🎶🏈🏀🥊 Celebrating 50 years of hip hop!
To mark the anniversary, I look at how hip hop and sport have become intertwined - from Mike Tyson ring walks, to NWA and the Raiders, to Allen Iverson's pioneering influence in the NBA.
Read here ➡️
Non-LFC fans insinuating Mo Salah has no time for supporters. The same Mo Salah that visited a local chippy, went out to sign autographs after his address was leaked, spent a good 30 mins meeting fans after the Napoli game and has donated thousands to great causes. List goes on.
Genuinely gutted to see Coutinho go. One of Liverpool's best signings in the last decade and a joy to watch on his day. No anger towards him pursuing what is a dream move for most footballers on the planet, just wish we could have held onto him until the summer.
#LFC
Who said Mondays were bad?
Mohamed Salah signs a new five-year deal, whilst Naby Keita and Fabinho arrive at Melwood for their first day of training...
🚨🏈 Sky Sports has secured rights to show College Football through until the end of the 2024/25 season!
- Three live games per week
- All Bowl games to be shown
- College GameDay Live every weekend
“We love Wink, we trust in him, he trusts us”
Asked Xavier McKinney post-game about playing under Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale, who is enjoying a great start to the season in New York.
🏈 Really happy to announce I’ve been made the new Lead NFL Journalist
@skysports
ahead of the 2023 season. Exciting step and challenge for my career after years of learning from some of the best people at Sky.
“I’m taking every game as a learning experience”
Caught up with rookie Giants right tackle Evan Neal post-game to talk about his development early in his NFL career.
“He’s one of the hardest workers I’ve come across”
Giants running back Gary Brightwell smiles when I ask him about Daniel Jones, says he ‘loves’ his quarterback.
🗣 “My words won't even begin to describe it.”
Thanks to
#Packers
running back AJ Dillon for taking the time to chat with me.
Discussed “different breed” Aaron Rodgers, his breakout game and competing with Aaron Jones and Jamaal Williams.
Read here ➡️
With all 32 teams officially at training camp today, here's a reminder of
@bkeisel99
arriving to Steelers camp in a dump truck.
Best camp entrance ever?
Andy Reid and Eric Bieniemy may have only scratched the surface of
@MecoleHardman4
's potential in their Chiefs offense.
✍️ Feature on the electric wide receiver, who looks ready to take on an expanded role in year three.
➡️
@SkySports
#ChiefsKingdom
My first season as Sky Sports NFL editor officially begins tonight.
I hope you all enjoy the season as much as I know I'm going to. Excited to see where the next few months take us, and on a personal note can't wait for the challenge.
Have a day, all!🏈
Career-threatening injury well behind him, a year of NFL experience under his belt, an undisrupted offseason and some new weapons.
✍️ Feature on Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, and why he is primed to silence the critics in 2021.
➡️
@SkySports
Really grateful to have received this through the post from Austin Ekeler yesterday. Such a lovely touch and a welcome pick-me-up.
Another example of what a fantastic person he is away from the field.
✍️I was on Joe Gomez watch as
#LFC
’s all-action defender continued his comeback in Friday’s 4-1 win over Norwich.
🔴My analysis of Gomez’s performance and the latest reminder of his importance to Jurgen Klopp’s plans, for
@thisisanfield
.⬇️
🗣 “He’s an important leader for us, people look to him and feed off him”
Here’s what Daniel Jones had to say when I asked him about the influence of Sterling Shepard earlier this season.
Had the enormous privilege of interviewing Giants head coach Brian Daboll, and asked him about the impact he and Josh Allen have had on one another.
Hear more on his 25-year road to an NFL head coaching job in the programme for Sunday's Packers game at Tottenham.📖🏈
#NYGvsGB
Offensive lineman Andrew Rupcich is a great story at the NFL Combine.
NAIA All-American out of Culver-Stockton College (
@CSCwildcatsFB
).
Today he competes with some of the best players in the nation.
@SkySportsNFL
🆕🇬🇧🏈: The NFL’s first full-time British coach is making noise as far more than a flag-bearing pioneer.
Aden Durde has earned his way to plain old coaching notoriety amid an outstanding season with the Cowboys.
📝 Latest for
@SkySports
.
➡️
🚨 BREAKING!
#mufc
's 11am flight to Newcastle has been cancelled due to the weather and technical difficulties. The squad will now take a three-hour coach journey ahead of kick-off at 8pm. [MEN]
The painful irony being that so many influencers neglect to study/learn/actually know the area of sport they are supposedly ‘influencing’.
Stop rewarding people for being loud and ego-driven at the expense of the well-informed who have worked for years to learn their craft.
New: Mirror and Express publisher Reach will start hiring social media influencers in a bid to reach young audiences on TikTok
It comes as the publisher announced another 450 job cuts, 300 of which will come from editorial
🚨🇩🇪🏈 BREAKING: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces Munich and Frankfurt will host two regular season games each over the next four years, starting with Munich in 2022.
@SkySportsNFL
After facing heavy doses of ridicule and doubt, Tua Tagovailoa is stringing together an elite season as pilot to a slick Miami Dolphins offense.
✍️🏈 Latest article for
@SkySportsNFL
.
Read here ➡️
Exclusive: Dublin's Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland tells me the city is open to hosting future NFL games.
Adds that Ireland was not subject to team bids during IHMA process, & that stakeholders want
@cfbireland
series to extend behind 2026.
@SkySportsNFL
🏀 ✍️ My interview with one of British basketball's rising stars
@camhil06
.
His route to the BBL, dealing with the hype, GB ambitions and moving Stateside with Wake Forest in the ACC.
Read here ➡️
(Pictures: Rob Sambles)
Third NFL season with
@SkySports
in the books. 💪
Thanks to all that have been kind enough to check out our content or interact. Covered some incredible games, interviewed some great names and hopefully moved a step closer to where I want to be.
Now for a break in NYC. 🗽
✍️ Some stories just deserve to be shared - Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman's (
@ocmaudib
) is one of those.
I spoke to Northwestern's dancing barber about trimming, dancing, cooking & catching his way to the
#NFLDraft
.
He's a coach's dream.
➡️
@SkySports
A year to the day since I started at
@SkySports
. Still have to pinch myself sometimes. I work with the best people and have managed to do some cool things in tough circumstances, but would like to think I’ve only scratched the surface of what I’ll achieve here. Feeling grateful.
🗣️ "The first time I saw a playbook I nearly fainted."
@jordan_mailata
is far from home, but looking very much at home in the
#NFL
.
✍️ Piece on the incredible rise of the Eagles left tackle, including the thoughts of
@BaldyNFL
.
Read here ➡️
@SkySports
🏈🗺 Tomorrow will see the NFL reveal which teams will compete in the 2022 International Series games across the UK, Germany and Mexico.
❓ Who do you want to see in London?
@SkySportsNFL
📺🏈 Happy to remind everyone that there’s actual NFL football on this week.
You can watch the Jaguars and Raiders in the 2022 Hall of Fame Game live on Sky Sports Main Event and Action from 1am Friday.
@SkySportsNFL
Nobody is saying you have to like it, or watch it. But there’s something wrong if you’re letting the Taylor Swift storyline annoy you. Think about how many more football conversations this might have started. Fathers & daughters, colleagues, siblings. That’s kinda cool to me.
🚨🏈 Very honoured and excited to say my work will be featured in
@neilreynoldsnfl
's gameday programmes for both NFL London matchups this month.
Unfortunately, that now means my friends and family have no choice but to buy one.
Extremely grateful for the opportunity.
Tyler Badie is a special human. An elegant thinker & unwavering optimist who will light up an NFL locker room.
Interview with the
#NFLDraft
running back on his love of Looney Tunes & losing his home to Hurricane Katrina.
📝 For
@SkySports
➡️
@Only1Badie
🗣 “One day the Commissioner will get up on that stage and call a name that will be from the NFL Academy.”
Really enjoyable day behind-the-scenes with the
@NFLAcademy
, which continues to go from strength to strength.
✍️ My takeaways for
@SkySports
➡️
🚨🌍🏈: The
#NFL
has announced that 18 teams have been granted access to 26 International Home Marketing Areas.
🇬🇧 UK teams: Bears, Jaguars, Dolphins, Vikings, Jets, 49ers
🇩🇪 Germany: Panthers, Chiefs, Patriots, Bucs
Easy to overlook it amid the celebrations, but Virgil van Dijk was unbelievable again last night on the biggest stage of all. Didn’t give a world class striker in Harry Kane a sniff.
#LFC
NFL UK General Manager
@nflukhank
tells me the league has made efforts to address the ticketing process ahead of the London games later this year.
Adds that the NFL is aware and understanding of fan frustration over some of the difficulties faced in the past.
🇩🇪🏈 The Munich city council has today given its backing to a bid to host NFL games at the home of Bayern Munich, per AP.
A reminder that the three finalist cities are Munich, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf.
📺 🚨 Hard Knocks will be shown on Sky Sports at 9pm every Thursday starting this week as the unfiltered spotlight turns to the Dallas Cowboys.
🏈 My preview features Bob Wylie, Devon Cajuste and smashing watermelons.
So yeah, check it out. ⤵️
✍️Little bit of personal news...
After a lot of nervous waiting, I'm delighted I can finally announce I’ll be joining Sky Sports as a Multi-Sports Journalist in November. Still hasn’t quite sunk in and don’t think it will for some time but can honestly say I'm over the moon.
Lou Anarumo has become the talk of the town. A town with Joe Burrow in it.
To solve a problem like Patrick Mahomes is to do things the Lou Anarumo way - can he do it again Sunday?
✍️ Wrote about his Bengals defense for
@SkySportsNFL
.
Read here ➡️
Good people deserve good things, and
@desmondridder
is a good person.
Interview with the
#NFLDraft
quarterback, who grew up wanting to “hit like Ray Lewis, throw like Peyton Manning”.
From breaking grandma’s windows to why he’s QB1.
📝For
@SkySports
➡️
🇬🇧🇩🇪🏈 BREAKING: The Bills and Titans to play games at Tottenham this year, with the Jags back at Wembley for their 10th UK game.
PLUS... not one, but TWO Germany games in 2023 - with the Chiefs and Patriots heading over to mainland Europe.
Who's there?!
🏈🇬🇧 As Sunday approaches I'm pleased to say I'll be featured in this year's NFL London gameday programmes again as support act to
@neilreynoldsnfl
.
Starting with the Saints & Vikings game, which includes interviews with Chris Olave, Demario Davis & Harrison Smith.
@gmfb
@RyanDLeaf
Always full of admiration for Ryan that he is able to speak so openly and at peace about his story. Also think it's testament to the
@gmfb
team that a guest/friend of the show feels comfortable enough to speak in such a way.
BREAKING: Tottenham Hotspur and the NFL have announced the expansion of their partnership through the 2029-30 season.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be given official status as the Home of the NFL in the UK.
🗣 “I didn’t know it existed”
🇮🇹🏈 Giants UDFA signing Habakkuk Baldonado (
@abba1999
) tells me how he discovered football growing up in Rome, Italy.
@SkySportsNFL
Great fun chatting to
@London_Lions
guard Kennedy Leonard (
@ken_leonard_14
) amid her outstanding debut season in the WBBL.
▪️ Embracing her British roots
▪️ Her family's battle for Colorado
▪️ Life beyond the WNBA
▪️ Missing Chick-fil-A & her dogs
➡️
A privilege covering my 2nd season with
@SkySportsNFL
. Editorially, we’ve been blessed with storylines. And given the times, those late Sunday nights & the mid-week prep rarely felt like work but instead some welcome escapism. All while working with an incredible team at Sky.
Ryan Kent and Ovie Ejaria both in the starting lineup for Rangers tonight. Also great to see former Red Jordan Rossiter on the bench. Hard to believe he’s only managed 11 appearances since signing for the club in 2016.
"Hai voluto la bicicletta, ora pedala!"
🇮🇹 Francesco Totti, Rome & pineapple on pizza - I caught up with Habakkuk Baldonado to discuss his journey from Italy to the NFL Draft.
Read our interview here
@SkySports
➡️
The Dolphins have a new spy in town, and his name is Channing Tindall.
Piece on Miami's newest source of espionage, why he looks a perfect fit for Josh Boyer's full-throttle defense, and why I can't wait to see him in action.
Read here
@SkySports
➡️
How does the NFL continue to build on its UK success? It feels like the answer is ever-evolving.
NFL UK General Manager
@nflukhank
tells me it’s all about the fans.
@SkySportsNFL