New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady vowed to fight his four-game suspension Wednesday, and team owner Robert Kraft opened training camp by saying he continues to ”believe and unequivocally support” the three-time Super Bowl MVP. ”It is completely incomprehensible to me that the league continues to take steps to disparage one of its all-time great players, and a man for whom I have the utmost respect,” Kraft said. Taking the
The Mexican Soccer Federation fired Herrera on Tuesday, just two days after he led the team to a CONCACAF Gold Cup title. The ouster came after a television reporter said the coach punched him at the Philadelphia airport. ”Nobody can be above a situation like the one that happened Monday in Philadelphia,” said Decio de Maria, who on Saturday becomes president of the federation.
Pro Bowl safety Eric Berry returned to the Kansas City Chiefs’ practice field Wednesday, just eight months after a cancer diagnosis threatened to derail his career. Berry walked down the long hill from the locker room to the practice fields at Missouri Western State University, wearing his familiar No. 29 and with his helmet in hand.
Platini, the UEFA president and a FIFA vice president, wrote to member federations in Europe on Wednesday saying he will stand in the election and is counting on their support. The FIFA election is on Feb. 26 and would-be candidates must apply by Oct. 26. ”There are times in life when you have to take your destiny into your own hands,” wrote Platini, who turned 60 last month.
Eight months after getting the stunning news that he had cancer, Chiefs Pro Bowl safety was expected back on the practice field Wednesday, a day after doctors gave him the all-clear. The Chiefs medical staff and his own doctors put him through a battery of tests Tuesday and the team later announced he would join quarterbacks, rookies and select injured players for the first practice of training camp on the
New England Patriots football star Tom Brady denied on Wednesday he had destroyed his cell phone to avoid giving it to NFL investigators, saying the flap was “manufactured” to distract from “zero evidence” against him in the “Deflategate” scandal. Brady issued his statement a day after National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld a four-game suspension of the quarterback for his part in an alleged scheme to deflate footballs below
Injured world number one Rory McIlroy will not defend his title at next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and his withdrawal means Jordan Speith could take over the top spot in the rankings if the American wins the event in Akron, Ohio. “Best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016.” His win at the Firestone Country Club last year carried him to world number one,
Injured world number one Rory McIlroy will not defend his title at next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and his withdrawal means Jordan Speith could take over the top spot in the rankings if the American wins the event in Akron, Ohio. “Best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016.” His win at the Firestone Country Club last year carried him to world number one,
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady fired back at the NFL upholding a four-game ban on him in the “Deflate-gate” saga, taking to Facebook on Wednesday to defend himself. “I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against me,” Brady posted on his Facebook page. One of the most high-profile athletes in American sport, Brady was found by Goodell to have been at least
By Julian Linden KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Song Andong, the first Chinese-born player drafted to play in the National Hockey League, got a first-hand look on Wednesday at the giant shoes he is trying to fill. Since being picked this year by the New York Islanders, the 18-year-old Song has been billed as the NHL’s answer to Yao Ming, the towering Chinese basketballer who made the NBA such a big
