#rough diamond

After a winning return to league action on Boxing Day, Liverpool will now have their sights set on a top-four finish as they look to end 2022 on a high. Leicester, meanwhile, find themselves just four points above the bottom three after their 0-3 defeat at home to Newcastle United the same day. The Foxes have failed to win at Anfield in their past…

A few months after Michael Cheika took the Waratahs to the 2014 Super Rugby title, he shook hands with Gus Pichot in Buenos Aires and agreed to coach Argentina. The deal with Argentina's then-supremo Pichot, which Cheika has never previously confirmed, would have seen him join the Pumas camp at the 2015 Rugby World Cup and then take over as head…

Now that the dust has settled, following Serena Williams' dramatic exit at the US Open, it is an apt time to look past the trophies and accolades that have come to define her legacy. Her retirement has robbed us of one of the all-time greats whose back story is the stuff of legend. We will examine how this rough diamond was molded into a…