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With Sam Dalby’s second-half overhead kick, Bolton could start to plan their return to the Championship, a division they left in 2019 as a club in turmoil. After administration, last-minute sales, emergency loans, points deductions and a spell in League Two, they have found their way back. Stockport, themselves a club on the rise following financial trouble that took them down to the sixth tier, …

New York led the entire game in 121-108 win Jalen Brunson scored 30 points to lead the Knicks Finals appearance would be their first since 1999 Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Mikal Bridges added 22 and the New York Knicks moved within one game of their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999 with a 121-108 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night. The Knicks can wrap up the Eastern …

⚽ 4pm BST kick-off | Premier League clockwatch – live ⚽ Live scores | Latest table | Top scorers | Email Scott Oh Tottenham. How has it come to this? Champions League finalists in 2019, and Europa League winners just 12 months ago, one of the grandest clubs in England are now possibly 90 minutes plus fingernail-and-artery-bothering add-ons away from relegation to the second tier for the first tim…

⚽ 4pm BST kick-offs | Tottenham v Everton – live ⚽ Live scores | Latest table | Top scorers | Email Simon So, today is the day. No more procrastination, an end to doubt and vacillation. The single remaining relegation spot is by a margin the most significant position to be decided, and the crux of it is this: West Ham will go down if they don’t beat Leeds at home. They will also go down if Totten…

The athlete on the joy of receiving her first bike, her lonely teenage years, and a life-changing phone call Born in Bedfordshire in 1980, cyclist Victoria Pendleton is one of Britain’s most decorated athletes. As well as winning nine world championship golds, she won the gold medal in the sprint at the 2008 Olympics and the gold medal in the keirin (a sprint following a speed-controlled start), …

Swimmer says event is in ‘safest environment possible’ Wada, however, insists it is ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ The former Team GB swimmer Ben Proud has denied that young people will be tempted to dope after watching him in the Enhanced Games. The 31-year-old is on a mid six-figure salary after joining the controversial event and could earn another $1.25m on Sunday night if he swims faster than…

Updates from Sunday’s first-round action in Paris French Open agrees to player talks in row | Mail Daniel Salut et bienvenue à Roland-Garros 20126 – jour un! Notre été starts here, and it’s going to be a jazzer – or, to keep on theme, le jazzeur. It’s fair to say we’ve a strong idea of how the men’s tournament might resolve, but the fun in getting there means we can ignore the inevitability for n…

Brazilian unleashes full rotation aerial with two seconds of hang time Reigning world champion flies into New Zealand Pro semi-finals Australian Morgan Cibilic has produced a last-gasp special to book a spot in the New Zealand Pro semi-finals, but the day belonged to Yago Dora after the defending world champion pulled off one of the best aerials in World Surf League history. Dora was in deep trou…

From the No 1 goalkeeper Jordan Pickford to the shock call-up Ivan Toney, a player-by-player guide to the 26 bound for the US Spence and Toney in, Alexander-Arnold out Continue reading...

Within days of new parenthood, cricket tragics often find themselves mapping out futures for their offspring in the game. I’m no different Every cricket-loving parent will know the feeling. Not a feeling, exactly, more a tiny flicker of hope. A ridiculous, irrational hope that the gods who once reached down and gently kissed the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Ellyse Perry might one day do the same…

The crowd that gathered late into the night to celebrate on the streets reflected an idea of London where all are welcome The mounds of detritus pile up outside Finsbury Park station, like an offering to a vengeful deity. A deity gone rogue for the evening, demanding tribute specifically in the form of empty food cartons and abandoned Lime bikes. A deity that has finally decided to break the habi…

Ukrainian keeps unbeaten record with 11th-round TKO Dutch kickboxing great threatened to cause huge upset Oleksandr Usyk, Ukraine’s unbeaten heavyweight world champion , stopped the Dutch former kickboxer Rico Verhoeven with one second remaining in the penultimate round to avoid what would have been one of the greatest boxing upsets of all time on Saturday. The WBC title fight at the Pyramids of …

Mercedes lock out front row; Russell fastest by 0.068 McLaren’s Norris third and Piastri fourth; Hamilton fifth George Russell took pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix to set up a fascinating battle with his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli who was in second in Montreal, after the pair endured a feisty flashpoint having clashed with one another on track in the sprint race that preceded qual…

Leinster could not contain a team backed by tens of thousands of French supporters chanting with exuberance They are in danger of running away with rugby, these French. The Springboks may have something to say about that, but South Africa do not have the Top 14. And they definitely do not have Union Bordeaux-Bègles. Leinster tried to contain them. Leinster, packed with experienced internationals,…

Federation chief says team will train in Tijuana Iran had planned for Arizona base before war Move is said to resolve potential visa issues The president of the Iranian football federation said Saturday the team’s World Cup training base has been moved to Mexico from the United States after getting approval from Fifa. Mehdi Taj, president of the Iran Football Federation, announced the decision Sa…