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CTV News
a day ago
- Sport
- CTV News
PWHL Expansion Draft Today
PWHL fans are getting ready to say goodbye to some of their favourite players as the league adds squads in Seattle and Vancouver.
CTV News
5 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
New CFL Commissioner on season start
Regina Watch New CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnson on his new role, state of the league and new ways to watch games in 2025.
News.com.au
7 days ago
- General
- News.com.au
The next Robert Toia? Players set to step up to NRL
These are some of the names that could soon step up from rugby league's lower grades into the big time.
BBC News
03-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
'No trophies - but Edinburgh now a team to be proud of'
Edinburgh have played 26 games this season in all competitions. In 12 of those we have conceded a total of 16 tries in the 10-minute period following is more than we concede in any other part of our matches. Over the season it has arguably cost Edinburgh at least two league wins. On Saturday it cost us a chance of a score Bulls got in the 51st minute and the fact they failed to cross the line again in the remainder of the match makes it hard to see past that 40-51 minute period as being in the game the broadcasters showed a graphic that told us Bulls forwards were 57kg heavier than Edinburgh. That weight certainly showed at scrum time and as weird as might seem when you score five tries it felt like a rearguard action for much of the 80 a lot of ways our three games against Bulls this season typify what progress there has 1. I described Edinburgh as asthmatic and wasteful. Only one 2. A much improved and focused win. We looked like a 3. A five-try thriller where we just fell short on on your viewpoint the progress is there. A semi-final and a quarter-final allied to a try count we have only surpassed once in our history is balanced out by the fact we won fewer games in the league than we did last are no trophies. That's not new and if that's your reason for supporting Edinburgh, then to paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, you've been there is now a team you can be proud of. A team who are putting their bodies on the line for their long-suffering supporters. A team that finally looks like it wants to live up to the 'on paper' reputation that seems to follow them have some departures that could hurt, Jamie Ritchie probably chiefly among those, but we have recruited well and I'm excited to see them make their mark alongside some of the young players who are stepping up.I'm already looking forward to next season as long as we continue playing as if we have a chip on our shoulders as opposed to a silver spoon in our Smith can be found at The Burgh Watch, external
RTÉ News
03-06-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Slovenia boss Sasa Kolman out to please mentor Jim McGuinness
The influence of Slovenia's unlikely ally will again be evident in their Nations league clash against the Republic of Ireland at Páirc Uí Chaoimh this evening. Slovenia boss Sasa Kolman is old friends with Donegal Gaelic football manager Jim McGuinness, the pair first meeting during the All-Ireland-winning manager's spell at the Celtic academy. Before masterminding his country's 4-0 defeat of Ireland in February, Kolman said of McGuinness: "We sat down, we discussed a couple of things and after one hour of talking to Jim, I felt like I was going to conquer the world." After that emphatic victory, McGuinness got in touch. "We were talking after the game on Whatsapp," Kolman smiled on the eve of today's rematch in Cork. "He saw a headline from when I spoke to him at Celtic in 2013, that I thought I was going to conquer the world. And he said 'Sasa, you took it literally!' And I said, 'Well you told me so!'. It's not very often that we talk but it is a really nice relationship. "I didn't watch [Donegal's win against Cavan on Sunday] because we were on the way here. But I've been reading about it. They killed them. I just follow Donegal. Because of Jim. "I was pretty sad when he decided to go back [to Gaelic football] because I really thought that he has a big future in football. Well, maybe he still has. Wherever he is, he's doing a fantastic job." Kolman was quite brazen after watching his side dismantle the Girls in Green three months ago. Post-match, he said he knew exactly how Carla Ward would approach the game and even anticipated what tweaks she would make if things weren't going her way. He did, however, stress that neither he or his players expect a repeat of that result this evening, with Slovenia no longer an unknown quantity. They are within touching distance of promotion to League A of the Nations League, needing only to avoid a four-goal defeat to win the group. "Even if I had one, I'm not going to be talking about it now," he laughed when asked if he had another masterplan. "I'm kidding. You can't play surprises all the time in football, it doesn't work that way. We have our style of play. We are going to be definitely following that and let's see where it takes us. "Our surprise definitely paid off [last time] is what I'll say. I don't think they were ready for that. We can't be making these surprises all the time, obviously. We have our plan, we have analysed Ireland and we need to prepare as well as possible. "The first game doesn't mean anything. Definitely not. We know Ireland are still the favourites, the best team in the group so we need to show the character again. And to finish six [wins] from six, that would make a huge statement in Slovenia."
