Greg O'Keeffe

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Greg O'Keeffe

A footballer who admitted causing the death of a cyclist due to a "momentary lapse of concentration" while driving his seven-year-old daughter to a piano lesson has been jailed. Mansfield Town player Lucas Akins' Mercedes G-Wagon hit Adrian Daniel as the forward attempted to turn at what prosecutors called a "difficult" rural T-junction in March 2022. Daniel, a father of one who was riding home from work, suffered catastrophic head injuries and died in hospital 10 days later.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Greg O'Keeffe

Unai Emery looked up at the heavens, then closed his eyes in abject frustration. It was the type of gut-punch reaction a 94th-minute winning goal against your team conjures. Exasperation then, yes, but maybe not surprise. Because after all the highs of this compelling season for Aston Villa, there have been more than enough late stings to make the latest feel eerily familiar.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Greg O'Keeffe

Welcome to this week's Championship Special USMNT tracker, a look at English football's frenetic second tier and the Americans battling in it. Dubbed 'Europe's most exciting division', the Championship had been gloriously hard to say with any certainty who would be going up or down ahead of the Easter weekend. That picture is clearer now with two U.S.-owned clubs clinching promotion, although who will lift the trophy as champions is still very much up for grabs.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Greg O'Keeffe

Two former colleagues, coated to ward off the spring chill, share a cup of tea outside a coffee shop in a leafy north London suburb. It is hardly a clandestine meeting, but when the men are Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy and his former manager, Mauricio Pochettino, they are likely to attract attention, no matter how innocent the catch-up or low-key the setting. Inevitably a photograph snapped by a fan appears on social media, and just as quickly news stories appear with a familiar theme.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Greg O'Keeffe

It was another busy weekend for the United States' contingent of players across Europe's major leagues, as Cameron Carter-Vickers moved tantalisingly close to becoming the season's first American title winner, Christian Pulisic got back to business and Malik Tillman's comeback continued apace. Jump into this week's analysis of how the USMNT emigres are faring as we run the rule over their fortunes ahead of a key summer.