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After a season dominated by long throws, set-piece wrestling and rigid, overly controlled football, all of a sudden the overwhelming artistry and firepower at Manchester City’s disposal is threatening to take over when it matters most. This game was taken away from Chelsea during a blistering spell of attacking at the start of the second half and, by the end, it was impossible not to feel the sam…

️ Updates from the final round at Augusta National ️ Ewan Murray’s day-three report | Leaderboard | Mail Scott Exactly 30 years ago, give or take two days, this happened … … so the blowing of a six-shot lead at the Masters isn’t exactly a new thing. And hey, unlike the poor old Great White Shark, at least Rory has 18 more holes still to play, and with them an opportunity to do something about it.…

Italian wins 7-6 (5), 6-3 against Spanish rival Sinner adds another victory after Indian Wells and Miami Jannik Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the first time on Sunday and reclaim the world No 1 ranking from his Spanish rival. Sinner downed Alcaraz 7-6 (5), 6-3 to capture his third ATP 1000 title of the year after completing the “Sunshine Double” la…

Four England players will miss the Six Nations as they are pregnant. What do they have in store when they return? By No Helmets Required When England begin their defence of the Women’s Six Nations against Ireland on Saturday at Twickenham they will be without Zoe Stratford, Lark Atkin-Davies and Rosie Galligan as they prepare to become mothers for the first time. The England rugby league player K…

Thirty minutes before kick-off Roberto De Zerbi wandered on to the pitch with his black padded gilet zipped high to the neck in the face of a chill Wearside wind. By the final whistle that stiff breeze had dropped a little but so, too, had the morale of Tottenham and their new manager. In cementing the visitors’ position in the bottom three with six games to go, Nordi Mukiele’s second half winner…

Belgian ends decade-old run of bad luck in event ‘It’s everything to me … I stopped believing a lot of times’ Wout van Aert shattered a decade-old jinx to win Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, outduelling the world champion, Tadej Pogacar, in a brutal classic race across the cobbles. The 31-year-old suffered a puncture as did Pogacar and their great rival Mathieu van der Poel, who had two mechanicals and …

Quarter-final: Wakefield 22-26 Wigan Warriors to meet St Helens in Challenge Cup last four Wigan Warriors survived an attritional Challenge Cup quarter-final against Wakefield Trinity to set up a mouthwatering semi-final showdown with their great rivals St Helens next month. Having suffered the rare of occurrence of back-to-back defeats coming into the standout tie of the quarter-finals, there wa…

After outclassing Arslanbek Makhmudov, Fury had only one thing on his mind – his long-awaited clash with his fellow British heavyweight Just before midnight on Saturday, an hour after the first victory of his latest comeback , Tyson Fury paused in the midst of a familiar monologue about a predictable subject. He had just outclassed Arslanbek Makhmudov, the tough but limited Russian heavyweight, o…

President has long been a fan of mixed martial arts Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr also at event Donald Trump and US secretary of state Marco Rubio attended a UFC event in Miami night on Saturday night as peace talks with Iran failed on the other side of the world. Trump entered the Kaseya Center shortly after 9pm alongside several members of his family and UFC chief Dana White, who has been a suppor…

Updates from 11am BST start across the grounds Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tanya or comment BTL Mike Bennett is still our honorary Hove correspondent : “Hello once again from the very sunny but slightly breezy County Ground down here. It feels like today is going to be the best batting conditions of the match - the ball was still carrying appreciatively during the closing hour last night and Rob …

The sprint sensation was pushed to new heights in the 200m final by an unlikely opponent at the Australian Athletics Championships It didn’t look good for Gout Gout. He had started the 200m final at the Australian Athletics Championships relatively well, and was positioned just off the lead at the start of the straight. But, there – who was that? The man wearing all black, two lanes on the inside…

Australia shut out in 24-0 defeat to world No 2 in Sacramento Lightning delays start of Pacific Four rugby clash by more than an hour The Wallaroos have fallen short in their quest for a breakthrough victory over Canada, but can take heart from a 24-0 defeat in their opening match of the Pacific Four rugby series. After conceding more than 40 points in their past two meetings against the world No…

Outstanding trainer of his generation makes history with fourth victory in Aintree spectacular via I Am Maximus Remember what Gary Lineker said about football being a simple game – you play for 120 minutes and the Germans win on penalties? The Grand National now has its equivalent. Tipping the winner of the most fiendish handicap in racing really is a simple game. Forget spending weeks assessing …

Manchester City can brush off Rodri’s comments but Chelsea’s existential angst helps explain suspension of midfielder Enzo Fernández and Rodri would quite like to move to Madrid; many people would. They both said as much in the international break, those special parts of the season when players join up with their national teams and give interviews while apparently unaware that media are global th…

Leinster 43-13 Sale Leinster host Toulon at Aviva Stadium on 2/3 May Semi-final number 17 beckons for Leinster. The one-time serial champions of this competition will take another, against Toulon, back at the Aviva in a couple of weeks’ time. Sounds epic. Probably will be. But Leinster are still not quite convincing. This was a Sale team missing a host of their best players. No one gave them a ch…