Manchester City face an awkward start to their latest attempt to win the Champions League under Pep Guardiola after drawing a Lionel Messi-enhanced Paris Saint Germain in this season’s group stage. Liverpool were also handed a difficult group at a protracted draw...
Azeem Rafiq has called on Yorkshire’s chief executive and director of cricket to resign or be sacked after accusing the county of “fudging” a public apology at the end of a 10-month investigation into their former player’s allegations of racism....
Magnus Carlsen has never won the biennial World Cup knockout, and the No 1 was eliminated in Tuesday’s semi-finals of its $190,000 2021 renewal in Sochi. Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda, 23, again proved himself a nemesis on big occasions for Norway’s...
The plan The past 18 months may have felt like a degree course in diplomacy for Mikel Arteta and he was clearly holding back when asked how he would describe a tumultuous 2020-21 season. “Extraordinarily challenging, but incredibly stimulating,” he...
Time has not been kind to the Phoenix Suns. Seven days ago they appeared to be on an inexorable march toward their first championship in franchise history while slapping the Milwaukee Bucks with double-digits losses and reducing Giannis Antetokounmpo to a...
Mark Cavendish continued his fairytale return to the Tour de France in Valence by holding off Belgian national champion Wout Van Aert to take the 33rd stage win of his professional career in the race. His third stage win on...
When Chris Paul collided with Phoenix Suns’ teammate Cam Johnson in Game 1 of the Western Conference quarter-finals against the title-favourite Los Angeles Lakers, going down in agony as he held his right shoulder, it looked like deja vu. Here was Paul,...
Exeter’s director of rugby Rob Baxter says “rugby is being singled out” with only 10,000 fans allowed to watch this Saturday’s Gallagher Premiership final against Harlequins at Twickenham at a time when special dispensation has been granted to other sporting events such...
As with so much else in his life, fame came late in the day to Darren Stevens. The Kent all-rounder’s extraordinary innings of 190 against Glamorgan last Friday created a very modern sort of buzz, one that has really been possible only...
Stephen Curry became the oldest scoring champion since Michael Jordan in 1998, finishing with 46 points as the Golden State Warriors held off the Memphis Grizzlies 113-101 on Sunday in a regular-season finale that determined the play-in tournament’s eighth and ninth...
