Category: Sports

William Buick on board in Prince of Wales’s Stakes win Royal family have second favourite beaten at meeting The only British stable to wrest Royal Ascot’s top trainer award away from Aidan O’Brien over the course of the past decade continued its strong run through this year’s meeting here ­on...

Former England bowler has motor neurone disease and his new autobiography vividly describes his daily experience David Lawrence loved to dance. As a teenager he would move to northern soul, hitching his way from Gloucester to Wigan Casino, a change of clothes in the bag, life beginning at midnight. Then...

Chelsea winger was provisionally suspended last year ‘Presence and/or use of a prohibited substance’ alleged Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk could face a lengthy ban after being charged by the Football Association with doping offences. Under FA regulations the winger could be banned for as long as four years after providing a...

Two Smiths and Alex Mitchell in XV for Dublin match Tadhg Furlong also has chance to prove his fitness Maro Itoje will captain the British & Irish Lions for the first time against Argentina in Dublin on Friday after the head coach, Andy Farrell, included him and eight other Englishmen...

British No 1 recovers to win 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5) Draper battles through but admits ‘I wasn’t my best’ In the final throes of a tense, uneasy tussle with one of the bigger servers in his sport, Jack Draper was fading. The British No 1, and second seed, had started...

Playing out from the back works for top teams but sides at the bottom are giving away too many chances By Opta Analyst Long-ball football has, for better or worse, been on the decline for years. Football was once a kick-and-run game, shaped by long balls and the thinking that...

Gp H: Real Madrid 1-1 Al-Hilal (G García 34; Neves 41pen) Federico Valverde’s 92nd-minute penalty saved Xabi Alonso said in the buildup he was going to “ignite” his players at this Club World Cup, that Real Madrid were ready to rock’n’roll. In the event this was something more downbeat in...

Team are in Washington DC for Club World Cup President asks if women could make Juve team Juventus players and staff were involved in an awkward encounter at the White House on Wednesday when Donald Trump attempted to get them to enter into a debate on transgender women in sport....

After a run of greats at the helm, the tourists’ early promotion of their new leader is an intriguing choice to steady a listing ship Shubman Gill was a pretty laid-back character when he played for Glamorgan three summers ago. So laid back, in fact, that early on during his...

If the Pataudi Trophy had to be renamed then the rivalry between India and England’s two most-capped Test cricketers was worthy of the switch Spring 2006 and India are batting against England at the Wankhede in Mumbai. The series is all square, one Test each with one to play. England,...