Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Elsewhere, West Ham, eighth in the table, lead Spurs, ninth, 1-0 thanks to Josefine Rybrink’s own goal. Share Preamble In a sense, this is the one that doesn’t matter. Last Saturday, Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-1 to win the League Cup; … Read more
When Billy Monger signed up to compete in the 2024 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, he knew almost nothing about the event. But after a morning genning up on YouTube, the 25-year-old from Surrey was left pretty well traumatised. Straight away, there were the distances involved: Even the hardiest professional athletes describe Kona as … Read more
As a seven-time Olympic swimming medallist, Kirsty Coventry knows a thing or two about navigating choppy waters. But the new International Olympic Committee president now faces the biggest set of challenges to global sport since the 1980s, when boycotts rocked the Moscow and Los Angeles Games. As the 41-year-old prepares to take over from Thomas … Read more
Mathieu van der Poel outsprinted Filippo Ganna and Tadej Pogacar to win his second Milan-Sanremo Classic on Saturday, claiming the first Monument race of the season, while the European champion Lorena Wiebes won the first staging of a women’s event since 2005. Dutchman Van der Poel, winner in 2023, came out on top in a … Read more
Arsenal bounced straight back from the disappointment of their midweek defeat away at Real Madrid by comprehensively beating Liverpool 4-0 in the Women’s Super League. Elsewhere, Everton ran out 3-0 winners against Crystal Palace. Liverpool’s Jasmine Matthews scored two own goals in the game at the Emirates Stadium, as Arsenal proved too strong for Amber … Read more
The mere remnants of what once made George Foreman a fearsome heavyweight champion were enough to call in question Evander Holyfield’s right to be considered a worthy holder of the title. Let there be no doubt about the comprehensiveness of the beating Holyfield inflicted on his 42-year-old challenger over 12 rounds at the Atlantic City … Read more
This week president Donald Trump convened a prayer meeting in the Oval Office. Gathered around the Resolute desk, constructed from the timbers of a British naval vessel, a series of pastors laid their hands on the president’s thinning hair and prayed for his success. The only other item on the desk? The enormous intricate bauble … Read more
It is the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with its Oscar-nominated lead man, Paul Mescal, has people clamoring for tickets to BAM’s production this month. The excitement recalls a period when the performing arts center consistently drew crowds to … Read more
Oscar Piastri won the Chinese Grand Prix with a dominant run from pole position for McLaren, once again demonstrating the team have a fearsomely quick car in the second race of the new season. He secured a comfortable one-two, with his teammate Lando Norris in second. George Russell was third for Mercedes but 11 seconds … Read more
A Friday night Twitter transfer rumour frenzy is picking up steam. This is the way of things but particularly so on international weeks when the digital cottage industries built around big clubs is extra desperate for something, anything to feed on. Eight times zones behind, the man whose name and face is all over timelines … Read more