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Struggling British carmaker says earnings for 2025 will be worse than City forecasts as US tariffs hit sales Aston Martin has again warned its profits will be lower than expected and sold its permanent naming rights to its Formula One team, as the struggling British carmaker battles to stabilise its finances. The luxury carmaker, majority-owned by the Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, said it…

Do satellite channels have a future? Is free-to-air as important as it was? Will Netflix and Prime make moves? By No Helmets Required What were once a DVD postal service, an online bookstore and an American cable channel renowned for showing B movies in motel rooms are now heavyweights in the sports broadcasting market. Netflix and Amazon have changed the global landscape, leaving TNT Sports unde…

There is ‘light at end of tunnel’ with new man in charge Defender hints at conflicts with Postecoglou and Dyche The Nottingham Forest defender Murillo has said the arrival of Vítor Pereira represents “the light at the end of the tunnel” and admitted the squad had problems with previous managers. Pereira got off to a dream start at Forest with a 3-0 Europa League playoff first-leg victory at Fener…

Captain’s moment must be celebrated at Twickenham on Saturday, as should Edwin Edogbo’s first Ireland cap I was struck by Tommy Freeman’s comments this week when he said he had struggled mentally on the back of the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia last summer. It struck me because it was a very similar sentiment to that expressed by Maro Itoje earlier in the season, and it was a feeling wi…

Fourth-tier team, the lowest-ranked left in the competition, and their Cup-winning manager are hoping to stun Birmingham Old-school sweet dispensers stand tall pitchside at the Bauvill Stadium, almost as if watching the action. Behind them, Bobby’s bar is bustling and above the club logo on a wall behind one of the goals are four unmissable words “If I can dream …” Helping to manifest that dream …

In the latest in a long line of Irish tussles at fly-half, Jack Crowley takes over from Sam Prendergast at Twickenham In the summer of 1979 Irish rugby jumped off a lower shelf in the nation’s sports shopand landed front and centre. This wasn’t prompted by a dramatic development on the field, rather it was a selection decision. Tony Ward, voted the first European Player of the Year two months ear…

Plea follows 2017 death of UAE’s Abdullah Hayayei UKA could face fine of between £1.2m and £5m UK Athletics is facing a seven-figure fine after pleading guilty to corporate manslaughter following the death of a Paralympian who was hit on the head by a metal pole while preparing for the London World Para Athletics Championships in 2017. The incident occurred at Newham Leisure Centre when the pole,…

The 2026 MLS season kicks off on Saturday. Our writers discuss the teams, players and story lines they’re watching this year Messi v Son. The two best players in the league play for the two “glamour” teams on opposite coasts, and each have large and dedicated fanbases. If both stay relatively healthy and perform up to capabilities, there’s no way the race between them for some honor (Golden Boot?…

The TV screen’s jazz of drags, snaps, pops, and stops during the Milano Cortina Games have shown sport at its most powder-light and loveable The mountains always promise escape from the squalor of existence at sea level, if not a kind of purification. The fortifying ruggedness of the terrain, the apple-crisp air, the high-albedo dazzle of sunlit snow: at altitude, it seems, everything is thinned …

• Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing • Follow us over on Bluesky | And you can email Tanya The BBC are showing replay s from yesterday’s ski mountaineering, where ridiculously fit men and women ski up a mountain, sprint a flight of steep stairs, before skiing back down again, with jeopardy at each boot change, and in high winds and heavy snow. Truly a different breed of h…

⚽ Latest news, previews and updates before the weekend ⚽ 10 things to look out for | And email John Big game for West Ham on Saturday , when they face Bournemouth. Nuno Espirito Santo spoke to a press conference on Thursday. The Hammers, in 18th, have Tottenham and Nottingham Forest in their sights: “I see the players every day, training and preparing themselves. What I have realised is that they…

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The world No 1 won his 21st global title by defeating his old rival Fabiano Caruana in Freestyle chess at Weissenhaus in Germany Magnus Carlsen notched up yet another world crown last weekend when the Norwegian, 35, continued his decade-long campaign aiming to edge ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer on the game’s absolute pantheon. This time it was Freestyle chess, where the back row piece…

Joep Wennemars went under the previous Olympic record in the men’s 1500m speed skating. But so did three others Picture this: you are on the verge of breaking an Olympic record. The cheers, the spotlight, your name etched in history. The magical initials – OR – next to your name until it is next broken. You have got a gold medal waiting to be draped around your neck? Wait, no gold? Silver, maybe?…