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News from Friday’s pre-match press conferences, including Arsenal, Newcastle, Everton, Aston Villa and Bournemouth Continue reading...

Harry Brook’s team opt for confidence building at hotel before opener with practice a three-hour round trip away Sitting in the BCCI’s Mumbai headquarters, adjacent to the Wankhede Stadium, three days before the start of England’s World Cup campaign, Harry Brook was asked about captaining a T20 side in its latest, even-more-wild-scoring iteration, against opponents looking to flay sixes with ungo…

Manchester United face Tottenham on Saturday while Liverpool host Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday Saturday 12.30pm TNT Sports 1 Venue Old Trafford Continue reading...

Trainer Nicky Henderson reveals news that Yogi Breisner has been enlisted but says the focus is on the troubled horse’s first run on the Flat Nicky Henderson, the trainer of Constitution Hill, said on Friday that he is focusing “on Southwell at the moment and only on Southwell” ahead of the former Champion Hurdler’s Flat racing debut on 20 February, despite having booked the legendary jumping spe…

Expectations abound for Six Nations and Bath winger deserves another shot in the starting lineup to show his raw attributes Optimism abounds about England’s Six Nations chances. They go into a tournament considered as one of the genuine favourites for the title for the first time in years and they have the body of work to back that up after 11 consecutive victories . That sort of winning streak l…

There will be twists, flips and turns to savour in a Games whose financial and environmental costs nonetheless continue to spiral out of control Pierre de Coubertin never wanted a Winter Olympics. He spent the best part of two decades lobbying, politicking and organising before he finally got the first summer Games up and running in Athens in 1896. Its winter sibling though, well, “the great infe…

US star clocks successful practice run a week after injury Olympic medal race is set for Sunday at Cortina Lindsey Vonn moved a step closer to one of the most improbable Olympic starts in Alpine skiing history on Friday, producing an aggressive and largely clean downhill training run on the Olimpia delle Tofane course less than a week after fully rupturing the ACL in her left knee and being airli…

France 36-14 Ireland Bielle-Biarrey scores twice in dazzling display The Six Nations is under way and already a couple of things are ­crystal clear. It is going to take a seriously good team to beat France in Paris in this year’s championship and ­watching them attack will be an ­absolute treat. Ireland were not so much beaten as outplayed by ­opponents who will be even more dangerous with a dry …

There is a huge buzz for the Games that are the pinnacle for the athletes but competing through illness and injury is all part of the test One of the great joys of being an Olympian is arriving at the athletes’ village and, with it, the shift in your identity from just being a skeleton athlete to being a part of Team GB. There is a real belonging in putting on the T-shirt or jacket with your coun…

Gus Kenworthy says ‘enough is enough’ over ICE in US ICE agents are in Milan with US vice-president JD Vance Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers by urinating the words “Fuck Ice” on the snow just before the start of the Winter Olympics. In a post on Instagram the 34-year-old, who will compete for Team GB in the free-ski ha…

After weeks of breakup talk, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks stayed together. The Knicks and Timberwolves, meanwhile, made smart additions It’s hard to match the absolute insanity that was the 2024-25 NBA trade deadline , and to the majority of the league’s credit, teams didn’t really try. But there was still some notable movement ahead of Thursday’s 3pm EST deadline – to varying degrees of s…

‘I am feeling pretty good about myself,’ says Bruce Mouat Figure skaters Gibson and Fear in bronze position Snoop Dogg and the sport of curling made for a very odd mixture at the Winter Olympics on Friday with British competitors Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds even more shocked than the crowd and the millions tuning in when they got a picture request from the rapper. Mouat and Dodds had maintaine…

Clarets host must-win game against West Ham with club facing a third demotion in three Premier League seasons “I still enjoy the day out, I just don’t let the results affect me any more,” says the Burnley season-ticket holder Mark Bentley. Fifteen games without a Premier League win and 11 points adrift of safety, the Clarets are facing relegation the season after promotion for a third time in a r…

The Seahawks and Patriots are the last teams standing this season. The championship is likely to be decided by the smallest margins The Seattle Seahawks’ run game came alive during the second half of the season and postseason. But it’s still the passing game that makes the offense sing. Almost all of that flows through Smith-Njigba. Continue reading...

In February 2023 more than 100 charges were laid against the serial champions but we are still waiting for the verdict Exactly three years ago, 10 paragraphs on the Premier League website set the cat among the pigeons. Under the nondescript heading “ Premier League statement ”, football’s richest and most popular domestic competition announced unprecedented disciplinary charges against Manchester…