Category: Sport

With the sun glinting off the ocean just across from the scenic Coogee Oval it is not the easiest week for England’s players to focus entirely on rugby. Many have been strapping on their body armour since last August and for a British & Irish Lion like Courtney Lawes there has been scant respite. “It […]

Michael Masi, the former Formula One race director who was at the centre of Lewis Hamilton’s failed bid to win a record eighth world championship, has quit the FIA. The Australian was sacked as race director in February following his mishandling of the contentious season decider last year in Abu Dhabi, which provided Max Verstappen […]

It’s been seven years since Tiger Woods was last in St Andrews for The Open, and he’s done a lot of living in them. He’s had countless rounds of surgery, a handful of different relationships, an arrest, spent months out of the sport, made his comeback win at Augusta National, then been through that car […]

On a sultry evening in Milton Keynes, Finland’s hopes to progress past the group stages of the Women’s European Championship were quashed by Denmark who struck in the 72nd minute via a close-range header from Chelsea’s Pernille Harder. The result means that theoretically Lars Søndergaard’s Danes can still make it to the quarter-finals although they […]

Raphinha is close to getting the move he wanted from Leeds to Barcelona after the Catalan club submitted a €58m (£49m) offer that could rise to €68m with add-ons. Leeds are poised to accept the bid and although there could be a delay before Barcelona can register him because of the state of their finances […]

So, here we go again. Another State of Origin decider is upon us and it’s hard to tell who is more excited – footy fans or Nine Network executives. In a world of streaming services and watch on demand, an Origin decider is one of the few TV events that can still put millions of […]

Perhaps good fortune is a finite resource in English cricket. Maybe there’s only so much of it to go around and Brendon McCullum used more than his fair share in overhauling the Test team. More pragmatic cricketing reasons lie at the heart of a thumping 10-wicket win for India in which Jasprit Bumrah took six […]