The improbable two-time Super Bowl winner is 36 and at the helm of the NFL’s most anemic offense. With no heir apparent in line, could a trade be the answer?Eli Manning’s run of good fortune in New York has run out. The quarterback who won his first of two improbable Super Bowl titles thanks in no small part to a helmet catch, is now leading an offense that would need a huge dose of luck just to score 20 points in a game. New York’s latest prime-time debacle on Monday night at home against the Lions, a game in which all-universe receiver Odell Beckham returned from injury, saw the Giants put up just 10 points – meaning the Giants have...
Our first power rankings since the 2015 World Cup mark two years to go until Japan 2019. England lead the chasing pack while Australia and Wales struggleBefore the All Blacks’ record 57-0 victory over South Africa, Steve Hansen felt the need to defend his side’s uneven performances in 2017. The response was emphatic. It used to be the case that the All Blacks peaked at this stage of the World Cup cycle but Hansen is adamant they will improve in the next two years. Twelve months ago they struggled to maintain their remarkable form through the autumn and as they have crammed five matches into their schedule this year, an upset is not out of the question. But if New...
The Cowboys caught a glimpse of life without running back Ezekiel Elliott and it was wasn’t pretty, while Tom Brady reverted to form after a Week 1 aberrationLast year the Dallas Cowboys were the story of the NFL with a star rookie running back rumbling behind a dominant offensive line, winning games because their rookie quarterback never seemed rattled by any situation. They were so good with Ezekiel Elliott running the ball and Dak Prescott throwing it that franchise quarterback Tony Romo was chased into an early retirement.The future belonged to Elliott and Prescott. Related: NFL round-up: Cowboys blown out in Denver as brilliant Brady lifts Patriots Marshawn Lynch is a national treasure pic.twitter.com/hbyQyJ4SdU Continue reading...
The time is right for the faster, primer Canelo Álvarez to put it all together against Gennady Golovkin, whose pace and pressure are not what they once wereKevin Mitchell on why Golovkin will beat CaneloThis is a closer fight in the public eye today than it was two years ago when it first became an obligation. Back then, after Gennady Golovkin’s eight-round destruction of David Lemieux and Canelo Álvarez’s career-best win over Miguel Cotto for the lineal middleweight title (at a catchweight of 155lbs), few would have fancied Álvarez over the Kazakh puncher known as Triple G, who’d spent the better part of a decade ripping through the division with a rare blend of patience, technique and concussive power in...
Gennady Golovkin has a rhythm of fighting that almost ignores the activity of his opponent, an ominous pace that will leave Canelo Álvarez with no escapeBryan Armen Graham on why Canelo will beat GolovkinThis is a fight with no bad guys. You don’t get that often in boxing. Saul “Canelo” Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin are bona fide class acts in the ring and now they are pitted against each other in a fight that maybe should have happened a couple of years ago, but at least it’s on. It will be the fight of the year and, if it’s not, some of the blame will be down to the promoters who milked it, who delayed the action until it was...