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Golden Boot: World Cup 2026 top goalscorers1:23 Who is winning the battle to be top scorer at the World Cup? Live and updated throughout the tournament All-time World Cup goalscorers The Golden Boot is awarded to the World Cup’s top goalscorer, with assists used as a tie-breaker if two or more players finish level. The 2026 tournament has three former Golden Boot winners taking part: Kylian Mbappé of France (eight goals in 2022), England’s Harry Kane (six goals in 2018) and James Rodríguez of Colombia (six goals in 2014). Mbappé and Kane are… World Cup 2026: guide to all 1,248 players1:23 Everything you need to know (and more) about every squad member. Click on the player pictures for more information Continue reading... Cheltenham festival crackdown aimed at stalling significant rise in false starts1:23 Nearly 40% of 2026 races at showpiece meeting affected Track layout and listening devices for stewards on menu The British Horseracing Authority said on Thursday that it aims to introduce a series of measures before next year’s Cheltenham festival to tackle a significant rise in the number of false starts at National Hunt’s showpiece meeting. The percentage of false starts has climbed steadily ov… BBC v ITV: who won the UK’s battle of the World Cup 2026 broadcasters?1:23 Danny Murphy’s decision to start talking about his deceased cat will haunt the rest of his career while Christina Unkel’s referee analysis was no-nonsense and to the point The final may be Argentina v Spain, but ardent media watchers in the UK know that in broadcasting terms, a World Cup is always a domestic battle between the BBC and ITV. So who won on these important criteria? Continue reading.… Four passes in 19 minutes: damning numbers behind England’s collapse1:23 No successful tackles after the 63rd minute and failure to break up play through fouls also played their part in World Cup semi-final defeat There will be coaching courses of the future that use footage of England’s performance against Argentina to illustrate how not to defend a one-goal lead. If that sounds harsh, the data from the match justifies that stance. Many ugly statistics emerged once t… MLB storylines at the All-Star break: summer surges, the woeful Mets and the first-place White Sox1:23 As the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game take over Philadelphia, we take a spin around the majors with an awards watch, an Ohtani update and lots in between With more than half of the MLB season in the books, the baseball world has convened in Philadelphia for the annual All-Star festivities. What better time for owners and players to engage in Brotherly Love and figure out how to avoid the widely… DeChambeau’s participation in the Open in doubt after two-stroke penalty0:20 American punished for improving line of his swing Sanction moved DeChambeau out of second place Bryson DeChambeau’s ongoing participation in the Open Championship is in doubt after extraordinary scenes at the conclusion of the 32-year-old’s second round at Royal Birkdale. DeChambeau was handed a two-stroke penalty for improving the line of his swing in thick rough, with the scenario prompting a f… Smoke, travel and Trump threaten New York’s grand World Cup finale23:17 Wildfires, transport issues and the appearance of the president could overshadow the final for a city that has embraced the tournament The thick smoke that has engulfed New York and much of the eastern seaboard over the last few days has drawn wry smiles in Dallas and Los Angeles, where locals will watch on with a sense of schadenfreude when the World Cup final takes place in the New York New Jer… ‘Leo has surpassed Diego’: after two decades Argentina embraces Messi23:17 The little maestro has hitherto lived in the shadow of Maradona who has for so long coloured the soul and defined the passion of football in Argentina It is time to consign Diego Maradona’s Hand of God to a museum piece. For 40 years that moment and Maradona’s unforgettable “goal of the century” coloured the soul and passion of Argentinian football. Today things are very different, and the main r… God’s will? Destiny? Lionel Messi, Lamine Yamal, that photo and the World Cup final22:13 The boy in the baby bath has unbelievably become the successor to Messi at Barcelona and now, maybe, on the world stage too “Maybe Lionel Messi has picked up lots of babies, maybe it’s chance, but for those of us who have faith, who believe in something beyond, ‘chance’ is God’s pseudonym when he doesn’t want to sign his name,” Luis de la Fuente says. “In life, everything happens for a reason. So… Rory McIlroy lets driver fly but putts go awry with Open hopes in balance20:38 World No 2 was in full flow off the tee but off colour on the greens and knows he needs to make a charge on moving day One of the sweetest sounds in sport is the elongated swoosh that comes as Rory McIlroy’s driver connects with his ball. Really, it is a beautiful thing. You imagine the impact will be a violent clank. Instead it is more like a yogi softly exhaling having found nirvana. But as McI… World Cup of memes: Japan fans, Beckham unbothered and a simmering bromance20:06 A tournament with more teams and more games has been filled with euphoria, heartbreak, and these weird and wonderful viral moments As a Japanese supporter exclaimed to a television camera, “Texas is good, everything is big”, we knew the World Cup had started. In those early euphoric moments, seeing the palpable joy when everything is still possible, it seemed Japan fans were the MVPs of memes. Th… Tom Pidcock surges up standings while Mauro Schmid wins Tour de France stage 1319:34 British rider moves into fourth in general classification Schmid claims debut Tour win after mass breakaway Tom Pidcock leapt up the overall standings in the Tour de France, briefly climbing as high as second place, after a fulminating stage to Belfort ended in a debut Tour win for Swiss professional Mauro Schmid. Pidcock was one of the key instigators of a mass breakaway that formed on the rolli… Garry Sobers was the greatest of all time, a cavalier in an era of roundheads19:02 West Indies legend, who has died aged 89, was cricket’s finest all-rounder, delivering victories with style and grace Cricket nuts like an argument. Who is the best fast bowler ever? The best spinner? The best wicketkeeper? The best slip catcher? They – oh all right, we – can spend hours discussing the candidates. But the best all-rounder? That does not take any longer than the debate over the be… England’s Freeman seeking to silence Pollock and end season of grind on high | Robert Kitson19:02 Northampton Saint is embracing a friendly rivalry with his headline-grabbing teammate when they take on the Pumas It has been a long road for several of the players who went on the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia last year. They are putting on a professionally brave face, but for some the final weekend of the season cannot come soon enough. Factor in the travel, the training and associate… |
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