TOM COLLOMOSSE: As Aston Villa try to create a memorable season from the unlikeliest beginnings, their greatest challenges are as likely to happen off the pitch as on it.
Dorian Darch's face will require an awful lot of fixing. The cuts around his eyes are nasty, especially a thick, red canyon across his left cheek, punched into his forehead by the bare knuckles of a mate.
England's hapless Ashes tour was again in the headlines after footage emerged of a member of their security team involved in an altercation with a cameraman.
As of Friday evening - two days on from Sherrone Moore's dismissal and subsequent arrest - the staffer alleged to be the coach's mistress is reportedly still employed by the school.
From a boyhood Buddie to becoming one of the Bhoys. And a Hampden cup final stage that he twice lit up with scoring feats which are engraved into the annals of the Scottish game.
Of the eight individual awards already handed out this season in the Scottish Premiership, five have gone to men at the centre of Hearts' surprise title charge.
Former Cleveland Cavaliers star Daniel Gibson, 39, was detained in Ohio on Monday night after being pulled over in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood late on Monday night.
The era of name, image and likeness (NIL) deals has been changing the face of college sports. President Donald Trump has expressed his desire to change that.
Serie A President Ezio Simonelli says the proposed match in Australia on February 8 between AC Milan and Como remains a work in progress and has not been abandoned.
Yesterday morning, like every day, Mohamed Salah sat at the edge of his bed, back straight and eyes closed, one of many daily rituals he performs to be one of the best athletes in the world at 33.
Their long-term future might be at threat amid the Welsh Rugby Union's plan to cut the number of Wales' domestic teams from four to three, but the Scarlets have no other option than to plough on.
When Joe Root, wide-eyed and 19, touched down at Adelaide airport one October evening in 2010, he was not quite the slip of a lad you might remember now.
Michael Jordan is one of the wealthiest athletes in history thanks to his success on the court and in the boardroom. So, tens of millions doesn't seem to throw him off of further sporting success.
The stunningly fast win marked Vonn's first victory in nearly eight years - and the first in her comeback with titanium implants in her right knee after a five-year retirement.
The defensive lineman was participating in a casual basketball pick-up game with friends on the school's campus when he fell ill and collapsed on Tuesday.
Ex-Michigan coach Harbaugh, who hired Moore to be the Wolverines' tight ends coach in 2018, addressed the scandal as the school continues to navigate the fall out of the dismissal.
Mendoza may have arrived in Manhattan, New York as the leader of the top-ranked college team in the nation - but conversation quickly turned to what might be next in his career.
Moore spent Wednesday and Thursday night in a cell after a stunning day that saw him fired by Michigan due to an 'inappropriate relationship' with a staffer and detained over an alleged assault.