Category: Sports

Driver’s girlfriend featured prominently in Singapore GP ‘They didn’t show any of the four of five overtakes I did’ Carlos Sainz believes Formula One is “going overboard” by placing too much focus on the reactions of drivers’ girlfriends and celebrities during live broadcasts, obscuring the drama of grand prix racing....

Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen have former an axis of excellence. But which player will break that cycle? There has been a trend in recent NFL seasons. Around Week 8, the MVP race starts to follow a predictable script: Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson (if the...

We look at how the 80 players we picked five years ago have been faring for club and country Five years ago the Covid-19 pandemic was spreading, causing untold pain – mental and physical – that we are still feeling the effects of. Football, like every other aspect of life,...

Minority owner moves to clarify coach’s future ‘You can’t run a club like United on kneejerk reactions’ Sir Jim Ratcliffe insists he will not take a “kneejerk” decision to sack Ruben Amorim and has indicated he will afford the head coach three years to demonstrate his capabilities at Manchester United....

Head coach terms could not be agreed with Sun Group ‘You’ll be missed. I wasn’t expecting that,’ says Adil Rashid Andrew Flintoff has walked away from his role as Northern Superchargers head coach, suggesting the team’s new Indian owners made him feel undervalued, offering him a salary about 25% of...

Players who sign up would be ineligible for national sides Proposed event yet to be sanctioned by World Rugby Senior global rugby figures believe the rebel R360 venture is all but dead unless it can find a way to appease the world’s top nations. In a dramatic move the leading...

It was hardly thrilling and it was not the entertaining opening to life in the Women’s Champions League that Manchester United might have hoped for but, more important than that, the English side got up and running with three points as they beat Vålerenga in a low-key affair in Leigh....

Australian batter, an evangelical Christian who believes this is all written out in advance, may force his way back for the Ashes Marnus Labuschagne carefully spreads butter on both sides of a slice of white bread. “That’s the key,” he tells the camera as he brings down the lid of...

Tuchel: ‘I don’t see why we should burden ourselves’ Head coach ‘not just collecting most talented players’ Thomas Tuchel has said England would be underdogs at the World Cup and would be stronger if they did not allow themselves to become burdened by expectation. Tuchel, who delivered another warning to...

England, 182-6, beat Bangladesh, 178, by 4 wkts Heather Knight reprieved on two catches and lbw decision England survived a nervy wobble with the bat to beat Bangladesh by four wickets in Guwahati and go top of the table at the World Cup. Bangladesh reduced England to 103 for six...