During the power outage following the winter storms of 2021 — known in Texas as Winter Storm Uri — Rita, an Indigenous woman who lives with severe mental illness and congestive heart failure, tried with her then-partner to stay warm in brutal conditions in a tent on the streets of Austin...
Red Roses and Lionesses made 2025 a watershed year for women’s sport in England
Arsenal won the Women’s Champions League in a huge year for English players – and there may be more to come in 2026 England women’s football and rugby teams did something they had never done before in 2025: win major trophies in the same year. The Red Roses lifted the...
Ousmane Dembélé quietly becomes the main man after long journey to the top
The Frenchman, who has been named the best male footballer in the world by the Guardian, has benefitted from PSG’s focus on the team rather than individuals What makes a good player great, and a great player the best? This question has been occupying me since 2014, when the Guardian...
Former champion Michael Smith crashes out of PDC world darts against Zonneveld
2023 winner beaten 3-1 by Dutchman on day of shocks No 8 seed Chris Dobey loses to 55-year-old Gilding The former world champion and world No 1 Michael Smith led the high-profile casualties on a day of shocks at the PDC world championship. Smith lost 3-1 to the Dutchman Niels...
Jake Paul’s artless spectacle robbed boxing of its democratic dream | Bryan Armen Graham
Netflix’s 300 million global subscribers got just what they wanted: to see a former YouTuber knocked out brutally George Foreman once said boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire. Putting aside the breathtaking exhibitions of physical and psychological intensity it can produce, the sport has long been...
Brilliant Bristol run in six dazzling tries in Big Game mauling of Harlequins
Harlequins 14-40 Bristol London team thrashed in annual outing at Twickenham This was the 17th annual Big Game but rarely can Harlequins have failed to live up to the billing of their Christmas extravaganza as sorely as they did here. Bristol, on the other hand, continue to dazzle in the...
‘The game is gone’: Thomas Frank fumes over VAR decisions in Spurs loss
Manager says the ban Xavi Simons faces is ‘too harsh’ Slot says his ‘gut feeling’ on Isak injury is not positive A frustrated Thomas Frank took aim at two decisions, both involving the use of the video assistant referee system, that helped swing proceedings in Liverpool’s favour during his Tottenham...
Viktor Gyökeres holds nerve to sink Everton and keep Arsenal top of pile
Mikel Arteta can toast his sixth anniversary as Arsenal manager from the Premier League summit and with the Christmas No 1 spot secured once again. Behind the headline positivity, however, must be a realisation that more convincing performances are required to hold on until the final reckoning. Viktor Gyökeres’ emphatic...
‘I made such a bond’: Jesse Lingard on life in South Korea and his next challenge
Former Manchester United player discusses culinary and cultural surprises, feeling more mature and how he learned Korean Jesse Lingard says his Korean is decent, good enough to make himself understood when out for dinner and the shocks do not stop there. The former Manchester United and England midfielder was always...
‘We feel excluded’: expensive tickets and Trump’s shadow dampen World Cup excitement in Mexico
The feeling among fans is anticlimatic as ‘businessmen have appropriated the ball that used to belong to the people’ Jonathan Zamora was seven years old the last time Mexico hosted the World Cup in 1986. “I witnessed perhaps one of the most sublime moments in the history of football,” he...