Staycee Dains was about a month into her job overseeing the Los Angeles city animal shelters when an employee openly defied her.

They had some fine players – their “famous five” forward line of Smith, Johnstone, Reilly, Turnbull and Ormond was not quite there yet, but fast developing, and the men from Easter Road had ...

Phoenix faces the Los Angeles Sparks after Satou Sabally scored 26 points in the Mercury's 74-71 loss to the Minnesota Lynx. Sunday's game will be the second meeting this season between the two teams.

To compound things, our bus home was not running its usual route, meaning me and Dave had to walk down to Liverpool One, passing every bar and pub full of them. Horrendous… but nothing like it was ...