The head coach must add steel to halt Australia, with Morgan Smithies and AJ Brimson pushing for starts The scoreline alone offers concrete evidence of how underwhelming England were against Australia in the first Ashes Test on Saturday, but if anyone needed further proof, a glimpse around the Wembley crowd...
Saracens’ Noah Caluori called up by England for autumn internationals
19-year-old wing scored five tries on first Prem start Borthwick has picked 36-player squad for four matches Noah Caluori, the 19-year-old Saracens wing, has been named in England’s autumn internationals squad by Steve Borthwick. Caluori burst on to the Prem scene by scoring five tries against Sale on 18 October...
NFL roundup: Jets snatch first win of season; Giants’ Skattebo suffers gruesome ankle injury
Jets come back from 14-point deficit in fourth quarter Costly injuries blight Eagles’ win over Giants Breece Hall rushed for two second-half touchdowns and threw a four-yard TD pass to Mason Taylor with 1:54 left, helping the New York Jets edge the Cincinnati Bengals for their first win of the...
England crush New Zealand in final group match but Ecclestone injured
England, 172-2, bt New Zealand, 168, by eight wkts Sophie Ecclestone hurts shoulder while fielding England finished the group stages of the World Cup with a dominant eight-wicket win against a limp New Zealand, after bowling them out for 168 in 38.2 overs. Sophie Devine’s final one-day international ended in...
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Arsenal’s title tilt is built on solid defence, Chelsea miss Cole Palmer and what happened to clampdown on shirt-pulling? “One-nil to the Arsenal” may not be thrilling but it is certainly effective. Sunday’s victory over Crystal Palace was Mikel Arteta’s side’s third by that margin in nine Premier League games....
‘I could have killed them’: Lawson’s fury after narrowly missing hitting marshals
Marshals ran across track clearing debris at Mexico GP ‘I nearly hit one of them, honestly, it was so dangerous’ Liam Lawson issued a damning broadside after he narrowly missed hitting two marshals on track at the Mexico City Grand Prix, warning that he could have killed them and branding...
Mikel Arteta values Arsenal victory over Palace ‘more than any other this season’
Latest win takes Arsenal four points clear at the top Arteta’s side now have seven-point lead over Liverpool Mikel Arteta hailed Arsenal’s 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace as the most valuable of the season after seeing his side open up a four-point lead at the Premier League’s summit. In what...
Pep Guardiola sure Manchester City ‘still alive’ after latest loss at Aston Villa
Manager says City in title hunt despite six-point gap Erling Haaland’s injury not expected to be serious Pep Guardiola said it was too early for Manchester City to fret about Arsenal’s superb start to the Premier League season, and that his team were alive in their pursuit of reclaiming the...
Crunch time nears for Australia as selectors try to fit Ashes batting puzzle pieces together | Martin Pegan
Plot twists have thrown up more uncertainty over which six batters will be included in the hosts’ squad just under a month out from the first Test The Great Australian Bat Off has returned for a brand new season with fresh faces and forgotten favourites bidding to join the cast...
Ruthless Australia sweep England aside in one-sided Ashes Test at Wembley
Reece Walsh stars in Australia’s 26-6 victory England must win second Test to keep series alive The pre-match talk from an England perspective going into this first Ashes series for 22 years focused on how the hosts were not short on motivation. However, you can have all the motivation in...