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Compliments mean little to West Ham at this stage of the season. They hit the woodwork three times, had a goal ruled out for a tight offside and contributed to an entertaining game against strong opposition but none of that mattered when full time arrived and Nuno Espírito Santo faced up to his side missing a huge opportunity to take a big step towards winning their fight against relegation. It r…

Brighton had limbered up for this trip to Tyneside by working out with an acclaimed German cage fighter. The idea was that a spot of mixed martial arts training would toughen up their players at set pieces and enable them to pack a collective punch far too powerful for Newcastle to resist. Happily for the home side it did not quite work out like that. With Yasir al-Rumayyan, Newcastle’s chair, an…

️ F1 qualifying updates from 9pm BST ️ N orris takes Miami sprint pole | Mail Philip The heat is on in Miami. Drivers kept as cool as they can be by umbrellas as the cars receive their last touches. Jenson Button probably quite happy to not be wearing a race suit. So what are those regulation tweaks? As Giles Richards, our man in Miami, explained : The rule changes agreed in response are an adjus…

Jule Brand’s late winner settled an absorbing semi-final to end Arsenal’s defence of their Women’s Champions League title and sent OL Lyonnes through to a record-extending 12th European final. With the second leg level at 3-3 on aggregate after Alessia Russo’s goal for Arsenal and seemingly heading for extra time, Brand collected Melchie Dumornay’s chipped through ball and tucked a neat finish in…

⚽ Updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-off at the Emirates ⚽ Scores | Premier League table | Read Football Daily Happiness is an illusion glimpsed in the aftermath of victory. Most of the time, watching our team play football is mostly a miserable, desperate, hard-faced experience – one that is entirely worth it for the moments of euphoria that little else can provide. Nick Hornby nailed it in Fever …

The uniqueness of Royal Ascot was a factor in the track chief executive’s jump from the Premier League to the sport of kings “I was used to fans,” Felicity Barnard, the chief executive of Ascot, says, recalling earlier roles in charge of commercial operations at Arsenal and West Ham. “At Arsenal, I was used to selling 60,000 shirts at the beginning of every season and that doesn’t happen here, so…

Oh well. All the best south London parties last three minutes. Everyone knows that. Bermondsey had been a spring-like place at kick-off, soft May sunlight dappling the magnificent municipal incinerator tower at the Cold Blow Lane end. The Den was sold out, as it always is these days. Continue reading...

Ipswich Town are back in the Premier League. And in what style. They are used to promotion parties in this part of Suffolk and, under Kieran McKenna, they do not fall flat. Two early goals dismissed any fears of shredded nerves, and an afternoon of celebration could commence. No police presence around the Portman Road pitch perimeter was ever going to be sufficient to stop this pitch invasion. Ha…

The veteran star’s days as the No 1 option once appeared behind him. Against the favored Rockets, he put Father Time on the ropes and his team on his back The date is 12 March, and the Los Angeles Lakers are in the midst of a run that’s garnering a lot of well-deserved attention, in a month that sees them lose just two contests and win 15. The spirit of the locker room is at an all-time high, and…

Newmarket’s 2,000 Guineas starts at 3.35pm (BST) Get in touch: email Greg about today’s racing Good afternoon from Newmarket on the first Saturday in May – 2,000 Guineas day, in other words, and a date that has been circled on the calendars of Flat racing fans since the 2025 turf season concluded in November. The first Classic of the new campaign – one of just five all season – has a long and sto…

Tokyo Dome hosts biggest fight in Japanese history Naoya Inoue is the greatest show in sports today Inoue and Nakatani slated for 1pm BST/8am EDT Reach out to Bryan on Bluesky or by email Takuma Inoue, Naoya’s younger brother, has just defended his WBC bantamweight title with a 12-round unanimous-decision win over Kazuto Ioka on the undercard. Ioka recovered nicely from a pair of early knockdowns…

Former major winner ‘committed to making team golf work’ Rebel tour now working on a junior golf initiative, he says Bryson DeChambeau, the two times US Open champion, has denied reports he is seeking a way out of the beleaguered LIV Golf, the rebel series whose future looks bleak after Saudi Arabian backers indicated they are pulling their multibillion-dollar sponsorship at the end of the 2026 s…

Updates from day two of the latest Championship games Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tanya or comment BTL Surrey stepped up security at the Oval following the knife attack at Golders Green as off-field decisions took the headlines on day one of round five of the County Championship . In a statement, the club said: “Surrey are in communication with the Met police and will adjust our own security meas…

Italian driver lost both legs in high-speed cart race crash Went on to win four Paralympic gold medals Alex Zanardi, the former Formula One driver who lost both legs in a racing crash and went on to win Paralympic gold medals, has died at the age of 59, his family said on Saturday. Zanardi, from Bologna, made his F1 debut in 1991 and later achieved success in the cart series in the United States,…

Midfielder broke a Barça Dutch record last week and is potentially one win from a third league title with team he visited as a teenager for fun A warm sun bathes the Barcelona training ground as Frenkie de Jong arrives to chat. The midfielder’s work is done for the day and the Netherlands international is in his comfort zone here, the first team’s longest-serving player, a regular captain and eff…