Group I is flirting with a thrilling conclusion in Milan on Sunday afternoon but both Italy and Norway have obstacles to pass before they meet at San Siro. Norway are flying. They haven't dropped a point, have scored 29 goals in six games, and have conceded only three. Yet the Azzurri are technically still in touch with the highly unlikely possibility of automatic qualification.
I was working for a company building apartment blocks during the World Cup. We got into work one morning and we turned straight back around and went into an early house to watch the semi-finals. Our problem wasn't that - our problem was we got greedy. You've a few drinks and your confidence gets up. It gets to 5 o'clock and we thought we should ring Enrique to clock us out of work again. And one of the lads says, let's wait and we'll get someone to clock us out in a few hours and we'll get overtime.
The broadcaster reported revenues of $773 million and booked a $1 million net loss in the three months that included Kimmel's September suspension, according to Variety, a sudden reversal from the $94 million profit Sinclair posted in the same quarter of 2024. Advertising was the engine of the decline, down 26% to $321 million year-over-year. Political spending largely evaporated with just $6 million this past quarter compared to $138 million a year ago which was, of course, an election year.
ITV plc notes the recent press speculation and confirms that it is in preliminary discussions regarding a possible sale of its M&E business to Sky for an enterprise value of £1.6bn,
The first round of the 12-team College Football Playoff will start at 8 p.m. ET on Dec. 19 on ABC and ESPN, followed by a tripleheader Dec. 20 that starts at noon, the CFP, ESPN and TNT announced Tuesday. ESPN, which has owned the exclusive rights to the playoff since its inception in 2015, is in the second year of its current expanded package, which includes all four games of the CFP first round with two of the games sublicensed to TNT Sports.
As she prepares for the release of her new memoir Miriam: Life, Work, Everything, broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan talks about navigating divorce, the mantras she lives by and being ringside on society's most ground-breaking stories Let's get the presidency stuff out of the way first. Is there one among us who doesn't wish Miriam (she long ago acceded to one-name status) had gone for it, just as all those rumours, over all those years, had it that she intended to?
Earlier this month, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal heard that Valentyne, who co-hosted Q Q107's Derringer in the Morning from 2017 to 2019, was bullied, yelled at and excluded from important conversations by her co-hosts. Valentyne claims the treatment was due to the fact that she is a woman, alleging male colleagues were not treated the same way. Valentyne also alleges Corus management knew about her co-hosts' conduct, failed to take action against it and instead pushed Valentyne out of her position as co-host.
Maresca's elation after Chelsea's stoppage-time winner against Liverpool earned him a touchline ban but he'll fancy his team getting the better of a Forest team without a win since opening day. Postecoglou was under intense pressure the moment he replaced Nuno Espirito Santo at the City Ground barely a month ago and is odds-on to be the next Premier League manager sacked.
For the men, this is a key hit-out in the week leading up to Saturday's all-important Il Lombardia, the final Monument Classic of the 2025 season. Tadej Pogačar, who won this race in 2022, is back for his second appearance since retaining the world champion's rainbow jersey - the first being his stunning solo victory at the European Championships on Sunday. Tom Pidcock and Ben Healy are among the challengers, while the women's field is headlined by the new European champion Demi Vollering.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are in the playoffs for the 13th consecutive season but navigated a bit of a new wrinkle for the franchise by beginning their October run in the Wild Card Series. Although the Dodgers won the NL West title for the fourth year in a row and 12th time since 2013, they were not among the top-two division winners.
The San Francisco 49ers battle the Arizona Cardinals in their home opener at Levi's Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 1:25 p.m. PDT. The Niners are coming off consecutive road victories to open the season, including a 26-21 win in New Orleans with backup quarterback Mac Jones directing the offense. Arizona comes in at 2-0 on the season, as well, after beating the Saints and Panthers. Brock Purdy just may make his return for the 49ers as he returned to practice this week.
Arne Slot's side are heavily tipped to retain their Premier League crown but will have their work cut out against David Moyes' outfit. Liverpool kept up their impressive start to the 2025/26 season with a 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, as Virgil van Dijk powered home a late winner for the Reds in the UEFA Champions League. That result will please Slot heading into the Merseyside derby this weekend, with a raucous atmosphere expected at Anfield as the Toffees arrive.
On Wednesday, bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration, ABC pulled the late-night series "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air. The show, which had run for more than two decades, was shelved indefinitely over a monologue addressing the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk—one in which Kimmel did not disparage Kirk, nor, indeed, comment on him at all. Instead, he directed his contempt at those eager to exploit the activist's death: members of "the MAGA gang" who were, he said, "desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
