New entrants Jamshedpur FC, owned by the Tata Group appointed former Kerala Blasters head coach Steve Coppell to lead their debut conquest in the ISL. The former Manchester United winger brought with him his assistant coach from this old club in the form of Ishfaq Ahmed. The Jharkhand-based side started their pre-season training camp in Jamshedpur from the first week of October and embarked on a fortnight-long trip to Thailand thereafter....

Mark Sifneos replaced Iain Hume in the starting lineup for the home side as Rene Meulensteen tried to turn around his side’s fortunes in front of goal. Alexandre Guimaraes rang the changes for the visitors, bringing Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Davinder Singh and Rafa Jorda into the team in place of Raju Gaikwad, Marcio Rozario and Sanju Pradhan. Kerala Blasters started the game on the front foot as expected and the midfielder Courage Pekuson had an early chance in the first few minutes of the game when Jackichand Singh squared the ball into his path....

“I know my stadium. Our support, I think, will be the difference because it’s good to have fans supporting your team through the entire game. But that will be the only advantage we have in the match. We’ll have to play the game the same way as we did in the first two matches,” he said at the pre-match press conference in New Delhi. The Spaniard however has not been impressed with his side’s defensive organization in the Indian Super League (ISL) so far....

“We played well but didn’t score which is the most important. If you can’t score, it’s nothing because football is about winning. The striker in my team isn’t lucky,” said Portugal, after the game. But he acknowledged that being the second best team on the pitch repeatedly is cause for concern as a head coach. “Losses are very hard for the coach. If we win ahead then things will be good....

The former Bengaluru FC second-in-command had launched a scathing attack on Lobera as he talked up the lack of opportunities for Indian coaches in ISL. He commented that FC Goa assistant coach Derrick Pereira was more knowledgeable when it came to coaching compared to their head coach Sergio Lobera. “Derrick [Pereira] has far more knowledge about coaching than [FC Goa head coach] Sergio Lobera and it will be a case of Lobera learning more from Derrick than the other way round” spoke Reddy to Times of India....

The home side are fresh off a stunning 4-1 away victory against ATK and the visitors jumped on the three-point bandwagon last week when they trounced FC Goa 2-1 in their own backyard. TV CHANNELS & LIVE STREAM The Star Sports Network have the exclusive broadcasting rights of the ISL. The games will be telecast with the option of English and/or Hindi commentary over their bouquet of television as well as digital platforms....

“We will try win and get full three points. We want to play a good game. We will do everything to get 3 points. We are working hard. Nobody is favourites in this tournament. Tomorrow is a new day let’s see what happens.” Popovic took up the responsibility of his side’s defeat against Delhi Dynamos and said that he is open to suggestions from players with ISL experience. “I don’t want to blame any player....

It is surprising from a team like the Blasters who boast of the strongest attack force on paper in the Indian Super League this season. With the likes of Iain Hume, CK Vineeth and legendary Dimitar Berbatov in the attack it is disappoinitng not to score any goal in the first two matches of the season. “Its the same question I asked the players after the game. It’s nothing to do the willingness....

The ISL has been restructured this season as they welcome two new sides in Bengaluru FC and Jamshedpur FC. The Tata Group’s Jamshedpur FC are a new franchise while Bengaluru FC have won the I-League in the past. After completely dominating the I-League in their first four seasons of existence, they will now begin their journey in the ISL for bigger and better challenges. The season kicks off with a rematch of ISL 2016 final as defending champions ATK travel to Kochi where they come up against Kerala Blasters on November 17th....

Stephen Constantine and his crew will assemble on September 28th in Mumbai for a camp before they head to Bengaluru a few days before the game. Indian Super League (ISL) clubs would have commenced their pre-season around the last week of September and in that case, they have been instructed to plan in a manner that the national team players are released on time for the camp in Mumbai....

With just under seven minutes left in the first period, the Lightning forward was driving to the net when he took a pass that he tried to pull between his legs. As the puck sailed away, he was pushed from behind by Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech and went flying into Varlamov. Varlamov was seen immediately grabbing his head and stayed down holding his head for a considerable amount of time as the teams got together around him....

The 27-year-old forward signed a six-year contract extension with the team, New York announced Thursday. He was due to become an unrestricted free agent when free agency begins on July 1. While the Islanders didn’t disclose the terms of the new extension, Newsday reported the deal is worth $6 million annually. Nelson had a career season with the Islanders, scoring a career-high 53 points (24 goals, 28 assists) while playing in all 82 games this season....

Now, after the most recent airstrikes in this new round of fighting between the Israeli government and the Hamas militant group that controls the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a third wave of COVID-19 is creeping up on its overwhelmed, exhausted medical workers. In eleven days of airstrikes and rocket fire, 244 are dead—including 12 Israelis and 232 Palestinians—and hundreds more wounded, the vast majority in Gaza, which has a densely packed population of two million....

According to the Israel Defense Forces, more than 1,050 rockets have been launched at the country since the fighting escalated on Monday. The IDF announced on Twitter that the rockets had been fired across the central and southern regions of Israel within 38 hours. In the tweet, the IDF added: “This. Must. Stop.” Hidai Zilberman, an IDF spokesperson, said its Iron Dome missile defense system had intercepted between 85 and 90 percent of the rockets that had been aimed towards Israel....

That is, unless you enjoy living in a theocracy governed by a religion that may not be your own. I believe that some Christian values may be nice, but they’re not mine. No, I’m not Christian. I’m not in any way religious. I believe in abortion rights. I believe in gun control. I believe in same-sex marriage. I believed in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people — mainly if they were people I liked....

Normally when I test a car I actually drive it myself. But Tesla isn’t allowing any outsiders to drive its $98,000 hot rod—yet. The one we’re in is prototype No. 10 and probably cost the tiny Silicon Valley start-up company well over $1 million to hand-build. So I understand why they don’t want just any pedestrian auto writer to thrash (and possibly crash) one of the few Tesla Roadsters in existence....

The Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway fell into a routine Saturday, and then Sunday, too. The rain would come, and then it would go. The track would dry, and then it would get wet again. Over and over again. It finally escaped the frustrating cycle Sunday afternoon as drivers at last saw the green flag after multiple rain delays bumped the race back an entire day and change....

I guess the judges must have thought the same thing because they didn’t choose one. When we returned to the school cafeteria for the annual fall dinner that evening, we saw that all the pumpkins had been awarded the same black and gold ribbon. My son, eagerly searching to see if he’d won, kept asking me, “Which pumpkin won? Where’s the winner?” What could I say? “Well, it looks like everyone won....

And Roger Clemens has to be thrilled a syringe, not a betting slip, was his screw-up of choice. SPECTOR: There’s no reason, ever, to reinstate Rose | PHOTOS: The career of Charlie Hustle Because Major League Baseball doubled down on the idiocy of keeping Pete Rose out of baseball, refusing to lift a permanent ban on him because he a) bet on his team way back when; b) continues to bet (legally) on baseball right here and now; and c) and I am paraphrasing here, for failing to properly prostrate himself and provide an up-from-the-roaches, Lifetime TV version of a life redeemed....

The young winger, who only joined Barca last month in a club-record deal, suffered the serious tear in Saturday’s 2-1 triumph over Getafe to leave him on the sidelines for the foreseeable future. Barca 10/11 to win La Liga Dembele was making his full La Liga debut during the contest at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez, but he did not make it until half time, as he attempted a back-heel near the corner flag and felt something in his leg....