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Greaves triumphs at Players Championship ‘I never thought I’d win one of these. Never’ Beau Greaves has made darts history by becoming the first woman to win a PDC ranking title. The 22-year-old beat three former world champions at the Players Championship in Milton Keynes, seeing off Rob Cross, Gary Anderson and Michael Smith. Greaves completed a nailbiting 8-7 victory over Smith in the final wi…

Brazilian is set to leave in summer after four years Interim manager says the situation is ‘pretty clear’ Michael Carrick ruled out any reversal of Casemiro’s departure from Manchester United in the summer after the Brazilian scored in ’s 2-1 win against Brentford. The midfielder’s header on 11 minutes was his ninth goal in the Premier League, second only to Benjamin Sesko, who registered just be…

This swashbuckling Manchester United victory moves them to within two points of Champions League qualification and is prima facie evidence of the job Michael Carrick has executed since his appointment as interim manager. The performance is also a fair calling card for the permanent role as United bettered a doughty Brentford by simply being better. Continue reading...

Allegations of ‘sporting fraud’ against Gianluca Rocchi arrive at an especially messy moment for Italian football This could have been the weekend when Inter sealed the Serie A title. Instead, it became one overshadowed by a refereeing scandal. On Saturday, Agenzia Italia broke the news that Gianluca Rocchi, the man responsible for designating match officials for Serie A and Serie B, was under in…

Fans warned of uncertainty around protests and policing Lise Klaveness set to raise concerns over ICE with Fifa This summer’s World Cup will be a “bonanza of sportswashing” according to human rights organisations, who claim the Trump administration is using sport as a political tool to “cover up abuses”. With supporter groups warning they have “absolutely no clue” what will happen to fans if they…

Barça’s need to adapt on show in Bayern draw, while Sam Kerr’s ‘perfect hat-trick’ is denied by a lack of technology Alexia Putellas said Barcelona have to “adapt our game” after a 1-1 draw away to Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals. The game, in which the scorer of Bayern’s equaliser, Franziska Kett, was sent off for pulling Salma Paralluelo’s hair late on, was a …

The Champion jockey fight could come down to a head-bobber here, a one-day ban there – or who wants it most A little over a month after the Brocklesby at Doncaster launched the new season on turf, the Flat jockeys’ championship will finally be off and running at Newmarket on Saturday. For the first time since Oisin Murphy and William Buick took the race all the way to Champions Day in October 202…

Scot wins 13-12 at the Crucible after dramatic clash Victory books Higgins’ place in the quarter-finals Ronnie O’Sullivan’s bid for a record-breaking eighth Crucible title was shattered in Sheffield as John Higgins capped a remarkable comeback with a 13-12 win to move into the World Snooker Championship quarter-finals. O’Sullivan twice led by five frames but lost six frames on the bounce across t…

After recent seasons with a defined bottom three, a handful of nervous clubs are aiming to beat the drop to the Championship Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter It was a good weekend for Nottingham Forest, although perhaps not as good as it looked like it might be on Friday night. That evening, when they handed Sunderland their record defeat at the Stadium of Light, winning 5-0 , Fore…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Given that the two teams contesting this season’s FA Cup final face more than 200 outstanding counts of financial chicanery between them, the atmosphere at Wembley will – as several Social Media Disgrace wags quickly pointed out – definitely be highly charged. In the blue corner, Chelsea still face 74 FA counts of financial misconduct, having al…

‘Signed, sealed, delivered,’ says promoter Eddie Hearn Joshua takes on Prenga in Riyadh warm-up in July Anthony Joshua is to face Tyson Fury later this year after promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed a deal to stage the biggest fight in British boxing history has been signed. Joshua will face Albanian heavyweight Kristian Prenga in Riyadh on 25 July as a warm-up for his long-awaited showdown with Fury,…

World No 1 under pressure before 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-2 victory Winner will face Hailey Baptiste in next round World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka overcame Naomi Osaka 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-2 in a gripping battle on Monday to reach the Madrid Open quarter-finals. Sabalenka, who has claimed titles at Miami, Indian Wells and Brisbane this year, was tested by her Japanese opponent in the fourth-round clash but came bac…

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Dan Bardell and Sam Dalling to discuss the Premier League and FA Cup action. On the podcast today; Southampton thought they had made the FA Cup final for three glorious minutes before Manchester City’s late comeback in their Wembley semi-final. In the other semi, Chelsea – under the interim management of Calum McFarlane – beat Leeds 1-0 thanks to an Enz…

Berlin on agenda in September for new record holder Athlete wants more drugs testing to show ‘we are clean’ Sabastian Sawe believes it is only a matter of time before he runs a marathon in one hour and 58 minutes after his superhuman sub-two hour performance in London on Sunday. Speaking the day after he ran 1hr 59 mins and 30 seconds to break the world record by 65 seconds, the 31-year-old Kenya…

Athletes are helping to promote a new film about the crisis, reaching people ‘in a way that scientific reports never will’ It wasn’t so long ago that UK government briefings from Downing Street were essential viewing. Professors Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were household names in Britain and there was a roaring trade in “next slide please” mugs. Four years after the final Covid lectern was …