‘I’m working on it’: Carlo Ancelotti sets sights on place in Everton history

Carlo Ancelotti said he wanted to make history with Everton after becoming the first manager to lead the club to victory over Liverpool at Anfield since 1999.

The Italian was full of praise for Jordan Pickford, his team’s defending and their clinical finishing as Everton ended a miserable run at Anfield. Ancelotti believes the performance showed his team can compete with the leading lights of the Premier League but must be replicated at Goodison Park, where Everton have won four league games this season compared with eight away.

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“I realise I was the manager that beat Liverpool after 21 years,” the three-times Champions Leagu…

Lampard makes his point as Everton fans buy into improved showing

It was the plumes of blue smoke that gave the game away. As the Everton team bus inched its way up Goodison Road, the crowds reluctantly parted to allow it through. Shirtless children. Women with blue soot on their face.

Men clutching their four-packs of San Miguel with one hand and shaking a fist with the other. A swelling, soaring, billowing wall of noise filled the narrow little terraced streets like a fever. A “Road Closed” sign was slapped by an Evertonian for the crime of being red.

Where does that fervour and longing come from and where does it go? It doesn’t simply disappear between Monday and Friday. Instead it builds and festers, unquenched and often unrequited. The hours pass slowly and the years pa…

Sean Dyche calls for ‘positive reaction’ after Everton’s latest points deduction

Sean Dyche has said Everton must unite again and focus on “the rise of the Toffees” in response to the club’s second points deduction of the season.

Everton slipped to 16th in the Premier League on Monday, two points above the relegation zone, after being docked two points for a £16.6m breach of profitability and sustainability rules up to 2023.

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A hearing into whether a total of £23.46m in stadium interest payments can be excluded from the club’s PSR calculations will take place after this season. That carries the threat of a third points deduction for a club in an increasingly perilous financial situation, with 777 Partners request…

2024 U.S. Open: Can Coco Gauff challenge heavy favorites?

Coco Gauff kicked off her 2024 U.S. Open with an easy victory over little-known Varvara Gracheva, but can the top-ranked American overcome a challenging summer to successfully defend her title? The third-seeded Gauff opened the tournament at +1000 by DraftKings to win the women's title. That's well behind top-ranked Iga Swiatek at +400 and No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka at +210. Sabalenka fell to Gauff in last year's final and is seeking to add a U.S. Open to her pair of Australian Open titles. The Belarusian star leads the draw with 19 percent of the total bets and 31 percent of the money backing her to claim the trophy at DraftKings. Swiatek is next with 16 and 24 percent of the action, respectively. The clay-court star did claim the U.S. Open title in 2022 and added a fourth F…

MLB suspends Trevor Bauer for two seasons over sexual assault allegations

The MLB suspended Dodgers starter Trevor Bauer for two seasons over sexual assault allegations Friday. The allegedly terrible person is gone (for now), and baseball is better off without him, that’s for sure. The suspension comes after a legal case in which he was never charged criminally, but in it he was accused of punching and choking a woman into unconsciousness during two sexual encounters. He has repeatedly denied the claims, saying the rough sex was consensual. Bauer is appealing the suspension and, according to his tweet, he expects to win. “In the strongest possible terms, I deny committing any violation of the league’s domestic violence & sexual assault policy,” he posted to Twitter. “I am appealing this action and expect to prevail. As we have througho…

Here's The Only Hot Stove Glossary You'll Ever Need

Today marks the first full day of baseball’s Winter Meetings, that wonderful annual gathering in which baseball executives text each other trade proposals in closer physical proximity to one another than is usually the case while baseball writers repeatedly get drunk at the same hotel bar. This special event comes with its own vocabulary. Here, then, is a guide to all the terms one might need to know: Kicking the tires on: This term uses the popular baseball slang “tires,” which is another term for “knees.” In this scenario, the interested team is kicking the player in question in the knees repeatedly to analyze his capacity for pain. Making strong push for: The team demonstrates its strength to an attractive free agent by inviting him to watch the general manager move a foot…

The Golden State Warriors Are Your 2015 NBA Champions

This is the most sportswritery thing I’ll ever write, but all season long the Golden State Warriors won as a team. Sure, Stephen Curry was the MVP of the league, but he was far from a one man band. Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Andrew Bogut all won league-wide awards. After two stagnant season, Harrison Barnes improved leaps and bounds. Andre Iguodala agreed to come off the bench. David Lee didn’t complain once about getting his minutes snatched. Shaun Livingston played every position from point guard to power forward. Marreese Speights carried the offense for surprisingly long periods of time. I still don’t know what Leandro Barbosa is doing most of the time, but it worked. The coaching staff was part of this team, too. Rookie head coach relied upon Alvin Gentry to guide his …

An Astounding Lack Of Field Vision

This handsome gentleman is Darius Johnson, a high school running back in Kansas. This season, he ran for more than 1,000 yards and is beloved by his teammates. He has had a difficult life, though; he has sickle cell anemia, his mother died of cancer when he was 10 and, oh yeah … he's legally blind. No, seriously: According to his uncle, he can only see two feet in front of him when he's on the field. That makes him a terrible driver, but it does still exceed the nearsightedness of Ron Dayne, so that's something. He says contacts, glasses, Lasik, nothing works, nothing helps, and that his site is supposed to get worse. He's a senior, and even though he hasn't been recruited by any major universities, we are pretty sure he's gonna get a call from Ron Zook…

Auburn Takes The Easy Road, Lets AD Jay Jacobs Resign At His Convenience

After a 13-year run at Auburn that was equal parts success and scandal, Tigers athletic director Jay Jacobs made use of the Friday news dump to announce that he will retire either next June or whenever Auburn hires his replacement. In a note titled, “A Word From Jay Jacobs,” the former Auburn offensive lineman wrote that “the last several months have been a particularly difficult time,” adding that he “prayerfully decided” that the time for him to step down has come. Jacobs’s full letter can be read here. An excerpt: The last several months have been a particularly difficult time. Across several sports, a series of controversies have arisen. They have begun to take their toll and have raised questions about why Auburn must endure such problems. As I have always done, I ha…

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