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Hearts ensured they will go into their penultimate match of the season with at least a one-point lead at the top of the Premiership after drawing with Motherwell in a pulsating match at a packed Fir Park. The visitors, chasing their first title since 1960, fell behind for the fifth game running when Stephen Kingsley bundled the ball into his own net, but they hit back through Lawrence Shankland j…

Main-event ring-walks scheduled for 11pm BST Wardley v Dubois is bout of uncertainty | Mail Alex Wow! We’ve had a stunning stoppage victory already in Manchester – and it isn’t the main event. Fulham’s Zak Chelli, a supply teacher by trade, has produced a sensational upset to defeat the Cuban former world champion David Morrell. That is a result few saw coming. Morrell was winning the light-heavy…

The eggheads can argue the head coach is merely an interchangeable cog in a team’s fortunes – but emotion counts in an ever-changing game Your manager has fallen out with the sporting director and results have gone awry, so you replace him. Easily done, it happens. But then it turns out that the new manager could not be more ill-suited to the squad, results go awry and so you replace him. A bad l…

World relay gold medallist bailed until 28 May court hearing Police alleged suspects part of an organised crime group The British sprinter CJ Ujah, who won 4x100m relay gold at the 2017 world championships , is one of 10 suspects charged with conspiracy to defraud as part of a police investigation into cryptocurrency fraud. It is alleged that the suspects were part of an organised crime group lin…

German champions recover from PSG loss with 1-0 win England captain misses first Bundesliga spot-kick in 25 Harry Kane missed a penalty as Bayern Munich failed to hit top form but the Bundesliga champions still edged struggling Wolfsburg 1-0 to bounce back after their midweek Champions League semi-final exit to Paris Saint-Germain. Bayern, who won with a Michael Olise goal, had suffered a 6-5 agg…

After a biblical downpour, the skies cleared, and Manchester City executed the game-plan: secure a win and three points to keep their breath on Arsenal’s neck. The clincher arrived via Erling Haaland’s 26th Premier League goal - as with his side’s performance this was hardly pretty but no one in blue cared. Antoine Semenyo marauded down the right, his cross hit at least one Brentford body, the ba…

Cox led team to 1995 World Series, 14 division titles in row Fourth all-time in wins as a manager and first in ejections Bobby Cox, the Baseball Hall of Famer who led the Atlanta Braves to their 1995 World Series title and was a four-time Manager of the Year, has died at the age of 84. The Braves announced Cox’s death in a statement on Saturday. Continue reading...

Leicester 41-17 Northampton Freddie Steward caps six-try victory for hosts You can play all the fancy rugby you want, you can be recent champions leading the table with only a few matches to play, but certain elemental truths still apply. One of them is that if you find yourself overpowered up front away from home in a sold-out East Midlands derby, you will be blown away. Northampton could have s…

Manchester United have played some exhilarating football during a stirring run of victories since Michael Carrick took interim charge in January, but this was not one of those days. Having beaten arch-rivals Liverpool at a raucous Old Trafford last weekend to qualify for next season’s Champions League, this was a comedown from that great high and a sobering reminder of the task still facing Carri…

Brighton put their European push back on track by flying out of the blocks en route to beating relegated Wolves at the Amex Stadium. Jack Hinshelwood headed home inside 35 seconds to register Brighton’s fastest Premier League goal before the captain, Lewis Dunk, marked his return to the starting XI by nodding in the second just four minutes later. Yankuba Minteh completed the scoring late on as t…

‘It’s unfair, they saw everything’, says Boro manager Southampton’s Eckert walks out after questioning Southampton’s manager, Tonda Eckert, walked out of the post-match press conference at Middlesbrough on Saturday after repeatedly refusing to answer questions about allegations that one of his analysts had spied on Kim Hellberg’s training session last Thursday. Shortly afterwards Hellberg said hi…

Semi-final: St Helens 0-32 Wigan Warriors will face Warrington or Hull KR at Wembley The Challenge Cup kings are at it again. For the first time in a good while, Wigan were arguably underdogs going into this semi-final against their fiercest rivals, St Helens, with a run of form that included four successive Super League defeats before stopping the rot last week against promoted Bradford. In cont…

Silva is first Uruguayan to win a Grand Tour stage Nearly 20 riders involved in crash 198km into route Guillermo Thomas Silva won stage two of the Giro d’Italia to become the first Uruguayan to win a Grand Tour stage after a dramatic sprint after a crash involving nearly 20 riders disrupted the hilly, rain-soaked 221 km ride from Burgas to Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria. The race was temporarily neut…

Italy 33-61 England Packer scores four to set up possible France showdown Marlie Packer may have made her England debut 18 years ago but she is playing some of her best rugby with the openside flanker once again key as the Red Roses set up a potential grand slam showdown against France next Sunday. The former England captain has won back the starting shirt because of the unavailability of other p…

British No 1 beaten in straight sets at Italian Open ‘I can’t be in better mental and physical shape’ Cameron Norrie believes he is still well positioned for a strong performance at the French Open despite being shocked by his standard of play during Saturday’s frustrating 6-3, 7-5 loss to Thiago Agustín Tirante in the second round of the Italian Open on Friday. Norrie, the British No 1, started …