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Footballer hopes to own world’s most expensive camel ‘I’ve watched my fair share of races on YouTube,’ he says It is known as the sport of the sheikhs, with thousands of fans packing desert tracks to watch robot jockeys compete for huge prizes. Now professional camel racing has a new high-profile investor: Paul Pogba. The Monaco midfielder said he had become a shareholder in the Saudi Arabia-base…

Fighting Irish AD has attacked ACC this week Miami won selection ahead of Notre Dame Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was “totally out of bounds” for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week. Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has cl…

‘It’s going to be the club’s and his decision,’ midfielder says Curtis Jones insists squad firmly behind Arne Slot Dominik Szoboszlai has said the Liverpool dressing room will have no influence over Mohamed Salah’s next move because only the player and the club can decide how their standoff ends. Salah missed Liverpool’s valuable Champions League win at Inter on Tuesday having been left out of Ar…

Tributes were paid at the Valley to a familiar face who began watching games in 1968 and became an inspiration The sudden death of the Charlton Athletic supporter Norman Barker has touched countless lives far beyond the club’s south-east London home. The Addicks’ Championship match against Portsmouth on Saturday was halted on 12 minutes after fans alerted the officials to a medical emergency in t…

The act of bowling is simple, the vocabulary used to describe it reflects the difficulty in pinning down its artistry and craft Every act in cricket’s history has begun with a bowler delivering a ball to a batter 22 yards away. Delivering . Like a postman delivers a council tax bill. Like a waiter delivers a round of drinks. Of all the verbs used to describe the bowling of a ball, this one speaks…

World No 1 says ‘biological men’ have a ‘huge advantage’ ‘She hit the nail on the head’, says battle of sexes rival Kyrgios Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, the world No 1 saying it would be unfair for women to face “biological men” in professional tennis. The WTA Tour gender participation policy permits transgender women to participate …

In 2010 and 2022, the US faced heightened emotions from the lead-in to the tournament itself. As hosts next year, little will change The draw is done. The schedule is set. For the US men’s national team, all that’s left, aside from playing the games, are the emotional highs and lows. After the draw, US head coach Mauricio Pochettino referenced a “competitive stress” factor triggered by the World …

Bayern beat Sporting to move level with Arsenal at top Atlético come from behind to burst PSV’s bubble Jules Koundé’s two quickfire headers helped Barcelona to fight back and edge past Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 in the Champions League at Camp Nou on Tuesday, marking a much-needed win for the Catalan side. After a draw against Club Brugge and a defeat by Chelsea, Barcelona found their stride to clim…

Initial Kansas plan for US training base thrown into doubt FA exploring alternative options on the east coast The Football Association has sent operational staff to the US this week to scout for World Cup training camps amid concerns that England may lose their preferred site to the Netherlands. Thomas Tuchel had cleared an FA plan for England to be based in Kansas after a pre-tournament training…

Glitzy draws, OJ-era chaos, grass laid over AstroTurf and a host nation that barely cared – the 1994 World Cup arrived amid suspicion and slapstick. Yet it became a watershed that would alter US sport and global football politics alike “The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any socc…

Plus: players popping up randomly on TV, triple-doubles in names and which match featured the most Ballon d’Or winners? Mail us with your questions and answers “While scanning the Champions League fixtures, I noticed that Pafos FC of Cyprus have a person’s face on their badge (Cypriot freedom fighter Evagoras Pallikarides),” writes Paul Savage. “Other than faces of legendary characters (Ajax), do…

In an exclusive interview, the former World Cup winner talks about taking Uzbekistan to the 2026 World Cup and a project close to his heart in Naples Uzbekistan may have made history by qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in the country’s 34 years of independence in June after losing only once in 15 qualifiers. But they then had a problem: Timur Kapadze stepped down and they needed a …

Egypt’s football body says Pride event would clash with values Iran raises objections to plans organised by local Seattle group Egypt and Iran are calling on football’s governing body to intervene in the LGBTQ+ Pride celebration planned to coincide with their group stage match in Seattle at the 2026 World Cup. Egypt’s Football Association (EFA) said on Tuesday it had sent a letter to Fifa urging …

Captain back at the helm in Adelaide after missing first two Tests Usman Khawaja remains in frame despite back injury concerns Australian veteran Usman Khawaja remains in the frame for selection for the third Ashes Test after being included in the squad for Adelaide headlined by the return of captain Pat Cummins. Khawaja was left out of the second Test XI after struggling with a back injury durin…

Lampard tells Coventry players to stay ‘level-headed’ Boro win at Charlton; QPR up to sixth Frank Lampard insisted the title race was never over after his Coventry side were frustrated in a 1-1 draw at 10-man Preston as their Championship lead was reduced to five points. After Andrew Hughes deflected Jack Rudoni’s shot into his own net, it seemed as if Coventry would bounce back strongly from the…