French President Emmanuel Macron (Photo: IOC Session video screenshot). ★ The Sports Examiner: Chronicling the key competitive, economic and political forces shaping elite sport and the Olympic Movement.★ ★ To get the daily Sports Examiner Recap by e-mail: sign up here! ★ ≡ THE BIG PICTURE ≡ French President Emmanuel Macron continues to savor the

Bill Belichick is waiting in the wings. The New York Jets have just fired their head coach. They couldn’t… could they? The NFL remains in the process of digesting its first coaching dismissal of the campaign after Robert Saleh was relieved of his duties by Woody Johnson in the wake of the Jets’ defeat to

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson believed that he was “deserving” of a spot on the United States men’s basketball roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics. “Yeah, for sure,” Brunson told Sam Schube of GQ Sports. “The way I played last year, I thought I was deserving. I thought

For Brook, who admitted he was merely trying to beat his father David’s highest score of 210, it was also testament to a fitness regime implemented when he missed England’s tour of India earlier this year. Leaner, more agile in the field and with perhaps the safest pair of hands in the England team, Brook

West Indies starred with the bat as they boosted their T20 World Cup semi-final hopes with a clinical eight-wicket win to all but eliminate Bangladesh. Led by captain Hayley Matthews’ fluent 34 off 22 balls, West Indies easily chased down 104 with 7.1 overs to spare. With the ball, Windies spinner Karishma Ramharack took 4-17

Sports Interactive has confirmed the latest issue of the popular game Football Manager has been pushed back to March 2025. The company had originally targeted a release date in early November but pushed it back to later in the month after citing a “challenging” development cycle. After making that decision in September, the company released

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentOct 10, 2024, 03:27 PM Manchester United defender Noussair Mazraoui is set for a spell on the sidelines after undergoing a heart procedure, club sources have told ESPN. Mazraoui was substituted at half-time of United’s 0-0 draw with Aston Villa on Sunday and subsequently pulled out of the Morocco squad ahead of the

Harry Brook posted England’s fifth-highest ever Test score as they racked up 823-7, before their bowlers reduced Pakistan to 152-6 in their second innings to still trail by 115 runs at the end of day four of the first Test in Multan. Brook (317) hit England’s first triple hundred since 1990 – and only the

Mark Cavendish’s final professional race is set to be the two-day Tour de France Criterium in Singapore on 9-10 November. The 39-year-old ‘Manx Missile’ has not competed since he broke the Tour de France stage wins record with his 35th victory in July. Cavendish confirmed he would not do another Tour de France after receiving