In its 2025-26 season, New York City Ballet will welcome one dancer, Ryan Tomash, and bid farewell to another, Megan Fairchild, who will depart after 25 years with the company. “Megan is absolutely beloved by every single person here within our institution,” Wendy Whelan, City Ballet’s associate artistic director, said. “She’ll be a huge loss … Read more
José Mourinho has been banned for three matches and fined around £6,000 for grabbing the nose of the Galatasaray coach Okan Buruk after Wednesday’s dramatic Istanbul derby. Mourinho, coach of Fenerbahce, approached Buruk at the end of the Turkish Cup quarter-final in the wake of a mass scuffle, and was seen on camera pinching Buruk, … Read more
That Liverpool will be deserved Premier League title winners but far from infallible has been obvious for some time. No need to panic just yet after defeat by the Thames. Collecting silverware while requiring further growth and repair can be taken as a positive sign. An often-rampant Fulham, enjoying their football perhaps because any pressures … Read more
Tim Tszyu has restored his reputation and reignited his international career with a brutal beatdown of American Joey Spencer in Newcastle. The referee stopped the fight two minutes and 18 seconds into the fourth round after Australia’s former WBO world champion battered Spencer with a stunning blitz to the head and body. Spencer had lost … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news Manchester United (3-4-2-1): Onana; Yoro, Maguire, Mazraoui; Dalot, Ugarte, Casemiro, Dorgu; Fernandes, Garnacho; Højlund.Subs: Bayindir, Lindelöf, Mount, Zirkzee, Eriksen, Shaw, Amass, Obi, Kukonki. Manchester City (4-2-3-1): Ederson; Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; Gündogan, Kovacic; Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne, Foden; Marmoush.Subs: … Read more
Houston’s suffocating defense wiped away a 14-point deficit over the final eight minutes and erased Cooper Flagg and Duke’s title hopes on Saturday in a 70-67 stunner over the Blue Devils at the Final Four. Duke made a grand total of one field goal over the last 10 minutes of this game. The second-to-last attempt … Read more
The bombshell that Kevin De Bruyne will leave Manchester City in the summer has overshadowed the buildup to the Manchester derby, but Pep Guardiola has a more pressing absence to deal with: working out how to play without the injured Erling Haaland. The Norwegian has scored 21 of Manchester City’s 57 league goals and few … Read more
The Leinster prop Andrew Porter popped the words “small margins” into his immediate reaction to a landslide win when Harlequins were buried under blue coloured earth. We know what he meant. Leinster’s unrequited love of European rugby, since winning the Champions Cup in 2018, has twisted and turned on a few of the moments the … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature I’m going to write these down, then we’ll reflect on what we might see. Share Teams! Fulham (4-2-3-1): Leno; Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson; Berge, Lukic; Iwobi, Pereira, Sessegnon’ Muniz. Subs: Benda, Tete, Cuenca, Reed, Cairney, Smith Rowe, Traore, Willian, Jimenez. Liverpool … Read more
The Norwegian club Brann have won a landmark freedom of expression case with the Court of Arbitration For Sport (Cas) ruling that Uefa should not have punished them for fans singing “Uefa mafia” or displaying banners with the same message at Women’s Champions League games. The European footballing body fined Brann on two separate occasions … Read more