Category: Sports

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,...

Florida win Game 6 to claim series 4-2 Panthers also beat Oilers in last year’s final The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champions by beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6 of the final on Tuesday night, becoming the NHL’s first back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020...

The Maroons have never won two matches on the road to turn around an Origin series and the Blues hold all the cards ahead of Game 2 in Perth Queensland’s State of Origin aspirations will evaporate on a wet Australian rules oval in Perth on Wednesday if most commentators and...

Champagne tries and offloads to retired greats and future stars, here are the highlights of the 2024-25 season 1) Leinster 34-37 Northampton, 3 May. One of the great ram-raids. Continue reading...

Man given restraining order in Dubai on ticket waiting list All England Club employs fixated threat specialists Emma Raducanu’s stalker has been blocked from buying tickets for the Wimbledon Championships this month in the public ballot, it has emerged. Security staff at the All England Club discovered that the man,...