Perhaps it’s no surprise that the manager of the team with one of the highest payrolls in all of Major League Baseball became the game’s highest-paid skipper on Monday. However, the contract extension that the Los Angeles Dodgers reportedly handed out to Dave Roberts also brings along with it plenty of expectations as well. Reports … Read more
Every year teams set expectations for themselves. While every team wants to win a world series, not every team has World Series expectations. The Washington Nationals are one of those teams that is not expected to make a deep run in October. However, there is pressure both from the fans and internally to win more … Read more
Estevao Willian is a superb player and one that I will always applaud the Chelsea decision makers and scouts for spotting and getting a deal done early doors before other big clubs came in. His talent is immense, he has the X-factor, and he can get to world beater level. Of course he can be … Read more
But even his legion of admirers out west could not have foreshadowed his rise to Test cricket would be so swift. After just four first-class matches, the 21-year-old Connolly became Australia’s 471st men’s cricketer after he replaced offspinner Todd Murphy in Australia’s XI for the second Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. He became Australia’s … Read more
Well folks, it is now official, Chelsea are SECOND in the Premier League at Christmas time. That fact is something that not one single person in the entire world would have predicted. If anyone claims they did, then they are lying. And for Chelsea to be second in the Premier League at Christmas time, someone … Read more