Paul Merson has warned two key Arsenal stars ahead of Sunday’s showdown against Manchester City (Photo by James Gill – Danehouse/Getty Images) Paul Merson has warned Arsenal central defenders Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba they cannot afford to fall asleep for a second in Sunday’s summit meeting against Manchester City. The top two in each […]
Football preview: Pittsburg won’t be “in awe” of powerhouse St. John Bosco
So you want to play St. John Bosco, you say? The experience is not for the faint of heart. But in spite of this reality, multiple Bay Area teams have scheduled the Bellflower-based Braves, the No. 2 team in the MaxPreps national high school rankings, in nonleague play this season. Why do they do it? […]
Arsenal set asking price for injured star amid January transfer interest
Takehiro Tomiyasu could leave the club in January (Picture: Getty) Arsenal are preparing for a battle to keep Takehiro Tomiyasu and have set their asking price amid interest for the defender. Arsenal’s solid start to the new Premier League season has been predicated on their impregnable defence, with Mikel Arteta’s side conceding just one goal […]
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom celebrates 25 years of Fright Fest with new haunted maze
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is getting ready to celebrate 25 chilling years of Fright Fest with 200 hired scare-actors — a new record for the park — and a new nightmare-inducing maze. “We really wanted to focus on making the scare zones as well as the haunted mazes as full as possible, especially since it’s […]
Max Verstappen hits back after F1 drivers are given ‘swearing ban’ by FIA president
Max Verstappen is known for his sweary outbursts (Photo: Getty) Max Verstappen has blasted FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem after he called for Formula One drivers to watch their language while they race. Swear words – albeit bleeped out – have become commonplace during F1 weekends thanks to broadcasters’ increased access to driver/team radios. It […]
Kurtenbach: Brandon Aiyuk is paid like a superstar. Now he has to be one
SANTA CLARA — After a lackluster and rusty performance against the Jets in Week 1, Niners wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk said he was afraid to watch the tape. He had no such problem after the 49ers’ Week 2 loss to the Vikings. The stat sheet wasn’t much better. The newly minted $120 million man had […]
Jazz guitar icon brings his search for sonic adventure to Bay Area
Rife with invention and iconoclastic attitude, New York City’s 1970s Downtown scene was famous for tricksters, renegades and eccentrics who laced their music with pastiche and irony. At first glance the uncategorizable guitarist Marc Ribot seemed to embody that seen-it-all aesthetic, but listening to his music quickly revealed a relentlessly curious artist utterly sincere about […]
Opinion: Will we survive the age of information disorder?
Having weathered the COVID-19 storm, we are now on the cusp of another pandemic that is even more dangerous and insidious: a plague of misinformation. This digital contagion, which I call “information disorder,” distorts our ability to distinguish fact from fiction and right from wrong. Unlike the previous pandemic, which struck our bodies, this one […]
Joao Pedro injury latest from Fabian Hurzeler ahead of Brighton vs Nottingham Forest
Joao Pedro proved to be a big miss for Brighton last week (Picture: Getty Images) Joao Pedro was in training with Brighton on Wednesday, but manager Fabian Hurzeler was not ready to confirm the striker’s fitness for this weekend’s action. The 22-year-old was not involved last weekend as the Seagulls were held to a goalless […]
Pager and walkie-talkie attacks ‘will go down in history of irregular warfare’
Two waves of exploding communication devices have caused deaths and injuries across Lebanon and Syria (Picture: Rex/AP/X) The deadly communication devices blasts across Lebanon and Syria have been described as an ‘astonishing’ Israeli operation in a region which was ‘already on a knife edge’. The synchronised detonation of pagers and hand-held radios thought to have […]
Hayden Panettiere ‘ballooned out’ with weight gain after death of her brother aged 28
Hayden Panettiere (R) has opened up about the heartbreaking loss of her brother Jansen Panettiere (Picture: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) Hayden Panettiere has made a heartbreaking confession 18 months after the shock death of her younger brother. Jansen Panettiere was found dead in his New York apartment in February 2023, with his parents, Lesley Vogul and Skip […]
Married police chief quits before misconduct hearing over sex with rookie officer
Daniel Greenwood (left) allegedly told junior officer Caitlin Howarth to delete their intimate messages (Picture: Facebook) A married police chief has resigned after an affair with a rookie officer 17 years his junior. Chief Superintendent Daniel Greenwood, 41, a Bradford district commander, allegedly took advantage of his position by starting a relationship with student officer Caitlin Howarth, […]