Brighton have agreed a deal worth £10m to sign Sunderland winger Tom Watson this summer. The 18-year-old has scored two goals in 17 appearances for the Black Cats since making his senior debut in April 2023. Watson has agreed a four-year deal with the Premier League side, starting from when the summer transfer window opens...
Hull FC have signed Newcastle Knights half-back Will Pryce on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 22-year-old – the son of Leon Pryce, who was part of the Black and Whites team that won the first of two back-to-back Challenge Cups in 2016 – was allowed to leave by the National Rugby League side on compassionate grounds....
“The lads in the dressing room have been so welcoming to me this week and there’s a great atmosphere here,” Flintoff told the club website., external “I’m excited for what’s next for me and I know that Kent is the right place for me to make the step up to first-team cricket.” Kent’s director of...
Hampshire have drafted in New Zealander Brett Hampton for the first two months of the County Championship season after all-rounder Jack Edwards was ruled out through injury. Australian Edwards had been signed as one of the county’s overseas players, but sustained a knee injury playing for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield and faces...
Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt has revealed the club are trying to sign Scotland hooker Dylan Richardson. The 26-year-old, who has six caps, has spent his entire club career with Sharks in South Africa and can also play in the back row. After reports emerged earlier this week touting the possibility of a move, Everitt...
Hampshire have signed South African batter Dewald Brevis on a season-long deal. The 21-year-old has joined for the whole of the T20 Blast campaign and could also play in the County Championship. Brevis impressed in the 2022 Under-19 World Cup where he scored 506 runs with two centuries and three fifties in six innings. He...
Bristol prop Max Lahiff and back row Ben Grondona have signed new contract extensions to stay at the Premiership club. Lahiff has made 104 appearances for the club since joining in 2019 from West Country neighbours Bath. The 35-year-old, who can operate on both sides of the scrum, has scored two tries in 15 matches...
England hooker Lark Atkin-Davies and prop Hannah Botterman have both signed two-year extensions to stay with Premiership Women’s Rugby side Bristol Bears. The Red Roses duo are both included in John Mitchell’s squad for the current Women’s Six Nations tournament. Atkin-Davies has 62 caps for her country and has scored 12 tries in 14 games...
Northampton Saints have signed Amena Caqusau from Glasgow Warriors, with the wing to make the move south this summer ahead of next season. Caqusau played for Scotland in last year’s Under-20 Six Nations and is of Fijian ancestry, but is England qualified, having been born in Salisbury. “We first noticed Amena playing in the Under-20s...
There were 15 seconds left on the clock when a 19-year-old college basketball player launched a 16-foot winning shot that would change sports marketing forever. Watching that day was marketing executive and grassroots promoter Sonny Vaccaro. He was so impressed by what he saw that two years later he would bet his job at sports...
Kent have signed Pakistan Test bowler Kashif Ali and South African paceman Keith Dudgeon for the start of the 2025 season. But Australian fast bowler Wes Agar will not rejoin the club until the end of May as his workload is managed at the end of the Australian season. Ali and Dudgeon will be available...
Ospreys have signed Gloucester hooker George McGuigan on a short-term deal as cover after losing Lewis Lloyd to injury. McGuigan, 31, has a reputation as a strong ball carrier with more than 50 tries in top competitions. He joined Gloucester from Newcastle in 2022, but injuries have disrupted his progress in the last 12 months....
Castleford Tigers have signed Salford Red Devils prop Brad Singleton for an undisclosed fee on a deal until the end of next season. The 32-year-old previously played with Tigers head coach Danny McGuire when the pair were at Leeds Rhinos. Singleton is the latest player to leave the financially-troubled Red Devils, who are without a...
Australia all-rounder Grace Harris has signed for Surrey as this year’s overseas player. The 31-year-old, who plays for London Spirit in The Hundred, will be available from the fixture against Hampshire Hawks at the Kia Oval on 5 June – the county’s first home Vitality Blast fixture of the season. Harris has played 51 T20...
Forward Harry Thacker and scrum-half Kieron Marmion have both signed new contracts with Bristol Bears. The Premiership club have not confirmed the lengths of either contract. Thacker, 31, joined Bristol in 2018 and has scored 60 tries in 127 matches – more than any other forward for the club. Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam...