Mail Online • May 24th, 2023

London Stadium prepares for baseball's return with US-inspired dishes

BASEBALL is back in London next month, and while the Chicago Cubs and St Louis Cardinals are preparing to hit balls to the moon and dial up their pitching arms to 100mph, there'll be a few stars in the stands too. Weighing in at 1.5kg, packing a 2,000-calorie punch and measuring up at a staggering two feet in length, the 'Boomstick' hot dog is the headline act in a raft of mouth-watering food available at the London Series.

Daily Mail • May 9th, 2023

Why the Premier League is enjoying GOALS GALORE this season

A 9-0, a 7-0, six sixes, eight fives and 37 fours lead a fearsome scorecard that all adds up to the most prolific top-flight season for more than half a century. It hasn’t just been Erling Haaland filling his boots, with the overall average of 2.85 goals per game being the highest mark since a mammoth 3.03 in 1967-68, when 21 of the 22 teams scored at least 50 and the other, Sheffield United, had 49.

Daily Mail • May 8th, 2023

Notts County 3 Boreham Wood 2: County the comeback kings

AFTER 107 points and 117 goals in the regular season, Notts County were one minute away from it all counting for nothing. But finding a goal is something Luke Williams’ side have made look easy, even if they needed two players who had never scored for them before to bail them out in the last minute — twice — to keep their season alive and send them to Saturday’s play-off final at Wembley against Chesterfield.

Daily Mail • May 4th, 2023

Rio, Adams and Cech enter Premier League Hall of Fame

RIO FERDINAND, Tony Adams and Petr Cech were yesterday announced as the latest inductees to the Premier League Hall of Fame. The trio bring the total number of inductees to 21, with 19 players plus managers Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson. Ferdinand, 44, won the Premier League six times with Manchester United and also represented West Ham, Leeds and QPR. Ferdinand, who won 81 caps for England between 1997 and 2011, tweeted in response to the news: ‘Dreams do come true.’

Daily Mail • April 19th, 2023

Napoli 1 AC Milan 1 (agg 1-2): Giroud the hero as Milan march on

OLIVIER GIROUD sent AC Milan through to their first Champions League semi-final for 16 years as he found redemption after missing a penalty. Leading 1-0 from the first leg at the San Siro, Milan had the chance to double the advantage on 22 minutes when Rafael Leao was tripped in the area by Napoli’s Mario Rui.

Daily Mail • April 10th, 2023

County Cricket Round-Up: Leicestershire pull off a miracle

LEICESTERSHIRE ended an 18-month wait for a Championship victory with their own Miracle of Headingley, chasing down 389 to beat Yorkshire with seven balls to spare for their first win in 113 years at the historic ground. The Foxes had not won a four-day game since September 2021 and finished a distant bottom of Division Two last year. But an unbeaten eighth-wicket partnership of 65 from just 48 balls from Australia’s Peter Handscomb (68 not out) and No 9 Chris Wright (40 not out), after 125 fr

Mail Online • March 30th, 2023

Inside the St Louis Cardinals

IN A few short weeks, the walls will come crashing down on Roger Dean Stadium. To the tune of $111million, the complex is getting a facelift after 25 years’ hard service as the Spring Training home of the St Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins. The 6,871-seat capacity will be upgraded, there will be more concession stands selling toasted ravioli, crab cake sliders and batting helmets filled with popcorn, and the yellow-painted stone clubhouses will be knocked down and rebuilt.

Mail Online • March 29th, 2023

MLB 2023 season preview: Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, the Astros and MORE

ONE hundred and forty-five days since Kyle Tucker closed his mitt on a fly ball off the bat of Nick Castellanos to seal the Houston Astros' second world championship, baseball is back. It's been an off-season of astronomical free agent spending, major rule changes, a player that signed $800million worth of contracts but only got to keep a quarter of it, and a breakout World Baseball Classic that might have provided the most anticipated at-bat in the sport's history.

Mail Online • March 11th, 2023

Team GB out for massive upset against US at World Baseball Classic

MATT KOPERNIAK only met his All-Star team-mates a few weeks ago, and already they are out to get him. London-born Koperniak, 25, will enter the Team GB dugout representing David as they look to slay an almighty Goliath wearing stars and stripes. The outfielder, who moved to Adams, Massachusetts, as a toddler and was plucked from Trinity College, Connecticut, by the St. Louis Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2020, made his GB debut in September's World Baseball Classic qualifying tournament in Regensburg, Germany.

Daily Mail • March 5th, 2023

Arsenal 3 Bournemouth 2: Arsenal's last-ditch win over Bournemouth is no coincidence

EVEN at 2-0, Gary O’Neil said he knew what was coming next: ‘Arsenal were going to come back.’ It took the 31st of 31 shots, in the seventh of six minutes added on, but the league leaders did it again. The tracer bullet from Reiss Nelson’s left foot sparked a frenzy that is becoming more and more common to Arsenal fans.

The Mail on Sunday • March 4th, 2023

Arsenal 3 Bournemouth 2: Gunners seal comeback with Reiss Nelson's last-gasp stunner

THE first nine seconds were historic, the last nine euphoric. With 96 minutes, 57 seconds on the clock, Reiss Nelson’s half-volley hit the net and everything came out — legs were empty, lungs were empty and Arsenal’s bench was too, all sprinting to the pile-on that had formed on top of the hero of the hour.

The Mail on Sunday • March 4th, 2023

Arsenal 3 Bournemouth 2: Mikel Arteta admits he lost his bearings during Arsenal's 'crazy' win

MIKEL ARTETA admitted that he did not know where he was in the ‘madness’ of Arsenal’s celebrations as Reiss Nelson’s 97th-minute winner sealed a dramatic fightback from 2-0 down against Bournemouth to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the Premier League. Arsenal had trailed after just 9.11 seconds thanks to Philip Billing, who scored the second-fastest goal in Premier League history to put the relegation-threatened visitors ahead.

Daily Mail • February 16th, 2023

Warrington 42 Leeds 10: Wolves start campaign with an emphatic victory

LEEDS RHINOS coach Rohan Smith had brought Jonny Bairstow into camp to impart his wisdom ahead of the new Super League season but it was opponents Warrington who racked up a cricket score on opening night. The Wolves, keen to put the memory of last season's relegation battle behind them, raced out of the blocks with five first-half tries to lead 30-0 at the break at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Daily Mail • December 9th, 2022

Hunt's heroics, Zidane's heart-breaker and a draw in Donetsk: England's tournament clashes with France revisited

ENGLAND and France have met five times throughout football history, with the fixture having throwing up plenty of drama over the years. As the pair prepare to do battle for the sixth time at the 2022 Qatar World Cup on Saturday night, Sportsmail have revisited some of the epic clashes both sides have played out in the past.

Mail Online • December 5th, 2022

Goldschmidt on 'once in a lifetime' chance to play baseball in London

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL star Paul Goldschmidt has hailed next summer’s London Series as a ‘once in a lifetime’ moment as he prepares to bring America’s pastime across the pond. Goldschmidt’s St Louis Cardinals will face their fierce rivals the Chicago Cubs in June at the London Stadium in a two-match series, three years after their initial match-up was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic and four years since the first London MLB games, between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

Mail Online • December 5th, 2022

Cubs slugger Happ vows his team will put on a show for British fans

CHICAGO CUBS slugger Ian Happ has told British fans to expect a high-speed, all-action show when baseball returns to London next summer. Happ’s Cubs will face the St Louis Cardinals at West Ham’s London Stadium in a two-match series, which was first scheduled for June 2020 but was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic.

Daily Mail • December 5th, 2022

Chris Sutton insists Brazil fired a warning shot to their rivals in South Korea rout

CHRIS SUTTON said that Brazil had fired a warning shot to their World Cup rivals after they trounced South Korea to book their place in the quarter-finals against Croatia on Friday. Sportsmail columnist Sutton, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, hailed the world No 1-ranked team after they turned on the style to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for the eighth tournament in a row.

Daily Mail • November 13th, 2022

Wolves 0 Arsenal 2: Arsenal's golden chance for title glory... the time is now for Arteta

THERE is no point pretending any more. Not with Arsenal holding a five-point lead and their first Christmas No 1 for 15 years. Mikel Arteta’s team are right in this title race. The stock response to this claim is to mention something that Manchester City have that makes challenging them impossible —Erling Haaland, Pep Guardiola or their relentless playing style that grinds opponents down. But what about what Arsenal can do to prevent a City procession?

Mail Online • November 12th, 2022

Wolves 0 Arsenal 2: Arteta reveals Arsenal had to fight off a sickness bug in Wolves win

MIKEL ARTETA has admitted his Arsenal side had to fight off a sickness bug to seal a 2-0 victory over Wolves to move five points clear at the top of the Premier League table. A second-half double from Martin Odegaard was enough to win at Wolves, the Gunners' 12th victory in their first 14 games to become Christmas No1 – a position from which no Premier League side has failed to win the title. The team, however, were hit by a sickness bug affecting a small number of players from the pre-match m

Daily Mail • November 6th, 2022

World Cup Watch: White and Maddison knock on Southgate's door

WITH the World Cup just around the corner, every England player with a chance of making the plane to Qatar will be hoping to catch the eye of Gareth Southgate. There were a number of those players in action with Ben White putting in an impressive performance against Chelsea and James Maddison starring in Leicester's win over Everton. However, there were also a few names who had a weekend to forget and here Sportsmail assesses which players boosted - or dented - their World Cup chances.