Injury to Champion Hurdle favourite and contentious decision to run final race overshadow disrupted Trials Day Before the first of the eight races at Cheltenham on Saturday, the afternoon promised to deliver on its Trials Day billing from start to finish, with serious contenders for festival glory in March scattered...
RFU targets transport revamp and undercover police to sway Twickenham residents over concert plan
Fresh proposals to address road issues and bad behaviour RFU needs gigs to pay for £660m Twickenham upgrade The Rugby Football Union is hopeful that a proposed overhaul of Twickenham rail station and the deployment of undercover police officers on matchdays will help to sway opponents of plans to host...
Iran football great Ali Karimi leads call for Infantino to speak up on protest deaths
Open letter to Fifa and all football associations Killings, arrests and threats against athletes are condemned A group of prominent Iranians with links to football have called on Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, to condemn the killing and arrest of footballers and the threats made against players in the country. The...
Champions League permutations: who needs what from final night of fixtures?
A staggering 32 of 36 teams go into the final set of matches with their hopes of staying in the competition still alive With seven wins from seven, Arsenal have a perfect record in the league phase. Only Bayern Munich and Inter have found the net against Mikel Arteta’s team,...
Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha: ‘It’s love and pain. Leicester is like my son, so I have to do it right’
The Leicester City chair plays down talk of another relegation but knows the mood among fans is fraught Leicester City are hurting but Aiyawatt “Top” Srivaddhanaprabha, looking towards the pitch at the King Power Stadium, insists he shares supporters’ frustrations. He acknowledges the warm glow of their extraordinary Premier League...
Always in reserve: Liam Dawson’s moment beckons at T20 World Cup after decade ‘on call’ for England
Hampshire all-rounder has made his mark on return to white-ball team and will finally make his global tournament debut next month Liam Dawson has been around for England’s finest white-ball moments in the past decade. He was an uncapped inclusion in the 2016 World T20 touring party, when Eoin Morgan’s...
England captain Maro Itoje absent from training camp to attend mother’s funeral in Nigeria
Borthwick: ‘We are deeply saddened for him’ Itoje misses launch of 2026 Six Nations England will kick off their Six Nations training camp in Spain this week without their captain, Maro Itoje, who has travelled to Nigeria for his mother’s funeral. Itoje was absent from the official Six Nations championship...
The Joy of Six: unlikely Winter Olympics stars
From a cult hero ski jumper, to African bobsleigh pioneers and more, here are half a dozen unexpected heroes Michael “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards, was the antithesis of the Olympic high-flyer. Heavily disadvantaged by his 82kg (181lb) weight – far heavier than his rivals – poor eyesight and the small...
Barbara Hurman obituary
My mother, Barbara Hurman, who has died aged 100, was an archaeologist specialising in the identification and illustration of finds – the items disinterred during the course of excavations. She worked on a number of sites for the Bucks Museum, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, the Milton Keynes Archaeological Unit, the Department...
Scientists launch AI DinoTracker app that identifies dinosaur footprints
Researchers say artificial intelligence system matches human expert classification about 90% of the time Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind after they stomped across the land tens of millions of years ago. “When we find a dinosaur footprint, we...