Test cricket’s endless cycle of matches wheels into Seddon Park in Hamilton on Wednesday where New Zealand play Bangladesh in the kind of series that probably prompted the chairman of the International Cricket Council to say last week: “Test cricket is dying.” Shashank Manohar was simply copying his colleagues at the England and Wales Cricket …
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Schalke 2 Manchester City 3: 10-man visitors strike late through Sane & Sterling
Despite leading through Sergio Aguero’s 18th-minute effort, City were behind at the break after Nabil Bentaleb scored a pair of spot-kicks. The first of those, awarded after a lengthy period of deliberation and confusion, was given for a handball against Nicolas Otamendi, who was booked for that transgression and then picked up a second yellow …
Sergio Agüero Is The Greatest Premier League Goalscorer Ever
Sergio Agüero scored three goals in Manchester City’s 6-0 evisceration of Chelsea on Sunday. He was the team’s best player on the day, just as he has been all season long and indeed for the duration of his eight record-breaking seasons in the Premier League. For as routine as the Argentine hitman has made scoring …
Emilia Clarke says Game of Thrones season 8 will shock the audience
Actor Emilia Clarke has teased there is “a very good reason” why the makers Game of Thrones took their time with the last season of the hit show. The 32-year-old actor, known for playing the iconic role of Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series, said the eighth and final season will …
Last chance to enter our Win a Dream Wedding competition
A massive congratulations on your engagement! Now all you need is a wedding day you can cherish forever. The Herald’s Win A Dream Wedding is back for its seventh year running and more unique than ever before, but loved-up couples need to act fast if they want to be in with a chance as there’s …
BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 14/2
Vietnamese firms join world’s largest food, beverage fair in UAE Vietnam pavilion at Gulfood 2018 (Source: laodong.vn) Twenty Vietnamese enterprises will showcase their products at the 24th edition of Gulfood – the world’s largest annual food & beverage trade exhibition – in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, from February 17-21. The firms include the Vietnam …
Champions announce two more signings
East Anglian Premier League champions Sudbury have bolstered their ranks with what chairman Louis Brooks believes will prove to be two quality signings.The Talbots had already announced bowling all-rounder Henry Shipley will be joining them from April as their new overseas professional from the same New Zealand Canterbury Kings side as former incumbent Tim Johnston.But …
Ford’s new Super Duty pickup gets fresh face, technology
Ian Thibodeau The Detroit News Published 6:14 AM EST Feb 5, 2019 Ford Motor Co.’s biggest pickups will get new engines and technology when the redesigned 2020 Super Duty is introduced later this year. The trucks — the Super Duty badge applies to the F-250, F-350 and F-450 models — will hit Ford’s lineup as the automaker moves …
Every NBA Trade Is Actually About Anthony Davis These Days
This is a Harrison Barnes blog right up until the point LeBron James makes sure it’s not. Advertisement It was a very weird scene in Dallas Wednesday night, as Barnes was seemingly playing just a regular old basketball game right up until he was taken out with 3:11 left in the third quarter. News broke …
Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination
About a century ago, in central Louisiana, in the town of Harrisonburg, the seat of Catahoula Parish, Arch and Mae Aplin opened a general mercantile store. The Aplins sold everything—dried goods and leather shoes, medicine and cotton shirts, cuts of beef and hammers and nails—and their store was successful, in large part because of its …