DJ Campton-Sturridge received the Celts off to an ideal begin when he netted on 10 minutes.

The guests earned a spell answerable for the sport both facet of the break however Danny Greenfield’s 57^th minute strike put Farsley within the driving seat, earlier than Robbie Fox netted his first Farsley objective to rubber-stamp the victory 14 minutes from time.

The Celt Military had been quick out the traps on this Vanarama Nationwide League North conflict and Ben Atkinson nearly secured a second minute lead as he was performed by means of on objective however he may solely hearth straight at Generators’ keeper Peter Criminal.

It didn’t take for much longer for Pav Singh’s facet to interrupt the impasse as Campton-Sturridge was performed in down the best and brilliantly dinked the ball over Criminal 10 minutes in.

Campton-Sturridge nearly grabbed his and Farsley’s second eight minutes later however his shot smashed in opposition to the put up from a slim angle. The ahead was sadly pressured off the sector with an ankle harm a bit of later within the first half.

Sports activities may have levelled issues on the 33 minute mark when Dion Semi-Ferris received a glance on objective however the midfielder fired simply vast of the goal.

The guests loved a spell of management early within the second half and two key saves from Tom Wooster to disclaim each Matt Tootle and Elliott Putman to make sure Farsley’s lead.

Farsley netted a vital second on 57 minutes as Fox performed the ball by means of to the ever-energetic Greenfield who stored his cool to brilliantly end on the underside nook.

And the victory was wrapped up on the 76^th minute as Fox, on his first league begin for the membership, caught Criminal fully unawares as he lashed in a superb volley from simply exterior the field into the underside nook to make it 3-0 to the Celts.

Substitute Manny Mampala may have even made it 4-0 as the sport entered stoppage time, however as he superior into the field, the ball received caught in his ft and a defender managed to clear the hazard.

Farsley’s subsequent fixture sees the lengthy journey to the South West this Saturday as they face play-off contenders Hereford.

Farsley Celtic: Wooster, Hyde, Fielding, Misambo, Allan, Sloane, Watson, B Atkinson, Greenfield, Campton-Sturridge (Youmbi 35), Fox (Mampala 85).
Subs not used: Assenso, Turner.

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Turkey late on Wednesday launched air strikes in opposition to Kurdish targets in northern Iraq and Syria, hours after Ankara mentioned a terrorist assault on a state aerospace firm killed 5 folks and wounded practically two dozen.

Turkish air forces struck 32 targets related to the Kurdistan Employees’ get together (PKK), a separatist group that has fought a decades-long insurgency in Turkey, together with “different terrorist components”, the defence ministry mentioned.

The navy operations got here after an assault on a sprawling Turkish Aerospace Industries’ industrial campus on the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey’s capital.

Inside minister Ali Yerlikaya mentioned it was “very probably” that the PKK, which is recognised as a terrorist group by the US, EU and others, carried out the assault. Assailants had struck the TAI web site with bombs and gunfire, in line with Turkey’s state Anadolu information service.

Yerlikaya mentioned particular operations items, police and gendarmerie responded on the scene. Two terrorists had additionally been “neutralised” following their strike on the ability, he added.

“I condemn this heinous terrorist assault and pray to God for mercy on our martyrs,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned from Kazan, Russia, the place he was attending the Brics summit.

Turkish forces hit PKK navy and intelligence services, in addition to ammunition depots, in line with safety officers. Strategic websites related to the Folks’s Safety Models (YPG), a Syria-based Kurdish militia with shut ties to the PKK, had been additionally focused.

Turkey has been battling the PKK for the previous 4 a long time. Ankara commonly carries out air and particular forces operations on the group’s hideaways in a mountainous area in northern Iraq, whereas additionally hanging affiliated teams working in northern Syria.

Wednesday’s incident comes simply over a yr after suicide bombers struck a authorities constructing in Ankara, an incident orchestrated by the PKK.

Devlet Bahçeli, Erdoğan’s ultranationalist ally, had on Tuesday this week invited jailed PKK chief Abdullah Öcalan to deal with parliament if he would comply with disband the group and halt its operations — remarks that had been carried broadly throughout Turkish media.

Isis and far-left militants have additionally staged bombings in Turkey prior to now.

The final main spherical of terror assaults within the nation came about from 2015 to 2017 and included a number of bombings within the capital. Ankara was additionally one of many battlegrounds within the failed 2016 navy coup try, by which the parliament constructing was broken.

TAI is a nationwide champion, enjoying a central position in Turkey’s blossoming defence sector.

The group designs and produces every little thing from plane and helicopters to drones and satellites on the 4mn sq metres Kahramankazan facility, which was focused in Wednesday’s assault.

No group instantly claimed duty however Ankara’s chief public prosecutor’s workplace opened an investigation, in line with justice minister Yılmaz Tunç. The nation’s radio and tv regulator additionally instituted broadcasting bans associated to imagery from the assault, warning that those that did not comply can be “severely punished”.

Turkey’s web censors additionally clamped down on entry to main platforms, together with X, Instagram, Fb, YouTube and messaging app Telegram, mentioned Yaman Akdeniz, co-founder of the Turkish Freedom of Expression Affiliation.

He described the curbs, which authorities have typically applied round terror assaults and elections, as “a transparent violation of communication rights of thousands and thousands of individuals in Turkey”.

A number of worldwide leaders condemned Wednesday’s assault. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences whereas sitting throughout from Erdoğan at a gathering on the sidelines of the Brics summit.

Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte additionally mentioned on X that he had spoken with Erdoğan: “My message was clear: Nato stands with Turkey.”

Los Angeles Rams extensive receiver Cooper Kupp might be the subsequent huge identify on the transfer at his place forward of the 2024 NFL commerce deadline.

The Athletic‘s Dianna Russini reported on Tuesday that the workforce is looking potential commerce companions about making a deal for the previous Tremendous Bowl MVP.

Russini added that the workforce needs a second-round choose in return and is prepared to tackle a few of Kupp’s 2024 wage to make a commerce occur.

As you’ll be able to think about, there’ll virtually assuredly be actual curiosity across the league for buying a participant of Kupp’s caliber for a playoff push.

Let’s break down 5 groups that might completely make a deal for Kupp forward of the Nov. 5 commerce deadline.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 

The Buccaneers suffered a brutal Monday night time towards the Baltimore Ravens at extensive receiver. The workforce misplaced extensive receiver Chris Godwin for what’s doubtless the remainder of the season, and extensive receiver Mike Evans aggravated a hamstring harm that might sideline him for a short time. For Tampa Bay to take care of its offensive momentum, including a large receiver through commerce is sort of required.

Kupp is aware of the Buccaneers’ offense since Tampa Bay’s Liam Cohen was his offensive coordinator in 2022 with Los Angeles. The Buccaneers could lose Godwin to free company subsequent spring, so having Kupp alongside for the experience previous 2024 makes plenty of sense.

This transfer makes an excessive amount of sense for the Bucs. They need to be the favorites.

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 

The Chiefs want extensive receiver assist badly, and Kupp could be the proper resolution for the workforce going forward. The Rams wideout is aware of what it takes to win a Tremendous Bowl, and he’d in all probability gel straight away with quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Whereas Kupp’s harm historical past would possibly give Kansas Metropolis slightly pause contemplating how snakebit they have been on the place, getting a participant of Kupp’s caliber usually at this level within the season could stability that out.

The draft choose might be an afterthought for the Chiefs in comparison with successful a 3rd straight title.

Los Angeles Chargers 

Jim Harbaugh has to get Justin Herbert extra assist in the passing recreation. At 3-3, the workforce’s season continues to be in entrance of it. An AFC wild-card berth will not be out of the query.

Buying and selling for Kupp each provides Herbert the veteran presence within the passing recreation he sorely wants and lets the Rams make a take care of a workforce exterior the NFC.

Plus, Kupp would not have to maneuver in the midst of the season or change which stadium he performs in on Sundays for residence video games. It is a win-win for each side, with Herbert the largest winner out of anybody concerned.

Pittsburgh Steelers 

Shedding out on San Francisco 49ers extensive receiver Brandon Aiyuk may be a blessing in disguise if Pittsburgh can land a participant like Kupp.

The Steelers are 5-2, however the workforce desperately wants one other extensive receiver to go with George Pickens. Kupp would match proper into what Pittsburgh likes to do offensively, and enjoying Russell Wilson at quarterback makes the Steelers extra more likely to go the ball than they did underneath Justin Fields.

It isn’t laborious to think about Pittsburgh sending a second-round choose Los Angeles’ approach to make a Kupp deal occur.

New England Patriots 

Don’t sleep on the Patriots to be a contender for Kupp. The workforce has formally given the franchise over to quarterback Drake Maye. To maximise Maye’s rookie deal, getting in high quality veterans will likely be paramount.

The Patriots provide the Rams the very best second-round choose ceiling of every other workforce on this checklist, too.

You may not think about New England on this explicit state of affairs, however the workforce may be prepared to put money into Kupp to help Maye’s growth. Having a real No. 1 receiver can solely assist the rookie quarterback as he performs his first NFL video games. This is not the most certainly state of affairs, however do not rule it out.

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Micheal Ray Richardson was an excellent participant: a four-time NBA All-Star guard. He was additionally the primary participant banned for all times by the league for drug use, one thing which was way more widespread throughout his enjoying days. Again within the Nineteen Eighties, substances like cocaine weren’t solely a part of skilled sports activities but in addition society and leisure at massive, and Richardson says discuss medication was routine throughout what some nonetheless name the NBA’s cocaine period. “Throughout warmups,” Richardson says, “guys on totally different groups would say, ‘Yo, man, I received what you’re in search of. Let’s get collectively when [the game] is over.’ And increase that’s the way it received going.”

On the time, medication had been “in all places – it was like a fad,” says Richardson, who additionally goes by the nickname Sugar. However within the NBA, it alienated many followers. A lot in order that to appropriate the issue, the NBA instituted a three-strike system, which led to Richardson’s 1986 banishment (all of which he discusses in his forthcoming memoir, Banned).

Immediately, except for the 10ft basket and the five-on-five competitors, the NBA doesn’t resemble the league within the late Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties. However in relation to medication, that change took time. For Richardson, who grew up modestly within the midwest and solely received into medication after succumbing to see strain whereas dwelling in New York Metropolis and enjoying for the Knicks, medication weren’t part of his adolescence. Then they overtook him and led to a debilitating years-long habit. However his story is much from distinctive. When David Stern took over as commissioner of the NBA in 1984, one among his prime priorities, together with selling the Magic Johnson-Larry Chicken rivalry, was cleansing up the sport. That meant suspensions and lifelong bans (Richardson was additionally the primary participant reinstated to the NBA, in 1988, however he by no means returned to the league).

Nonetheless, professional basketball in these days was suffering from habit and misplaced potential. Marvin “Dangerous Information” Barnes is maybe the poster youngster for drug points. His biography, Dangerous Information, particulars a lifetime of drug abuse, which included hanging out with drug kingpins, derailing what may have been a Corridor of Fame profession. He went from averaging 24.1 factors and 10.8 rebounds per recreation in 1975-76 within the ABA to 9.6 and 4.8 a season later within the NBA. Barnes was out of professional hoops by 1980 and, regardless of attempting many instances, by no means kicked his behavior earlier than passing away in 2014. However Barnes, too, is just not an remoted case. In 1986, the identical yr Richardson was banned for all times, Boston Celtics rookie Len Bias, died from a drug overdose on the age of twenty-two mere hours after being drafted. “He received ahold of some unhealthy stuff,” Richardson says. “That was a tragic second. A wakeup name for everyone.”

Additionally in 1986, All-Star John Drew was banned for all times for violating the league’s substance abuse coverage. That very same yr, Rockets guard John Lucas was waived by the group as a result of his drug points had develop into so unhealthy. (Lucas later turned his life round, turned an NBA coach, based a rehabilitation heart, which has helped save the lives of many athletes and even headed up knowledgeable tennis group that includes Steffi Graf.)

In 1987, All-Star “Quick” Eddie Johnson was banned for medication. Chris Washburn, a former No 3 decide, was banned in 1989. In 1991, former Sixth Man of the Yr, Roy Tarpley, and promising rookie Richard Dumas had been each despatched packing. The record goes on. Nevertheless it wasn’t simply gamers. Coaches and executives had been affected by substance abuse. Normally within the type of alcohol.

“Once I was within the [Continental Basketball Association],” says Richardson, “my coach Invoice Musselman – he used to get at that bar when the sport was over and he can be purple as a beat. He can be so rattling drunk. However there have been quite a lot of coaches who drunk their alcohol. Again then it was extra accepted.”

Within the NBA, drug abuse was so rampant within the Nineteen Eighties (even Michael Jordan has talked about it) that groups had been mentioned to have employed personal investigators to spy on their gamers, from Los Angeles Lakers All-Star Norm Nixon to Richardson when he was with the Golden State Warriors. Richardson believes his lifetime ban, together with Bias’s dying and the opposite suspensions, lastly compelled gamers to confront their drug use. They knew actual repercussions had been across the nook, that the league was demanding higher habits. Nonetheless, the NBA, like all walks of life, has since needed to cope with different examples, from alcohol abuse to prescription drug dependence.

Different leagues just like the NFL and MLB have additionally needed to cope with critical drug points, from opioids to painkillers to steroids to hashish use, which is authorized in lots of US states now and which the NBA stopped testing for in 2021 (a proven fact that irks Richardson, who has been drug-free now for many years). And all sports activities are dealing with issues with playing and playing addictions. In terms of the NBA, Richardson says, there have been points with heroin (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar even admitted to attempting it as soon as) after which crack. The one treatment was distance. “You’ve received to maintain your self out of these place,” Richardson says. “The place it received’t provide you with alternatives to do it. Hold your self out of these environments.”

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Immediately, the NBA appears to be like at substance abuse and drug habit as a part of an even bigger image, providing its gamers a multi-pronged assault that focuses on psychological well being. At a time when the US is affected by fentanyl and opioid epidemics and different debilitating social points, the NBA is working to coach its workforce in regards to the perils of drug use and habit in addition to specializing in others points that may have an effect on one’s psychological state. With annual salaries rising to as a lot as $60m-plus, there’s a lot to be protected. Certainly, the league has come a great distance over time. From gamers like DeMar DeRozan, who simply wrote a ebook on his psychological well being journey, to Corridor of Famer Spencer Haywood talking brazenly about his points with substances.

“Even now,” says Richardson, “it’s not prefer it was again within the 80s after I was [playing]. As a result of now there’s the fentanyl. Now what they’re doing is mixing all of the medication with fentanyl and it solely takes a bit of – as a result of fentanyl will kill you.”

And if followers want to take a fast look at an inventory of current NBA suspensions, they won’t discover most of the type that the league suffered from many years in the past. Slightly, they’ll largely see the extra backyard selection on courtroom combating or run-ins with refs (although there are nonetheless some current cases of substance abuse). Two individuals charged with persevering with the advance of the NBA from a social perspective embrace Jamila Wideman, a former WNBA participant and present senior vice-president of participant improvement within the NBA, and Dr Kensa Gunter, a psychologist and director of NBA and WNBA thoughts well being. Each, particularly in comparison with Richardson’s period, are doing a wonderful job, given the surface elements and calls for on gamers’ lives as we speak, from social media to playing pressures.

“One factor about alcohol and medicines,” says Richardson, “they don’t discriminate.”

LOS ANGELES — Rams large receiver Cooper Kupp says he’s conscious his title has been talked about in commerce rumors earlier than the NFL’s Nov. 5 commerce deadline, however is concentrated on “being the perfect L.A. Ram” that he will be.

When requested whether or not the Rams have spoken to him or his representatives about the potential for buying and selling him, Kupp mentioned, “Nothing actually. No. It’s that point of 12 months. There’s going to be rumors and issues that go round. I let that stuff, as a lot as I can, be within the background.”

“I am conscious of it, however on the finish of the day, I imply, I will be the place my toes are,” Kupp mentioned. “That is all I do know. I’ve a job to do right here. And I take a number of pleasure in giving all the things I can for the blokes on this constructing and having the ability to step on the sphere realizing that I ready the perfect that I can. And for seven and a half years I have been an L.A. Ram and I’ve taken that method each single day.

“And no matter occurs exterior of that, I’ve obtained to manage what I can management. And proper now which means being the perfect L.A. Ram that I will be.”

Kupp has not performed since Week 2, when he sprained his ankle in a loss to the Arizona Cardinals. In two video games earlier than his damage, he had 18 catches for 147 yards and a landing.

Kupp was estimated to be a full participant in observe Tuesday, which was a walkthrough as a result of it’s a brief week. He was anticipated to play Thursday night time at house in opposition to the Minnesota Vikings.

Kupp, who was not placed on injured reserve, returned to observe final week and was listed as questionable to play in Week 7 in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders. The veteran receiver mentioned he ready as if he had been going to play Sunday — together with his pregame exercise at SoFi Stadium — earlier than being informed he was going to be inactive.

“There’s at all times a perception, at all times a perception that there is going to be an opportunity,” Kupp mentioned Tuesday. “In order that was type of my mindset with that.”

Kupp mentioned he wasn’t positive what his workload can be in opposition to the Vikings in his return, however that it was in the end as much as the coaches and the coaching workers to determine.

“I do not like coming off the sphere,” Kupp mentioned. “I might love to have the ability to play as a lot as I probably may, and that is going to be my mindset. … And we have got some guys which have performed some actually good soccer the final couple of weeks too, and determining what the perfect grouping is, what the perfect group of fellows, the way you need to get these guys on, off the sphere, no matter it takes to get the L.A. Rams a ‘W’ is in the end what we need to do.”

Kupp, who sat out 4 video games on injured reserve final season due to a hamstring damage, mentioned he felt “assured” in his return.

“With the ability to have a full offseason this 12 months and having the ability to construct that up and put the work in to set your self as much as go do one thing this 12 months,” he mentioned, “I really feel actual assured about having the ability to come again now realizing that I’ve that base and be capable to play actually good soccer.”

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