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Jeff KassoufSep 16, 2025, 10:55 AM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.ESPN will broadcast 36 games in total for the 2026 season. GettyESPN will expand its coverage of National Women’s Soccer League games beginning in 2026 as part of an updated media rights deal that the league announced on Tuesday.For the 2026 season, ESPN and ABC will broadcast weekly NWSL games — 36 total — including all eight Decision Day matches,…

Rob Edwards is a man refreshed. A manager re-energised.He is even sleeping better than before, currently based at Middlesbrough’s Rockliffe Park training ground. “Living on site has helped me manage my energy better,” he tells Sky Sports. “I can even sneak an extra 10 minutes in bed and be in by seven!” Friday 19th September 7:30pm Kick off 8:00pm Results always help with rejuvenation, and Middlesbrough’s have been excellent. Four wins and a draw thus far, they head into Friday night’s clash with West Brom – live on Sky Sports – top of the Championship.But even since the start of…

Sebastian Tounekti was disappointed but not deterred by Celtic’s shock Champions League exit before the Hoops’ summer-long interest in him eventually ended in a deadline-day move to Parkhead.The 23-year-old Norway-born Tunisia winger joined Brendan Rodgers’ side from Swedish outfit Hammarby on a five-year contract for a fee of £5.2m. Before that, however, Celtic were beaten in the Champions League play-off by Kazakhstan side Kairat Almaty on a penalty shoot-out after two goalless games. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Tounekti made his Celtic debut in Sunday’s Scottish Premiership win at Kilmarnock Tounekti made an impressive debut…

On 12 September, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution to revive a two-state solution. Adopted by 142 states, the “New York Declaration” paves the way for a 22 September summit to push for greater recognition of a phantasmatic Palestinian state. In recent months, a chorus of western governments has lined up behind this French- and Saudi-led statehood scheme. The upcoming UN conference comes as Israel’s genocide in Gaza nears its two-year mark, with at least 64,000 Palestinians killed and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis inflicted through weaponised starvation and the systematic destruction of the territory.…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said President Donald Trump’s suggestion of companies reporting on a semiannual basis would be good news for investors.Trump proposed scrapping quarterly earnings reports in a Truth Social post on Monday, saying it would allow company executives to focus on long-term goals rather than fixate on short-term metrics.”President Trump realizes that whether it’s the U.K., [or] it is the U.S., our public markets are atrophying, and this might be one way to bring back and cut costs for public companies without harming investors,” Bessent told CNBC in London on Tuesday.U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at…

Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensSep 16, 2025, 08:20 AM ETBarcelona’s LaLiga fixture against Getafe on Sunday will once again take place at the Estadi Johan Cruyff as the club’s wait to return to Spotify Camp Nou continues.Barça had hoped to move back to Camp Nou, which is undergoing a €1.5 billion ($1.7bn) refurbishment, this month after being granted permission to play their first three league matches away from home.However, they have not yet received the necessary permits from the local council and were forced to play their first home game of the campaign, a 6-0 win over Valencia, at the 6,000-capacity Estadi…

Wrong for Man Utd to let McTominay goClass of ’92 would not have made it nowHow club moved away from its philosophyAcademy record could become a shamIt is four years ago now that Nicky Butt made headlines for his claim that Declan Rice is no better than Scott McTominay. While Butt acknowledges that the England midfielder has improved since then, there is more respect on McTominay’s name now too. “When I said it, I believed it,” Butt tells Sky Sports. “And about three or four months later, Declan Rice came on again with England, and I am like, well, I…

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania are set to arrive in Britain on Tuesday night for a two-day state visit. The visit will be Trump’s second state visit, with the first coming during the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. This time around, it will be her son and successor King Charles III who will do the hosting with plans for a grand carriage procession through the Windsor estate and a royal banquet.  The embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be hoping to make progress towards a full trade deal with the US.  Trump’s visit comes at…

The pro-Israel legal group has increased its use of lawfare against hospitals and councils during the genocide in GazaWhen academics Ghazala Mir and Tarek Younis agreed to speak about Islamophobia in an online event hosted by a leading UK mental health association, the last thing they expected was to be de-platformed.  In August 2024, Mir, a professor at the University of Leeds medical school, and Younis, a senior lecturer in psychology at Middlesex University, were invited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), the UK’s leading professional body for cognitive and behavioural psychotherapists, to deliver a webinar to…

In 1994, brothers David and Nadim Khoury returned to their hometown of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank to open Palestine’s first brewery. With the blessing of President Yasser Arafat and buoyed by the optimism sparked by the recently inaugurated Oslo Accords filtering across the region, the Khoury brothers touted the Taybeh Brewing Company as the future of homegrown Palestinian entrepreneurship and cultural pride. Just over three decades later, it’s hard for many to dredge up that kind of optimism. With more than 64,000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and with Israeli settlers and soldiers regularly…