With 67 minutes gone at a breezy Etihad Stadium, on an afternoon that seesawed like a listing ship on a spring tide, Trent Alexander-Arnold could be seen twirling and jinking high up the pitch on the Liverpool right flank, a place he occupied for much of the afternoon.
Eventually his cross was cut out by a City foot. Kevin De Bruyne, who produced the perfect through pass for Raheem Sterling to skitter away upfield.
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Sterling ran the length of Liverpool’s right flank, then stopped, twirled, stopped again, crowded out now by two red shirts. One of these was Alexander-Arnold himself, loping back in that dogged style, with the air even at top spe…
FULHAM v MANCHESTER UNITED
Saturday 12.30pm TNT Sports 1 Venue Craven Cottage
Referee John Brooks This season G6 Y27 R3 5.00 cards/game
View image in fullscreenFulham v Manchester United: probable starters, contenders in italics
Fulham
Subs from Rodak, Tete, Ballo-Touré, Adarabioyo, De Fougerolles, Francois, Harris, Lukic, Cairney, Traoré, De Cordova-Reid, Jiménez, Vinícius
Doubtful Adarabioyo (hamstring), Traoré (hamstring)
Injured Diop (foot, unknown), Tete (groin, unknown)
Suspended None
Form WDLWLD Leading sco…
Poor Mystik Dan, who won the race the odds said he would not, then dropped the one the numbers crunchers figured he could.Two-and-a-quarter lengths.The distance between Mystik Dan merely being in the field for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes or being a thoroughbred running for history this weekend was relatively small. That was the colt’s gap behind Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey.Mystik Dan, the Kentucky Derby winner, was most certainly game on a muddy track in the Preakness, there was just no closing kick as the winner went wire-to-wire. And while there is no shame in completing the exacta of a Triple Crown race, the raw numbers are passing judgement now.After posting a 100 Beyer Speed Figure in the Kentucky Derby, Mystik Dan went backward with a 97 in the Preakness.Perhaps it was …
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 37 points to lead the host Oklahoma City Thunder to a 112-100 win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday night. The game marked the first regular-season matchup between the Magic's Paolo Banchero and the Thunder's Chet Holmgren, the top two picks in the 2022 NBA Draft. Banchero finished with 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. Holmgren, the No. 2 pick in the 2022 draft who missed last season due to a foot injury, had 15 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two blocks. Orlando cut what was a 16-point deficit to six on Cole Anthony's pullup jumper with 2:14 left in the game. Jalen Williams answered with a jumper on the next possession, sparking a 7-0 run for Oklahoma City, which has won four consecutive games and nine of its past 11.…
I remember I used to have a hard time waiting for the Oscars to arrive. I shit you not. I would get super jazzed for them, then roll my eyes at the prospect of having to wait for months between the end of the movie year and the stupid ceremony. I, uh, no longer feel this way. The Oscars come around now and I, along with the rest of America, go, “Christ, this again?” This is because I’m older and I’m jaded enough to know that the Oscars are garbage. They are the film equivalent of your boss giving you a new title instead of a raise. And, at age 42, I no longer need my favorite movies validated by a tacky statue voted on by a bunch of senile retirees. I can wait until the cusp of spring for this show. I can wait forever. What’s more, the Oscars have been victimized (loosest use…
Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here. Your team: Houston Texans. Your 2015 record: 9-7, including losing a game to a literally incontinent Matt Hasselbeck. The Texans won the AFC South thanks to Andrew Luck getting hurt and the rest of the division being an open sewer pit. But something is deeply, deeply wrong with the NFL when a team like this clinches a playoff spot after picking up 58-year-old Brandon Weeden at the bus station. You don’t want that to be one of the high points of your televised product. This team should have been quietly dispatched behind a maintenance facilit…
Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here. Your team: Green Bay Packers Your 2012 record: 11-5. Hmm. I can’t seem to remember how their season ended. Oh wait! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The Packers have won 26 games in the past two seasons, and in both of those seasons, all of those wins were negated INSTANTLY by a historically pathetic defensive showing in the playoffs. It’s as if those 26 victories were all for nothing. Hollow. Meaningless. How marvelous. Your coach: Mike McCarthy, aka THE BEAVER. The Beav is here mainly to serve as Ted Thompson’s personal Art Howe. Thirty years from n…
So remember the Bubba Bobble Challenge Sex Doll Races tournament, in which the guy was disqualified for — get THIS! — having sex with his "raft?" Well, it turns out, there is video of this spectacle, and it's embedded above. That is to say, there's video of the race, not of the guy breaking all the rules. We can't imagine, watching this video, how he could have possible been confused about the regulations. He spoiled a perfectly normal and typical water race, after all. Embrace Me, My Sweet Inflatable You [Deadspin] …
data-mm-id=”_kwxd2okdt”>It's been a rough week for Odell Beckham Jr. The, uh, high of Monday night and an LSU national championship has come with a major hangover. Between the $100 handshakes and non-consensual butt-slapping, the Cleveland Browns wide receiver has had a lot on his plate, including an arrest warrant. Things have been emerging in drips and drabs, meaning the full scope of Beckham's tornado-like presence at the title game is only now being understood. And because there are multiple elements to it all, pundits have found themselves having to do a lot of explaining and parsing. Most reasonable people agree that college players should be paid. They also agree it wasn't the best idea for Beckham to be doling out real money after the final whistle, but it wasn&#…
data-mm-id=”_a90cpe33y”>In the ever-ongoing search for content while sports remain in recess, First Take decided to tackle the LeBron James/Michael Jordan debate, though they decided to leave the arguments about who's the superior player to Skip and Shannon over at FS1. Instead, the crew used their Wednesday to debate if LeBron's brand will ever surpass Jordan's on a worldwide scale. Stephen A. Smith said he wouldn't rule it out. Can LeBron equal or pass MJ as a worldwide brand one day? I wouldn't rule it out. pic.twitter.com/AUOnEIWz0P— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) April 8, 2020And Jay Williams said the power of the Jordan brand will remain unmatched, perhaps for a very long time. "Think about all the iconic athletes that rep the Jordan shoe brand. …