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The Women’s Super League’s £65m TV contract with Sky Sports and the BBC will have to be renegotiated if it removes relegation from the top flight. As revealed last month by the Guardian, the clubs are considering radical proposals to pause relegation from the 2026-27 season as part of a plan to expand the WSL … Read more
David Warner will call Lord’s home this summer. The former Australia batter is in line to make his Hundred debut after he was recruited by London Spirit in the competition’s latest draft, with Jimmy Anderson – another recent retiree from the international game – left unsold. Warner will be reunited with his former Australia head … Read more
Australian No 1 Alex de Minaur has been bundled out of the BNP Paribas Open in the round of 16 after a shock defeat to Francisco Cerundolo at Indian Wells. The Argentinian stunned an out-of-sorts De Minaur to reach the quarter-finals with a 7-5 6-3 victory on Wednesday. De Minaur had his opportunities against the … Read more
Jack Draper booked his place in the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open with a straight-sets victory over third seed Taylor Fritz. Seven successive games from late in the first set turned the match in Draper’s favour before he navigated a late stumble to win 7-5, 6-4. Serve dominated the first 10 games, the British … Read more
John Minshull 107 Duke of Dorset’s XI v WrothamThe Vine, Sevenoaks August 1769 On 31 August 1769, John Minshull, or was it Minchin, playing for Sevenoaks, or was it the Duke of Dorset’s XI, made cricket’s first ever hundred – or maybe he didn’t. Perhaps John Small had scored one the season before, but didn’t … Read more
One day, Diego Simeone said, in those quiet moments when they are alone with their thoughts and memories, Real Madrid’s players will think of Atlético Madrid and how they made them suffer. But the real trauma, he knows, will for ever be theirs. In the final moments before this latest European derby, the first at … Read more
What’s this? A second article about the Ineos Compass in a week – it’s this kind of inefficiency that would never happen at Manchester United. But I have been staring at the Ineos Compass for the past 48 hours. For those of you fortunate enough not to have encountered it, according to Ineos’s website “the … Read more
Going through Real Madrid The eternal champions are into the quarter-finals. Fortune definitely favoured the team for whom luck is a constant companion. Real squeaked through on penalties against Atlético, but the new Galácticos resembled less a team than a disparate group of sulking prima donnas. Jude Bellingham was dishing out rollickings to his teammates … Read more
Frankie Dettori, one of the most successful and popular racing figures of recent decades, said in a statement on Thursday that he is “saddened and embarrassed” at being forced to file for bankruptcy having failed to resolve a dispute over unpaid tax with HMRC. Dettori was revealed to be in dispute with HMRC over a … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Greg Wood 4.40 TRUSTATRADER PLATE HANDICAP CHASE, 2M 4F 127YD A tricky conclusion to the card with two big fields of handicap chasers kicks off with the Plate, over the trip which features in a series of similar races at meetings … Read more