Halifax youngster has entered world’s top 64 and is spark the sport needs to find mainstream attention in the UK It is commonly known these days as the Luke Littler effect. A teenage phenomenon bursting on to the scene and almost becoming a bigger force of nature than the sport...
Phenomenon Nick Woltemade has graceful flow to be Isak’s substitute
After rejecting Bayern, the £70m German striker is prepared to seize his chance and become Newcastle’s next great No 9 Now Nick Woltemade is heading to Tyneside, we can read out the summer final scores. Premier League 2 Bayern Munich 0, after Florian Wirtz recently described his decision to choose...
Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Ostapenko: why does anger keep boiling over at US Open?
Players’ tempers have frequently flared at Flushing Meadows, with end of season tension and boisterous New York crowds offered as explanations Daniel Altmaier had nothing more to say. Moments after one of the biggest wins of his career, the German unwittingly found himself on the receiving end of Stefanos Tsitsipas’s...
‘We’re a wonderfully old-fashioned yard’: Eve Johnson Houghton’s family of winners
Trainer opens up on her midas touch in the market as she closes in on £1m in prize money for the first time Eve Johnson Houghton has saddled three Royal Ascot winners, including a Group One, in the past eight years, having bought all three for a combined total of...
Szoboszlai’s sublime dummy something more than a cog in Liverpool’s red machine | Barney Ronay
Rio Ngumoha took the headlines for the winner at Newcastle but the Hungarian’s contribution was a thing of beauty Tech types will often talk in reassuring terms about the future co-evolution of humanity and machines. This is not a headlong rush towards a moment of doom-laden singularity, where one day...
‘A lot of emotions are not that helpful’: Oscar Piastri on his F1 world title dream
The championship leader reveals his secret to being ‘calm yet intense’, and why he and his McLaren teammate won’t fall out in their race for the title Still what might be considered a stripling with features soft as yet unweathered by age and competition yet with an undoubted inner steel,...
WSL players to resume taking knee after Jess Carter abuse prompted refusal
Teams set to perform gesture in selected October games Concerns raised that its ubiquity reduced its impact Women’s Super League players will resume taking the knee this season after England’s Lionesses abruptly stopped performing the symbolic gesture at last month’s European Championship. England’s players announced they would no longer be...
Joe Burgess’s decisive try sinks St Helens to put Hull KR closer to League Leaders’ Shield
Hull KR 12-8 St Helens Burgess try and four goals by Rhyse Martin enough to win With the nights drawing in and the temperatures starting to drop, it is already starting to feel like playoff season is just around the corner in Super League. But this match only reinforced it...
Fireworks at the Women’s Rugby World Cup but the game can still rocket | Andy Bull
One-sided nature of matches so far is a problem and structural change is needed but there has still been plenty to enjoy After all these years of asking for more, it’s churlish to complain when the Women’s Rugby World Cup delivered so much in one weekend. England’s victory pulled in...
Novak Djokovic fights past Cameron Norrie to become oldest man to reach US Open fourth round since 1991
Serbian beats Briton in four sets in his best performance of tournament But he says his struggles with his body and movement are ‘frustrating’ At a time when Novak Djokovic could really benefit from some straightforward wins to ease through the early rounds of his final grand slam tournament of...