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Eagles OL Landon Dickerson says he shouldn’t have played Week 1 after going on IR with bone bruise: ‘I played like sh** yesterday’
With the news that Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Landon Dickerson was being placed on IR with a knee injury, Dickerson himself seemed fine with the development — especially since, in the guard’s view, he had no business being on the field in Week 1.
In an interview on Philadelphia’s 94 WIP radio, which took place very shortly after the IR news landed, Dickerson offered a blunt assessment of his play in the Eagles’ narrow 24-22 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
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“Honestly, (to) address the elephant in the room, I played like sh** yesterday,” Dickerson said. “I was a complete liability yesterday and, again, that was my fault … I shouldn’t be out there until I feel healthy.”
Dickerson said that he got “rolled up on” in practice last month during training camp, but continued to push through the injury. Imaging on Monday confirmed that he had a bone bruise in his right knee.
Dickerson found out that he was being placed on IR while live on air: After being read a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff McClane, who was the first to report the news, the Eagles’ starting left guard admitted to WIP that he hadn’t been officially told, but that he knew it “was kind of the plan.”
“Really, the best plan moving forward is put me on IR so I can get this thing better to have a good stretch at the back end of the season,” Dickerson said.
The guard wanted to take this strategy as opposed to gritting through injuries — which he said he did last season. “I don’t think anyone wants to see that again, ’cause that was just ugly. I don’t want to do that again, because that was just B.S.,” he added.
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The Eagles’ narrow two-point win on Sunday came in part thanks to the defense pulling off a late stop to save the game. Though Philadelphia‘s offense had some struggles across the board, the offensive line was a particular point of concern, as quarterback Jalen Hurts was sacked three times.
Dickerson wasn’t alone in the o-line issues, but he said that pushing through the injury meant that he wasn’t playing at 100%. He will now have to miss at least four games while on IR.
“Bone bruising doesn’t really heal if you keep banging it and doing stuff. And it sucks because you just have to actually shut it down and not do anything. That’s really the only way that it gets better,” Dickerson said later in Monday’s interview. “Once it gets better, you don’t really have to worry about it moving forward. It’s not a lingering thing. Once it’s kind of healed up and done, it’s done.”
Dickerson, 27, has been a consistent starter for Philadelphia since the team drafted him in 2021. The guard has earned three Pro Bowl nods in the 2022-2024 span.
Leeds demolished Newcastle 4-1 to climb up to third in the Premier League table on Monday and inflict a punishing first defeat for Magpies boss Matthias Jaissle. A Lewis Miley own goal opened the floodgates before Jayden Bogle, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Noah Okafor completed the rout at Elland Road. Newcastle had made a positive start under Jaissle despite the upheaval of losing manager Eddie Howe and key players Anthony Gordon, Bruno Guimaraes and Sandro Tonali in the off-season. Despite being owned by the financial might of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, Newcastle targeted rising stars to fill the void of those that left and were outmuscled by a more experienced Leeds.
“It was clear from the start and I said that many times that we will have up and downs, challenges along the way,” said Jaissle. “We faced that challenge and it’s tough, it’s really tough.”
A bad night for the visitors began inside the first 20 minutes when Nico Gonzalez had to be replaced as a concussion substitute.
That left 18-year-old Sean Steur and Lewis Miley, 20, together at the heart of the Newcastle midfield and the later unfortunately had the final touch after Ao Tanaka’s strike took two deflections before looping into the net.
The visitors failed to regain their composure as just two minutes later Leeds doubled their advantage.
Calvert-Lewin rose highest to meet James Justin’s cross but his header flicked off Bogle as it found the bottom corner and the right-back was given the goal.
Leeds’ number nine did not have to wait long to make sure he did score for the fifth consecutive league game at Elland Road.
Calvert-Lewin bulldozed his way past Sven Botman before sliding the ball under Lukas Hornicek in the Newcastle goal.
Anton Stach should have added a fourth early in the second period when he pounced on a slack Hornicek pass out from the pack but dinked the ball just wide.
Okafor did make it 4-0 before the hour mark when he volleyed in from the edge of the box after Newcastle failed to clear a long throw.
“Perfect start right now with eight points, terrific performance,” said Leeds boss Daniel Farke. “Energy, quality and good structure in and without possession.”
Bazoumana Toure netted a consolation in stoppage time to reduce Newcastle’s arrears, but the damage was long since done.
Victory takes Farke’s men behind only defending champions Arsenal and Manchester City.
Newcastle remain on five points but slip down to 12th due to their negative goal difference.
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Trainer Mick Price is realistic about the chances of Sabaj and Planet Red in this Saturday’s Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, acknowledging they need all factors to align for a victory, but he is committed to giving them their best possible shot.
The Cranbourne conditioner, operating alongside Michael Kent Jnr, has diligently worked to ensure the pair are sufficiently sharp for the $1 million race over 1400 metres.
While their primary objectives lie over longer distances later in the spring, Price has adapted their training routines leading into their second-up attempts and is content with their response.
‘I cut their work down to half-mile (800m), home ‘three’ (600m) on the grass and they were both perky,’ Price commented on their workout on Saturday morning.
‘Both of those horses, their best distance is 1600 and we’re trying to win a 1400-metre race with them, so I need them jumping up and down a little bit.
‘They’re nice and fresh and they should show up at the end of 1400.’
Planet Red and Sabaj made their seasonal reappearances in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) on August 29, finishing seventh and last respectively in the twelve-strong field that Beiwacht won.
The Memsie Stakes marked the initial phase of Planet Red’s campaign towards the $10 million Group 1 Golden Eagle (1400m) on October 31, while Sabaj’s main ambition is the $2 million Five Diamonds (1800m) seven days thereafter.
Both horses are set to progress to those feature events via the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) on October 10, and Price indicated that this weekend’s race is the ideal preparatory run for that target.
‘That (1400m) is not their ideal distance in a Group 1 handicap on top of the ground where they might run 1:22-something if it’s a good-run race,’ Price stated. ‘But this is the race we want to use to go to the Toorak and they’re both going well.’
Planet Red and Sabaj are among 24 acceptors for the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, with Lady Shenandoah, Sepals, and Angel Capital also expected to feature in the line-up.
This is one of two $1 million Group 1 races scheduled at Caulfield this Saturday, the other being the Underwood Stakes (1800m), which has attracted 15 nominations including prominent contenders such as Cosmic Crusader, Aeliana, Birdman, Buckaroo, and Lindermann.
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Henry Pollock has said that he is “open to every opportunity” with the England back rower yet to sign a new contract with Northampton Saints.
Pollock’s deal with the Gallagher Prem club is due to expire at the end of this season and, while The Independent understands that talks are progressing well and there is confidence at Saints that he will re-sign, the 21-year-old is yet to agree terms.
The youngster was described as a £1m player by Eddie Hearn, who oversees his commercial deals under his Matchroom agency, though is expected to be in line for a deal worth around £450,000 a year.
Pollock insists, though, that is keeping an open mind, hinting that he hopes to play abroad and potentially try another sport in the future.
“I’m very much at the minute working through different scenarios and different avenues I can take,” Pollock explained. “The big thing for me is making sure that my management are happy with it and they’re doing all that stuff.
“I’m open to every opportunity. I’m not going to say no to stuff that I think will be good for my career and good for me. I’m very young but I’m still very open to lots of new things.
“Obviously, Northampton’s been so great to me. I’ve stayed here, I’ve been here my whole career and they’ve made me who I am. For me to stay here would be so special. Obviously, I know it’s not as easy as that and I know there’s lots of moving parts that come into play.
“I think for me, you almost have to be quite selfish in that aspect think what’s right for you. If that is staying here, then that’s great. I’ll be here for however long. If it’s not, then I’ll be open to new opportunities. I’ll be open to doing different things, selfishly I think it’s down to me at the end of the day. I definitely want to go and live in different countries, explore new sports, explore new avenues. Again, that’s all down to the management team. I’m just speaking to them loads and assessing my options and seeing what’s right for myself.”
Pollock, who did not specify which other sports he might wish to explore, became Matchroom’s first rugby client when he signed with Hearn’s agency in March, though his contract with Northampton does not fall under their purview.
The player insisted that the promoter’s declarations about his value were a good thing.
“I don’t see it as pressure,” Pollock stressed. “I see it as him doing his job.
“He’s the best sports promoter in the world. The reason he’s the best is because he gets his client what he deserves.If he’s saying that about me then for me it’s just noise.
“Eddie’s been great for me and he’s given me so many avenues to get into. The way that he can give me access to loads of different stuff has been amazing. I have no bad words about him. The sport of rugby needs to change and hopefully this is a change.”
Northampton are due to open their Prem campaign against the Newcastle Red Bulls next Friday. Director of rugby Phil Dowson is hopeful that Pollock’s deal is done soon.
“We’re getting closer. As you can imagine it’s complex. There’s a few moving parts that we need to put together. But I’m hopeful. As I said before, he wants to stay and we want to keep him. Obviously there’s some negotiations going between that but those two things are very positive.
“It would have been good to have it sorted three weeks ago but that’s the case across the board. There’s lots of guys out of contract and that can be weighing in the back of their mind in how we managed and how we talk to them and their agents. What I’m always impressed by is with how professional the lads are in terms of still having a job to do. The best way of getting paid is to play well so that’s what we expect the lads to do.”
It’s likely you’ve heard of the Seminole Pro-Member, the one-day event held each March at the regal Donald Ross course on the Atlantic Ocean in South Florida. It has drawn, through the years, Nick Price, Ernie Els, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Nelly Korda, among other touring luminaries, Jimmy Dunne, the longtime Seminole Golf Club president, presiding. The so-called fifth major.
This week a group of elite club pros get their turn to be spoiled in style, at an event that has bubbled under the surface of national attention for decades, the Smith Cole pro-am at the Cherry Hills Country Club, outside Denver, a three-day tourney hosted by Peyton Manning, a Cherry Hills member and Denver resident. The event is named for the late Warren Smith and Clayton Cole, very much alive, both longtime head pros at Cherry Hills. The Smith Cole is a club-pro major. This year’s edition is No. 34.
Jimmy Dunne is playing with the head pro from Deepdale Golf Club. Augusta National will have a pro and a member at the event. So will the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, the Inverness Club, the San Francisco Golf Club, among nearly two dozen other clubs you know or wish you did. All three Manning brothers — your Cooper, your Peyton, your Eli — are playing. Kevin Hammer, the USGA president, is playing with Martyn Huish, the pro from North Berwick, in Scotland, and Mike Whan, the USGA CEO, is playing with Andy North, the two-time U.S. Open winner and a Cherry Hills member. Wyndham Clark, another two-time U.S. Open winner and Cherry Hills member, is playing with Michael Meldman, the golf-course developer. There are club pros from The Olde Farm in Virginia, Ohoopee Match Club in Georgia, Shooting Star in Wyoming. Yes, new kids on the block.
It’s a happening, for the embroidered-belt crowd.
There’s a practice round Wednesday, pros with pros, ams with ams. Wednesday night, at a tournament dinner in the Cherry Hills clubhouse, Manning will interview Ben Crenshaw, attending this year as a special pro guest and bringing an amateur from his home club, the Austin Golf Club. The first round for the 55 two-man teams is on Thursday. Thursday night, the fellas will gather for dinner at the Denver warehouse from which the ManningCast Monday Night Football broadcast is set loose onto the world. Friday, the second and final tournament round is played. Then the Smith Cole wraps up with a luncheon. Awards for many and bro-hugs for all. Then everybody disperses back to their real lives.
Sound like a good time?
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“The Seminole event is in-and-out,” Jimmy Dunne said recently. “The pros are there to see the course, the members are there to see the pros. At Cherry Hills, as good as the course is, you’re there for the people.” Three days of golfing, eating, drinking, talking — and more golfing. The Cherry Hills thing is a hang.
Curtis Strange was invited last year as Ben Crenshaw was this year. On its face, it didn’t sound like an easy sell. Strange, the two-time U.S. Open winner and broadcaster, needed another pro-am in his life like he needed another sleeve of balata 384s. The event was two flights and two time zones away from his home in coastal North Carolina. He had never known Warren Smith or Clayton Cole. The last time he had been to Cherry Hills was for the PGA Championship in August 1985, where, despite his three wins on Tour that year, he missed the cut by six.
Still, off he went, one year ago, joined by the older of his two sons, Tom, named for Curtis’s club-pro father. Another example of this observation, that joy comes from the things you do in life, not the things you don’t.
“I just couldn’t believe how good the course was,” Strange said the other day, revisiting the experience in an interview. He had turned 70 a few months before the 2025 Smith Cole and was seeing the course, where Arnold Palmer won a celebrated U.S. Open, through a different lens. Strange was now a father, a grandfather, a World Golf Hall of Famer. Strange’s only real responsibility was to tell war stories at the opening-night dinner by way of gentle prodding from Peyton. Strange had been an Arnold Palmer Scholarship recipient as a student at Wake Forest in the mid-1970s and he found himself taking in Cherry Hill’s collection of Arnold Palmer memorabilia. So, a lot, and it was all good.
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But when the event was over, Strange realized that the thing that made the biggest impact on him was not the golf course, for all its mile-high delights, and it was not the trip down memory lane, as pleasant as that stroll was. It was, echoing Jimmy Dunne, the assembled people. (It’s like when you go on a trip to a national park and you take all those nature snaps, but it’s the ones with actual people in them that you linger on in the home-again slide show.) A short list of Curtis’s enduring highlights: being with Tom; seeing Andy North, who won his first Open, in 1978, at Cherry Hills; playing with Fred Ridley, the Augusta National chairman, 50 years after they both played in the 1975 U.S. Amateur; eating lunch with Clayton Cole.
“What a classy man,” Strange said of Mr. Cole, a pro of the old school. You know: the low-buff FootJoys, the sharply creased pants, the by-the-book manner. Strange knows the territory, though his father’s club life was way more rough and tumble, with heavy action both on the first tee and in the card room.
“Are we going back this year?” Tom asked his father.
“No,” said the father. “It was a one-and-done thing.”
Still, a good time was had by all.
In a manner of speaking, and in a quiet way, Clayton Cole, now 85, is the star of the event. Cole plays in the event every year, chatting with the 100 or so members and guests in it and thereby reminding all, without even trying, of the pleasure that comes from getting lost in the company of golfers.
Cole has always had game and breaks his age regularly. Having an on-the-screws golf game was once a job prerequisite for club pros at prominent clubs, and Warren Smith and Clayton Cole fit the bill. They were expected to put up good scores, and they did. Adding their playing resumes together, they played in scores of U.S. Opens, PGA Championships and other national events, plus innumerable local ones. This was in an era when members wanted to see the names of their pros in their Tuesday paper after Monday tournaments. Members had more faith in the lessons they were getting, and in the clubs they were buying, when they knew their pros could break par on any given Monday, or any other day for that matter. In a roundabout way, the Smith Cole honors all of that.
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Strange’s lone complaint (insert air quotes) from last year’s event concerned the slippery Cherry Hills greens. “The greens were perfect,” Strange said. (Nobody says perfect quite like Curtis, in his son-of-the-South, pro-for-the-ages way.) “But they had ’em Stimping about 15.” That is, Oakmont fast and then some.
Poa annua greens, by the way. William Flynn course. The ’38 Open was played there, the first time the tournament was played west of the Mississippi. Cherry Hills is an elite club, but Denver-style. Its vibe is rancher western, not E-ZPass eastern. It’s Robert Redford on a horse (or would Ronald Reagan work better here?) and not Thurston Howell III on a yacht.
Maybe that’s why Peyton Manning, who turned 50 this year, is so at home there. Manning has a sharp wit with the skill set to process both minute tourney details (and surely other things) while also painting on a big canvas in another room. He is an honors graduate from the University of Tennessee (1997) and now a guest lecturer there. But his out-and-about manner is loose, almost casual. He can’t oversell or overpromise. It’s not in him.
Manning joined Cherry Hills after becoming the Denver Broncos quarterback in 2012. He’s the Smith Cole greeter, sheriff and part-time bookkeeper. His older brother, Cooper, plays in the event and pays for the privilege, without complaint. (He also helps Peyton write his material.) Their younger brother, Eli, the former New York Giants quarterback and winner of two Super Bowls, plays in the Smith Cole, too, but requires more attention. “He thinks he should be comped,” Manning said recently. “I disagree.” The disagrees have it, and there was no vote.
The Smith Cole (it has had different names over the decades) has 55 two-man teams. So 110 players, ams from gravel-driveway clubs with their driver-off-the-deck pros, plus two-dozen member-member Cherry Hills teams. For the out-of-towners, that’s the typical path in: The invited pro brings an am from his home club, or the invited amateur brings a pro from home, plus the various Cherry Hills members playing with other Cherry Hills members. The ability to break 80 is not a prerequisite, though many in the field can. There are more net and gross and pro and am and pro-with-am divisions than any normal person would want to monitor. Really, every last participant should go home with a bumper sticker for their preferred back-to-school minivan: Every Golfer is an Honored Golfer at Smith Cole Middle School!
Cherry Hills members with sporty resumes in the field include Joe Buck (the broadcaster), Josh Kroenke (the Denver Nuggets president) and Greg Penner (the Denver Broncos owner). One of Augusta National’s co-head pros, J.J. Weaver, played last year with Fred Ridley, the Augusta National chairman, and this year is playing with another member, Tom Nelson, the Masters media committee chairman. Eli Manning is playing with the head pro from the oh-so-genteel Somerset Hills Country Club in New Jersey, Daniel Joseph. Peyton is playing with Penner, as both a member-member and a Broncos-Broncos team.
The club is an elemental part of Manning’s life, and so are the pros there. He knows them all, teaching and assistant and head and emeritus. He knows a lot of the caddies. (Cherry Hills has a thriving caddie program and the club has its own scholarship program for caddies and employees, named for Arnold Palmer.) He knows many of the servers and bartenders. When Manning got into Augusta National some years ago, one of his first guests was Mr. Cole.
Even if you haven’t met Clayton Cole, he might seem familiar to you, the super-organized club-pro lifer with an unhurried manner and deep and enduring relationships in the game. (You’re hesitant to say there’s a type but when it’s a positive, why not?) Kevin Hammer’s father is a club pro. In the club pro community, Hammer noted in a recent interview, rules count, as do punctuality, appearance and manners — cornerstones of a civil society.
More than a few club pros have found that their members will share intimate issues from their lives in ways they can with few others. Many club pros are experts in concealing judgment. They’re the grownups in the room. (You’ll never meet a young head pro, even if the pro’s birth certificate says the person is a young head pro.) Early in Clayton Cole’s career, when he was one of Warren Smith’s assistants, Smith gave his eventual successor this pearl: “We like all our members — we just like some more than others.” Now how’s that as a useful swing tip when you have 300 dues-paying bosses? “When a member comes to his club, he wants a break from work and really anything chaotic in his life,” Strange said. “A lot of that falls to the head pro.”
The senior Tom Strange, Curtis’s father, grew up caddying with Dow Finsterwald and died (screw you, cancer) at age 38, before he had a chance to become a Warren Smith or a Clayton Cole himself. Tom Strange could flat out play. Finsterwald, of course, could too — he won the 1958 PGA Championship and later was a legendary Colorado club pro. (Talk about an unhurried manner.) Finsterwald spent decades as the director of golf at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, though you can be sure his preferred title was head pro. All the old-school pros liked that title and to this day many still do, no matter what it says on their business cards. Arnold Palmer’s father was the head pro at Latrobe. Butch Harmon’s father was the head pro at Winged Foot. Davis Love’s father was the head pro at Charlotte Country Club. The Smith Cole honors pros, teaching pros, assistant pros, head pros and touring pros, current and retired.
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Enter Curtis Strange last year, Brad Faxon the year before that, Ben Crenshaw this year. For Crenshaw, the Smith Cole is his second major this year, in a manner of speaking. Last month, he was a special guest at The Langley, an event that remembers the life and times of Jim Langley, the legendary head pro at Cypress Point, who shared the course record there as a two-armed golfer (63) and has the one-armed course record (81) all to himself. Crenshaw was the honoree at the 2022 Memorial tournament, where he made casual and delightful public remarks about different golfing figures in his life, including Harvey Penick, the legendary head pro at Austin Country Club, for whom Warren Smith was an assistant.
If you’ve had the chance to see Fred Ridley in action — at the Masters, in USGA settings, at international amateur events — you can see he has some old-time club pro in him. He’s never rushed, his comments are well-considered, he’d rather listen than talk. He’s the first to say that Jack Grout helped him get where he is. He left Columbus making a bigger shoulder turn and a longer back swing and driving it long and in play. He defeated both Andy Bean and Keith Fergus on his way to winning the 1975 U.S. Amateur. That led to two stints as the Walker Cup captain.
When Ridley was the captain of the 1987 Walker Cup team, Bill Loeffler was on his team, as the 1986 U.S. Mid-Am champion. In team photos, Loeffler stands out, the only person on the team with a mustache, a particularly luxuriant one. Loeffler, a Denver native and a Cherry Hills member, plays in the Smith Cole every year.
“Does Bill still have that mustache?” Fred Ridley asked Clayton Cole upon seeing him at Cherry Hills.
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Loeffler had shaved off his soup strainer years earlier, but he had a trick up his sleeve. He got himself to a Halloween shop near his house, bought himself a gag Inspector Clouseau mustache, attached it between his nose and upper lip and presented himself to his former captain. The next photo, mental or otherwise: people laughing.
“It all goes back to the people,” Peyton Manning said the other day. “The people you get to know. The members of Cherry Hills, and the people you get to know from around the country, too. You build relationships. You can build a friendship that just never goes away. I think golf has a kind of magic and power to it. That’s what it is for me. The Smith Cole is a perfect example of that.”
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Richarlison will not be included in Tottenham’s squad for Tuesday’s Carabao Cup tie at Liverpool after manager Roberto De Zerbi chose to leave him out.
The forward was omitted from Spurs’ 25-man Premier League list submitted earlier this month after being told he is surplus to requirements. Having failed to secure a departure, he remains eligible for domestic cup competitions.
However, De Zerbi confirmed the former Everton player, who rejected a move to Vasco da Gama on Friday, will not feature. This comes despite his record of four goals in seven games against Liverpool for Spurs, who have not scored in the league during 2026-27.
“Richarlison, you already know everything and nothing change for Carabao Cup or Premier League. The situation is the same,” De Zerbi said.
“I stay in the middle and I can’t say nothing more because it is not my job. I can answer about the result and the players in the squad, the offensive phase, the defensive phase, but not for other things.
“What I have done at the beginning of this season has been to speak with him and to propose an extension of the contract. If he said, ‘no thank you,’ I finished my job.
“I said last press conference. I know what happened in the last 45 days. It’s not right if I explained. It’s not my behaviour. The relationship, the problem is between the player and the club.
“I stay within the club. It’s coach and club together. At the start of this season I spoke to him many times to convince him to stay and he didn’t want to. I can’t go every day to pray for him to stay.”
This is the latest chapter in an unwanted saga involving Richarlison, who responded to a social media post by Italian football journalist Fabrizio Romano that confirmed De Zerbi’s decision by simply posting the word “Why?” with a ‘crying face’ emoji.
Richarlison started the league opener at Brentford, but was told he can leave before a move to Everton collapsed and links to Trabzonspor failed to turn into a move.
After Richarlison did not agree personal terms with boyhood club Vasco on Friday, he was in attendance for Spurs’ goalless draw with Everton, but will remain on the sidelines.
De Zerbi will also be without Pedro Porro and Sandro Tonali for the midweek trip to Anfield.
After a 0-0 draw at Everton, De Zerbi talked about playing with “other players” at Liverpool, but hinted he will not make wholesale changes.
De Zerbi added: “No, the other players, I think Lucas Bergvall is not ‘other player’, Mathys Tel also and then we have to analyse the other players.
“Maybe the players who didn’t play enough but I already said I am lucky because for centre back for example we have JP van Hecke and (Micky) van de Ven, two top players, but (Marcos) Senesi, Ben Davies, Tosin (Adarabioyo) are not less than Van de Ven and Van Hecke.
“I would like to go far in the Carabao and FA Cup.”
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday said any decision on India’s participation in the South Asian Federation (SAF) Games 2027 to be held in Pakistan is guided by the recent policy of the sports ministry.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said this in his response to a query at his media briefing, where he was asked about some reports related to India and the SAF Games.
“Your second question about the news about India’s participation in SAF Games. India’s participation in any international tournament or a multilateral championship is guided by the recent policy that has been announced by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
“And that policy is there in public domain, so please have a look at that. There we are guided by what directions or what the international bodies, sports bodies have to say on such matters, as also the interest of our sports people,” Jaiswal said.
Pakistan will host the SAF Games from April 3 to 11 across Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar next year. The South Asia Olympic Council (SAOC) approved the dates and venues for the regional multi-sport event at a recent meeting in Islamabad, according to the Olympics webiste.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on its website carries a file, titled ‘Indian Policy Towards International Sporting Events’.
“With regard to international and multilateral events, in India or abroad, we are guided by the practices of international sports bodies and the interest of our own sportspersons. It is also relevant to take into account India’s emergence as a credible venue to host international sports events,” reads the policy.
“Accordingly, Indian teams and individual players will take part in international events that also have teams or players from Pakistan. Similarly, Pakistani players and teams will be able to participate in such multilateral events hosted by India,” it says.
The MEA spokesperson was also asked about the latest update in cases related to six Ukrainians and US national Matthew Aaron Van Dyke.
“On the question of the US and Ukrainian nationals whose matter you referred to is in the court right now. This is a legal matter and it will proceed as per the directions of the court,” Jaiswal said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against the seven foreign nationals, including Van Dyke, for illegal entry, stay and movement, but did not invoke the anti-terror law UAPA, after arresting them in a terror conspiracy case for alleged links to ethnic armed groups in India.
The NIA chargesheet, filed before Special Judge Prashant Sharma, accused the seven of offences under sections 21 and 23 of the Immigration and Foreigners Act and said “more time is required to ascertain and verify the true and complete facts about the commission of offences under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act”.
US national Van Dyke had been arrested by the NIA from Kolkata airport, while Ukrainian citizens Petro Hurba, Taras Slyviak and Ivan Sukmanovskyi were arrested from Lucknow airport on March 13. Three other Ukrainians –Marian Stefankiv, Maksim Honcharuk and Viktor Kaminskyi — were arrested from Delhi airport the same day.
It was alleged that the group was operating as mercenaries.
John Sargent is relying on his extensive experience training three-year-old fillies to give Global Goal the optimal chance at Group One success this Spring.
The daughter of Pinatubo is scheduled to compete in the Group 2 Tea Rose Stakes, a 1400-metre race at Randwick on Saturday. Sargent strategically decided to bypass the Furious Stakes, the second event in the Princess Series, after Global Goal’s promising third-place finish in the Silver Shadow Stakes on her seasonal return.
Having recorded the fastest final 200 metres behind Pembrey in the Silver Shadow Stakes, Sargent opted to give Global Goal a trial last Friday. He was mindful of the racing workload for the lightly built filly, considering she will be making only her third career start this Saturday.
“She seems to have done well since the Silver Shadow,” Sargent confirmed.
“We’ve just spaced her runs and gave her a trial the other day and I’ve added side winkers as she just seems to go through a flat patch in her races.”
“It seems to have got her to concentrate better so she’ll wear those on Saturday, and the extra distance should help.”
Sargent, who previously won the Tea Rose Stakes with Four Moves Ahead in 2021 for Pinecliff Racing, is keen for Global Goal to step up in distance, with the Group 1 Flight Stakes over 1600 metres being her ultimate target.
Four Moves Ahead finished sixth in the Flight Stakes that year. Sargent also achieved success with Foxborough, who secured third place behind Funstar in 2019, and Powers Of Opal, who finished fourth to Lady Shenandoah in 2024.
While Powers Of Opal went on to finish second in both the Wakeful Stakes and the VRC Oaks later in the Spring, Sargent indicated that Global Goal would likely not be raced beyond a mile.
“She’s owned by the same owners as Four Moves Ahead, and she went to the Furious and then went and won the Tea Rose,” Sargent explained.
“But this filly’s probably a lighter filly than that, so she doesn’t need a lot, so I decided to miss that race and carry on to the Flight Stakes.”
“She’s probably not big and robust enough to be an Oaks horse, she’s more a 1400 to a mile type horse, I think.”
“There’s always a Thousand Guineas which is a bit later that she’s nominated for, but no, we’ll just look at those races and if she could happen to win one of those, we’d probably put her aside and look at the Autumn.”
Global Goal is currently a $4.50 chance for the Tea Rose Stakes and a $7 chance for the Flight Stakes on October 3rd. Bet on the upcoming races at racing betting markets.
Sun Goddess (4/7 favourite) followed up on her recent York success with victory in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at The Curragh on Sunday afternoon.
In the colours of the Coolmore partners, the daughter of Justify was winning for a fifth times from seven career starts.
Trained at Ballydoyle by Aidan O’Brien, and ridden by Ryan Moore, the two-year-old out of the Starspangledbanner daughter Etoile Bleu ran out an easy six-and-a-half length winner over Green Express (3/1) and Colin Keane.
Dancing Destiny (14/1), like the runner-up, trained by Joseph O’Brien, finished third one-and-three-quarter lengths furthar back, under jockey Declan McDonagh.
“She looks a freak.”
Aidan O’Brien offers a succinct analysis of Sun Goddess following her jaw-dropping success in the Moyglare …
Could she return to action in two weeks’ time? pic.twitter.com/MQ5oXFZsNE
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) September 13, 2026
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Pakistan cricket legend and the country’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, continues to draw attention from the global cricketing fraternity. Twenty-one international captains recently wrote to the Pakistan government, urging better treatment of Imran Khan, who has been in prison since 2023. Now, one of the greatest pacers of all time, Michael Holding, has joined the bandwagon in support of the jailed former Pakistan cricket team captain. While Holding, a West Indies cricket legend, is wary of the politics behind the imprisonment, he didn’t shy away from speaking highly of the person Imran Khan is.
Holding and Imran didn’t play a lot of matches against each other in international cricket, but they did spend quality time in each other’s company. Holding highlighted that when Imran was in London to raise funds for a cancer hospital, he accompanied him. This was when he came to know deeply who the person is.
“I’ll mention one name, Imran Khan, but you probably don’t want to go down the political route, and I don’t want to either, but that’s a sad story. It has become one of the former Pakistan captain’s defining legacies. I played with Imran, I wouldn’t say I played a lot. I played some one-day games with him. I played county cricket, a few games against Imran, but apart from playing with Imran, I have spent time with Imran,” Holding said during a chat with Sports Now.
“When Imran was going around London looking to garner funds for that cancer hospital, I went around with him, I tried to support him as best as I possibly could, where that was concerned. So I know the man, and I know exactly what type of person that he is. And it’s extremely sad to see the situation now and what is going on with Imran Khan,” the 72-year-old recalled.
Recently, during Pakistan’s tour of England, an interview featured Imran Khan’s sons where they spoke about how much the health of the former cricketer has deteriorated in prison. The two sons even alleged that the Pakistan government isn’t allowing them to meet their father, while also denying treatment in a private hospital. This worsening condition has seen former international captains write two letters to the Pakistan government, urging intervention and better treatment.
#PAKWatch🇵🇰: Today, THOUSANDS took to the streets of Lahore to DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF IMRAN KHAN.
PAK = MILITARY RUNS THE SHOW = 3RD WORLD.
FREE IMRAN KHAN. pic.twitter.com/3kDQNmWL4b
— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) September 15, 2026
Holding also extended support to the letter. Targeting the Pakistan government, Holding expressed disappointment at the way Imran is being treated.
“I am in total support of the captains who wrote that letter. I don’t know what effect it will have, but I am in total support of trying to get the man to be treated just like another human being. You don’t treat human beings that way. People who have committed murder aren’t treated that way. So I don’t see the reason why this man should be treated that way,” Holding said.
“I don’t know if there’s jealousy involved in this, because Imran Khan. I don’t think there’s a Pakistani who is more well-known around the world than Imran Khan. That is ridiculous, the way the man is being treated,” he added.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said a proposed NBA Europe league would “respect the traditions of European basketball.”
Silver used the occasion of Thursday’s NBA game in Berlin between the Orlando Magic and the Memphis Grizzlies — the first regular season game to ever take place in Germany — to give an update on the venture.
He said the NBA was continuing to hold discussions with clubs about its plans, which would see it partner with FIBA, world basketball’s governing body, to create a 16-team European league. Up to 12 spots would be reserved for permanent members, and at least four would be available to teams that qualify through FIBA’s existing European competition.
“I would just say we continue to be enormously excited about it,” Silver said about the notion of an NBA Europe, adding that discussions with media organizations and sponsors were still ongoing.
However, the NBA’s plans are likely to encounter resistance from the EuroLeague, European basketball’s current top-tier tournament, and European politicians concerned about the threat to the so-called European sports model.
They fear an invite-only league would stifle the development of national leagues in Europe. Such “closed” leagues “benefit only the top percent of the commercially successful clubs,” a European government official told Politico last month.
Asked about the threat of legal action from the EuroLeague, Silver joked that he sends any legal letters to his lawyers.
“I don’t think it’s inevitable that there is a clash,” he said. “I think there is an opportunity here to grow European basketball.
“We’re trying to find the best combination of old and new, tradition and innovation. And I think, frankly, that’s what the NBA brings to the table.”
NBA returns to Germany
The last time the NBA came to Germany, who are the current world and European champions, was for a pre-season game in 2008.
Silver told reporters that basketball was enjoying a “golden era” in Germany and called the capital’s club, Alba Berlin, a “model of the type of club that we would like to see in a potential European league.
“To me, they are an example of how a top-tier club should be run and organized,” Silver added. “They have tremendous youth programs, they have deep fan support [and] they’ve created enormous enthusiasm around the game.”
As well as Germany, the NBA is reportedly targeting teams in England, France, Spain and Turkey, among others. Silver said the league would be a “mix of existing teams and potentially new teams.”
European talent drain
Europe has long provided a rich pool of talent for NBA teams in North America. This season, about one in six NBA players — more than 70 in total — hail from Europe.
These include Serbia’s Nikola Jokic, a three-time Most Valuable Player, as well as three Germans representing Orlando: the Wagner brothers, Franz and Moritz, and Tristan da Silva.
Although da Silva called playing in the United States his “dream as a kid,” he suggested young players had a “good incentive” to ply their trade in Europe.
“It’s just a high level of basketball,” he said at a press conference on Tuesday. “There’s a lot of guys from overseas, from America, coming to Europe playing here. So, it’s just getting globalized.”
Basketball is Europe’s No. 2 sport
The appetite for basketball in Europe already exists, according to the NBA, which points to the “untapped” potential of 270 million fans. It says basketball is the continent’s fastest-growing sport and ranks second only to football in popularity. Earlier this week, NBA Europe’s chief suggested that basketball could even “catch up” to football.
However, Silver appeared to lower expectations when DW asked how the NBA would put a dent in European football’s market share.
“We view ourselves as complementary to other sports leagues,” Silver said. “Being the number two sport in Europe, and only faster growing than football because it’s so much larger than we are, that to me speaks to the opportunity that exists to build a viable business around this sport.”
Franz Wagner, who, like his brother, grew up in Berlin and came through the youth system at Alba, said comparisons with football took “the joy out of” basketball.
“I look at the recent developments in Germany and I’m super grateful to be part of it,” he told reporters on Wednesday. “I think it’s amazing the sport is growing so fast.”
Edited by: Sean Sinico
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