The moment all American Football have has been waiting for has arrived, as Pittsburgh Steelers face Green Bay Packers for the ultimate prize of the sport: the Super Bowl. This year’s edition will be held at Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, bringing together two of the best-performing franchises of the season. The Pittsburgh Steelers managed [...]
The matches which will decide who goes to the Super Bowl this season are just around the corner. This Sunday, New York Jets clash with Pittsburgh Steelers, while Green Bay Packers fly to Chicago to face the Bears, for the AFC and NFC Conference Title respectively. The Jets come out of a surprising victory at [...]
Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt (9/50 to win) and Asafa Powell (7/2) will go head-to-head over 100m for the first time this year on Friday in the Diamond League meeting in Paris.
The pair share the fastest time in the world this year of 9.82 seconds with Bolt setting his time in Lausanne last week after an Achilles tendon injury.
But world record holder Bolt believes he can go faster in Paris.
McLaren’s Jenson Button is at 7/1 to win the world drivers’ championship and believes the new diffuser system on his car will help him keep up with the faster Red Bull’s, which dominated qualification at last week’s British Grand Prix.
Button finished in fourth place at Silverstone despite reverting back to the car set-up used at the European Grand Prix in Valencia.
Mark Webber (8.8 to win the 2010 Drivers’ Championship) was quickest in second practice for the British Grand Prix, although the Red Bull driver was chased hard by Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Webber, currently fourth in the drivers’ standings, clocked one minute 31.234 seconds at Silverstone, with Alonso just 0.392 seconds behind.
Renault have moved to get Robert Kubica (33/1 to win the British Grand Prix with bet365) to sign a new contract with the Formula One team after impressing in his first season with them.
The Pole has been on the podium twice in the first six months of his career with Renault in both Australia and Monaco.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton has said he was happy with his third place in qualifying for the European Grand Prix as the Red Bulls’ (2.14 to win the Constructors Championship with Betfair) dominated again.
Red Bull’s Mark Webber (5/1 to win the Drivers’ Championship with bet365) believes that the number of challengers for the world crown will be whittled down in the middle part of the season.
Lewis Hamilton has backed his McClaren team to be more competitive at the Turkish Grand Prix (Hamilton 8.4 at Betfair to win the Turkey GP).
The 2008 world champion finished in fifth at Monaco last weekend, while his team-mate Jensen Button was forced to retire on the second lap.
Mark Webber will be on pole position for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix after he kept up Red Bull’s domination of qualifying this season.
For a sixth race in a row, it will be a Milton Keynes-based driver at the front of the grid following Webber’s effort of one minute 13.826 seconds around the track.
His qualification time means he is now red hot favourite to make it two victories from two.
Visa problems may have interrupted Amir Khan’s preparations, but the Bolton fighter claims that he will be ready for Paulie Malignaggi when they meet on Saturday (Khan 2.56 at Betfair to win by stoppage).
Khan will make his American debut against the outspoken New Yorker at Madison Square Garden, having been kept from entering the United States due to visa complications (1.79 for the fight to go the distance at
The racing Levy for the next financial year is expected to yield £72.4million, with fixtures down by 30 to 1,450 for 2012. A deal was finally agreed just before the midnight deadline to prevent the 51st levy scheme being handed over to government secretary of state Jeremy Hunt to determine. The three largest bookmakers – [...]
Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
Connections of Diamond Harry are optimistic the 2010 Hennessy Gold Cup winner will make his seasonal debut this month after being forced to miss his intended engagement at Wetherby on Saturday. The eight-year-old has not run since his Newbury triumph almost 12 months ago and was forced out of the Charlie Hall Chase after being [...]
Paul Nicholls was delighted to see Kauto Star show plenty of enthusiasm as the veteran chaser enjoyed a spin with stablemates Big Buck’s and Mon Parrain after racing at Exeter. The 11-year-old Kauto Star has enjoyed a stellar career, winning the King George VI Chase at Kempton on four consecutive occasions and taking Cheltenham Gold [...]
The racing Levy for the next financial year is expected to yield £72.4million, with fixtures down by 30 to 1,450 for 2012. A deal was finally agreed just before the midnight deadline to prevent the 51st levy scheme being handed over to government secretary of state Jeremy Hunt to determine. The three largest bookmakers – [...]
Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
Connections of Diamond Harry are optimistic the 2010 Hennessy Gold Cup winner will make his seasonal debut this month after being forced to miss his intended engagement at Wetherby on Saturday. The eight-year-old has not run since his Newbury triumph almost 12 months ago and was forced out of the Charlie Hall Chase after being [...]
