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Home nations frontrunners to host Women’s World Cup United’s New Stadium Development wants showpiece The FA is resisting lobbying from Manchester United to nominate a rebuilt Old Trafford as the venue for the 2035 Women’s World Cup final. The chief executive of United’s New Stadium Development, Collette Roche, went public with the club’s aspirations to host the 2035 final for the first time on Tu…

Lead runners were led off course by guide vehicle World Athletics gives runners special entry Three runners who were led off course in a race that served as a qualifier for the World Road Running Championships have been given entry into the upcoming competition. Jessica McClain, Emma Grace Hurley and Ednah Kurgat were leading the USA Track & Field Half Marathon Championships in Atlanta earlier th…

Arizona State’s head coach has turned around a losing program. Unsurprisingly, much of the discourse on the internet was not based on her leadership skills Sign up for WNBA 30: a limited run women’s basketball newsletter In March 2025, the Arizona State women’s basketball team were looking for a coach who could end a drought that had seen them go without a NCAA Tournament appearance – or even a w…

Ireland face Czech Republic in playoff semi-final ‘We are just riding the wave of confidence’ Seamus Coleman believes the Republic of Ireland have “a duty” to lift the country by completing the job of qualifying for a World Cup for the first time since 2002. The Republic visit the Czech Republic on Thursday in a World Cup playoff semi-final that few would have imagined possible after collecting o…

Son Cameron confirms 77-year-old has the disease Toshack managed Swansea and Madrid among many The Liverpool and Wales great John Toshack has been diagnosed with dementia, according to his son Cameron. Toshack had a celebrated playing career with the Merseyside club, scoring more than 100 goals and winning nine trophies between 1970 and 1978, and earning 40 caps for Wales before turning to manage…

Sadness over the Egyptian King’s departure from Liverpool is matched by gratitude for the goals and glory he gave supporters The first time I saw Mohamed Salah play was in August 2017. Arsenal were the visitors to Anfield. Liverpool were sensational on that sunny Sunday afternoon. Bobby Firmino and Sadio Mané had fashioned a 2-0 first-half lead, before the third member of Jürgen Klopp’s new attac…

Shiffrin holds off challenge from Germany’s Emma Aicher US star ties record set by Annemarie Moser-Pröll in 1970s Mikaela Shiffrin secured a record-tying sixth women’s overall World Cup skiing title by holding off a challenge from Germany’s Emma Aicher in the final race of the season. Shiffrin needed only to finish in the top 15 of Wednesday’s giant slalom in Lillehammer, and the American secured…

‘Double London Marathon’ plans backed by mayor’s office 2027 event would raise tens of millions more for charity The London Marathon is in advanced talks about staging a two-day event in 2027, allowing tens of thousands more runners to take part in the iconic race and to raise tens of millions more for charity. While the Double London Marathon, as it is being called internally, has not been grant…

Reform’s use of the football club has shocked fans and left the ownership red faced but how did it happen? When photographs of Nigel Farage’s visit to Portman Road went viral on Tuesday morning, a wave of shock quickly spread among the club’s staff. Some were furious, others genuinely devastated by the carelessness that saw Ipswich Town allow itself to be leveraged for Reform UK’s political gain.…

South Africa v New Zealand T20 series highlights schedule that is increasingly hard to keep up with Clinical guidance suggests recovery from emotional trauma can take weeks or months. In some cases, the lingering pain can last for years. Elite cricketers, though, are expected to compress that timeline into days. Take Mitchell Santner. The New Zealand captain oversaw his team’s crushing 96-run los…

George Raynor led Sweden to Olympic glory and a World Cup final, but he was never appreciated back home By The Set Pieces Nobody wanted him. An ambitious young English coach who was bursting with new ideas grew more and more frustrated as his efforts to land a job in his homeland fell flat. Application after application came to nothing, his reputation as a lower-league player meaning he rarely re…

Flamboyant Briton won his first and only world championship in dramatic fashion in Japan in the last race of the 1976 season Niki Lauda once described James Hunt as “one of my few real friends in racing”, the great rivals sharing a genuine bond even as they fought fiercely for the Formula One world championship in 1976. Its destination was decided at the Japanese Grand Prix – where the sport head…

The 37-year-old may come across as corny and gauche. But he’s already won one NBA championship and it probably won’t be his last The Boston Celtics’ head coach, Joe Mazzulla, is a very odd man. He is also a very good coach. Take, for example, a story Celtics guard Derrick White told in an interview last November. According to White, the first sound at one Celtics practice wasn’t a whistle. Contin…

American last hit a competitive ball in 2022 but Instagram posts show her training again, with her motives still unknown As was often the case in Serena Williams’s unparalleled tennis career, her time at the French Open in 2009 was far from straightforward. Her gritty performance in a third-round win against Spain’s María José Martínez Sánchez that went the distance was quickly overshadowed by a …

Five-times Ashes winner has since had a varied coaching career and believes the red ball is still fundamental to the modern player It’s a sunny spring afternoon, a new season looms, and just a short stroll down the road from Knowle & Dorridge Cricket Club, Ian Bell is in his local stressing the importance of County Championship runs. One of the purest Test batters England has produced this centur…