Football is climbing the league table of popular US sports and has now overtaken ice hockey in fourth place and is homing in on baseball in third.
The bumper £2billion deal the Premier League struck with NBC after a battle among American broadcasters this month reflects the growing popularity of the sport.
The English top flight doubled its money when the channel renewed its contract and committed to show 380 games for six seasons on its cable and digital channels.
Covid cases jumped 6 per cent today and breached 50,000 for the fourth time in a week, as Omicron’s grip on the UK continues to tighten and Britain stares down the barrel of tighter restrictions.
Government figures show there were 51,342 positive tests in the last 24 hours, up 6.1 per cent on last Wednesday’s 48,374.
Deaths have fallen week-on-week however, with the number of lives lost to Covid falling by 5.8 per cent during the same time-frame to 161.
The Braves are on the verge of their fourth World Series crown – and their second since moving to Atlanta in 1966 – but the Houston Astros are not going away quietly in Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday night.
Adam Duvall hit a first-inning grand slam off Framber Valdez, but the Astros clawed back to take a 7-5 lead thanks to RBI doubles from Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa, a pair of sacrifice RBIs, a bases-loaded walk
Britain’s Covid cases have fallen for the fourth day in a row, official data today revealed as one of the Government’s top scientific advisers claimed rising natural immunity in children is behind the fall.
Department of Health bosses posted another 43,941 new infections, down 10.6 per cent on last Wednesday’s total of 49,139. Daily cases have been shrinking since Sunday after reaching a three-month high last week.
But the number of people dying with Covid has continued to increase, with
Durch die Verbindung moderner Technologie mit traditionellen Instrumenten schuf Herr Hassell ein Genre, das er als „kaffeefarbene klassische Musik der Zukunft“ bezeichnete.
