The daily pitch from Sports Editor Matt Daniels: Feb. 15, 2025 – Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

After winning the Club World Cup, it was a league game at Everton that may define Man City’s season. Pep Guardiola needed this win, and he got it.

Nottingham Forest have lodged an appeal against a four-point deduction in relation to their breach of the Premier League’s Profit & Sustainability Rules (PSR), the club said on Monday.