Category: Sports

Optimistic in August under Steve Bruce, Blackpool are now managerless and 23rd in League One after Stockport’s win The Mick McCarthy “it can” meme is known far and wide as social media shorthand for woeful underperformance, although the full context is not. When McCarthy was infamously asked if a miserable...

Woods has lumbar disc replaced in New York 15-time major winner calls operation successful No timetable set for 49-year-old’s golf return Tiger Woods has announced that he underwent back surgery on Friday to address a collapsed disc in his spine. The 15-time major winner had lumbar disk replacement surgery after...

Philly star drops Lima three times in round one Showdown with Ortiz Jr looms for early 2026 Jaron Ennis needed less than two minutes to remind boxing why he’s long been considered the sport’s next big thing. The 28-year-old Philadelphian nicknamed Boots flattened Uisma Lima on Saturday night at the...

⚽ News, buildup and discussion before the day’s action⚽ Relevant link here | And email us with your thoughts In other WSL news this week, Rick Passmoor became Leicester City head coach on a permanent basis after a successful interim period. Passmoor signed a three-year deal with the Foxes and...

Residents have complained about post-event behaviour RFU wants to stage more events to fund expansion The Rugby Football Union has proposed using “anti-pee paint” that would leave public offenders “covered in their own urine” to ease residents’ fears over plans to increase the number of music concerts staged at Twickenham....

The Guardian’s fans’ network on the opening stages of 2025-26: their toughest opponents, biggest setbacks and tips for the next manager sacked Story so far Top of the table, looking down at our rivals, despite still not really firing on all cylinders … it’s early days, but we’re struggling to...

Hull KR 24-6 Wigan Wigan denied third successive title As Joe Burgess raced away in the final moments to put the seal on an unprecedented season in Hull KR’s 143-year history, it was difficult to know where to look first as decades of frustration poured out all around Old Trafford....

Phil Dowson has Fin Smith, Henry Pollock, Alex Mitchell and Tommy Freeman available again and eager to make up for last season’s 33-0 defeat It does not feel like a coincidence that the Prem’s first derby weekend of the season marks the return of most British & Irish Lions players...

Sale 57-5 Newcastle Alex Sanderson’s side 31-0 up at half-time with five tries There will come a time to truly judge the credentials of a Sale side whose solitary title success came nearly 20 years ago, but Friday night was not it. Not against a Newcastle team who surrendered so...

Hull KR have taken two of Wigan’s crowns this year and stand in the way of Matt Peet’s team at Old Trafford It is not just the walls of Wigan ­Warriors’ plush Robin Park training complex that are draped with the ­historic moments of rugby league’s most famous club. Almost...