Draw for revamped competition held in Miami Kylian Mbappé and Neymar to meet in group stage Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will open this year’s Club World Cup against Egyptian club Al Ahly, as Kylian Mbappé and Neymar face off for Real Madrid and Al-Hilal. Premier League champions Manchester City...
George Russell claims Max Verstappen threatened to ‘put my head in the wall’
Mercedes driver revealed tensions boiled over in Qatar World champion was ‘going to purposefully crash into me’ George Russell has claimed his Formula One rival Max Verstappen threatened him with violence during the escalating tensions between the drivers at the Qatar Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver said the newly crowned...
NFL rookie quarterback grades: from Maye’s flashes of genius to a brilliant A+
The 2024 first-round QBs entered the league with varying degrees of expectation. Who has flown and who has struggled? Williams walked into the NFL with sky-high expectations. He was compared to Patrick Mahomes and was billed as someone who could, almost single-handedly, turn Chicago into a playoff contender. Continue reading...
Ding Liren and Gukesh D play to fizzling Game 9 draw in deadlocked title match
Ding and Gukesh play to Game 9 draw in 3hr 56min Best-of-14-games title match all square at 4½-4½ Ding Liren v Gukesh D: all your questions, answered Play through 22 famous world championship games Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju are no closer to a verdict in their world championship match...
‘Embarrassing’ Lakers lose by 41 points amid worst two-game stretch in their history
Team have a 70-point deficit in last two games JJ Redick says his players are struggling with basics A 29-point loss in Minnesota on Monday. A 41-point loss in Miami on Wednesday. Together, it’s the worst two-game stretch in Los Angeles Lakers history. The Lakers lost to the Heat 134-93...
Charlotte Dujardin suspended for one year over horse-whipping incident
Double Olympic champion was forced to withdraw on eve of Paris 2024 after footage emerged of her repeatedly whipping a horse The double Olympic dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin has been suspended from all competition for one year after a video emerged on the eve of the Paris 2024 Games of...
A player’s foreseeable death raises existential questions for college football
If the purpose of universities is to cultivate the mind, it is nearly impossible to deny that football, by degrading the brain, is antithetical to the process “It is clearly the duty of the colleges which have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and become intense to purge themselves...
Manchester City back to winning ways as they cruise past Nottingham Forest
Manchester City snapped out of their downward spiral as they roared back into life with a convincing 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest. Goals from Bernardo Silva, a rejuvenated Kevin De Bruyne and Jérémy Doku saw the champions finally get back to winning ways after an alarming run of six defeats...
‘I kept his secret’: Emma Finucane on pushing past limits and her boyfriend’s cycling defection
Triple Olympic medallist is fiercely honest about the storm of emotion that engulfed her in the Paris velodrome and being unable to tell her family Matthew Richardson would soon be joining her in Britain ‘It’s a good question,” Emma Finucane says as she thinks searchingly of the most important lesson...
Ding Liren and Gukesh D play to rollercoaster draw in Game 8 of title tilt
Ding and Gukesh play to Game 8 draw in 4hr 35min Best-of-14-games title match all square at 4-all Ding Liren v Gukesh D: all your questions, answered Play through 22 famous world championship games Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a fifth successive draw on Wednesday in the eighth...