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May AFL tiers: Every team rated and ranked after two months of the 2025 season

1 week ago | espn.com.au | Jake Michaels

Who are the favourites for the 2025 AFL premiership? Who are the legitimate contenders? And who should already be booking September holidays? Jake Michaels has ranked every club two months into the season. Note: ESPN's AFL tiers will be a monthly column throughout the 2025 season. Proof of concept1. BRISBANE2. COLLINGWOODIs the 2025 premiership a race in two? No. But is there a pair of teams head and shoulders above the competition right now? It feels a bit like that, yeah.
AFL Six Points: The AFL's biggest frauds, plus Geelong taking the mickey

1 week ago | espn.com.au | Jake Michaels

Each week of the 2025 AFL season, ESPN.com.au's Jake Michaels looks at six talking points. This week's Six Points feature the dismal, disappointing Dockers, the title I'm ready to give Zach Merrett, one of my many Geelong frustrations, and Max Gawn's unprecedented run of form. 1. Dreadful Dockers are the AFL's biggest fraudsFremantle wasn't just my pre-season pick for biggest riser in 2025, they seemed to be a unanimous choice for that unofficial gong by many in football circles.
Where Would Hollywood Find Its Guillotines or Pay Phones Without Them?

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Matt Stevens |Jake Michaels

Share When the Netflix series “Wednesday” needed a guillotine recently, it did not have to venture far. A North Hollywood prop house called History for Hire had one available, standing more than eight feet high with a suitably menacing blade.
Where Would Hollywood Find Its Guillotines or Pay Phones Without Them?

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jake Michaels |Matt Stevens

For nearly four decades the prop house History for Hire has helped filmmakers recreate the past. But with fewer films shot in Los Angeles, they are not sure how much longer they can hang on. Credit... When the Netflix series "Wednesday" needed a guillotine recently, it did not have to venture far. A North Hollywood prop house called History for Hire had one available, standing more than eight feet high with a suitably menacing blade.
AFL Six Points: Father Time still can't catch these Pies

2 weeks ago | espn.com.au | Jake Michaels

Each week of the 2025 AFL season, ESPN.com.au's Jake Michaels looks at six talking points. This week's Six Points features the age-defying Magpies, Carlton's revival of sorts, why the Suns are out of excuses, and the difficulty of being a defender. 1. What Collingwood's doing is unprecedented ... in the best way possibleThere was a feeling shared by many in football circles at the beginning of the year that the Magpies could go one of two ways in 2025.
Don't be fooled: the Blues won't turn it around

1 month ago | espn.com.au | Jake Michaels

Each week of the 2025 AFL season, ESPN.com.au's Jake Michaels looks at six talking points. This week's Six Points features the broken Blues, the rebirth of Patrick Dangerfield, the loss the Hawks needed, and the value of the contested mark. 1. Carlton is broken and not good enough to turn things aroundThere's a pulse! At least that's what Blues fans will now tell you. That's right, after losing 13 of its past 15 games, Carlton overcame the winless Eagles on a neutral field ... big deal.
Darcy or Daicos for a decade? The answer is obvious

1 month ago | espn.com.au | Jake Michaels

Each week of the 2025 AFL season, ESPN.com.au's Jake Michaels looks at six talking points. This week's Six Points features the Nick Daicos-Sam Darcy debate, whether Connor Rozee should continue to captain the Power, the shrewd recruitment of Jack Macrae, and a ridiculous Jesse Hogan stat. 1. I'm building around Nick Daicos long before Sam DarcyI wouldn't be surprised if Sam Darcy is widely viewed as the best forward in the competition by the end of next season.
Pellegrini se mostró sastisfecho tras el empate de Betis con Barcelona

1 month ago | espn.com.ar | Jake Michaels

El entrenador chileno de Betis, Manuel Pellegrini, se mostró muy satisfecho por el empate (1-1) que logró su equipo en el Estadio Olímpico Lluís Companys ante Barcelona, al que considera "el absoluto dominador del fútbol en este momento".
Video: Luis Díaz marcó gol y descontó para Liverpool vs Fulham

1 month ago | espndeportes.espn.com | Jake Michaels

Liverpool no encontraba el juego en casa de Fulham y caía 3-1 cuando Luis Díaz apareció para marcar gol, descontar y volver a poner en partido al líder. El extremo colombiano comenzó como suplente en la fecha 31 de Premier y entró en el complemento ante el bajo nivel de Gakpo. A los 72, Lucho tomó una bola en el área y la mandó a guardar para colocar el 3-2 y encender la mecha de la ilusión de un empate que significaba un triunfo para Liverpool. Fue el décimo gol de Díaz en la actual Premier.
¿Quién es Pablo Peirano, el nuevo entrenador de Nacional?

1 month ago | espn.com.ar | Jake Michaels

Pablo Peirano, nuevo entrenador de Nacional, fue jugador profesional durante 17 años, luego primero integró el cuerpo técnico de Juan Verzeri en las selecciones juveniles de Uruguay y posteriormente fue ayudante de Gerardo Pelusso, comenzando su propio camino como entrenador principal en 2017. El nacido el 21 de enero de 1975 ha indicado que ‘desde niño siempre ha estado dentro de una cancha, desde los cuatro o cinco años baby fútbol’. “Fui un volante central muy perseverante.