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Since 2021, five successive Top 14 sides have have been crowned Champions Cup winners and any team looking to challenge that status quo needs a fast start There was a time when the European Cup had an overwhelmingly Irish flavour. The organisers’ headquarters were in Dublin and between 2006 and...

Tourists all out for 334 with Root unbeaten on 138 Ashes top 100 | Get the Spin newsletter | Email Rob 75th over: England 329-9 (Root 137, Archer 34) In his second Test, Doggett was ineffective yesterday, finishing with 0-74. He starts today with a short ball. Root pulls it...

Amid all the hoopla circling its Washington backdrop, Friday’s event must be all about firing the starting gun on football’s biggest show When the sculptor Joel Shapiro created Blue, the piece that stands around the back of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, looking out over the...

Van der Ven may be key for Spurs, Wissa could make Newcastle debut and Dyche deserves warm Everton welcome Arsenal’s recent memories of Aston Villa are of awkward opponents. Mikel Arteta’s side squandered a two-goal lead at the Emirates Stadium when the teams last met, in January, Arsenal dropping two...

Until Soungoutou Magassa’s 83rd-minute equaliser Manchester United seemed to be flowering in the cold of winter on the way to a win that would have been their fifth in eight games. Instead Jarrod Bowen’s flick-on from Andy Irving’s corner from the right had to be cleared off the line by...

Lock sent off in Cardiff during Springboks’ 73-0 win Suspension covers matches until end of March South Africa’s Eben Etzebeth has been suspended for 12 matches for eye-gouging against Wales last weekend. The suspension covers matches for the Durban-based Sharks starting from this weekend to the end of March. The...

Name favoured by the Ambani family co-owners Surrey retain 51% share in franchise after auction Oval Invincibles, the Hundred’s most successful franchise, will be competing as MI London next year, the name favoured by their new Indian co-owners. The change of name brings the men’s and women’s teams, who between...

Advertising expert questions origins of slogan selected by Games organisers who hail its ‘significant symbolism’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast If you typed the words “believe, belong and become” into a Google video search on...

The Northern Irishman’s appeal was clear at the Australian Open with queues forming at the crack of dawn to catch a glimpse of the golf star Organisers didn’t have to wait long to feel the full impact of Rory McIlroy’s appearance at the Australian Open on Thursday. Two thousand fans...