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⚽️ All the action from across Europe. Kick-off 8pm GMT ⚽️ Live scores | Table | Permutations Has there been a great game in the Champions League group stage this season? Probably not. Even if there had been, it almost certainly didn’t mean all that much. But that’s the way of the modern game: an extremely protracted clearing of the throat before the real business begins. Uefa will proudly tell th…

Ravens OC replaces Kevin Stefanski in Cleveland Several candidates passed on chance to take job The Cleveland Browns are naming Todd Monken as their head coach, according to multiple reports. Monken had been Baltimore’s offensive coordinator for the past three seasons, and his appointment comes after several high-profile candidates rejected the Browns. He has also interviewed for Tampa Bay’s offe…

American becomes latest major winner to exit 2018 Masters champion will be eligible for PGA Tour Patrick Reed has delivered the latest high-profile blow to LIV Golf by announcing he will leave the circuit before the start of its 2026 season. The 35-year-old American former Masters champion joins Brooks Koepka by instead focusing on the PGA Tour. Reed will spend his immediate time on the DP World …

Gotham FC 0-1 Corinthians (Zanotti 83) Corinthians’ 40-year-old captain scores late winner Corinthians earned a stunning victory against Gotham FC in the first semi-final of the inaugural Fifa Women’s Champions Cup, a goal from the 40-year-old Corinthians captain Gabi Zanotti in the 83rd minute the difference. “Everyone was talking about maybe Gotham and Arsenal in the final but Corinthians are h…

Winger was highest earner at £325,000 a week He has not played this season after being frozen out Raheem Sterling is looking to revive his career after departing Chelsea by mutual consent. The 31-year-old winger was the club’s highest earner but has been out of favour since the summer of 2024. Sterling had 18 months left on a deal worth £325,000 a week. Sterling struggled to produce his best form…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Remember that golden summer of strikers? Alexander Isak, the former hottest property in football. Get well soon, Alex. That all boiled down to a crazy last day of deal sheets, add-ons, release clauses, buy-backs, loans with options to buy, medicals and AI-generated InstaChat memes. Such halcyon days are unlikely to be repeated in this bleak midw…

Nerveless batter is a master of building an innings on spinning wickets and his form suggests he could have prospered in India and Sri Lanka The final night was Harry Brook’s but Joe Root still took the series, as he usually does in Sri Lanka. It was here that he began his stratospheric run against the red ball, a double hundred at Galle in 2021 the first of 24 Test tons in the next five years. G…

Midfielder speaks out on politics before World Cup Goretzka open to summer move to England from Bayern The Germany international Leon Goretzka has said Donald Trump’s actions have left him feeling “not only German but also European”. The US president has recently threatened to take Greenland by force and called Europe “weak” and “decaying” . Goretzka, who hopes to make the Germany squad for the W…

Rodman strikes again as USA rout Chile 5-0 Bethune, Joseph and Sams score first goals SheBelieves Cup in March is next up for US Croix Bethune, Jameese Joseph and Emily Sams scored their first international goals and the United States went on to beat Chile 5-0 on Tuesday night in Santa Barbara, California. Emma Sears and Trinity Rodman also scored for the US, who haven’t conceded a goal in five m…

Former world champion to face Arslanbek Makhmudov Briton has been training in Thailand ahead of his return Tyson Fury is to make his comeback against Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11 in a fight that will be screened on Netflix. Fury announced his retirement a year ago in the wake of successive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk but has been training in Thailand ahead of his return to the ring. Continue rea…

Veteran dropped for alleged outburst at match officials France prop Uini Atonio forced to retire after heart attack Bundee Aki looks set to miss Ireland’s Six Nations opener against France after being withdrawn from Andy Farrell’s squad for disciplinary reasons. Aki is being investigated by the Irish Rugby Football Union for alleged disrespect shown to match officials in Connacht’s 34-23 United R…

Snow athletes have rebounded with a radical overhaul after funding was cut in response to poor results at Beijing Winter Olympics Just days before the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, the young Team GB members who think nothing of flying 30ft in the air while spinning like gyroscopes have once again proved they have the X Factor. Last Friday, Mia Brookes, 19, soared to X Games gold in the snowb…

Highlight clips available at 8pm on Saturday for first time Traditional linear viewing of weekend show has declined Match of the Day’s viewing figures have increased considerably this season in a vindication of the BBC’s new digital strategy, according to data obtained by the Guardian. Traditional linear viewing of the Saturday and Sunday evening highlights programmes had declined by 770,000 to 6…

No 1 seed eases past American player 6-3 6-4 6-4 Sinner will now meet fortunate winner Djokovic Jannik Sinner will take on Novak Djokovic in another grand slam semi-final after a straight-sets win over Ben Shelton at the Australian Open. Sinner’s dramas of the third round, when he was in serious trouble in the heat against Eliot Spizzirri, now seem a distant memory, with the two-time defending ch…

Ward-Prowse has not featured under Nuno Espírito Santo Traoré understood to have joined from Fulham until June Burnley are poised to sign James Ward-Prowse on loan from West Ham. The midfielder is undergoing a medical with a view to spending the rest of the season at Turf Moor. He is preparing to leave West Ham on a day when the club confirmed the arrival of Adama Traoré from Fulham for a small u…