The Football Association is poised to unveil a historic almost tenfold increase in prize money for the Women’s FA Cup.
In January the governing body said there would be “a significant increase” and the Guardian understands that the prize pot, currently about £309,000, will rise to well beyond £2.5m.
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It is not yet known what the distribution model will be. Prize money for the Women’s FA Cup has been in the spotlight in recent years, with the not-for-profit FA criticised over the fact that teams competing in the early rounds have struggled to cover the costs of taking part. The disparity between the women’s and men’s competitions h…
The 2030 World Cup is to be played on three continents after Morocco, Portugal and Spain won the race to host the 48-team tournament but Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay were handed the opening three matches.
The decision, which caught even seasoned Fifa watchers by surprise, means that World Cup 2030 will involve teams playing in six countries, each of which will qualify automatically. The World Cup has never been played on more than one continent before and proposals for a tournament to be played over thousands of miles was met with shock by climate groups.
The decision, and the timing, appeared to pave the way for Saudi Arabia to host the World Cup in 2034 and within hours the kingdom unveiled its bid for that tou…
Not since Theodore Roosevelt nudged university leaders into adopting the forward pass has college football embarked on a season of as much wholesale change as the sport faces in 2024. Revisiting the 2023 season’s College Football Playoff highlights just how dramatically the game is shifting. After 10 seasons with a final four of sorts, the championship tournament triples in size to a playoff bracket ballooned to 12 teams. Three of the four head coaches involved in last year’s playoff moved on in the offseason. That group includes the greatest coach in college football history, Nick Saban, who leapt into retirement unexpectedly. Kalen DeBoer, who coached Washington to the title game, takes up Saban’s mantle at Alabama while 2023 national championship winner Jim Harbaugh leaves Mi…
Last season we did our weekly rookie quarterback tracker, but with only one taken in the first round of 2022, we’ve moved onto another highly coveted position — wide receiver. For 2022 we’ll be keeping up with all six first-round wideouts and tracking their progress throughout the year. Some of our first-round rookies are already off to the races and contributing heavily to their teams. The one exception on the list for at least the first few weeks of the season will be Detroit Lions’ first-round pick, Jameson Williams from Alabama. Williams tore his ACL in last year’s National Championship game but is on track to make his debut for the Lions this season. Let’s see how this year’s crop of rookies stacks up: Jameson Williams – Lions (torn ACL) source: Getty Images Ja…
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football? "Wild" Bill Cody was a fifth-round draft pick out of Auburn in 1966. He spent the vast majority of his pro career in New Orleans on defense and special teams, but played his first season with the Lions and his last, 1972, with the Eagles. Cody, now 69 years old, lives with his wife in Fairhope, Ala. He is one of the more than 4,500 former NFL players who filed suit against the league over concussions and other head injuries. We were taught back in those days to "put your bonnet on 'em." That was kind of a term that the defensive coaches liked to use.…
Some people are fans of the Cleveland Browns. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cleveland Browns. 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: Cleveland Browns Your 2015 record: 3-13. But truthfully, every Browns season ends with an 0-16 record in spirit. It ends with you throwing up your hands and saying to yourself, “Jesus fucking Christ, what was the point of all that?” We do these previews every year, and every year the Browns manage to out-sad themselves. It brings me no joy to show you this again: Or this: Or this. Or this. Or this. It’s all part of the same progressively numbing existence. This team is a gulag. Its fans have been stripped of their cl…
Top-seeded Serena Williams just beat Maria Sharapova in straight sets, winning 6-4, 6-4, to clinch this year's French Open. It capped a ridiculous tournament for the 31-year-old champion, who mowed down her opponents en route to the second French Open win in her career. Sharapova put up a decent fight, but Williams has now won a career-best 31 straight matches, and she's only lost three of 77 matches since last year's French Open loss. Sharapova had her moments, but Williams eventually was able to overpower the second seed. She finished with 10 aces for the day. Williams served three aces in the final game alone, and powered a serve past her opponent on championship point. With the win, Williams now has 16 major singles championships to her name to go along with 13 dou…
For six or so glorious minutes this evening, the president’s personal Twitter account—@RealDonaldTrump—was gone. Whether he temporarily deleted it himself, intentionally or not, or was the subject of some weirdly brief disciplinary action from the platform (he did, after all, tweet about his wish for the New York City truck attack suspect to receive the death penalty earlier today), it was gone. And then it was back. We’ve reached out to Twitter for any more information, if they have it. Six minutes without the nation’s foremost purveyor of takes on Justin Verlander’s playoff performance and the proper way for football players to arrange their bodies during the national anthem and derisive names for North Korean leaders. What a blessing, however brief. Update (8:10 p.m…
data-mm-id=”_v4y0r3nh6″>The Boston Celtics are in a slump. After kicking in Toronto's teeth on their home floor Christmas Day, the team has struggled against subpar teams; they barely scraped by the Atlanta Hawks, the worst team in the NBA by record, before fighting out an ugly win against the Hornets. They then lost to the Wizards absent both Bradley Beal and Rui Hachimura and were blown out by a Spurs team coming off an eight-game losing streak at home. Boston has struggled with injuries all season and still have yet to play a significant amount of games with their five best players healthy. This includes last night, when Kemba Walker wasn't himself after coming down with the flu (and was also ejected for the first time in his life). Despite all the caveats you can come up …
data-mm-id=”_6j5935345″>The NFL season was kind of supposed to start today. April 6th was the date that teams with new head coaches were supposed to start workout programs. It would have been a chance for new coaches to meet the players they inherited. Instead, they're stuck doing important evaluations through phone and video calls. This is a big disadvantage for the new coaches heading into the NFL Draft.From @getupespn this morning on where things stand with plans for the NFL offseason. Teams with new head coaches could have started offseason programs today, but obviously circumstances have changed. pic.twitter.com/8TwctFps3R— Dan Graziano (@DanGrazianoESPN) April 6, 2020For coaches who have been with a team for a few seasons, this isn't that big of a deal. Bill Belichick…