🔴 Why Amorim’s 3-4-3 system can bring results🔴 But analysts say system LEAST suited to squad🔴 Coaching opposites: Transition underestimated🔴 Is there the time and patience for it to succeed? When Arsenal visit Manchester United on Sunday, it will mark two years to the day since Mikel Arteta last faced a Ruben Amorim side away … Read more
Rob Key’s decision to sound out Ben Stokes about the vacant ODI captaincy may sound like a desperate measure at a desperate time. And, for England’s one-day side, these really are desperate times. But as with the Test team’s Bazball revolution, there may just be method to the madness. First, of course, Stokes must be … Read more
The franchise tag deadline has now passed and we’re now mere days away from the official start of 2025 NFL free agency. All 32 teams are gearing up and getting ready to dole out some cash (or not) to improve their teams in the first phase of the offseason player-acquisition process with the NFL Draft looming … Read more
Lewis Hamilton admitted Ferrari have “work to do to improve” as a technical issue interrupted his running on the final day of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain. The seven-time world champion, who is preparing to start his first season with Ferrari having joined after 12 years at Mercedes, had enjoyed an encouraging start to … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Rodell Rahmaan has seen enough man-on-the-street interviews on social media to know he wants to do one. He’d love for a stranger with a camera to ask him the most famous person on his phone. “I can’t wait,” Rahmaan said, “to tell them it’s Eddie George.” The 1995 Heisman Trophy winner is in Rahmaan’s contacts … Read more
With the frenzy of the 2025 NBA trade deadline now behind us, the attention of the NBA-watching world now shifts to the Bay Area for the high-octane basketball exhibition/convention/trade show that is 2025 All-Star Weekend. Here are a few things to keep an eye on as the league’s best and brightest strut their stuff across … Read more
Captain America: Brave New World opens in theaters globally on Valentine’s Day 2025, bringing with it a popular expansion to Hulk-lore, the Red Hulk. Like all Hulks across various forms of media, there is a good chance that the origins of the Red Hulk in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) are … Read more
NASA has ordered a pause on all work by key planetary and astrophysics science committees due to recent executive orders by President Donald Trump. In a series of memos sent from NASA headquarters late Friday (Jan. 31), the space agency directed the leaders of at least 10 planetary science assessment and analysis groups that cover … Read more
The Los Angeles Lakers were expected to be active in the trade market this season, but you could never quite be certain based on the way they’ve handled the last year or so. They were linked to plenty of big names at the 2023 trade deadline, but ultimately stood pat. They chased Klay Thompson in … Read more