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The UNC Tar Heels and TCU Horned Frogs meet at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on Saturday in the first major college football game of the 2026 season College football is booming, chaotic and more confusing than ever Continue reading...

Second Test: South Africa 33-26 New Zealand Kolisi and Marx inspire world champions to victory The Boks are back. Level at one apiece in the series and back to what they do best. Blending power and directness, blood and thunder to edge out far enough ahead of New Zealand and withstand a gutsy comeback from the All Blacks. Throw in some brazen mischief from Rassie Erasmus, who swapped his entire f…

Celtic fans’ banner mocks club’s ‘world class’ claims Hearts edge St Johnstone, Dundee United rout Killie Camilo Durán in his preferred position of centre-forward, scored both goals for Celtic in their 2-1 win over Falkirk . The Colombian produced two striker’s goals in the opening 29 minutes while also setting up several teammates for chances. Falkirk improved after the break and their ambition …

Perhaps last week’s triumph was not a one-off. Hull backed up a shock victory against Manchester United by maintaining their 100% start to the Premier League by condemning Coventry to successive defeats. “We’re gonna win the league,” was the glorious chant raining down from the Hull support after Liam Millar’s 82nd-minute strike. The goal was a sucker-punch for Coventry, who were pushing for a wi…

Through wind and rain came the end of summer and a new era at the Vitality. Milan will visit Dorset this autumn, and travel to San Sebastián, Galicia, and Czechia awaits. The stadium itself is under renovation, exoskeletons to be filled in, new security cordons to negotiate. An unbeaten home record that stretches back to 3 January sustains, though so does Bournemouth’s ability to concede late goa…

When a team is an established part of English football’s upper echelons, plays its home games inside a 68,000-seater stadium, and breaks the Championship transfer record immediately after relegation, there are expectations that naturally follow. By all accounts, West Ham are supposed to breeze through what is meant to be a brief dalliance with a second-tier existence. So, to be three matches into…

Race leader abandons after huge crash on Saturday Pogacar taken away in ambulance with shoulder injury Race leader Tadej Pogacar pulled out of the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday after a heavy fall 31km from the finish of a flat stage eight left him with shoulder and face injuries. Pogacar of Team UAE has won five Tour de France titles and a Giro d’Italia and was targeting his first overall victory o…

Updates from 5.30pm (BST) kickoff Email Barry and follow us on Bluesky Referee: Peter Bankes Referee’s assistants: Ian Hussin and Nick Hopton Fourth official: Tom Bramall VAR: Darren England Assistant VAR: Nick Greenhalgh Continue reading...

Mourinho: Mbappé deserves award for ‘making history’ ‘The best player in the world is not at PSG or Spain’ José Mourinho has said Kylian Mbappé deserves to win this year’s Ballon d’Or, arguing the award should go to the best player in the world rather than be decided by World Cup or Champions League success. “The best players in the world, there are two, three or four of them, and we know who the…

Some of the billionaires behind Liverpool were present for the opening performance of Andoni Iraola’s Anfield reign but were given more food-for-thought than the feast they might have been expecting. Nottingham Forest were full value for the second 2-2 draw of Iraola’s tenure as Liverpool demonstrated they need sturdier foundations as well as the decoration of £123m Bradley Barcola. Oliver Glasne…

Carlton beat Melbourne 10.14 (74) to 7.13 (5) at MCG Sign up for our free weekly AFL newsletter Carlton claimed victory over Melbourne in front of 91,733 fans at the MCG in their AFL wildcard match to extend their fairytale resurgence into an elimination final clash with Geelong. Under Josh Fraser, the Blues fought back from a 1-8 start to the season that cost Michael Voss his job, to first make …

The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US is becoming endangered A few weeks ago, as I often do, I went to the Tennis.com site to get an update about a match and to check out the commentary from my fellow tennis journalists. I was taken aback when, instead of the usual colorful graphics …

America’s second biggest sporting obsession returns this weekend, which means marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real time Is college football healthy? It’s a seductive question, one that now comes up every year around this time. Actually, it never recedes, so it’s just with the sport all the time. It’s also…

Signing of World Cup winner adds to sense that this is the summer when BlueCo got serious in transfer market Carlo Cudicini was a very good goalkeeper. However, José Mourinho was ruthless when he became Chelsea manager in 2004. Very good was not good enough. Mourinho wanted the best and one of the main factors behind the Portuguese winning the Premier League during his first season in charge was …

Aroma wafts over practice courts from nearby park Katie Boulter: ‘I’ve experienced it. I’m not a huge fan’ Britain’s US Open hopefuls thought they had put the grass behind them when Wimbledon finished, but the smell of it is all around Flushing Meadows and they are not happy about it. Marijuana is legal for adults in New York and while smoking is not allowed on site, the aroma of weed wafts over …