The match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios opens up a direct channel between the BBC of old and a world of toxic internet hatred It’s always best to take a sceptical view of the constant flow of BBC-bashing newspaper stories, which are often simply bogus outrage expressed for commercial...
Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day three – live
Hosts pull away to 177-run first-innings lead at the Gabba Ashes top 100 | Get the Spin newsletter | Email Rob 74th over: Australia 379-6 (Carey 47, Neser 15) Stokes starts around the wicket to the left-handed Alex Carey. Two slips in place. The first ball is defended for a...
Lando Norris rules out asking McLaren for team orders to help F1 title bid
Leader will not ask Piastri for favours against Verstappen McLaren to discuss all relevant scenarios in Abu Dhabi Lando Norris would not want McLaren to have to use team orders to aid him in winning his first world championship at the season finale in Abu Dhabi this weekend. Both he...
Abdusattorov overwhelms rivals at Arsenal but England hit back in style
The Uzbek shone at London Classic and a 3,000+ tournament performance reaffirmed his place among world’s best This week’s XTX London Classic at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium took place in an elegant arena with a full view of the football pitch. The English players suffered for most of the event, but...
Sports quiz of the week: Premier League goals, Ashes centuries and the F1 finale
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New recipe for success required to stop France’s grands chefs dominating the Champions Cup
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...
Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day two – live
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...
Noise around Donald Trump an unwanted distraction to World Cup draw of dreams
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...
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
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...
Amorim ‘angry and frustrated’ after West Ham’s Magassa denies Manchester United
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...