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Insiders worry about how to grow racing as costs rise but JP McManus continues to find winners in his 50th year in the sport No sooner had Lossiemouth lifted the roof off Cheltenham with a staggeringly dominant Champion Hurdle victory than the skies around Prestbury Park also began to brighten too. The buildup to the festival had been dominated by talk of civil war, of feuding and internecine con…

World No 1 wins 6-2, 6-4 against Japanese Australian qualifier Talia Gibson stuns Paolini Aryna Sabalenka eased past Naomi Osaka 6-2, 6-4 to reach the Indian Wells quarter-finals while the fourth seed, Alexander Zverev, progressed to the last eight in the men’s event. Sabalenka and Osaka, both four-time grand slam title winners, were meeting for the first time since 2018, when the Japanese won at…

Court filing claims project leader took money days before collapse Grand Slam Track filed for bankruptcy owing up to $50m Michael Johnson has been accused of paying himself $500,000 (£372,000) eight days before his Grand Slam Track project collapsed before the final event in Los Angeles, leaving athletes and creditors owed millions. The claim is made by vendors in a legal filing in which they hav…

Millwall close gap on Middlesbrough to one point Leicester out of relegation zone after beating Bristol City Millwall rode their luck to bolster their bid for promotion with a 1-0 win against Derby . Alex Neil’s side took the lead through Josh Coburn’s goal in the 43rd minute at the Den. Barry Bannan’s free-kick was not cleared and the Millwall defender Tristan Crama hooked the ball back into the…

Things can aways get worse. Much, much worse. If there is a place below rock bottom, Tottenham seem determined to go there. The Champions League may not be a priority, Igor Tudor publicly declaring survival their only concern, but that didn’t make it any less painful, nor easier to forget. This, instead, will linger for a long time. It wasn’t even the 5-2 defeat that hurt, not really, and it cert…

It was a night when the Tyneside passions pulsed; the nervous energy, too, because this was something unprecedented – a first Champions League knockout tie in Newcastle’s history. It was not just the gilded level of the opposition that fired the excitement, the imagination. Eddie Howe was in little doubt that it was the biggest game Newcastle had ever played. Newcastle had to do more than subdue …

The good news for Liverpool is that the situation is salvageable, when it really might not have been. The bad news is that they were distinctly second best for the first three quarters of the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. Nobody who saw their second half collapse away to Juventus in the play-off round could be confident Galatasaray are a team capable of squeezing the life out o…

Judge sends Darron Lee murder case to grand jury Prosecutors cite ChatGPT messages as key evidence Autopsy finds blunt force trauma and stab wounds Former New York Jets linebacker Darron Lee appeared in a Tennessee courtroom on Tuesday as prosecutors outlined evidence they say ties him to the killing of his girlfriend, including messages where he asked ChatGPT questions about injuries and how to …

With Indian Premier League investment on board, the Hundred has followed the IPL’s lead with a player auction for the 2026 season in London this week A rather drab event space hidden away next to Boots near Piccadilly Circus feels a long way from the 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, where the Indian Premier League auction was held in December, but the Hundred will take a significant ste…

Masters powers past Kim for sprint gold redemption American claims 11th Paralympic gold medal at age 36 Chernobyl-born star extends remarkable medal haul Oksana Masters’ 11th Paralympic gold medal was “redemption” for the most decorated American Winter Paralympian. And it was clear just how much it meant to her. Masters screamed loudly several times in delight after winning the women’s sprint sit…

Scot second in men’s visually impaired alpine combined ParalympicsGB mixed curlers lose to Italy in fifth defeat Great Britain won their first medal of the Winter Paralympics on Tuesday as Neil Simpson imposed himself on a stacked field to claim silver in the men’s visually impaired alpine combined. Finishing second behind the home favourite Giacomo Bertagnolli, but ahead of Austria’s Johannes Ai…

Russian loses to Katerina Siniakova in three sets Teenager throws racket on several occasions Mirra Andreeva’s Indian Wells title defense met a bad-tempered end on Monday as Katerina Siniakova stunned the Russian teenager 4-6, 7-6, 6-3. The 18-year-old opened her bid to retain her crown with a dominant 6-0, 6-0 demolition of Solana Sierra. But she was in trouble early and often against Siniakova,…

Liam Rosenior has unlocked João Pedro and must do the same with Cole Palmer for Chelsea to reach their potential João Pedro had been a Chelsea player for less than two weeks when he faced Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the Club World Cup last summer. The settling-in period was intense. The forward had an impactful substitute appearance when he made his debut in the quarter-final win over Pal…

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Steve Borthwick’s captain is normally cool under pressure, but rare outburst points to a much bigger problem Martin Johnson, England’s World-Cup winning skipper, believes there is no huge mystery to being a great captain. “If you haven’t got a good team it doesn’t matter how good a captain you are,” he said on the Rugby Legends podcast before the start of this year’s Six Nations. And if anyone is…