The Sheffield United manager, Paul Heckingbottom, praised his substitutes Rhian Brewster and Reda Khadra after their late impact produced a 1-0 victory at Swansea. Brewster and Khadra combined in the fourth minute of stoppage time to extend the Blades’ lead at the top of the Championship to four points.

The former Swansea loanee Brewster set up Khadra and the on-loan German kept his composure to score his first Sheffield United goal. “You’ve got to make the most of them when you win a game like that, we’re going to enjoy it,” said Heckingbottom.

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Manchester United will push back against new proposals that would change the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), creating the possibility of more discord within the competition.

The club is understood to be strongly opposed to the introduction of “anchoring” for the top flight, a system whereby the biggest spenders in the league would be tethered to the income of the last-placed club.

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The idea behind anchoring is to limit the gap in spending between richer and poorer clubs, with the aim of creating a more competitive division. The policy has been mooted within the Premier League for some time, with …

We made it. We. Finally. Made it. The start of the college football season ushers in a full slate of games on tap for Saturday, and plenty of opportunities to find some value to kickstart your extended weekend.An opening-week tip: It’s a good idea to go into who needs the result, and more importantly, what kind of result they need. A team that needs to build momentum? They are trying to put up a big number in the first week. A team with a tough draw next week might look to ease off in Week 1, focusing on being healthy for the meaningful matchups.With this in mind, here’s a look at some of our best bets for Week 1.Bucknell vs. NavyOn the basketball court, Navy and Bucknell are considered equals. On the football field, that is definitely not the case. The Midshipmen are head and shou…

The NBA announced Saturday the finalists for the 2018 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class, and it’s a pretty sweet group: the 13 finalists include Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Grant Hill, Ray Allen, and Chris Webber, among others: The complete list of nine finalists from the North American Screening Committee includes: players Ray Allen, Maurice Cheeks, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash and Chris Webber; coaches Charles “Lefty” Driesell and Rudy Tomjanovich; and referee Hugh Evans. The four finalists from the Women’s Screening Committee includes: players Katie Smith and Tina Thompson, coach Kim Mulkey, and Wayland Baptist University as a team. I tend to take a more expansive view of sports halls of fame, and so it certainly looks to me like all 13 finalists should go i…

Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Your team: Jacksonville Jaguars Your 2014 record: 3-13. Good enough for third place! You’re moving up in the world, Duval. Combined record over the past four years: 14-50. Your coach: Gus Bradley. As I’ve said before, you’re not getting anywhere with a dude named Gus. How many presidents have been named Gus? I rest my case. Gus is your bookie. You don’t let him run a professional sports team. When will this organization finally embrace destiny and hire the goddamn Wolfman? This man belongs in charge of every North Florida business concern. Your quarterback: Blake Bortles, who is clearly N…

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogs to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. * I know how this ticket stub looks, but honestly, punching a Nationals fan in the back of the head is actually a public service. Sore, disoriented and forgetful is the only way to enjoy baseball in Washington. [Wonkette] * BYU's women's rugby team—not an official NCAA sport— forfeited their national quarterfinal game on Sunday, because USA Rugby refused to reschedule it and Mormons don't roll on the Sabbath. Even after they spent $10,000 of their own money to travel to the Sweet 16 game to prove their point. Nobody fucks with the Jesus (Chr…

March Madness is not stationary. Every year, a new city gets to host an influx of college kids, gamblers, partiers, or all of the above. The Final Four is usually held in indoor football stadiums to accommodate for the masses, but not always. With that in mind, do you know which city has hosted the most Men’s Final Fours? I can tell you now it’s not the one you think. You guessed Indianapolis anyway, didn’t you. I see your logic. After all, the NCAA headquarters are in downtown Indy and the city will host their eighth final four this year in the “bubble.” But you’re wrong. But another city has hosted ten championship games. That’s right, ten! Think of a midwestern town smack dab in the center of America. It’s been a minute, but it’s Kansas City, silly! KC hosted the na…

data-mm-id=”_pwzvln0l8″>For a former Super Bowl winning coach, Mike Tomlin came into the 2019 NFL season with plenty to prove. Well, he's done just that, authoring his finest coaching performance for the Steelers, which is saying something because, again, he's won one Super Bowl and appeared in another. Remarkably, after starting the year 0-3, after losing their starting quarterback in Week 2 and having two unproven quarterbacks rotate in and out since, after losing their Pro Bowl running back James Conner for most of the season because of the injury, the Steelers are now 7-5 and in position to make the playoffs. Even more remarkably, they've done it by completely changing their identity, something Tomlin has to get full credit for. Previous to this year, they were a pas…

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data-mm-id=”_gqkqgr38t”>Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin appeared on First Take this morning to once again defend quarterback Mason Rudolph and take issue with an Outside The Lines report ESPN aired over the weekend. The segment in question featured an interview with Myles Garrett, who doubled down on his claims Rudolph had directed a racial slur at him before the helmet-swinging incident last fall. Tomlin, speaking to Stephen A. Smith, said it was important to properly support Rudolph."It was a thorough investigation done by us and the National Football League, I don't think that that was represented during that piece," he said. "Nobody on that field as a member of the Cleveland Browns or the Pittsburgh Steelers corroborated what was said by Myles Garrett. Tha…