Striker left out of squad for win against West Ham Coach confirms Núñez will be back for visit to Leicester Arne Slot has denied Darwin Núñez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff. The Liverpool head coach...
Hamilton hopes he and Ferrari can ‘ride rollercoaster’ to success
Briton in cautious mood before Saudi Arabian GP but maintains Scuderia are ‘greatest team in F1 history’ Weathering the choppy waves of his new career with Ferrari it is still clear that every time Lewis Hamilton climbs into the car the seven-time Formula One champion believes he is taking a...
Northampton hang on to edge out Newcastle in Premiership thriller
Newcastle 34-35 Northampton Defending champions and bottom club share 10 tries Northampton survived a late scare to snatch a narrow 35-34 victory over Newcastle at Kingston Park. A thrilling encounter saw Craig Wright cancel out Jamie Blamire’s opening try and after Brett Connon sent the Falcons ahead again from the...
County cricket day one: Cameron Green makes debut ton before cramp strikes – as it happened
Rain was a factor but Gloucestershire made hay against Kent and a Yorkshire trio made half-centuries at Durham And as rain hits Birmingham, let’s wander around the grounds. Division One: Lyth and Bean are making steady progress against Durham (Yorkshire 31-0). A couple of wickets for Worcestershire his morning at...
Ruth Chepngetich and Peres Jepchirchir withdraw from London Marathon
World-record holder Chepngetich ‘not in right place’ Defending women’s champion Jepchirchir has ankle injury The women’s world-record holder, Ruth Chepngetich, and the reigning champion, Peres Jepchirchir, have withdrawn from the London Marathon, organisers said on Friday, less than two weeks before the race. Kenyan Chepngetich broke the women’s record in...
‘It’s a new world’: the analysts using AI to psychologically profile elite players
Statistics can help assess a potential recruit’s emotional control and leadership, while highlighting red flags “The players didn’t show enough fight.” Listen to any pundit’s post-match reaction and you will hear variations of that soundbite. But can you analyse an athlete’s state of mind, based on their on-pitch body language?...
Kyren Wilson: ‘It’s not just me that’s world champion. It’s my whole family’
The 2024 winner reflects on the emotional backstory to Crucible triumph amid major health concerns for his family “‘I still believed in myself but it was quite soul-destroying out there,” Kyren Wilson says in a back room at Barratts Snooker Club in Northampton. The world champion once worked here as...
Skelton’s Cheltenham winner maintains narrow title lead in duel with Mullins
Irish trainer set to have multiple Easter runners in UK Charlotte’s Web best bet on all-weather finals card A single winner on Cheltenham’s final card of the season was enough to maintain Dan Skelton’s narrow lead in the contest for the National Hunt trainers’ championship on Thursday, ahead of a...
Johnny Sexton makes surprise move to join Andy Farrell’s Lions coaching staff
Raises further intrigue over fly-half selection debate Sexton endorsed Owen Farrell in press interview Johnny Sexton has been added to the British & Irish Lions coaching staff for the summer tour of Australia in a surprise move that raises further intrigue over the fly-half selection debate following his previous criticism...
Chess: Carlsen scores in Paris, leads Freestyle Grand Slam after two events
The world No 1 defeated his old rival and world No 2, Hikaru Nakamura, in the final, and took the $3.75m series lead before the third Slam event in Las Vegas Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, scored a low-key triumph on Monday when he won the Paris leg of the...