Holders were near enough unbeatable in brushing aside Warrington in the semi-final with a performance to rival the quality of the Warriors As everyone expected, it will be the irresistible force against the immovable object at Wembley in three weeks’ time. Every great era-defining athlete or team needs an adversary....
Dubois rewrites quitter narrative in strangely uplifting night for boxing
New heavyweight champion climbed off the canvas twice before overwhelming Fabio Wardley in a battle that finally silenced his doubters “I was in there with a live dog and I loved it,” Daniel Dubois said in the early hours of Sunday morning as, looking suitably gladiatorial without a shirt, the...
Rashford seals title for Barcelona and completes week to forget for Real Madrid
This time it was Marcus Rashford who delivered the knockout blow. Three days after the fight between Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni that ended with Real Madrid’s vice-captain taken to hospital and the crisis at the club laid bare for all to see, they went to the Camp Nou and...
Starwatch: Prime time to see Virgo, one of the fainter zodiac constellations
Situated between the much brighter Leo and Libra, Virgo is well placed for observation in the northern spring months The constellation of Virgo, the virgin, is particularly well placed for observation during the northern spring months. Virgo is one of the fainter zodiacal constellations, meaning it sits on the imaginary...
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Jérémy Doku finds the net again, Joshua Zirkzee struggles at Sunderland and Ismaïla Sarr is fulfilling his potential On Friday when Bruno Fernandes became the Football Writers’ Association player of the year, either Declan Rice or David Raya could have been forgiven for feeling a touch aggrieved. Both have been...
VAR offers up Arsenal’s title-deciding moment for digital mess generation | Barney Ronay
Multibillion stage of title-relegation stagger boils down to a referee in front of a screen decoding a raised forearm There’s a great moment towards the end of the otherwise non-great Rocky III, when Clubber Lang is asked by a straw-hatted, bowtie-twirling US sports reporter for a prediction before his imminent...
Can you solve it? I say tomato, you say tomato
Pronunciation puzzles A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation as, or is spelt identical to, another word with a different meaning. For example, the letter “a” has the homonym “eh”. (Second option) (Switch back and forth) (Suitable) (Commandeer) (Satisfied) (Components) (Conference attendee) (Assign) (Price reduction) (Disregard) (Way...
Former Epic director and Guerrilla Games co-founder is building a European game engine to rival Unreal and Unity
Arjan Brussee, best known as a co-founder of Guerrilla Games and a former global director of product management for Unreal Engine at Epic Games, says he's developing a new platform called The Immense Engine. The idea, as he describes it, is to create an alternative to the dominant engines that......
A cyberattack on Canvas knocked out access for students at Harvard, Columbia, and hundreds of other schools during finals
The company's chief information security officer, Steve Proud, wrote in an incident log that Instructure had "recently experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor." A day later, he added that the exposed data included names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. How......
11 people injured, taken to hospitals after boat explosion near Miami
An explosion on a boat near Miami has led to 11 people being taken to hospitals with injuries