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CTV News
04-07-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Blue Jays get contributions across lineup in Yankees sweep, surge to top of AL East
Toronto Blue Jays' George Springer (right) is doused by teammates after defeating the New York Yankees, in Toronto on Thursday, July 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Thomas Skrlj
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
🎶 Pop predicts UEFA Women's EURO 2025: Al Greenwood 🔮
UEFA Women's EURO 2025 is here and to celebrate, we have enlisted the help of some football-loving pop stars to preview and predict the tournament. Click here to read all of the interviews! Today we've got Al Greenwood! Advertisement Al Greenwood is the drummer for London-based six-piece Sports Team. The Mercury Prize-nominated band released their highly anticipated third album 'Boys These Days' in May, with the record peaking at #11 in the UK Album Charts. 'Boys These Days' boasts some of Sports Team's most dynamic musical performances to date and is a witty and insightful examination of modern life. They will be performing a major headline tour of the UK and Europe this year. Follow Sports Team on Instagram here, and Al Greenwood here. Hi Al. Who will you be supporting at EURO 2025? Lionesses. It isn't an exaggeration to say that Euro 2022 changed my life. I'm trying to temper expectations but I will be cheering the Lionesses on all the way this summer. Advertisement If you had to choose one of your songs to inspire your team, which one would you pick? I'd inspire the Lionesses with 'Subaru' - the smooth sax soundtrack to their journey home as champions. Which player are you most looking forward to watching and why at EURO 2025? I'm really excited to see how some of England's younger talent perform out in Switzerland. We've seen in the past, the benefit of having this freedom to cook and the lack of expectation from other teams knowing how to set up against them. I can see super-subs in the form of Grace Clinton and Michelle Agyemang doing something very special. Advertisement Who is your favourite all-time women's player? My all-time favourite women's player is Safia Middleton-Patel - Manchester United player and Welsh squad's second keeper. The way Safia holds herself on and off the pitch as a spokesperson for autism, perfectly summarises why the women's game is so powerful. If you were a professional footballer, which position would you play and why? If I were a professional player I would pick up my old position as a very lazy number 10, hanging on the backline and sauntering in for a glory tap-in. The pace might not be up to much but the gaffer can't leave me out for that touch - a modern-day Dimitar Berbatov. Advertisement Can the Lionesses retain the trophy they won in 2022? The standard of the women's game has transformed even since 2022, and to get out of the groups would be an achievement in itself. It's going to be an incredibly tough tournament but then managing momentum, grinding out results and keeping the right mentality is Sarina's bread and butter. I think we can do it. Which nation could be the surprise package of the tournament? A team that have consistently bottled it on the international stage that I think are due a moment is France. They've lost two powerhouses in Wendie Reynard and Le Sommer but I just have a feeling this could be their year. Who will win EURO 2025? COME ON ENGLAND! Sports Team's new album 'Boys These Days' is out now.
CTV News
27-06-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
North Bay Battalion make second off-season signing
North Bay Battalion make second off-season signing North Bay Battalion sign Cam Warren of Vaughan to the team.
Evening Standard
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Evening Standard
The substance and silliness of Sports Team
The track was already written when Sports Team came face to face with the issue on tour in America at the tail end of last year. Setting off for their first show, they were robbed at gunpoint in the Bay area of California; soon, they found themselves embroiled in the middle of a political battleground. 'You had the Left-wing press coming at you with the anti-gun angle which obviously we did the press for, and then suddenly you get the Right coming at you,' explains Rice. 'We got asked if we wanted to do primetime Fox News the next day, so I was like, 'Yeah alright!' They were sending this Fox-mobile down 10 hours from LA, and then as soon as we shared some information about stopping gun violence in the US they just turned the car around and didn't want to come anymore.'
Leader Live
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
UK band robbed at gunpoint in US say it is still ‘greatest country in the world'
The van was broken into by masked thieves, who pulled out a gun, when they had stopped for coffee at a Starbucks in Vallejo, California, late last year, with the group's singer saying tracks they recorded for their latest album, which was released last week, predicted the robbery. Indie rockers Sports Team, who released their Boys These Days LP last week, had personal items stolen but they did not lose any equipment. Singer Alex Rice told PA: 'It was almost like a pretty wild coincidence. 'We had a track, the album was all written and recorded, submitted well before we did that tour, but we did have this track, Bang Bang Bang on it, which we ended up putting out fairly soon after, which I guess was about this weird juxtaposition you always find in the US. 'It's got lines in it like Mickey Mouse and AR 15 kind of thing, it's side by side, the kind of bars that we were drinking in the US, and people will show you where their friends were shot, the kind of gun holes on the walls. 'So I think we've always found that element of gun culture in the US kind of a slightly odd element, like, I understand it, and when we go there I think America is the greatest country in the world still, but I think it just seems such a blind spot. 'And I think some of the politicisation around it just doesn't do anyone any favours.' The band initially tried to stop the burglars, after a Starbucks worker had noticed their van being broken into, in December 2024, before the gun was pointed at them. Rice said the robbery quickly became 'politicised'. He added: 'The interview requests come in, and we did a nice one with ABC, where it's like you talk about gun crime being awful, and you talk about charities involved and stuff. 'And then immediately you get a request from Fox News as well, who kind of want to politicise it, make it about (California governor) Gavin Newsom defunding the police kind of thing. 'It's how quickly kind of an event can be spun, (which) was quite interesting to us. 'So we were going to do the Fox interview and they were going to send the Fox mobile to this town we were staying in at the time, and they cancelled it as soon as we posted about an anti-gun charity.' Rice said he and the band have yet to hear back from the police, having been asked to fill out an online form when they called 911. He said: 'We haven't heard anything back since at all, I think there was probably a bit of scrutiny on the police department in Vallejo, which I know is a kind of particularly embattled police force. 'I'm sure these aren't people who are not wanting to solve gun crimes, but I think it probably speaks to problems with funding, and the kind of pressures the police force are in, in that part of the world. 'I mean, what would they deal with if they won't deal with an armed robbery, you know?' The band, made up of Rice, Rob Knaggs, Henry Young, Oli Dewdney, Al Greenwood, and Ben Mack, released their debut album, Deep Down Happy, in 2020, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize and went to number two in the UK charts. Their 2022 follow-up, Gulp!, was also well received and rose to number three in the charts. The group, who performed at Glastonbury in 2022, released their third album, Boys These Days, on May 23.
