Category: Sports

Competition will not now begin until 2028 ‘Decision to shift our launch is strategic’ R360 has delayed the launch of its global franchise league by two years until 2028 amid doubts over its ability to recruit players and the viability of its commercial model. The rebel league, which was scheduled...

British driver with world championship within his grasp is showing no sign of nerves despite Verstappen mind games and pressure from Piastri Standing outside the McLaren motorhome in the paddock for the Qatar Grand Prix as a warm desert breeze stirs the air, Lando Norris cuts a figure entirely at...

There have been many good points – challenging orthodoxies and Ben Stokes talking openly about male emotions – and even when it was bad, it was unignorable The Life Cycle of a Cult1. The Big Idea. A charismatic leader or leaders propose a new and transcendent idea that promises a...

News and discussion as we build up to the day’s action Premier League things | Get in touch Hello, football. A jam packed day awaits. Readers, any football plans for the day? What ground are you heading off to? How optimistic are you that your team will get the win...

Not since 2014 have Liverpool struggled so much, with questions aimed at directors and players such as Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz “Would you say this is Roy bad or Brendan bad?” was one of the more repeatable questions asked in the Anfield press box in between PSV Eindhoven’s third...

He scored twice in 1988 final against West Germany Olympic star was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2019 Imran Sherwani, who starred in the Great Britain hockey team that won Olympic gold in 1988, has died at the age of 63, his family have announced. Sherwani revealed in 2021 that had...

The parallels are imperfect but, as with Michael Vaughan’s Ashes winners, hyper-aggressive cricket with a tweaked approach in the second Test is the 2025 cohort’s only chance of winning Twenty years on, a montage of the 2005 Ashes still tingles the spine. Close your eyes and you can probably make...

Leader lost valuable points after disqualification McLaren insist they did not take ‘excessive risk’ Lando Norris has insisted nothing has changed in terms of his focus on sealing his first Formula One world championship after both he and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri were disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand...

Masters champion in 1979 and US Open winner in 1984 Post-career reputation marred by remarks about Woods Trump pays tribute to ‘remarkable person and player’ Fuzzy Zoeller, the two-time major champion whose genial public persona was overshadowed by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods that came to define the...

“Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that,” came the chant as Nottingham Forest supporters, not for the first time, enjoyed getting one over on Malmö. A lot has happened since Trevor Francis’s stooping header clinched the European Cup in Munich in 1979 but Forest still, rightfully, cherish those days. A...