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How to listen to Premier League on BBC Sounds
How to listen to Premier League on BBC Sounds

BBC News

timea day ago

  • Entertainment
  • BBC News

How to listen to Premier League on BBC Sounds

A new season of the Premier League is here and you can listen to live match action on BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport app and website, and via smart Premier League matches will be available each week on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, as well as new streams BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 2 and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 3, only available on BBC Sounds. What are Sports Extra 2 and 3? The BBC has launched two new radio streams called BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 2 and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 3, which are available on BBC new channels will offer audiences the chance to discover and enjoy the diverse range of sports commentaries available on the BBC, particularly when multiple events are happening simultaneously. The streams - alongside Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra - will broadcast much of the BBC's existing sports are ways to download the BBC Sounds app:Apple, external Android, externalBBC Sounds offers a wide range of sports radio commentaries including football, Formula 1, cricket and more. BBC Sounds on smart speakers You can now listen to sports commentaries on BBC Sounds via your smart ask your speaker to 'play Sports Extra 2' or 'play Sports Extra 3'. Or all you need to say is, for instance, 'ask BBC Sounds to play the Liverpool match', or 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Liverpool v Manchester United'.This article is the latest from BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team. What is Ask Me Anything? Ask Me Anything is a service dedicated to answering your want to reward your time by telling you things you do not know and reminding you of things you team will find out everything you need to know and be able to call upon a network of contacts including our experts and will be answering your questions from the heart of the BBC Sport newsroom, and going behind the scenes at some of the world's biggest sporting coverage will span the BBC Sport website, app, social media and YouTube accounts, plus BBC TV and radio. More questions answered... What is Couch to 5k and how do I start?Ask Me Anything - your cricket questions answeredWhat's changed in FPL for 25-26?

Vicki Duval continues tennis dream as Cincinnati Open heads into Week 2
Vicki Duval continues tennis dream as Cincinnati Open heads into Week 2

Yahoo

time2 days ago

  • Health
  • Yahoo

Vicki Duval continues tennis dream as Cincinnati Open heads into Week 2

If you were watching last week's Canadian Open on Tennis Channel, you may have faintly recognized a high-pitched chirpy voice that sounds as if it belongs to a teenager make astute observations about the use of the slice and the way a player moves around the court. Hmm, was a thought. Haven't heard her before. She's good. She's very good. She should do more TV. This girl knows tennis. Well, of course she does. A little later, if you are like me, you paid more attention and heard who that knowledgeable voice belonged to. Vicki Duval, still only 29, was once a promising young American whose tennis career was cruelly ended when she was 17 and felt a bump on her clavicle during a February tournament in Acapulco. 'I mean, who does that,' Duval said Saturday from Santa Monica, Calif., where she works as a law clerk when she isn't trying to make broadcasting tennis her full-time job. 'I mean, who touches their clavicle?' Well, you do if you feel a mysterious lump, pea-sized according to Duval. Her mom, Nadine, a pediatrician, kept an eye on it and by the time the grass court season had arrived that pea had become a quarter and while in Birmingham, England, Nadine took Duval to have an emergency biopsy when Vicky suddenly couldn't lift her arm over her head. Duval is the daughter of two native Haitian doctors – her dad, Jean-Maurice, is an OB-Gyn. Luckily Nadine was with her daughter in Birmingham. Tests were done. Result were had. A diagnosis came. Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. A 17-year-old, even the daughter of doctors, doesn't quite understand the implications of that diagnosis. A 17-year-old gets through qualifying and upsets the 29th seed, Sorana Cirstea (who is still playing on the tour) in the Wimbledon main draw and loses, barely, in the second round to Belinda Bencic (who is still playing), the Swiss who made it to the Wimbledon semifinals this year. At that time, a player who pulled out of qualifying was fined $5,000, but a 17-year-old feels invincible, is not interested in paying a fine and says, 'I'm going to keep playing.' After the biopsy results, Nadine told her daughter to keep the information private and, Duval said, 'That was hard. No, I don't want to go home, but my friends didn't know that I was keeping this in my heart so I was running on adrenaline. There was a rain delay before my Bencic match and I was scared and just balling before I went on court and cried during the whole match. 'I kept thinking how much further I could have gone if I wasn't crying so much but I was just in survival mode.' Duval's game was delicate and creative. She had all the shots that make tennis fun, her future seemed unlimited and suddenly she was having chemo and surgeries (seven of them). That's a lot for a youngster. It's a lot for an adult. She said it was three years before she started feeling safe with her health and still has tests every six months. She still reflexively touches her clavicle. She tried to come back to tennis but, she said, 'physically, I was never the same. There was physical pain and mental pain. I came back after two years and made the finals of two (lower-level) ITF tournaments but physically I just couldn't keep up. And there was mental pain too, feeling like I might have more in the tank one week but then run out of gas the next week. 'One day I went to the gym for some sprints, felt a pop in my ankle, snapped my tendon. I'm standing there thinking, 'I can't even run on a treadmill.' No matter what I do, I can't come back.' Duval still ached to be around the game and talked to some broadcasters − she gives Tennis Channel's Lindsay Davenport and Tracy Austin particular credit − and got herself an interview with Tennis Channel. She stuck her toe into broadcasting at the Billie Jean Cup in 2018. 'It's not that I'm camera-shy,' she said, 'but sometimes I worry how to get my thoughts together. My thoughts can race pretty quickly in my head.' After every broadcast she would ask producers what she could do better. Last year she got a text from Davenport that said, 'Great job,' and Duval suddenly felt she has a path to a new career in the sport she will always love. Besides broadcasting – she will be on Tennis Channel Tuesday commentating on Women's Day at the Cincinnati Open – she is starting to do some coaching around Santa Monica where she lives. Were she fully healthy, Duval thinks she might still be able to play. For a minute. 'I think I was good at building points by doing all the little things but now it is so physical. Even college tennis is physical. The game is grueling. You get so little recovery time.' Duval hopes to get more TV assignments − she mentioned TNT that broadcast the French Open this year and seemed to have a cast of thousands of former players − and amp up her coaching. 'I feel like I still have so much to give back to tennis. I want to share my knowledge with as many people as possible.' So next Tuesday if you hear the voice of someone who still sounds as if she is a teenager, it is Duval, almost 30 but with a lifetime of living and almost dying and with a head full of tennis knowledge she'd like to share with you. Give her a listen. You'll learn something and enjoy doing so. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Vicki Duval tennis broadcast Cincinnati Open

AFL: Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir furious with pundit David King
AFL: Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir furious with pundit David King

The Australian

time10-07-2025

  • Sport
  • The Australian

AFL: Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir furious with pundit David King

Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir lined up former Kangaroos star David King and went whack on Thursday, sick of the criticism the media pundit sends his way. Despite winning six of the past seven games, and being only percentage outside the top eight, King said Longmuir was the most 'under pressure' coach following a loss to Sydney. Longmuir wasn't copping it and at his weekly press conference launched into King, confused as to why he and the Dockers were a constant target and questioning whether the premiership winner knew what it took to coach a team. 'If I had $1 for every time someone asked me what I've done to David King, I'd be a rich man and I'd probably be in the Bahamas guts up rather than doing this job,' he said. Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir says David King's commentary on the Dockers is 'over the top'. Picture: James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images 'In the end, everyone needs to understand it's just David's opinion. We're a game based on opinion and that's his opinion. That's enough said about it. 'I don't want to be disrespectful towards anyone, but I don't think David's put together a game plan, put together a list, put together a culture. It's just an opinion and that's what I take it as. 'It seems to be a little bit over the top, but it seems to be his way with me.' Longmuir is on a rolling contract with the Dockers, who face top-four aspirants Hawthorn at home on Saturday and could break into the top eight with a win. Fox Footy commentator David King has taken aim at Longmuir. Picture:A loss could hurt their finals chances, but Longmuir said he wouldn't get distracted by the opinions of those paid purely to voice one and would listen only to 'people I trust around this club'. 'I don't get caught up in it because I am always looking forward and looking towards how I can improve my coaching, how I can improve the way we're playing and try to live by the mantra I teach the players every day. And that's living in the moment,' he said. 'I know people get caught up in it and some people around me get caught up in that stuff, but really I am just focused on the opinions of people I trust around this club and doing the best I can.'

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