Welcome to The Radar, a Sky Sports column in which Nick Wright uses a blend of data and opinion to shed light on need-to-know stories from up and down the Premier League. This week: 🔴 Jota boosts Slot ahead of Spurs test🔥 Fulham thriving despite Palhinha exit⏲️ Tierney, Zinchenko and Arsenal’s evolution Jota’s return gives … Read more
The WBO will not recognise Errol Spence as a world title challenger against Sebastian Fundora. WBO and WBC super welterweight champion Fundora is reportedly close to agreeing a deal to face Spence in early 2025. 3 Terence Crawford is the WBO interim champion but could be elevatedCredit: Mark Robinson/Matchroom However, newly appointed WBO president Gustavo … Read more
Natasha Jonas and Lauren Price will fight in a blockbuster all-British world title unification at the iconic Royal Albert Hall on Friday March 7. The pair will headline a historic all-women’s world championship event, entitled as Unstoppable, as the curtain-raiser to the International Women’s Day 2025 global campaign the following day. Jonas will enter as … Read more
Marc Cucurella will do anything to win the ball, anything to win the game even, and he did it through fair means and foul here at Stamford Bridge against Brentford. He was man of the match and sent off. He was goalscorer and goal preventer. When you have players as committed to defeating the opposition … Read more
Jake Paul has no interest in taking on Julio Cesar Chavez Jr for a WBA belt. The major boxing organisation’s president, Gilberto Mendoza, floated around the idea of sanctioning a fight between Paul and the former WBC middleweight champion for one of the WBA’s many trinkets earlier this year. 2 Paul is on the lookout … Read more
Colby Covington proved his worth after dominating Robbie Lawler in 2019. Covington takes on Joaquin Buckley on Sunday in Tampa, Florida, in the main event of the final UFC card of 2025. 3 Covington has been a top welterweight contender for yearsCredit: Getty The American fighter has a point to prove after losing three of … Read more
IBF welterweight champion Natasha Jonas has revealed the much-anticipated all-British bout against Lauren Price is “definitely on the cards”. But that can only happen if they both come through their respective fights this Saturday. Jonas and Price are on the same card in Liverpool, live on Sky Sports, with Jonas taking on Croatia’s WBC world … Read more
The Chicago Sky’s attempt at winning back-to-back WNBA titles ended in 2022 and they have been unstable ever since. Three head coaches have come and gone since then, including former head coach Teresa Weatherspoon, who was dismissed last season after just one year in the hot-seat. 5 The Sky have a new head coach in … Read more
‘Don’t worry about a thing’ read the small placard held up by a Chelsea fan to Cole Palmer and his celebrating teammates after the final whistle. Why worry when you have Palmer, second only to Mohamed Salah as the best player in the Premier League? 9 Palmer scored two penalties in Chelsea’s 4-3 win at … Read more
Britain’s Abbi Pulling is officially the 2024 F1 Academy champion – mere days after she was stripped of the title. And her Abu Dhabi crowning will be all the sweeter to Lewis Hamilton, who was infamously ‘robbed’ of a title after racing on Yas Island. 6 Hamilton is a big advocate of the Wolff (left) … Read more