Manchester United face Swansea on Saturday as the new English Premier League Campaign officially gets under way. So with this we took 6 of the most popular Pre-Premier League questions on The Big Lead, and threw them at Francis. But we also want your answers, so please leave your comments in the section below.

Premier League champions Manchester City were dismissed with ease by Arsenal at the weekend, 3-0 was the final score in favor of the gunners. Although the Community Shield does not carry much significance, it still acts as an effective confidence booster going into the new season.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken dealt a major blow Friday afternoon to the NCAA and its long-held value of amateurism, ruling in an antitrust case that the association’s policies banning athletes from profiting from their own names, images and likenesses “unreasonably restrain trade.

Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart ran over and killed 20-year-old sprint car driver Kevin Ward Jr. during a race Saturday night. The deadly string of incidents began when Ward and Stewart were racing side-by-side at a sprint car race in Canandaigua Motorsports Park, located some 30 miles southeast of Rochester, New York.

The best teams in the world are always on the lookout for the next big thing, but I doubt any of them would expect it to come at 8 years of age. This young phenomenon has already been dubbed as the ‘Mini Messi’, and after watching this clip, how could you disagree?

Nate Silver’s site fivethirtyeight.com ran some numbers and the results were very, very interesting. The Cleveland Cavaliers, with the addition of all-star forward Kevin Love, are a good basketball team.

Yaya Toure and Manchester City are back to take on Arsenal in the Community Shield match.