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Updates from 12.15pm kickoff (GMT) Follow us over on Bluesky | And get in touch: email Barry Those teams: Gary Bowyer makes one change to the team that started against Port Vale last time out. Jack Armer replaces Alex Hartridge in defence. Nuno makes 10 changes to the side that snatched a draw from the jaws of victory against Manchester United and has given Jarrod Bowen a rare day off. The Englan…

After hitting rock-bottom, the four-time Super League champions are finally returning to the top flight By No Helmets Required When Super League was cut to a dozen teams at the end of the 2014 season, it lost two of its biggest cities in Bradford and London, which followed big markets such as Paris, Tyneside and Sheffield out of the top flight, seemingly never to return. London Broncos have poppe…

The brilliant American was expected to glide to a gold medal on Friday. It was tough to watch such a gifted athlete discover the ruthlessness of his sport By the time Ilia Malinin reached the closing stretch of his Olympic free skate, the outcome was no longer really the story. The story was the expression on his face – not panic, not shock, but the dawning realization that a destiny he had contr…

Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | Get in touch: mail Tanya Men’s Giant Slalom: real Ski Sunday stuff this - precipitous slopes, zig-zagging turns. Brazil’s Lucas Pinheiro Braathen is the fastest of the seven skiers to set off so far this morning. The competitors get two runs and the skier with the fastest total time is the winner. The medals t…

Group C game at Eden Gardens, 9.30am (GMT) start Follow us over on Bluesky | And get in touch: email Tim In this tournament Scotland have already played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (twice). England haven’t, but they do have Phil Salt, who called this place home when he played for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2024 – and won the IPL. Our man at the World Cup, Simon Burnton, has been talking to Salt, who h…

Canada claim heated victory at Winter Olympics Both teams accuse each other of violations Tensions boiled over as Brad Jacobs’ Canada beat Sweden 8-6 in an intense round-robin curling game on Friday, with Niklas Edin’s team alleging that their opponents were double touching the stone during the contest. Trouble began early when the game was halted after Sweden claimed Canada’s curlers were touchi…

Group includes Hall of Fame lineman Joe Klecko Jerry Jones tells news to former Dallas star Nate Newton Donald Trump issued pardons to five former NFL players on Thursday, with the White House pardon czar, Alice Marie Johnson, making the announcement on social media. The five pardoned players are Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon. Continue reading...

League expansion offers top-flight teams a greater chance of staying up but jeopardy remains in contest to steer clear of finishing bottom The state of play at the top of Women’s Super League, with Manchester City 11 points clear of second-placed Manchester United, means jeopardy has to be found elsewhere. There is excitement to be had in the likely scenario of a different name on the WSL trophy …

Partners on and off the ice talk about the tensions and joys of competing alongside the ones they love at the Winter Olympics Every Olympics has its love stories. Usually, they’re all about the quantities of free prophylactics being handed out in the athletes’ village (this year’s edition has an image of the Olympic mascots, the friendly stoats Milo and Tina, on the box). But you have to look a l…

Ritualistic Spurs manager sacking is a marker in the year, but the failing lies with executives responsible for some really vague recruitment Don’t talk about Spurs. Don’t talk about Spurs. Don’t keep returning to Spurs, bloodshot and shivering. Don’t end up twitching on a Manhattan street corner, nodding at Jean-Michel Basquiat as he drifts past, waiting for your Spurs man to appear out of a fir…

Dutchman joins Lewis Hamilton in criticism of new cars Champion Lando Norris says changes are a ‘lot of fun’ Driver disquiet over the new Formula One regulations marked the second pre-season test which concluded in Bahrain this week, with world champions Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen delivering damning verdicts on driving the new cars, while in competitive terms leading contenders Mercedes an…

Defender’s current contract expires at end of the season ‘We wouldn’t be in talks if we didn’t want him to stay’ Arne Slot has described Ibrahima Konaté as “vital” to Liverpool and the club has not given up hope of convincing the defender to sign a new contract. Konaté has endured a tough time on and off the pitch this season but has impressed since returning from compassionate leave against Newc…

Briton triumphs by nearly a second in Milano Cortina First British man to win individual winter gold since 1980 And on the seventh day, Great Britain finally won their first medal of the Olympics. At nine o’clock on Friday night Matt Weston, the man his teammates call “Captain 110%”, won the gold in the men’s skeleton after four faultless races across the two days of competition. The 28-year-old …

Skier hopes to return to US after latest procedure American crashed out of Olympic downhill run Bryan Graham: Crash a violent but honest ending Lindsey Vonn will have another surgery on her broken left leg Saturday at the Italian hospital where she is being treated “and then I can potentially leave and go back home.” Vonn posted a video message on Instagram on Friday after her horrific crash in t…

Benoît Richaud is working on the ice with 13 countries, with uniform changes to match, and Korean skiers are having nightmares on wax Domen Prevc set a men’s ski jump world record of 254.5m on the Planica flying hill in Slovenia last March, known for its steepness and long jumps. Germany’s Philipp Raimund sat it out – he suffers from vertigo. “From time to time, I have the issue that my body is r…