Rested and recharged, Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey will be among those returning to the Wales starting lineup against Ukraine on Sunday, but another, and more typical in the literal sense, headline act will take centre stage in the minutes before kick-off in the festival atmosphere at the Cardiff City Stadium.
As he did before Wales’s World Cup playoff semi-final victory against Austria, Dafydd Iwan will perform Yma o Hyd (“Still Here”), a stirring Welsh folk song born 40 years ago on a scrap of paper in his attic in Waunfawr, a village four miles from the foot of Snowdon. It has snowballed into an unofficial national anthem and a slogan for the supporters who will again not hesitate to sing along. “I knew that there would be some au…
The League One match between Bolton and Cheltenham was abandoned on Saturday after a supporter suffered a suspected cardiac arrest and needed lengthy treatment in the stands.
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Play was halted at 0-0 in the 29th minute when medical personnel were alerted to the situation in the East Stand. The referee, Sunny Singh Gill, stopped the match and took the players off the pitch.
Fans vacated the surrounding area to allow those carrying out CPR to do their jobs. After 20 minutes of treatment on the stairs, the person receiving treatment was taken down to pitch level on a stretcher and carried behind a makeshift screen to the stadium’s first aid r…
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer. Brock Osweiler is back and I have some really good news: He’s still very much Brock Osweiler. Coming into this weekend, the former $37 million man hadn’t started a game since January 2016, and he hadn’t started one for the Broncos since January of 2015. But his long and tragicomic and implausibly lucrative journey eventually brought him back to Denver, and on Sunday the Broncos were reintroduced to an old friend. Osweiler seemed pumped about the whole thing: The good vibes lasted for only a few minutes. Osweiler’s first two passes of the game were good ones—a 14-yard completion to Demaryius Thomas and and a 19-yard toss to Cody Lat…
Some people are fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.Your team: Kansas City Chiefs. Your 2018 record: 12-4. Third-highest scoring team in NFL history. Best Chiefs team of my lifetime. Home field advantage through the AFC playoffs. Hosted the AFC title game. Came back from 14-0 down to lead the Pats in that game, then lost that lead, then drove down the field with under a minute left to tie the game up and send it to overtime. And what happens? That was your shot, Kansas City. That was your one shot. I know because I’ve lived through my favorite team blowing that one shot, and now you have, too. You had the arguably the …
Kirk Cousins and Washington thwarted what would have been a second straight late game-winning drive by Russell Wilson to grab a win in Seattle this afternoon. Despite leading for almost all of the second half, they found themselves suddenly staring down a a 14-10 deficit with a minute and a half to play after Wilson connected with Doug Baldwin for a late score. But Washington’s offense put together a comeback that only took four plays and 35 seconds. The play of the game came on that clinching drive, when Cousins lobbed a ball up for Josh Doctson, who dove to make a spectacular 38-yard catch and slid all the way inside the one, setting up what would be the game-winning Rob Kelley TD run. A final drive by Seattle stalled out at midfield with a failed Hail Mary, and Washington left Sea…
Sports Illustrated revealed its 2013 Sportsman of the Year today, giving the honor to Peyton Manning. We disagree with that choice. Here are 19 people who are more deserving. 1. Abby Wambach 2. Yasiel Puig 3. Nick Saban 4. LeBron James 5. David Ortiz 6. Brittney Griner 7. Serena Williams 8. Demetrious Johnson 9. Franck Ribéry 10. Zach Randolph 11. Johnny Manziel 12. Chris Horner 13. Tetherball Bear 14. Calvin Johnson 15. Steph Curry 16. Mariano Rivera 17. Luis Suárez 18. Alex Rodriguez 19. Tyrann Mathieu …
Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. This final 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here. 1. Because you don't suck. OK, so it's a bit of stretch to say that the Giants suck when they're coming off their second Super Bowl victory in five years. This is a team that has a clutch quarterback, good coaches, a respected owner, a competent front office, and the best pass rush in football. God, how I loathe them. Why can't my team EVER get its shit together like that? Fucking annoying. You might think that this whole Why Your Team Sucks series is just a grand exercise in trolling. And to some extent, it is. (When Skip Bayles…
Ten early games, and only one features two teams with winning records. Rex Grossman, Matt Moore, Brodie Croyle, Daunte Culpepper and Chris Redman all took snaps today. But what's this about upsets? •Saints 33, Redskins 30. Ho. Lee. Shit. This was the definition of a trap game for New Orleans. Tied at the half, Washington took a 10 point lead into the fourth. The Saints closed it to seven, then Shaun Suisham shanked a 23-yarder. Drew Brees hit Robert Meachem for a 53-yard bomb, and Jason Campbell turned back into Jason Campbell, getting picked by Jonathan Vilma in the middle of a potential career-defining drive. John Carney watched from the sidelines as his replacement Garrett Hartley came up short on a 58-yarder as time expired. This one's in overtime. A very controversial b…
data-mm-id=”_44cjxqtcj”>No one in the NFL consistently drafts as well as the Baltimore Ravens and that's currently being proven again. So far in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Ravens' front office is absolutely killing it. A team that went 14-2 in 2019 has gotten a whole lot better over the draft's first two days. The Ravens opened their draft by selecting LSU linebacker Patrick Queen with the 28th pick. It's a perfect fit that I had mocked for a few weeks. Queen was the best inside linebacker in the draft and the Ravens have had a major need there since C.J. Mosely left in free agency last year. Queen stepped up and played his best against the best competition and was a leader on LSU's national championship-winning defense. He's a stud, who is quick and just exp…
data-mm-id=”_ywx36y52u”>Leonard Fournette is entering the final year of his contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He's one of the few remaining members from the 2017 squad that tasted the type of success the Jaguars have rarely seen this century after making it all the way to the AFC Championship Game. To that end, Fournette has been on a recruiting trail of sorts after Cam Newton was released by the Carolina Panthers, seemingly at the expense of the incumbent quarterback who started most of last season with Fournette, Gardner Minshew. Right after Newton was officially released, Fournette posted a since-deleted Instagram photo asking if they were going to team up: Would certainly be an interesting combo for the #Jaguars pic.twitter.com/LNTUyzgEcj— Demetrius Harvey (@Demetrius8…