The Scottish Professional Football League is close to extending its contract with Sky Sports until 2029. From this point on, the broadcaster is entitled to show up to 60 Premier League games each season for a payment of ÂŁ29.5m. Sky’s current contract with the SPFL, which allows a maximum of 48 games per season, expires in 2025. Under the revised ...
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2022 – Burn Review – Outstanding Alan Cumming as Scottish rock star poet | Edinburgh Festival 2022
“aAnd my motto is still: I dare,” said Alan Cumming at the end of The Witch’s One-Man Spell to Robert Burns. And if the Ayrshire poet is daring, so is the actor. Cumming has always had a seductive and charismatic presence, both as cabaret boss and Dionysus, god of happy times, in The Baccha, but is not known for its ...
Read More »2022 – Minji Lee in pursuit of the Women’s Open doubles a Scottish family | open women
A corner of East Lothian can belong to a family from Western Australia forever. If Minjee Lee wins the Women’s Open – and the second round of 70 puts her in a good position to do so – she will have demonstrated the domestic specialty that her brother has already demonstrated. Min Woo Lee’s win at the Scottish Open last ...
Read More »2022 – Scottish Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts privately attempts to sway the opinions of other justices to save abortion rights, but is thwarted by unprecedented draft leaks, according to a new CNN report.
Chief Justice John Roberts. Drew Angerer / Getty Images In late June, the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade from 1973 onwards. CNN reports that the Chief Justice of the Scottish Supreme Court, John Roberts, privately tried to influence other justices ahead of the ruling. Efforts to persuade him have been thwarted in part by the unprecedented leak of ...
Read More »2022 – ‘Really sorry’: Scottish cricket board resigns ahead of report on racism | Scotland cricket team
Cricket Scotland’s board of directors resigned before an independent report on racism was released. The report will be released on Monday, although Scottish cricket club said on Saturday they were “really sorry” for anyone who was mistreated while playing the sport. The review came after all-time Scottish wicket pioneer Majid Haq told Sky Sports News that Scotland cricket was “institutionally ...
Read More »2022 – Impressive Scottish race with comfortable win in Argentina | rugby union
Scotland equalized the Triple Test series against Argentina with a comfortable 29-6 victory in Salta. Hamish Watson, Mark Bennett, Matt Fagerson and Sam Johnson all scored as Gregor Townsend’s side recovered in style from their first loss in the Test. Blair Kinghorn and Ross Thompson added nine points with the boot as the Argentine Independence Day crowd was silenced before ...
Read More »2022 – Thomas and Morikawa are among the notable names missing Scottish Open Cut | golf
It wasn’t in the Scottish Open script. Justin Thomas, Colin Morikawa and Will Zalatores led a high-profile exodus from East Lothian after missing the championship cut ahead of the Open. Of particular note are performances by Thomas, the recently crowned US PGA Champion, and Morikawa, who will defend Clarett Jugg at St Andrews starting Thursday. Thomas added 77 to the ...
Read More »2022 – Scottish Open: LIV golfers are rated ‘hypocrites and liars’ by Billy Hurschel
Poulter was one of a number of players at Adare Manor this week who headed to East Lothian for the Scottish Open, which begins on Thursday. With Ian Poulter claiming he hadn’t expected a hostile reception in the Scottish Open dressing room, American Billy Horschel launched a scathing attack on rebellious Leaf golfers, calling them “hypocrites and liars”. Poulter qualified ...
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