New US men’s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino said on Friday that his aim is nothing short of competing with – and beating – the best teams in the world. Arguably the highest-profile hire in the history of US soccer, the former Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Paris Saint-Germain manager Sport that he “can feel the potential of the team,” stating that the side “need to think big” to be capable of competing “with the best teams in the world and to have the possibility to win.” Off the back of the sacking of Gregg Berhalter, who failed to advance the USA out of the group stage of the Copa America tournament held on home soil in June and July,…
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Rob Howley has been appointed to Warren Gatland’s coaching staff for the Six Nations in his first involvement with Wales since being banned for breaching betting regulations. Howley served as Wales’ attack coach from 2008 to 2019 in a golden era for the national side that featured four Championship titles, three of them Grand Slams. The former Lions scrum-half was forced to step back from the game in the build up to the 2019 World Cup when his betting activity came to light, resulting in an 18-month ban from rugby, half of which was suspended. Now he has returned to the fold as a ‘technical’ coach in…
The Seattle Kraken hockey team has appointed a woman to be their newest assistant coach, making her the National Hockey League’s first-ever female full-time coach. Jessica Campbell, 32, was with the Coachella Valley Firebirds before working with the Seattle team. The Firebirds are the Kraken’s minor league team in the American Hockey League (AHL). Dan Bylsma, who also coached the team, was named the Kraken’s new head coach. “This is an important day for our organization,” Seattle Kraken General Manager Ron Francis said in a statement. “We’re bringing in valuable coaching experience to our staff and are confident that both Bob and Jessica will make an…
United States head coach Emma Hayes was named best women’s coach for 2024 at The Best FIFA Awards in Doha. The 48-year-old guided Chelsea to a fifth successive Women’s Super League title last season before leaving to take over the USA and leading them to Olympic gold in Paris. It is the second time Hayes has won the award after she took the prize in 2021. She reclaims the title from England boss Sarina Wiegman, who won it in 2022 and 2023. And it completes a year to remember for Hayes after she was also awarded the Ballon d’Or for women’s coach of the year in October.…
To shouts of “Coach” and “Let’s go Spartans,” Michael Vick was introduced Monday as Norfolk State’s football coach, a homecoming for the former NFL star and a splashy, attention-grabbing hire for a program that has struggled in recent years. Vick, who grew up about 30 minutes away in Newport News, donned a Norfolk State letterman’s jacket and cap in front of a crowd of supporters that included fellow Hampton Roads, Virginia, sports greats Allen Iverson and Bruce Smith. Vick’s introduction was the culmination of whirlwind courtship, the timing of which took even Vick by surprise. “I was talking to my high school coach a couple weeks…
Elon Musk says that his AI venture xAI has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In an X post Friday, Musk said the all-stock transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk wrote on X Friday. “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.” The move may be aimed at protecting investors, who helped him buy purchase X, from losing money. Both X and xAI are privately held and share some…
Everyone is feeling some degree of stress, right? It’s impossible to go through life without it. As with everything else in our life, technology has an answer for us. Pulsetto’s wearable technology stimulates your vagus nerve, allowing you to relax and unwind. Pulsetto has vagus nerve stimulation down to a science. You can lower stress, enhance your focus, have a brighter mood, get better sleep and lower your blood pressure all with one wearable device. The Pulsetto Spring Sale is running right now, offering their device for $200 off through the end of March, but you can get an additional $50 off when…
A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely available on smartphone app stores, to plan an attack on Iranian-backed militants in Yemen likely wouldn’t have been made public if a journalist wasn’t inadvertently added to the group chat. Ever since the revelation came to light, outcry has been growing among Democrats and intelligence experts, who worry that the case represents a serious mishandling of classified administration and could even violate the law. Signal, an encrypted messaging app, has become widely used in the…
LONDON (Reuters) – E-commerce platform TikTok Shop said it will launch to users in France, Germany, and Italy on Monday, expanding its reach further into Europe even as TikTok faces being shut down in the U.S. if Chinese owner ByteDance does not find an American buyer. The shopping arm of social media app TikTok has been available in the UK since 2021. It also launched in the U.S. in September 2023, and had strong sales over the holiday season last year. But TikTok’s future in the U.S. is uncertain unless Chinese owner ByteDance can find an American buyer. “In France,…
While gaming laptops used to be thought of as massive bricks that could never touch the power of desktops, the story is very different today. Modern gaming notebooks can typically achieve framerates close to their desktop counterparts, while also being relatively sleek and easy to use as general productivity machines. Connect them to a full-sized monitor or a TV, and it’s easy to forget you’re running a gaming rig that can easily fit in your backpack. One of the biggest advantages of a laptop is its flexibility. You don’t need to worry about bulky setups or being tethered to one…