Attendances and British-trained winners were on the up but low points included more starting trouble and jockey spats Attendance: up. British winners: up. Bookies’ profits: through the roof. Punters will wince at the last of those after a ferociously difficult four days at Cheltenham, with winners at 66-1, 50-1, 40-1...
Chelsea’s James leads way to win League Cup final against Manchester United
Chelsea 2-0 Man Utd (James 19, Beever-Jones 76) Blues retain Women’s League Cup with victory Death, taxes and Chelsea women winning trophies. Regardless of their form this season, regardless of an all-but relinquished Women’s Super League title, with Manchester City nine points clear at the top of the table, you...
Biggest positive in Tottenham’s draw with Liverpool is at least they are still fighting | Jonathan Wilson
Tottenham earning a point after successive defeats may not have ended relegation fears but shows all is not lost yet At last, amid all the gloom, a sliver of positive news for Tottenham. On a day when their injury crisis reached yet greater heights, they met an out-of-sorts Liverpool resting...
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Max Dowman’s magic, Konstantinos Mavropanos shows heart and Chelsea go all LinkedIn but fail to link up It is easy to say that Tottenham have a goalkeeping problem. Antonin Kinsky was brought in against Atlético Madrid precisely because Igor Tudor was having doubts about Guglielmo Vicario. Back in the lineup...
Still crazy: chaotic Six Nations showed the timeless appeal of great sporting drama | Robert Kitson
France’s dramatic triumph was proof that Test rugby played at full throttle ranks among the most compelling spectacles L’Équipe’s front page headline summed it up perfectly. “So Crazy” did not just reflect Saturday night’s dizzying blur of a game in the Stade de France but pretty much the entire 2026...
Little liars: babies younger than one practise deceit, study suggests
Pretending not to hear parents or hiding toys are among children’s early ploys, while by age of three they may be telling lies such as ‘a ghost ate the chocolate’, research finds They may be yet to take their first step or say their first word, but some babies have...
Pokémon Go’s AR data has been turned into centimeter-accurate navigation for delivery robots
Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a high-precision world model of the physical environment. The company is now commercializing that work through a visual positioning system that can locate devices to within a few centimeters using......