Captain Lauren Parfitt is the first player to be given a professional contract by Glamorgan Women as they prepare to move up to Tier 1 in 2027. Parfitt led the Wales side from the age of 18 and represented the Western Storm regional team, before skippering the newly created Glamorgan team in 2025 and 2026.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pam Manfredo Curtis, author of “Origin of a Leader.” It has been edited for length and clarity. It’s no surprise that we often make choices based on how we were raised. I can see it in my own life: my mom was a school psychologist. I
The football with which Diego Maradona scored his famous ‘hand of God’ goal at the 1986 World Cup has sold at auction for £2.5m. Maradona famously punched the ball past goalkeeper Peter Shilton in Argentina’s 2-1 quarter-final win over England. After the game, he told reporters it had been scored “a little with the head
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Cheltenham College (day two) Gloucestershire 150: Boorman 60; Allison 5-19, Waite 3-43, Swanepoel 2-42 Worcestershire 205-7: Edavalath 63, D’Oliveira 49*; Sai Kishore 3-56 Worcestershire (3 pts) lead Gloucestershire (2 pts) by 55 runs Match scorecard Rahaan Edavalath proved an unlikely hero as Worcestershire assumed the upper hand on day two
Do you think Monica Bellucci has done it all? Think again. “I’ve never done anything like that,” she tells Variety about her role in “Ketticè.” Directed by Giovanni Tortorici, the film premiered at Locarno. “I was on set in my pajamas with a knife in my hand and slippers on my feet. This woman has abandoned her
The defamation case currently focuses on the procedure known as discovery, where both sides provide internal or other records that could serve as evidence. Lawyers for the BBC said the corporation had produced 87,000 pages of documents, while they said the Trump side had published a “false production” of just 735 pages, which they said
