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Newmarket’s marquee race starts at 3.35pm (BST) Get in touch: email Greg about today’s racing 1.45 Newmarket, Pretty Polly Stakes, Listed, 1m 2f Just six runners now for the opener on 1,000 Guineas day after the well-fancied Lilt was taken out this morning, and three – Esna, Brigid’s Well and Sacred Ground – have an entry in the Oaks at Epsom next month. The best piece of form coming into the rac…

Tight decisions and Arsenal’s fragility from set pieces saw French side through to Women’s Champions League final Fine margins defined this football match. Just a few centimetres, in the key moments. As OL Lyonnes owner Michele Kang celebrated on the pitch, arm-in-arm with her players with the Arsenal squad’s faces a picture of total dejection, those tiny differentials will have felt wider than t…

76ers center leads team to playoff with over Celtics Sixers due to face rival Knicks in next round Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the Eastern Conference semi-finals, beating the Jayson Tatum-less Boston Celtics 109-100 on Saturday night to complete a comeback from a 3-1 deficit for just the 14th time in NBA playoff history. Embiid finished with 34 points, 12 rebounds and six a…

Brighton 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 Fabian Hürzeler’s players at set pieces and enable them to pack a collective punch far too powerful for Newcastle to resist. Happily for Eddie Howe and his players it did not quite work out like that. As Yasir al-Rumayyan, Ne…

Updates from the first day of the Crucible final Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Daniel Team sports offer us a simple life: we pick one or one picks us, the end. Individual sports, though, are different: on the one hand, who we enjoy doesn’t describe us in the same way but, on the other, it allows us the gift of wanting the best for everyone, the tribalism still present but with all of us gathered as…

Updates from the latest County Championship matches Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tanya or comment BTL A fifth wicket at Canterbury, where events are hurtling towards a conclusion. Shoaib Bashir, whose throw ran out Northeast, now catches Ekansh Singh off Rory Haydon, who is having quite a game – eight wickets and counting. Kent 65-5. Mike Daniels has an eye on events from the Grace Road scorebox: …

Ipswich are back in the Premier League. And in what style. Folk in this part of Suffolk have become accustomed to promotion parties under Kieran McKenna and the latest certainly did not disappoint. Two early goals dismissed any fears of shredded nerves to ensure an afternoon of revelry could commence. By the time a late third was added, the pitch perimeter was already lined with elated spectators…

⚽ Women’s Super League updates, 12pm BST kick-off ⚽ Get in touch: email Emillia and follow us on Bluesky Hello, good morning and welcome to coverage of the WSL meeting between Manchester City and Liverpool. A win for City today will keep them in complete control of the WSL title race, but anything less could allow Arsenal - who will have three games in hand by this evening - to swoop in and take …

The 35-year-old, brother of Will Still, lasts three months Watford sack 11th head coach since end of 2020-21 season Watford have sacked head coach Ed Still, just three months into a two-and-a-half year contract, following the Championship club’s dismal end to the season. Still was Watford’s 11th permanent head coach since the end of the 2020-21 season. Still, 35, was appointed in February followi…

⚽ All the latest going into Sunday’s big games ⚽ Scores | Tables | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Emillia How the top of the Premier League table looks following Arsenal’s huge win against Fulham… Mikel Arteta said his Arsenal team had played some of their best football of the season in Saturday’s 3-0 home win over Fulham and demanded that they take the positive feelings into the return leg of their…

Arsenal put pressure on Manchester City with 3-0 win First-half performance ‘one of the best’ this season Mikel Arteta said his Arsenal team had played some of their best football of the season in Saturday’s 3-0 home win over Fulham and demanded that they take the positive feelings into the return leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atlético Madrid on Tuesday. Arsenal picked a fine t…

Lachlan Kennedy’s 4x100m team equal national record and make final Men’s and mixed 4x400m quartets set new Australian benchmarks An Australian team including sub 10-second man Lachlan Kennedy have equalled the national 4x100m record on a big day one for the green and gold contingent at the World Athletics Relays in Botswana. Kennedy, Joshua Azzopardi, Christopher Ius and evergreen anchor leg runn…

Antonelli seals third straight pole in tight contest Mercedes star narrowly pips Verstappen; Leclerc in third Kimi Antonelli took pole position for the Miami Grand Prix with a strong lap, but only by narrowly beating a resurgent Max Verstappen and Red Bull into second place. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were in third and sixth for Ferrari, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in fourth and s…

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Expansion clubs are taking different routes with funding, leadership, talent pathways and fan engagement as important as marquee player signings The path to top-level Australian rugby league can take myriad forms. Clubs may win promotion from a second division (Cronulla and Penrith in 1967), command franchises with huge heartland support (Brisbane and Newcastle in 1988), get shoe-horned into an i…