The 53-year-old Syrian has taken up the the new role at Kelantan according to a report in Berita Harian but it’s not certain yet whether he will also assume the head coach duties at the Red Warriors. Languishing in 11th place in the Super League and knocked out by PKNS FC in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday, the whole club is in dire need of an injection of confidence....
Chances are, it wasn’t a 15-1 record with a first-round bye in the NFL playoffs. Especially when the remaining receivers were a rookie, a second-year undrafted free agent and two veterans, including one whose career had been plagued by drops. The four combined for three touchdowns in 2014, while Benjamin had an outstanding rookie season with 73 receptions for 1,008 yards and nine touchdowns. CARDINALS 26, PACKERS 20 OT: Greatness of Larry Fitzgerald | Crazy finish | Carson Palmer catches a break | Packers’ Hail Mary | Playoff images...
Walker’s return to his native city has been anything but a storybook tale to this point. After the Knicks got out to a slow start to the season, head coach Tom Thibodeau announced that he was taking Walker out of the rotation to try and improve New York’s poor efforts on the defensive end. That move took place a month back on Nov. 27, but due to the long list of Knicks’ players entering the NBA’s health and safety protocols and an injury to Derrick Rose, Thibodeau has had no choice but to return Walker to his place in the starting lineup....
“He had moderately severe disease,” said Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System and a professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University School of Medicine, who conducted the examination. “Pretty classic. It may be surprising since he was a quarterback, but certainly the lesions were widespread, and they were quite severe, affecting many regions of the brain.” MORE: The faces behind football’s concussion crisis | New helmets?...
No, you can’t. MORE: Top 10 Oakland Raiders of all time | Stabler dies at age 69 | Notable sports deaths of 2015 Set aside the numbers, the individual accolades, the team success (seven playoff trips in 10 seasons as a Raider, five straight AFC championship games, the Super Bowl XII win) and even his nickname. Stabler is woven so deeply into the lore of the AFL and NFL, especially in the decade of the ‘70s when it truly matured as a television spectacle and a national obsession — his legacy as a true football legend is secure for all time....
Unlike the rest of us, Lamar is exceptional with words and has a much larger platform to use them. In a video for ESPN, the West Coast rapper paid tribute to one of the NBA’s best a few days before he’s set to hang them up after 20 seasons of professional basketball. MORE: 23 most hated NBA players of all time The fact that it’s coming from Lamar is a great honor, considering Bryant’s history with rap....
Under the headline “Kenneth Starr’s Baylor Exit Followed Years of Hidden Turmoil,” the story recounts a tumultuous period at Baylor that ended with a dismissal for which, Starr asserts, he never got a full explanation. MORE: Baylor should learn from football-first mentality Starr and football coach Art Briles were fired this summer after an outside law firm’s investigation described “institutional failures at every level” in addressing sexual violence on campus....
Anthony Huber was participating in the August 25, 2020, protest against police for the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, two days earlier when Huber was shot and killed, allegedly by Kyle Rittenhouse. Huber’s family filed a federal civil lawsuit against local law enforcement, alleging that police “deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them, and ratified their actions by letting them patrol the streets armed with deadly weapons to mete out justice as they saw fit....
That’s the level of excitement heading into the 142nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday. A record crowd of 124,589 for the Kentucky Oaks on Friday, the appetizer to the main event. PHOTOS: See the horses and style descending on Churchill Downs Cigar smoke filled the air outside the paddock. The mint juleps are out, and the wagering windows are open. The weather is expected to be sunny with temperatures in the 70s....
“Breaking from the 13 is fine,” trainer Doug O’Neill, who will saddle Nyquist and won the Derby and Preakness in 2012 with I’ll Have Another, said. “The post draw didn’t matter to us a ton, but we’re happy being more toward the outside for sure.” The least favorable draws belong to the horses on the rail, Brody’s Cause at No. 19 and the two horses next to Lani (Oscar Nominated, Destin), an unpredictable Japanese horse who no one really knows what to make of....
The team released an intro to its totally real sitcom “Manager Manual.” The intro is set to the theme song of the ’80s hit show “Full House.” MORE: Ohio State hype video | WR’s backflip catch | Oregon spring uniforms Watch the wacky team as they ride around in the back of a truck, wash clothers and do other managerial duties. Unfortunately, the intro is all we have at the moment....
Did you know Tyrese Maxey would be that player for this Kentucky team? The Wildcats entered the 2019 Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden ranked No. 2 because they returned several contributors from last season’s 30-win, Elite Eight squad and because their deep freshman class included multiple players who appeared capable of contributing to another successful season. Maxey surely was among them, but he’d given his coaches no reason during preseason practice to expect immediate excellence when the games began....
Hatcher, a rising senior, is listed among the inmates at the Franklin County Regional Jail. The charges shown include speeding (11 mph over the limit), trafficking in marijuana (eight ounces to less than five pounds), tampering with physical evidence and buy/possession of drug paraphernalia. MORE: Who are 2016’s Heisman frontrunners? | Top 20 football states Monday’s arrest is the third time Hatcher has been in trouble at Kentucky. Last season, he was suspended for the first two games for an undisclosed violation of team rules....
Former Bucknell forward Nate Sestina announced his intention to transfer to the Wildcats through his Twitter account Thursday. He will be immediately eligible to play next season for Kentucky, which was eliminated from the 2019 NCAA Tournament in the Elite Eight by Auburn on Sunday. This is the second time in as many years that Kentucky coach John Calipari has landed one of the top graduate transfers. Forward Reid Travis played the 2018-19 season with Kentucky after spending his first four collegiate seasons with Stanford....
On Friday, that was the case when the sports front page of the Louisville Courier-Journal ran a photoshopped picture of John Calipari as a bobble-headed crybaby with the headline “It’s whiny at the top, too.” The graphics were designed to go along with a column about coaches tussling over who has an edge in recruiting, written in response to Jim Boeheim’s allegations that Calipari complained about Mike Krzyzewski’s involvement in Team USA....
“I am sure it is enlightening and interesting,” one high-major coach texted to Sporting News just before leaving his office and heading to the gym floor, adding a smiley emoticon to make sure we understood he did not expect to find ESPNU’s choice of Friday afternoon programming all that much of either. MORE: NBA scouts weigh in on Wildcats’ open practice, Karl Towns and Aaron Harrison’s draft stock The practice in question was staged at the Joe Craft Center at the University of Kentucky, involving the 2014-15 UK Wildcats before an audience of 90 NBA personnel executives: general managers, scouts....
Mike Loran, a captain in the department’s criminal division, is set to retire, and Deputy Gary Fischer is resigning after The Louisville Courier-Journal identified them as being part of a KKK faction consisting of law enforcement officers decades ago. At the time, Loran, now 69, worked for the old Louisville Police Department while Fischer, 70, worked as a Jefferson County police officer. “This is the first step in the long process of healing for our agency and moving forward to strengthen the respect and trust of all our citizens,” Lt....
AFC Leopards striker Vincent Oburu scored Kenya’s all-important goal early in the first half, a goal that denied Libya a place in the next stage. Kenya will now take on Group ‘B’ leaders, Burundi in the semis as defending champions, Uganda entertain Zanzibar. The host went into the match with a plan for an early goal with Ovella Ochieng’ staging a man of the match display. Ovella could have opened the scores for Kenya in the second minute but the Kariobangi Sharks winger blew away the chance when he sent his shot way off the target from inside the box after latching onto Himid Mao’s blind pass....
Speaking to Goal, at a Nairobi Hotel on Wednesday, during a function in which he unveiled a strategic plan for Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya for the next four years, Wario also confirmed that the South African owned Pay-Tv broadcaster reached out to him before calling it quits and blamed Kenyan Premier League management for their woes. Is it time for Kenyan government to engage SuperSport? “They talked to me and confirmed they won’t be coming back....
Keselowski, the defending race winner, turned a fast lap of 124.194 mph in the No. 22 Ford in the second and final round of qualifying to edge teammate Joey Logano and give Roger Penske a front row sweep. MORE: Glen picks | Glen TV times | Cup practice | It’s the first Nationwide Series pole at Watkins Glen for Keselowski, his fourth of the season and 18th of his career in NASCAR’s second-tier series....
