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Taylor dominates Pili in final fight of career at Croke Park
Katie Taylor bid an emotional farewell to boxing as the Irish icon dominated Flora Pili in the final fight of her storied career at a packed out Croke Park o...
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How Portugal Hung Rui Pinto Out to Dry for 83 Days
There is a version of whistleblower protection that sounds reassuring on paper and falls apart entirely in practice. Rui Pinto, the man whose hacked...
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Champions League is fertile ground for new managers, but knowhow could be key later on
The Champions League is back, and the managers running the touchlines this season tell us something interesting: experience matters, but it is not the only...
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Prog is having a proper moment right now, and if you've been sleeping on it, this week's batch of new tracks from Prog's Tracks Of The Week is as good a...
There are nights when a band could coast, wheel out the classics, and nobody would complain. Evanescence at the O2 was emphatically not one of those nights....
There is a parallel universe where Johnny Rotten fronted Can, and honestly, it would have been one of the most interesting bands in history. Ours is the...
FIFA has a habit of making decisions that affect everyone except the people it is supposed to serve, and the Women's Club World Cup is shaping up to be its...
If the Ballon d'Or goes where it's supposed to go this year, Harry Kane will be the hardest man in football to argue against. France Football revealed the...
There is something almost poetic about two ageing rock legends taking potshots at each other through Instagram, but here we are. Alex Van Halen, speaking to...
Progressive rock is having a genuinely good week, and if you're not paying attention, that's your loss. Prog's latest Tracks Of The Week has landed seven...
We know what we're supposed to do here. We're supposed to stay calm, keep our powder dry, and remember what happened last time. And the time before that....
The middleweight division has been crying out for a proper unification fight, and it looks like it's finally getting one. Aaron McKenna and Denzel Bentley...
There is a very specific kind of character test in professional football that nobody talks about enough: not how you perform when the spotlight is on you...
Thirty-one years of bad blood, and it took a text message to end it. Not a summit meeting, not a label-brokered handshake, not a carefully staged PR moment....
Start with the dog. It tells you everything you need to know. Win is a chocolate labrador, a therapy dog trained not to bark, and she has been a fixture at...
At 9.13 on a May morning, a police officer finds Raheem Sterling in the passenger seat of a wrecked Lamborghini on the A327 in Hampshire, stashing nitrous...
Real Madrid won. Of course they did. That's almost beside the point. What Tuesday night in Elche actually gave us was a glimpse of a club that looks...
There is something almost comforting about finding out that one of progressive rock's most ambitious recordings came with a side of genuine surprise from...
Real Madrid nearly threw away a two-goal lead at Elche on Tuesday night, and only a 21-year-old substitute rescued them. That should embarrass them more...
They formed in Manchester in 1983, released one of the greatest debut albums in British history in 1989, spent most of the early nineties fighting their own...
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