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County Championship updates as the title race heats up Mail Tanya or post BTL | Sign up for The Spin newsletter And the unstoppable Kyle Abbott, after Notts got away from Hampshire at Trent Bridge. “When you win the toss and bowl on that pitch with lights on, you frankly should do better. We were quite far off mark and I’m pretty disappointed to be honest. Continue reading...

Sports is the rare topic in which the president has succeeded in shifting the conversation to his preferred terms Lately, it seems Donald Trump’s scope of interests has narrowed to a few things: remaking downtown Washington DC in his gaudy image; wars he thinks he can win quickly and easily, even though he can’t. Also, golf. Always golf. Ever golf. Leander Schaerlaeckens is the author of The Long…

Winner claims 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7) victory Epic quarter-final ends after 3.30am in New York As the official 10th day of play in New York moved deeper into the remote hours of the new morning, every passing game imbued Carlos Alcaraz with greater despair. From his focused start, Alcaraz’s intensity had flatlined and he could barely put a ball in court. Alcaraz lost nine consecutive game…

One of Barcelona’s eight World Cup winners reflects on how Spain’s triumph is inspiring them in the Champions League Dani Olmo nods towards his right arm. “Look: goosebumps,” he says. The Spain midfielder is sitting in a back room at Barcelona’s Joan Gamper training ground trying to pinpoint the moment he knew he was a world champion. “There’s an image in my mind with Ferran [Torres]’s mum: huggi…

Plus: clubs with multiple £100m players on their books and more trophy-laden footballers Mail us with your all of your questions and answers “The Saturday before last, Clyde were winning 3-0 at The Spartans after an hour when Logan Dunachie was sent off. Twenty-eight minutes later, the score was 3-3. What is the biggest turnaround in a game following a red card/most quantitative blame that can be…

Newcastle did just enough in south-east London to progress to the next round of the Carabao Cup. Joe Willock scored the only goal of this boisterous, fun, slightly vague cup tie against a spirited Millwall team that was not so much down to the bare bones, as the bones beneath the bones. By the end there was a sense both sets of fans were more or less happy. Millwall for the vigour of the performa…

England forward scores twice in 3-2 victory Southampton 3-1 Swansea; Watford 2-1 Preston Captain Jarrod Bowen scored twice as West Ham ’s 3-2 win over Bolton took them top of the Championship on goal difference. The England international opened the scoring after 13 minutes and earned his side a first win at Bolton for 31 years with his second 13 minutes from time. In between, Wanderers, beaten fo…

NFL executives use this week to push for inclusion at Brisbane 2032 Possibility a key reason Melbourne secured Rams v 49ers match The NFL’s regular season debut in Australia will deliver a significant commercial return for the league and its clubs, but the league’s takeover of Melbourne this week is about more than money. The scheduling of Friday’s match at the MCG is also designed to help secure…

Saudi investors stopped backing LIV this year Rahm and DeChambeau may still be involved LIV Golf, the breakaway tour that spent billions luring top players away from the PGA Tour, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, it announced on Tuesday. Launched in 2022, free-spending LIV caused shockwaves and bitter divisions in the golf world, before losing the backing of its deep-pocketed Saudi …

Sometimes football is silly and sometimes it is more fun for it. On a night when there were 37 shots and the goalkeepers shared thirteen saves between them, some of them absurd, José Mourinho’s Real Madrid found a way to beat his former team Inter in his first Champions League night of his second spell. Just don’t ask exactly how. Except perhaps to cite Thibaut Courtois, whose astonishing save in…

Defending champion wins 7-6 (1), 3-6, 7-6 (7) Sabalenka: ‘I was pushing myself to the limit’ It seemed for some time that Aryna Sabalenka would be consumed by the rage and anxiety that has smothered her for so much of this year. At 2-2 in the final set of her brutal quarter-final against Linda Noskova, a second double fault of the game damned Sabalenka to a 0-40 deficit. She instantly fell to her…

Late-night drinking incidents and a post-Bazball reboot have given the hosts plenty to think about, while the tourists have their own problems to sort out There are some chilly white-ball games still to come this month and with it the sight of Kevin Pietersen back in England training kit for the first time in 12 years. KP is down with the kids these days, 6/7 memes and the like , and starts a new…

Aston Villa were 3-1 up after 43 minutes but were made to sweat for their first win of the season, emerging victorious from an entertaining Champions League opener against Club Brugge. John McGinn, who struck the only goal when Villa belatedly got their season up and running last September against Bologna , opened the scoring before goals from Emi Buendía and a first for Nicolas Jackson appeared …

Teetotal Hull teed off alone in practice Briton in Women’s Open controversy in August Charley Hull has, unsurprisingly, been involved in a colourful start to Solheim Cup week. After arriving late for her Tuesday practice tee time in the Netherlands, an online clip of her joking about the reason prompted a cascade of online speculation and ended with members of the European team hierarchy forcibly…

Pair have joined Sale after spells in France Duo last played for England at 2023 World Cup Courtney Lawes and Joe Marchant have been warned they must go “over and above” the performances of their rivals in the first five weeks of the new seasonto earn England recalls this autumn. Lawes, 37, and 30-year-old Marchant have both joined Sale this summer after spells in France and stated their ambition…