By BEN NAGLE, US SPORTS EDITOR Published: 21:21 EDT, 11 August 2025 | Updated: 21:26 EDT, 11 August 2025 A veteran stock-car driver at a North Carolina race track died over the weekend after suffering a medical emergency while competing.Fan favorite Robbie Brewer’s car struck a wall head-on at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem and came to a stop near the start-finish line, leaving fans fearing for the driver’s wellbeing.Track workers were forced to peel away the roof to remove 53-year-old Brewer, and an ambulance rushed him to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist hospital, after which he died, the Winston-Salem…

By WILL GRIFFEE, MMA EDITOR Published: 18:23 EDT, 11 August 2025 | Updated: 18:23 EDT, 11 August 2025 Arne Slot ‘will not sanction the sale of Federico Chiesa’ as it stands, with Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez having left Liverpool this summer. The Reds are looking thin in the forward department and while many expected Chiesa to be among the departures, reports in Italy suggest otherwise. Chiesa, Cody Gakpo, Mo Salah and Hugo Ekitike are currently Liverpool’s frontline options for the forward spots, with young Rio Ngumoha backing up. The tragic death of Diogo Jota and sales of Nunez and Diaz mean Slot’s…

AJ Dybantsa was only five when his father settled on a new training plan for the family’s three children: 100 push ups in the morning, 100 push ups in the evening. Every day and everyone – even AJ’s younger sister, Jasmyn. She was three.’It’s all about discipline,’ says Dybantsa Sr, who was born in the Congo and raised in Paris before serving as a cop in Boston. There, he worked the ‘graveyard’ shift – from 11:30pm to 7:30am – and would pick up regular overtime, too. Most days, Ace survived on just two or three hours sleep. And around a month…

Taylor Swift fans were left spiraling into hysteria Monday as a cryptic clue left by Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast left them convinced the pop star would be making a long-awaited appearance on the hit show. Swifties have long dreamed of a blockbuster appearance from the pop sensation, 35, on football’s most famous siblings’ podcast, ‘New Heights’. They have ceaselessly pounced on any announcement of a special guest from the show’s social media channels, only to be left sorely disappointed when the likes of Adam Sandler, Shaquille O’Neal or Brad Pitt feature instead. However, undeterred, the ever-loyal fans of the songstress believe their…

The family of former West Coast Eagles great Adam Hunter have responded to claims made by his partner Latisha Yacoub that she is owed money by his relatives.Mr Hunter passed away in February at the age of 43, with a coroner’s inquiry stating that the 2006 premiership winner’s cause of death related to drug-induced heart failure.Last week, his partner Ms Yacoub, spoke on the day Mr Hunter died, as well as the Eagles great’s battle with addiction.Ms Yacoub, a qualified nurse and a mother-of-three, told The West Australian she suspected her partner had taken methamphetamine the day he passed away…

By JEORGE BIRD, DIGITAL ESPORTS REPORTER Published: 05:34 EDT, 11 August 2025 | Updated: 05:57 EDT, 11 August 2025 Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho has been spotted appearing to clutch a vape while getting a tattoo.The 21-year-old appears to be holding a Hayati Pro Ultra while visiting a tattoo parlour as he mulls over his future with Ruben Amorim making it clear he is no longer in his plans at Old Trafford. The incident comes two years after fans spotted a vape lying on Garnacho’s sofa in a swiftly-deleted Instagram story. A source close to Garnacho suggested the vape in the 2023 incident was…

South Sydney star interviewed by police after arrival in QueenslandNo charges have been laid and now new information has surfaced By JAMES COONEY, SENIOR SPORT REPORTER, AUSTRALIA and JOSH ALSTON, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 02:36 EDT, 11 August 2025 | Updated: 02:39 EDT, 11 August 2025 A new report maintains Souths star Brandon Smith was not being questioned over anything he did during a flight when he was pulled aside by police after landing on the Gold Coast with his teammates on Saturday.Smith, 29, was interviewed by police at Coolangatta shortly after arriving on his flight from Sydney. Rabbitohs CEO Blake Solly said…

Footy great turned federal MP David Pocock has revealed one of the intense early-morning workouts that have made him Australia’s fittest politician.The former Wallabies captain, 37, surprised his social media followers last week by taking them through the fitness routine he puts himself through not long after dawn on the mighty – and mighty cold – Murrumbidgee River.The post, shared on Instagram, shows Pocock doing core exercises on the muddy riverbank and performing timed plunges in the frigid water. Pocock, who trains with a group of other fitness enthusiasts called the Granimals, detailed his workout, showcasing mobility exercises, strength training and…

Particular attention has been paid to England’s bowling stocks ahead of this winter’s Ashes and the plan to hit Australia with pace runs deeper than the full tour.A group of emerging fast bowlers will also be on hand down under to bolster the touring party if reinforcements are deemed necessary for reasons of form or fitness over Christmas and the New Year.During the initial phase of England’s nine-week tour, England Lions will provide the opposition in a pre-series warm-up fixture at Lilac Hill from November 13-15 and then increase their match readiness by playing a Cricket Australia XI and Australia…

By ALEX RASKIN, US SPORT NEWS EDITOR and ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 17:34 EDT, 10 August 2025 | Updated: 17:39 EDT, 10 August 2025 The New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers managed to play baseball on Sunday, although that was hardly a given considering the flash flooding across Wisconsin this weekend. Even after Saturday’s game, where the retractable roof at American Family Field began leaking amid floods in the parking lot, officials still proceeded with Sunday’s matinee. The Mets may have hoped for a postponement, but instead suffered their 11th loss in their last dozen games as Isaac Collins hit a walk-off home run for the…