham +700

Back in December, the reverse fixture at Craven Cottage saw nine goals find the back of the net as City escaped with all three points. Phil Foden and Samuel Chukwueze both netted braces in the match, but it was certainly a defense-optional affair. 

City’s back line will look different than that one with Marc Guehi in the squad, while Ruben Dias’ own return from injury will give Pep Guardiola a look at what will likely be his first choice central pairing for the foreseeable future.

Young defender Abdukodir Khusanov has had to log plenty of minutes as of late, with Josko Gvardiol, John Stones, and Nathan Ake all dealing with injuries. But as City gets slightly healthier, they can’t be ruled out of the title race just yet. Guardiola will know that dropping any points will lead to falling out of the title race, but that’s also not something that he wants to talk about. What Guardiola wants is for his team to be consistent.

“What I’m saying is what we have to do to beat Fulham, what we have to do to be better and to be closer to make the first half in Anfield and [not] the second. What is the reason why in the second half, we are still dropping our performance?” Guardiola said in his pre-match availability. 

If Man City want to win the Premier League, they’d better start playing 90 minutes rather than 45

James Benge

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If the City manager could answer that question, they wouldn’t be in this situation this season, but it shows how hard it is even for managers at the top of the game to know every answer. With FA Cup and Champions League play around the corner, City will need to balance their priorities while maintaining focus. Stringing together a few wins could do a lot for the squad, and it’ll also be easier to do with Haaland in good form.

Pressure is always on the Norwegian, but it will be lessened after scoring in his last match. With improvement facing Fulham, maybe we can reach a point where City can go on a run and push Arsenal. That run may have already happened, but the only way to find out is by playing the games.

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The New England Patriots fell short of their ultimate goal — a Super Bowl championship — losing to the Seattle Seahawks, 29-13. MVP runner-up Drake Maye nearly threw for 300 yards in the loss despite Seattle dominating most of the game. Maye operated most of the season with a rag-tag bunch of receivers, led by veteran Stefon Diggs.

But when you reach the biggest stage and Mack Hollins is your leading wideout, you may need to consider making some additions in the offseason. Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski talked about what the Patriots can do to shore up the receiver position with a splashy addition on the latest episode of the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast.

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Pianowski begins by connecting the dots between New England head coach Mike Vrabel and Brown, the two having spent three seasons together in Tennessee prior to Brown being sent to Philly. Might a reunion make sense?

We know Brown was unhappy for most of the 2025 season with the Eagles. Still, the Pro Bowl wideout was able to post a fourth straight 1,000-receiving-yard season with seven touchdowns. Brown will turn 29 years old before the 2026 regular season and has four years remaining on his contract.

Harmon plays devil’s advocate to Pianowski and thinks it may not be wise to trade, say, the 31st pick in the 2026 NFL Draft in a deal for Brown, a player whom he views as in decline. Now, that doesn’t mean that Brown is “cooked,” but Harmon says we don’t normally see receivers return to elite status once the decline starts.

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Pianowski closes by saying, of course, you want someone who is trending up or draft somebody who can evolve into a top wideout. But teams aren’t usually jumping at the chance to trade a young, promising wide receiver, so the Patriots may have to take what they can get, whether that’s via trade, free agency or in the draft.

Yahoo analyst Justin Boone has Brown as the WR11 in his early 2026 fantasy football WR rankings. Perhaps a move to a better situation, or simply out of Philly, will boost Brown’s stock.

Though he hasn’t set foot in Italy, the shadow of US President Donald Trump has loomed large over the Winter Olympics. From public squabbles with critical US skiers to the British athlete who urinated a profanity against him in the snow and protests against the presence of US ICE agents in Italy for the Games, the US president is on plenty of minds.

You may expect, given his threats to annex their homeland, that this would be particularly true for the two Greenlandic athletes at the Games. But Sondre Slettemark, who finished 62nd in the men’s 20-kilometer biathlon on Tuesday, told DW he has no words for Trump.

“I wouldn’t say anything to Trump. Honestly, if I were to say something, I would say something to the American people. And that is that the president is not a dictator yet.

“I know there are a lot of Americans who don’t feel represented by the things he’s saying and with the things he’s doing. So you can call your senators, you can call your congressmen, you can go out protesting. It’s your right to do so. At some point, he’s going to have to answer to you if you don’t feel represented. If he still doesn’t answer to you, you can kick him out.”

Family affair for Greenland biathlon

Sondre and his sister, Ukaleq, are both competing for the Commonwealth of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands in Milano Cortina, as Greenland has no Olympic committee of its own. And the older sibling, who followed in their father’s footsteps by competing at the 2022 Games, is keen to state her commitment to Greenland’s status quo.

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“The message I have is that Greenland will never be American. But I’m at the Olympic Games now, and I’m first and foremost an athlete, and I first and foremost need to focus on my competitions here,” Ukaleq told DW ahead of her race on Wednesday.

“I think the statement that we send is just that we race for Denmark, we race for Greenland, we show the world stage that we are here.”

Sondre and Ukaleq usually comprise the entire Greenland biathlon team, with the federation founded and headed by their mother Uiloq and supported by their father, Oystein, who represented Denmark in 2010 despite being born in Brazil.

“Biathlon is not a big sport in Greenland. We don’t have a shooting range. We do have tracks, but it’s not so easy to to do the sport there,” said Ukaleq of the discipline which features cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

“My mum and dad were the ones who really made the biathlon in Greenland even exist at all.

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“They traveled around with me when I was like 0 to 4. So I’ve been at all the World Cup and IBU Cup (the second biggest biathlon event after the World Cup) places even before I can remember.”

Greenlanders are built different

It is that sense of family and community that is a key driver for both siblings’ expressions of national pride. They echo the feelings of many Greenlanders when Trump’s rhetoric on the country was at a peak earlier this year: Hands off.

“Our cultures are so different. In Greenland, we are very much still a people who are a part of nature,” explained Ukaleq. “We’re indigenous people. We see ourselves as not different from nature. We don’t put money above nature, for example. We don’t like to exploit the ground, to exploit the minerals. And that mindset is so different from what Trump has.”

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While Trump’s threats to take Greenland by force may have faded, his intentions to ‘own’ the territory are resolute.

“I’m afraid to lose our beautiful country,” continued Ukaleq, who finished 52nd in the women’s 15-kilometer biathlon.

“I’m afraid that our nature will be exploited. Because we have so much freedom, so many untouched areas that are not asphalt, that are not buildings that are just pure mountains, pure rivers, pure oceans.”

Such geographical features are not just vital for Winter Olympians, but for all Greenlanders. The Slettemarks are determined to use their Olympic stage to help keep them from the US.

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Edited: by Chuck Penfold