Luke Ferrara, the 2019-20 Elite League top scorer, has signed a two-year contract extension with Coventry Blaze. Ferrara, 26, arrived in Coventry from Sheffield Steelers in 2017, and has since become established as one of the most productive forwards in the EIHL, improving his season’s points tally every year since...
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Allow me to be blunt, the English Football League Cup – or Carabao Cup as it is known for commercial reasons – should be designated as football’s first causality of the coronavirus pandemic. At first to alleviate the inevitable fixture congestion that will follow the COVID-19 crisis, the League Cup...
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In what later became the final match of an aborted campaign, Luke Ferrara compelled the Skydome Arena to erupt with just six seconds remaining on the clock against Dundee Stars. The goal, and the resultant win, propelled Danny Stewart’s side to third in the standings, Coventry’s best finish since finishing...
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A collaborative series by Netflix and ESPN, The Last Dance charts the rise of the Chicago Bulls and their talisman, Michael Jordan, throughout the 1990s. By 1997, when behind-the-scenes filming for the series began, the Bulls had become the most powerful force in the NBA after winning five championships in...
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Dana White was forced into the most painful submission of his career last Friday after being told to “stand down” from holding UFC 249, which was due to take place later today, by “the powers that be.” Just a fortnight ago, White claimed that the event would be held on...
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News of Jade Moore’s decision to depart the Women’s Super League (WSL) was lost in the noise emanating from the ongoing disruption caused to the sporting calendar by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did the England midfielder’s switch to Orlando Pride fail to generate the number of column inches it...
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Coventry Blaze have announced that Danny Stewart has committed his future to the Skydome Arena outfit by signing a contract extension following the club’s third-placed finish in 2019/20. Stewart, who made 248 appearances as a Coventry player, was appointed Blaze head coach in 2016. The Fort McMurray native led the...
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Four-time Winter Olympian Florence Schelling has been named the general manager of SC Bern, becoming the first female GM of a top-level men’s professional hockey club. Earlier in her career, Schelling became the first, and only, woman to play in the Swiss Men’s National B League, before retiring from the...
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Among a swelling contingent of ice hockey fans from across the country, I was meant to be in Nottingham today to watch the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) arrive at its deafening crescendo. For obvious reasons, British ice hockey’s annual pilgrimage to the Playoff Finals Weekend wasn’t to be, leaving...
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This week, we imagined an alternative vision for the Premier League, whereby the Football Association (FA) adopted the North American franchise model. Gone are the days of promotion and relegation, welcome to a new era of footloose franchises and expansion drafts. Throughout the last week, Sam Matthews Boehmer, Oliver Barsby...
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As part of Boar Sport’s Premier League Expansion Draft series, I ventured into the depths of my imagination to picture what the world would be like if English football adopted the North American method of getting things done. Perhaps the Football Association would abolish promotion and relegation, legislate to force...
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With sport the world over on hold amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a crew of writers at Boar Sport HQ hitched a plan to re-write the history of the Premier League, perhaps the most reputable domestic sport competition on the planet. With their creative juices flowing, the Boar Sport team proposed...
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