Category: Sports

Curtain-raiser can offer clues but it is no reliable pointer to a season – its winners have not landed the title since 2018 The doubt for anyone when a long-strived-for goal has been achieved is hunger. Arsenal waited 22 years for their 14th league title and, compounding the yearning, finished...

Bangladesh win Test match on Australian soil for first time Cameron Green century not enough to stave off nine-wicket defeat Bangladesh have handed Australia one of their most humiliating and crushing Test defeats in 149 years, despite a career-saving century by Cameron Green. The visitors bowled Australia out for 284...

Argentinian powers to 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory Heat and humidity take toll on Djokovic Britain’s Fery holds off Duckworth 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 The scoreboard did not yet indicate that anything was awry, but even as Novak Djokovic led by a set in his opening match at the Cincinnati Open, he...

Men’s and women’s 4x100 teams complete wins in style Hunt will aim for fourth gold in mixed relay on Sunday No sooner had Amy Hunt won a staggering third European gold medal in five days than she pointed at the superwomen guiding her closer to history. “We’re the fantastic four,”...

⚽ News and buildup to the first Sunday of the EFL season⚽ Jonathan Wilson’s Community Shield preview | Mail us Championship results Wolves 2-2 Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Preston North End Bristol City 0-2 Millwall Charlton 2-1 Derby County Middlesbrough 2-1 Lincoln City Norwich City 1-2 West Brom Portsmouth...

Spain defender on swapping Barcelona for Bromley, embracing the contrasting style of the WSL – and her newfound love for beans and crumpets ‘No, I can’t, I’m sorry, it’s a secret!” Mapi León roars with laughter, in response to being asked what persuaded her to join London City Lionesses. Does...

Swiss runner sets 1:54.81sec championship best Femke Broeders-Bol secures bronze in 1:55.54 When Audrey Werro was a child, she was so painfully shy that her father told her she had to become a lion every time she raced. In a European women’s 800m final for the ages, she followed that...

The former Australia player says England Test coach Stephen Fleming brings the perfect blend of tradition and innovation, and doesn’t rule out joining his staff “He’d probably tell you the same thing now if you asked him. In that first year he often said to me, ‘I have no idea...

⚽ News and buildup to the first Saturday of the EFL season⚽ This weekend’s fixtures | Wolves 2-2 Blackburn | Mail us Just a reminder that you can keep up to date with everything happening in the transfer market with our men’s transfer interactive… As always, be sure to message...

Ultimatum issued hours before plan was scrapped European Football Clubs demanded Infantino back down Europe’s leading clubs threatened not to participate in future Club World Cups unless Gianni Infantino withdrew his Fifa Forward Enterprise scheme, issuing their ultimatum hours before the plan was scrapped. In a letter to the Fifa...