Suncorp Stadium will play host to Saturday’s
Round 11 NRL game between Parramatta Eels and
Melbourne Storm. The game kicks off at 7:45 pm with Melbourne Storm heading into the game as favourites with the bookmakers. Continue reading for our in-depth preview of the Parramatta Eels vs.
Melbourne Storm
game and give you our free tips and bets.

When: Saturday May 16, 2026 at 7:45 pm

Where: Suncorp Stadium

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Melbourne snapped its losing run last week but Craig Bellamy will still see areas requiring improvement, particularly through the middle once fatigue began to creep in. The Storm’s defensive structure around the ruck and short side has looked vulnerable at times this season, an issue dangerous against a playmaker like Mitch Moses.

Parramatta enters this clash riding the emotional high of a golden-point victory, though backing up physically and mentally will be the challenge. Moses remains the key, especially with his ability to identify compressed defensive lines and attack narrow edges. If the Eels can hold firm through the middle and avoid gifting Melbourne momentum, they have the attacking weapons to stay within striking distance throughout. The Storm still possesses the class and experience to control key moments, but this shapes as a far tighter contest than the ladder might suggest.

Sky has upgraded its Ultimate TV and Sky Sports bundle to now include HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, discovery+ and Hayu, as well as 135 channels and full Sky coverage of the Premier League and EFL.

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Nigeria’s U-17 women’s team, the Flamingos, will leave for Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday, May 20, ahead of their FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifier against Guinea.

The team, led by head coach Akeem Busari, will continue final preparations before the first-leg match scheduled for May 23.

The Flamingos are currently training at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne as they intensify preparations for the important qualifier.

Team officials said the squad travelled from Abuja to Lagos before arriving in Ikenne later in the evening.

Coach Busari and his assistants have been working on the squad after several impressive performances in friendly matches during camping.

The coach invited 36 players to camp in Abuja on April 10, and the team has shown strong form in their preparatory games.

The Flamingos defeated SoloWonders Babes 7-0, beat YAFA 5-0, thrashed Nazareth 6-0 and also recorded a 7-0 victory over Generation Next. Their only draw came against Real Rising in a 1-1 result.

The team also secured a comfortable 5-0 win against Lakesides at the Remo Stars Stadium, boosting confidence ahead of the clash with Guinea.

The Flamingos remain one of Africa’s top women’s youth teams, having reached the semi-finals of previous FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup tournaments while producing talented players for Nigerian women’s football.

The two-legged qualifier against Guinea will decide which team moves closer to qualifying for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco later this year.

First Published: May 16 2026 | 12:25 PM IST

The 2026 NBA Western Conference finals get underway when the second-seeded San Antonio Spurs battle the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. San Antonio is coming off a 139-109 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday to win their semifinal series 4-2, while Oklahoma City downed the Los Angeles Lakers 115-110 on May 11 to sweep their series. The Spurs (62-20), who won the Southwest Division, are looking to reach the NBA Finals for the first time since 2013-14. The Thunder (64-18), who won the Northwest Division, are looking to win back-to-back NBA championships. De’Aaron Fox (ankle) and Luke Kornet (foot) are questionable for San Antonio.

Tipoff from Paycom Center in Oklahoma City is set for 8:30 p.m. ET. The Thunder are 6.5-point favorites in the latest Spurs vs. Thunder odds from FanDuel Sportsbook, while the over/under for total points scored is 221.5. Before making any Thunder vs. Spurs picks, check out the Spurs vs. Thunder predictions from the SportsLine Projection Model.

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After 10,000 simulations of Spurs vs. Thunder, SportsLine’s model is going Under on the total (221.5). The Under has hit in six of the last 10 head-to-head meetings, including three of five meetings this season. The Under has also hit in 51 of the last 94 Spurs games with one push when the line is over 205. The Under has hit 25 out of 48 San Antonio road games with one push when the Spurs face teams allowing 102 or more points.

The SportsLine model is projecting just three Spurs players to score 13 points or more, led by Victor Wembanyama’s 24.7 points. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is projected to lead the Thunder with 29.7 points scored, but just three Oklahoma City players are forecast to score 16 points or more. The teams are projected to combine for 213 total points as the Under hits in 63% of simulations, making it a great selection for anybody targeting NBA parlay betting. See the Spurs vs. Thunder spread pick at SportsLine, and you can bet the Under in Thunder vs. Spurs at FanDuel here:

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Russell Wilson has had his share of ups and downs in his NFL career.

He helped the Seattle Seahawks to a Super Bowl championship in 2013 and was named to the Pro Bowl four times. But the last few years of his career arguably did some damage to his legacy as he’s spent the last three seasons with three different teams.

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New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson watches from the sidelines during the second quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Oct. 9, 2025. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

Wilson is still on the free-agent market as he looks to latch on to a new team for 2026. However, former NFL star Aqib Talib implored Wilson to hang up the cleats.

“Do your TV thing, Russ. It’s over with, man. Once you’ve got to decide, do I even want to play?” Talib said on “The Arena: Gridiron.” “I think you don’t really want to play. I hate when guys get to the later part of their career and then they start doing the bounce-around thing and they’re not going to win. There was no chip in New York. That’s just going to be another stop on your resume.”

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Wilson reportedly garnered some interest from NFL teams.

New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson stands on the field before a game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA on Oct. 26, 2025. (Bill Streicher/Imagn Images)

He told the New York Post that the New York Jets were one of them.

Wilson also was reportedly a candidate to take Matt Ryan’s spot on CBS’ “The NFL Today” after Ryan left to take a front office job with the Atlanta Falcons.

Wilson has 46,966 passing yards and 353 passing touchdowns in 205 career games, but the 2025 season with the New York Giants was one to forget.

Wilson started three games and made some bizarre decisions in a loss against the Chiefs. Jaxson Dart was named the starting quarterback. As he came in to take a few snaps while Dart was being checked for a concussion, Wilson was booed.

New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson watches from the sidelines during the second half against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colo., on Oct. 19, 2025. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

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Should he end up signing with another team, Wilson will be entering his age-38 season.

John H Stracey swapped the gloves for a microphone in his second act. Half a century on from his famous world title triumph in Mexico City, the former champion is now hoping a new World Cup song can inspire England ahead of the 2026 tournament.

After several street scuffles as a small lad in Bethnal Green, Stracey’s father marched him through the doors Repton Boxing Club at 11 years old.

He moved through the amateur ranks impressively – schoolboy, junior, senior – and represented his country at the Olympics in 1968, losing in the last 16 to eventual gold medallist Ronnie Harris of the USA.

If his Olympics run didn’t end as he wanted, it would still prepare Stracey for his own World Cup final. He turned over to the paid ranks five days before his 19th birthday and won the British and European welterweight titles before landing a shot at Mexican great José Nápoles in the sweltering, high-altitude cauldron of Mexico City for the WBC world title in 1975.

“I was very, very confident. Extremely confident. I actually preferred being away from home. When you’re defending a title at home, there’s so much pressure. But when you go abroad for a title fight, everybody expects you to lose anyway. If you lose, they say, ‘Well, he boxed 5,000 miles away.’ But if you win, that’s the great thing about it.

“Mexico suited me because I’d already boxed there as an amateur in the Olympics. Chris Finnegan won gold there, and we had some really good fighters.

“But the big thing was the altitude. It was 7,500 feet above sea level, so you couldn’t just arrive and start training hard the next day. You had to ease yourself into it.  If you look, I’m the only British boxer ever to win it in Mexico, no one’s ever done it, and I don’t know if it’s because they don’t prepare properly.

“When we went there for the Olympics, we arrived two weeks early. For the Napoles fight, I made sure I got there three weeks before. I knew if I was going to have any chance at becoming champion, I had to be there long enough to become accustomed to it.”

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Stracey recovered from a first-round knockdown in front of 42,000 fans at the Plaza de Toros – just 24 of whom, he says, had travelled from Britain – to stop Nápoles in the sixth and become world champion. After all deductions, he walked away with £2,000 and a car, but, more importantly, he had fulfilled a lifelong ambition to win the title. Yet boxing was never the only thing Stracey imagined himself doing.

Long before he became world champion, he had dreams of becoming a singer. In fact, when he mentions a talent competition trophy he won at 12 years old, it’s easy to imagine it sitting proudly alongside the green and gold WBC belt today.

“Music had always been there. In fact, before boxing, I wanted to be a singer. I won a talent competition in 1962 at a holiday camp. That’s what I wanted to do originally, but singing became number two and boxing number one.”

After retiring in 1978, Stracey swapped the buzz of the ring for the stage, alongside various business ventures. He’s proud to point out that he has shared stages with the likes of Johnny Mathis, Tony Christie and Russ Abbot, and performed, as he once fought, in Las Vegas. Today, he writes songs and takes his act all over the country, drawing great satisfaction from sing-alongs at retirement homes, sometimes changing his stage name so boxing doesn’t dominate the conversation.

This year, the national pride born from his boxing days and his passion for singing collide with the release of ‘66 All Over Again’, a catchy World Cup anthem backing the Three Lions to bring the trophy home 60 years on from their last success, which Stracey, now 75, watched as a 16-year-old amateur fighter.

“Oh, I loved it [watching in 1966]. Alan Ball became my favourite player. It was such a special time to be English.”

“The song actually started years ago, around 2010. I wrote the lyrics and a mate of mine helped with the music because I can’t write music myself. I can hear the tune in my head, though.

“Nothing really happened with it for years, but recently some people heard it and loved it, so now we’re releasing it for the 2026 World Cup.”

If Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Declan Rice et al. need extra motivation, they perhaps won’t look to the lyrics or the tune, but to the man singing and what he managed to achieve back in 1975 on away soil.

Indeed, the former world champion points out that if England makes it through the group, there’s a chance they’ll play in the thin air of Mexico City during the knockout stage. He’s not unaware of the synchronicity and would happily return to the place so vital to his story to share the moment.

“If they flew me over, I’d be right in my element.

“When we boxed in Mexico as amateurs, we went to the Plaza de Toros bullring to watch bullfighting. We hated it and walked out. I remember saying, ‘I’ll never go into a bullring again.’

“Years later, my world title fight against Nápoles ended up taking place in that exact same arena.”

If Stracey was to go and perform for the team, 7,500 feet above sea level, the question becomes how the nerves of the first notes stack up against those of a ring walk. He says there is no comparison.

“Oh, singing’s much easier. You can forget the odd word, but you mustn’t forget the odd punch.”

Nottingham Forest boss Vitor Pereira said “everything can happen” when asked if Elliot Anderson could be sold this summer.

Speaking following his side’s 3-2 defeat to United, Pereira said: “He has the talent to be one of the top of the top, every time he can score more goals, especially he can be a little bit more take a bit more the risk in the last third, he has a very good shot.

“It depends on the system. If we give him total freedom to build the play I think he can do everything but we are playing with two midfielders, if he loses every time the position, we have one midfielder.

“It is a system that doesn’t give him total freedom to create. He needs to understand when the other one loses the position, he cannot but he has a lot of talent and is young and will fly with big wings.

When asked if Anderson would stay at the City Ground, he responded: “This is an answer that I don’t have. The market is the market, everything can happen. What I can say to you is the club wants to keep him playing for us for sure.

“The club wants to keep the players. This is a very good group with quality, with character and we are in a very good place for the next season.”