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The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, home of the Canadian Grand Prix, hosts the seventh round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship. Nico Rosberg enters the weekend holding a slender lead over Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton at the top of the drivers’ standings after the German’s victory in the last round at Monaco, which broke Hamilton’s career-best winning streak of four races. This...
Published: June 3, 2014
New Zealand is a tough place to tour, England know that. Over the years the All Blacks have inflicted their fair share of drubbings on English touring sides. England have won the sum total of two of their 12 Tests on Kiwi home turf and will realise that turning that record around will take some doing. England’s five heaviest defeats have all come in New Zealand. England will also be without those...
Published: June 3, 2014
With less than two weeks left before the World Cup kicks off this summer in Brazil, all the attention has understandably been on the football side of things, with all participants playing warm-up friendlies to ready their squad for the tournament. For the Brazilian government and footballing authorities, who have attracted criticism for repeatedly missing construction deadlines for the World Cup stadiums,...
Published: June 3, 2014
England will play their second World Cup warm-up match on Wednesday evening, facing Ecuador in Miami, where manager Roy Hodgson is expected to switch his side around considerably from the previous fixture against Peru. According to This Is Anfield, one of those who should come in for England to press his case will be Liverpool‘s attacking midfielder Raheem Sterling. Raheem Sterling and Rickie...
Published: June 3, 2014
Maria Sharapova fought back from a set down for the second straight match to defeat Garbine Muguruza 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 and earn a berth in the 2014 French Open semifinals. Muguruza didn’t back down against Serena Williams during her shocking straight-sets upset of the No. 1 seed in the second round. She showed a level of aggressiveness against the top-ranked women’s player that few players...
Published: June 3, 2014
It could seem like a long tournament with an early exit for the U.S. at the 2014 World Cup. After drawing into a “group of death” that includes Germany and Portugal, the odds of the U.S. winning in Brazil have tumbled to 100-1, according to most sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. In fact, the outlook is so bleak for the Americans that they sit tied with Ghana with odds of 6-5 to finish...
Published: June 3, 2014
For the second-straight World Cup, Mexico will compete in the group stage against the tournament’s host nation. In 2010, that meant facing South Africa. This year the Mexicans must face tourney favorite Brazil in their bid to advance beyond the group stage for the sixth consecutive time. Mexico heads to the World Cup pegged as 125-1 long shots in World Cup futures wagering, followed by Croatia...
Published: June 3, 2014
It’s a good time to be a Spanish soccer fan. The national team are reigning World Cup and European champs, but they sit at just 6-1 in World Cup futures betting to repeat as champions, trailing hosts Brazil as well as Argentina and Germany. Spain has drawn into a difficult Group B alongside long-shot Australia, dark-horse Chile and Netherlands, the team they needed extra time to beat to claim...
Published: June 3, 2014
Portugal’s opening World Cup match is just 13 days away and for the medical staff it’s going to be an incredibly busy period. They don’t face an injury crisis throughout the squad, but they do have issues regarding their best player. The muscular injury picked up by Cristiano Ronaldo toward the end of Real Madrid‘s campaign has not fully healed. His fellow players have played...
Published: June 3, 2014
Darijo Srna has seen it all. He went from rags to riches, from suffering depression and doubt to being revered. He experienced a stellar ascent and a fall from grace, triumph as well as disappointment—and now he’s ready for one more adventure. Croatia’s most capped player ever will lead the team as captain in Brazil and he says he can’t wait for the World Cup to start. “I...