South Yorkshire and West Midlands police have agreed a settlement with more than 600 people to compensate them for the false police campaign aimed at avoiding responsibility for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and blaming the victims instead, which bereaved families have always said was a cover-up.
The forces will pay compensation to families whose relatives were among the 96 men, women and children unlawfully killed at Hillsborough, and to survivors of the disaster, for additional trauma and psychiatric damage caused by the police campaign.
The financial recompense is for the psychiatric injuries the families and survivors have suffered and to pay for treatment or counselling. The civil claims, alleging misfeasance …
Mikel Arteta believes third-placed Newcastle will present “a big test” for his Premier League leaders as Arsenal attempt on Tuesday night to open a 10-point gap on Manchester City.
Arsenal’s 4-2 win at Brighton on New Year’s Eve extended their lead to seven points after City had drawn with Everton. Eddie Howe’s team visit the Emirates having also dropped two points on Arteta’s team on Saturday in being held to a goalless draw by Leeds. City do not play again until they travel to Chelsea on Thursday.
Newcastle are likely to offer the toughest post-World Cup test yet for Arsenal, who in scoring seven goals in their two matches since returning are yet to show many ill-effects from the absence of Gabriel Jes…
Ten Premier League clubs have chased the dollar this summer and included the US on their pre-season schedule. Three have headed east to Japan and, in Tottenham’s case, also to South Korea to satisfy demand to see Son Heung-min in the flesh. Six are utilising the altitude and training camps of Europe for their preparations, which leaves one doing it differently. Or, as Sean Dyche would put it, keeping things real.
Coventry’s Building Society Arena was the latest stop on Everton’s pre-season “tour” on Tuesday night, where Dyche’s team toiled badly in a 3-0 loss to the Championship club. It is three games without a win against lower league sides so far this summer. Their programme commenced with a 3-3 draw at Sligo Rovers that, afte…
Every Dallas Cowboys draft is an adventure, just trying to figure out which direction Jerry Jones will go with the team’s first-round pick. Over the past decade, Jones and company have placed more stock in the draft than in free agency. Contrary to popular belief, Jones, his son Stephen, and the team’s scouting department have done quite well selecting draft picks during this time. This year they have plenty of needs like any other team, so let’s look at the five players that could be announced at No. 26 in the 2023 NFL Draft. Darnell Wright: Tackle, Tennessee source: AP Drafting an offensive lineman in the first round isn’t considered exciting or a Jerry Jones-type move, but sometimes it’s necessary and makes sense. Wright is the fourth-ranked tackle by Pro Football Focus an…
Baseball Musings had the great news today that Peter Gammons will be back on "Baseball Tonight" tomorrow night, and late today comes even better news: Gammons is writing again, with his first work since his aneurysm in July. Typical Peter, he has an excellent look at the upcoming free agent pitching market, but, before that, he exercises some well-earned indulgence by telling the story of his recovery. The first clue that my cell towers were intact came right around the trading deadline, approximately a month after my aneurysm. By that time, I had been transferred from the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston to the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and the Islands. I was perusing the morning box scores in the Cape Cod Times when I brusquely asked my nurse, "L…
Anyone watching the Mets-Phillies game on ESPN last night probably noticed the avid political junkie who kept putting up a "HILLARY" sign every time a lefthanded hitter came to the plate. If you found that annoying, you clearly don't live in Pennsylvania; those guys have been pummeled with ads for weeks now. Daulerio reporters that at least "every third" commercial is a political ad, with the majority coming from Obama, who has considerably more cash on hand. But this is going to get so much worse. Imagine if the White Sox stay hot and play the Diamondbacks in the World Series? Our World Series will be ruined with Obama's team against McCain's. (If you still think Clinton has a shot, feel free to replace "White Sox" with "Yankees,"…
Artemi Panarin recorded his sixth career hat trick, Vincent Trocheck notched a goal and three assists and the New York Rangers whipped the host Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 on Saturday night. In tying his career high with four points, Trocheck had helpers on two of Panarin's goals and Chris Kreider's marker. Trocheck's tally marked his third game-winner of the season for the Rangers, who went 9-5-0 in December. New York's Alexis Lafreniere recorded two assists, while goaltender Igor Shesterkin had 34 saves and recorded his fifth consecutive win. As the NHL's first club to reach 25 wins, the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers moved to 6-0-0 in the second game of a back-to-back set and 9-1-0 after a loss. Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov produced his team-high 2…
Back in 2014, Yulia Lipnitskaya burst onto the international skating scene by helping the Russians win team gold at the Olympics. In Sochi, Lipnitskaya memorably performed to the score from Schindler’s List, dressed like the little girl in red in the Steven Spielberg film about the Holocaust. (Three years later, her countrywoman, Evgenia Medvedeva would take on another tragedy— 9/11—in her long program at the world championships.) Though Lipnitskaya had a rough showing in the individual skating competition in Sochi and failed to medal there, many thought she had a bright future in women’s figure skating. And for a brief spell, it seemed like she did. Lipnitskaya followed up her Olympic performance with a silver medal at the world championships later that year. But that would be …
data-mm-id=”_t858rococ”>The last ten years of sports have brought us many great moments. Some of them came in the form of classic David vs. Goliath-level feats, from Tiger Woods winning the Masters at 43 to Leicester City's unlikely run to a Premiere League Title. To commemorate the decade, here's TBL's list of the 10 greatest upsets of the 2010s. Enjoy. Jets over Patriots in 2010 PlayoffsIn terms of NFL upsets, this one has sadly been overlooked– which is a shame, because this was almost as shocking as the Patriots' loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII.While the Jets brought the same team that made it to the previous year's AFC Championship Game as a wild card, the Patriots were a 14-2 juggernaut, with Tom Brady coming off an MVP season. In fact, Football Ou…
data-mm-id=”_79gb2cgqt”>Major League Baseball has announced major changes to its joint drug agreement with the players' association that will modernize the league's drug testing program. The sweeping changes reflect the changing national attitudes towards and issues with certain drugs.The news making the most headlines is the league beginning to test for opioids and cocaine. But perhaps as significant is the league's changing view on marijuana. The drug will no longer be considered a "drug of abuse." It will now be treated the same way as alcohol as part of the program's changes. Significantly, there will no longer be suspensions for marijuana use in the minor league testing program.As part of a new agreement on opioids being negotiated between Major Leagu…