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'Counting On' stars Jedidiah and Katey Duggar welcome their second child together, fans say 'her name is perfect'
'Counting On' stars Jedidiah and Katey Duggar welcome their second child together, fans say 'her name is perfect'
Jedidiah and Katey Duggar welcomed baby No. 2, Nora Kate Duggar, one year after the birth of son Truett Duggar
2023-06-03 10:17
Honda shelves plan to co-develop smaller EVs with GM - Bloomberg News
Honda shelves plan to co-develop smaller EVs with GM - Bloomberg News
Honda Motor is shelving plans to jointly develop affordable electric vehicles (EVs) with General Motors due to a
2023-10-25 17:06
Olivia Dunne's eagle-eyed fans spot BF Paul Skenes in background as she flaunts 'new love' in TikTok video
Olivia Dunne's eagle-eyed fans spot BF Paul Skenes in background as she flaunts 'new love' in TikTok video
Olivia Dunne garnered significant interest from her followers in her latest TikTok post when she shared her newfound obsession
2023-10-20 15:39
Ha-Seong Kim's grand slam leads Padres over Marlins 6-2
Ha-Seong Kim's grand slam leads Padres over Marlins 6-2
Ha-Seong Kim hit a grand slam and a double, stole third and scored twice to lead the struggling Padres to a critical 6-2 win against the Miami Marlins in a battle between two NL wild card hopefuls
2023-08-22 12:34
Morgan Stanley CEO Gorman to Step Down Within 12 Months
Morgan Stanley CEO Gorman to Step Down Within 12 Months
Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman plans to step down as chief executive officer in the next 12 months and
2023-05-19 21:02
Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann call off divorce 2 months after filing
Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann call off divorce 2 months after filing
Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann call off divorce 2 months after filing
2023-07-12 03:29
Everton stare into the relegation abyss – a mess of their own making
Everton stare into the relegation abyss – a mess of their own making
If the first 11 have presented a problem, the greater warning came on page 11. Page 11, that is, of Everton’s annual financial report. “Conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt about the group’s ability to continue as a going concern,” it read. Those conditions, in the curious way Everton phrased it, were “if the assumptions in the relegation scenario were not achieved”. Their assumptions were that a storied club, founder members of the Football League and the club who have played more top-division games than any other in England, would stay up. With one game to go, they are one place above the relegation zone, their fate in their hands but dicing with disaster. A win against Bournemouth will keep Everton up. Anything else would doom them if Leicester win; lose and Leeds would leapfrog Everton with a victory of their own. Clubs in such positions are often imperilled; but not with an existential threat. As it is, Everton’s majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, has provided assurances of his intention to fund the club if they go down. But, as was noted in the annual report, they are not legally binding. There is a separate question of whether Moshiri could afford to: certainly both his and Everton’s finances appear slighter since his long-time business partner Alisher Usmanov was sanctioned by the British government amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Uzbek-Russian billionaire’s company, USM, had sponsored Everton’s Finch Farm training ground; he had paid for the first option to the naming rights of their new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. And Everton have needed money: even with Premier League revenues, they lost £44m in the last financial year; although that was dramatically better than losing £371m in the previous three years, albeit partly due to Covid. They face a Premier League investigation into alleged Financial Fair Play breaches, though they are adamant all recent deals have been run past the league to ensure they are compliant. But Everton may be staring into the abyss. Manager Sean Dyche said recently that livelihoods were on the line. So is much more. Everton have enjoyed 120 years of top-flight football, the last 69 of them unbroken. But Goodison Park, where Pele and Eusebio scored in the 1966 World Cup, could host its last Premier League game against Bournemouth on Sunday. Everton are due to move to Bramley-Moore Dock in 2024; finishing that requires money and they are in an exclusivity period for negotiations with the American firm MSP Sports Capital to invest in the club. An announcement could be forthcoming in the next weeks if Everton stay up; go down, however, and the context changes dramatically. Such funding, or indeed such a reliance on last-day results, may not be required had Everton not spent so much so badly in the Moshiri years. Their outlay on signings has topped £600m and yet the team was in such a state of disrepair that, for much of last week’s match against Wolves, their team, with the exception of Jordan Pickford, consisted solely of centre-backs, central midfielders and wingers. It was not an innovative tactical ploy. They did not have a fit full-back or, after Dominic Calvert-Lewin went off with his latest injury, a striker trusted to take the field. Which highlights one of the fundamental flaws in Everton’s thinking. Last season, Calvert-Lewin scored the goal that kept them up, but only after Richarlison had struck five others in the run-in. Richarlison had to be sold to bring in £60m before 30 June, the end of the Premier League’s financial year. Since then, Everton have banked on the fitness of an unfit player, who may now miss what could be billed as one of the biggest games in their long history. Meanwhile, Neal Maupay, the summer striking signing, is on a run of 27 games without a goal; he may count as former manager Frank Lampard’s greatest error, although that is a competitive list. Yet Everton have been prisoners of their past. Their summer deals tended to be for players with low up-front fees, signing those who they could get rather than, in some cases, who they ideally wanted. It means they still owe much of the cost of Dwight McNeil and Amadou Onana, who should at least command sizeable fees if they have to be sold, and Maupay, who may join the list of Everton buys who are unsellable. If other clubs can at least compensate for relegation by selling Premier League performers, Everton have fewer who would bring in large amounts – Calvert-Lewin could be a £50m forward if fit, but not otherwise, so that may only leave Pickford, McNeil and Onana – and still owe plenty. Relegation could be attributed to their past financial mismanagement. They were unable to buy in January until Anthony Gordon was sold, seeing targets such as Danny Ings go elsewhere (somewhat farcically, Arnaut Danjuma, who could have been a high-class loanee, got off a train at Crewe when he learned of Tottenham’s interest, switched platforms and hopped on one back down to London). They botched the end of the window and, if they were keen not to repeat past mistakes by overpaying for undistinguished players, the eventual verdict may be that the lack of another forward cost them their Premier League status; they enter the last game of the campaign with a mere four goals from specialist strikers all season. They face Bournemouth, who beat them twice in a week before the World Cup, scoring seven goals. Hindsight suggests Lampard perhaps should have been dismissed then, but he engineered a memorable escape from relegation last season. Perhaps, though, he just delayed it by a year. And if so, Moshiri’s seven years of clueless transfer-market excess might render it the most expensive relegation of all. And, considering the potential consequences to the club, among the most damaging. Read More ‘It is theatre’: Inside the emotional chaos of a final-day Premier League relegation battle Premier League relegation: What do Leeds, Everton and Leicester need to survive?
2023-05-26 14:47
'Isn’t Caroline Manzo doing this already?': Teresa Giudice trolled for launching YouTube cooking channel
'Isn’t Caroline Manzo doing this already?': Teresa Giudice trolled for launching YouTube cooking channel
Posting a heart emoji, Teresa Giudice wrote, 'It’s FINALLY live my first recipe is up on my new YouTube channel NOW!'
2023-05-25 09:24
West Ham news LIVE: Reaction after Fiorentina final as fans clash with riot police
West Ham news LIVE: Reaction after Fiorentina final as fans clash with riot police
West Ham United players and staff will be recovering from the joy of winning their first major trophy for 43 years after beating Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final in what proved to be a dramatic night on and off the pitch in Prague. Jarrod Bowen’s 89th-minute goal gave the Hammers the most memorable of 2-1 wins, with celebrity supporters such as James Corden and Danny Dyer – whose daughter Dani is Bowen’s partner – celebrating the triumph. However, the match had earlier been marred when West Ham fans pelted Fiorentina captain Cristiano Biraghi with objects as he went to take a corner in the first half and left him bleeding from a gash in the back of his head. Hammers supporters then later clashed with riot police in Prague after setting off flares in celebration of victory, as a scuffle broke out after police officers tried to confiscate a lit flare in the Old Town area of the city. Riot police stormed a group after they lit a second flare, with fans responding by pelting the officers with bottles and missiles. Earlier in the day, Czech police said they had detained at least 16 Fiorentina fans after they attacked West Ham supporters outside a bar, with videos shared on social media showing chairs and fireworks being thrown. Follow all the latest news and reaction from West Ham’s European adventure below: Read More West Ham fans fight riot police in Prague after Europa Conference League win West Ham end trophy drought in most dramatic style as Jarrod Bowen plays the hero West Ham fans leave Fiorentina player bleeding after being hit by objects thrown from crowd
2023-06-08 17:14
Europe's economic outlook falls as high prices plague consumer spending
Europe's economic outlook falls as high prices plague consumer spending
Europe's economic outlook just took a turn for the worse
2023-09-11 17:06
An 87-year-old woman fought off an intruder, then fed him after he told her he was 'awfully hungry'
An 87-year-old woman fought off an intruder, then fed him after he told her he was 'awfully hungry'
An 87-year-old Maine woman ably fought off a teenage attacker before feeding him because he said he was “awfully hungry.”
2023-08-03 23:30
Triple Crown hopeful Mage heads to the Preakness with hundreds of owners cheering him on
Triple Crown hopeful Mage heads to the Preakness with hundreds of owners cheering him on
Preakness Stakes favorite Mage is the first Kentucky Derby champion with Venezuelan ties since Canonero II in 1971
2023-05-19 03:29