Category: Sports

This team never know when they are beaten and their captain led the resistance when Australia looked on top You can defeat a South African team – Australia may very well themselves before Friday is over – but you don’t ever seem to be able to make them realise they’re...

Updates from the third day of the WTC final at Lord’s Read the latest edition of The Spin | And email Geoff Hello for the final time from Lord’s for this World Test Championship final. Yes, it’s only Day 3, but surely, surely, this Test finishes today. The sun is...

McIlroy four over after bruising finish to opening round Spaun ends with one-stroke lead over Thriston Lawrence There was a Thursday spell when it felt as if Oakmont had poked the bear. Rory McIlroy was two under par, he had fired a drive 392 yards; it seemed the Masters champion...

Manager is flexible but a slow starter with limited experience in Europe, and arrives as the love still lingers for former manager Brøndby appointed Thomas Frank as manager in June 2013 and did not win any of their first eight games of the 2013-14 season. Brentford appointed Frank as manager...

Already controversial because of extra fixtures and Fifa involvement, the new tournament in the US is likely to be played in temperatures above 30C Across this weekend, the US National Weather Service is predicting “moderate” heat risk for Miami and Los Angeles. With temperatures likely to exceed 30C, the agency...

Emergency meeting held with athletes over decision Decision leaves LA without major meeting this summer Michael Johnson cancelled the final leg of the new Grand Slam Track series in Los Angeles before an emergency meeting with athletes on Thursday night, leaving the host of the 2028 Olympics and the country’s...

The world No 1 colourfully described his Norway experience and his desk fist-bang against Gukesh Dommaraju “Winning by half a point after a lot of results go my way doesn’t feel like a statement,” was how Magnus Carlsen summed up the Stavanger tournament, where he finished just half a point...

Raducanu wins 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals Boulter falls to fifth seed Diana Shnaider 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 Emma Raducanu will regain her status as the best female tennis player in Britain for the first time in two years after she continued her solid start to the grass-court season by...

Big clubs concerned they are missing out financially Winners could be paid more than £90m Fifa will hold a consultation about expanding the Club World Cup to 48 teams in 2029 if this summer’s edition is successful, after lobbying from clubs who failed to qualify for the new $1bn (£740m)...

Briton to race in LMP2 class for French IDEC team ‘In the next decade we’ll see a huge transition’ Jamie Chadwick believes motor racing is undergoing a fundamental change in female participation, a transition the British driver has played a central role in. Chadwick is committed to taking it even...