Category: Sports

Accolade has never been given to a rugby league player Boston, 90, a pioneering black figure in British sport The Wigan Warriors legend Billy Boston will become the first rugby league player in the sport’s 130-year history to receive a knighthood on Tuesday. Rugby league has never had a player...

Fifa’s huge prize money risks making a handful of clubs almost infinitely wealthier than their domestic rivals Last Sunday, in the northern Argentinian city of Santiago del Estero, Platense beat Huracán 1-0 to win Argentina’s Apertura, the decisive goal a beautiful dipping effort struck at the top of the bounce...

The Australia captain talks about leading the side against South Africa and not getting too big for his boots – but plays a dead bat regarding the Bairstow dismissal at Lord’s As Pat Cummins opens up at the pavilion end, while gazing across the vast empty space of Lord’s a few days...

Head coach thinks players ‘will rise to the occasion’ Tuchel wants ‘more fluid’ and ‘more exciting’ football Thomas Tuchel has said England should not have an inferiority complex in relation to the world’s strongest teams but must start playing with a smile to realise their true potential. The England head...

As the tournament concludes with Carlos Alcaraz retaining his French Open crown and Coco Gauff claiming her second grand slam title, we take a look at some of our favourite images from Roland Garros Continue reading...

Lambourn’s victory lacked the atmosphere of previous years which are unlikely to return to the glory days of early century A yellow weather warning put a lid on the walk-up attendance on the Hill at Epsom on Saturday, and though the Derby itself avoided the worst of the rain, when...

It was after the substitution of the former Liverpool captain that Thomas Tuchel’s side slipped in to individualism The tendency is always to gloom. How could it not be? Nobody could have sat through England’s 1-0 win over Andorra on Saturday and not felt a profound sense of frustration. Six...

Second T20I: WI 196-6, Eng 199-6; England won by 4 wkts Right-hander dominant in the middle with Jacob Bethell The drought continues for the West Indies men. A total of 196 looked enough to end a sequence of nine consecutive away defeats against England, a run that began with the...

Indiana Pacers 107–123 Oklahoma City Thunder Thunder level best-of-seven series at 1-1 The Oklahoma City Thunder blew Game 1 of the NBA finals after holding a significant lead over the Indiana Pacers. In Game 2, they made sure there was no repeat, utterly dominating their opponents in a 123-107 victory...

When the moment came Cristiano Ronaldo hid his face and leant on his teammates. He scored the goal that put Portugal level in this final but had been withdrawn, exhausted, late in normal time and now, as the men left on the field lined up on the halfway line, he...