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Sep 29, 2026 - Sports

It looks like we’d be adding ‘former’ to another one of Charles Barkley’s professional titles. But there would be one constant even in the next act. The Auburn legend, NBA Hall of Famer and television analyst has reaffirmed his intention to retire from broadcasting following the upcoming 2026–27 NBA season. As media days kick off […] The post Charles Barkley Reveals One Exception to His Retirement and Plans to Leave Public Life: “I Want to Make that Perfectly Clear” appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Sep 29, 2026 - Sports

One of the best strikers in the world, the Scot talks about her career in blind football and the EurosHelga has spotted a pigeon just outside the changing rooms at Poltonhall Sports Complex in Bonnyrigg and it suddenly becomes clear from her ears, tongue and tail that she would very much like to chase it. But not today. She is a good girl, she resists the exciting temptation, and stays true to her task. Helga, a three-year-old black labrador, is a guide dog, partnered with the England women’s blind football captain, Sam Gough, and the duo have important work to do.Gough is preparing for the 2026 IBSA Women’s Blind Football European Championship, which gets under way in Istanbul on Saturday, full of confidence in her everyday life since partnering with Helga last year, a moment she says has been liberating.This year Postcode Lottery players are helping Guide Dogs to fund life-changing partnerships like Sam and Helga. To find out more about Guide Dogs, you can visit guidedogs.org.ukThis is an extract from our free email about women’s football, Moving the Goalposts. To get the full edition, visit this page and follow the instructions. Moving the Goalposts is delivered to your inboxes every Tuesday and Thursday. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - Sports

Players across the league are leaving their teams up north to return home. It’s prompted questions around money, tax rates, geopolitics and respectBack in September 1925, Frederick Wilson, sports editor at the Globe, explained the fear among hockey fans that Canadian teams might not be able to compete for players against the new US teams like New York or Boston that were entering the pro league. “Will it be a matter of money?” Wilson headlined his piece. And for about a century, money was the recurrent nexus of the Canadian hockey panic, proven by franchise departures and depleted buying power.At the time, Wilson reassured everyone that, no matter the big US cash, everyone on the ice would be Canadian anyway. “It will be some years before the [US] will be in a position to furnish players,” he wrote. He was right about that. It took a long time for the US to catch up to Canada in on-ice talent. But now that it has, should we expect Americans to want to play anywhere else than the US? For 100 years Canada has worried that the US would just buy all the best hockey players. But now it makes its own and, as the new NHL season gets underway on Tuesday night, they want to go home. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - Sports

Chelsea’s Lexi Potter gets first call-up to face GreeceLeah Williamson back after injury for World Cup playoffElla Toone and Chloe Kelly have been dropped from England’s squad because of their performance levels by Sarina Wiegman, who has given a first call-up to the 20-year-old Chelsea midfielder Lexi Potter.Toone and Kelly have played key roles in England’s run of three consecutive major tournament finals but Wiegman made clear on Tuesday, when announcing her selection for the Women’s World Cup qualifying playoff against Greece, that she wants to see more from them for their clubs. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - Sports

Villa have two points from first four league matchesArroyo took charge of women’s side in January 2025Aston Villa have sacked Natalia Arroyo as their women’s manager, with the side winless and second-bottom of the Women’s Super League.Arroyo was let go on Monday night, after Villa endured a 4-0 defeat at Tottenham on Sunday. It was a second loss in their opening four games of the season, with a 4-1 defeat by Manchester City sandwiched between 1-1 draws with Chelsea and Brighton, with performances largely poor. Continue reading...