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Arsenal coach sees trip to Etihad as 'a big opportunity'Bukayo Saka still unavailable with an achilles problemMikel Arteta will go all out for victory in Sunday's Premier League title showdown at Manchester City and has not thought for "one second” about setting up for a draw.Arsenal are six points clear of City, albeit they have played an extra...
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Updates from the second day's play in the latest round Sign up for The Spin | Mail Tanya or comment BTLAt Southampton, Kyle Abbott is hustling with admirable vigour. Baker still running in from the other end, elbows horizontally churning. Rew (85) and Abell (41) have now put on a hundred for the fourth wicket. Somerset 175-3, 63 behind.And three...
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Upwardly-mobile hosts are raising expectations heading into the first showdown against Liverpool at Hill Dickinson StadiumDavid Moyes extended sympathy and support for Arne Slot – which may not be what any Liverpool manager wishes to hear from an Everton counterpart before a Merseyside derby – yet could not resist the temptation to stir up some...
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World Championship venue has a minute's applauseVoice of snooker died in February aged 79A minute's applause was paid in tribute to John Virgo, who died in February aged 79, as the World Snooker Championship got under way at the Crucible in Sheffield.Virgo, who won the UK Championship in 1979, enjoyed a successful playing career but was best known...
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️ Premier League updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-off Live scores | Latest tables | Top scorers | And email TimA tale of two benches … Brentford's is short of experience and stuffed with defenders, whereas Fulham's has a full front six and flair to spare.Brentford (4-2-3-1) Kelleher; Kayode, van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Yarmoliuk,...
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Suns hold Curry to 17 in play-in eliminationGreen drops 36 to send Phoenix into playoffsMagic rout Hornets to book Pistons matchupJalen Green scored 36 points, Devin Booker added 20 and the Phoenix Suns locked down Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors, winning 111-96 in the NBA's play-in tournament Friday night.The Suns took the No 8 seed in...
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Australia suffer 33-12 defeat to United States women in Kansas CityTornado warnings and storm delay start of game by nearly three hoursWild weather delayed play for nearly three hours before the Wallaroos were outmuscled 33-12 by the United States in a Pacific Four Series rugby clash that went beyond midnight in Kansas.Prop Hope Rogers scored a...
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Baumgardner cruises to wide decision over ShinDaniels shocks Green by ninth-round stoppageGreen stretchered out, later reported consciousOn a night when Alycia Baumgardner showed why she's considered one of boxing's hottest properties, it was a longshot from New Zealand in the co-main event who threatened to steal the show.Baumgardner retained her...
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Champion-in-waiting can extend his prize money recordHe has had a winner at 39 of 41 jumps tracks this seasonDan Skelton is already certain to be crowned the UK's champion trainer over jumps for the first time this season, but still has a few remaining targets in the final days of what is already a record-breaking campaign.Skelton became the first...
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Teenage sensation wins in 10.21sec with legal tailwind in Brisbane18-year-old celebrates before crossing line ahead of Zavier PeacockGout Gout has blitzed the field but fallen short of breaking the 10-second barrier while winning the 100m at the Australian athletics junior championships in Brisbane on Saturday.The 18-year-old took time to get his...
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Manchester City v Arsenal is a rare late-season title decider and comes with a set of surprising plotlines OK, so it was all building to this, then. The slow‑burn plotlines. The room‑temperature action sequences. The winter afternoons on the sofa watching men wrestle unhappily, staring out of the window as the frigid wind tousles the clouds,...
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Supporters and club insiders look back at the Sky Blues' journey, from the depths of text-a-sub ridicule and fan mutinies to promotionTo understand the extraordinarily wild ride that Coventry have been on, culminating in the promotion achieved at Blackburn on Friday night, you need only look at the text-a-substitute idea that has become part of...
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Today's games | Latest tables | Premier League top scorers Follow us on Bluesky | And you can get in touch via emailGood morning, welcome to matchday live! We'll be bringing you all the latest news and buildup to all of the weekend's football, plus reaction to Coventry's return to the Premier League after a 25-year wait. The end of the season is in...
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The three-time Olympic champion is brilliant, charismatic, relatable, basically the best British athlete of all-time. But he's also a victim of the decline of minority sportsThe Austrian philosopher and novelist Robert Musil once wrote a lengthy meditation on human capacity based around seeing the phrase "a racehorse of genius” in a newspaper...
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Thirteen of the Damallsvenskan's 14 teams are based in the south. For Piteå IF, rising costs are now the priorityPiteå IF are entering their 17th season as a top-division side in Sweden's Damallsvenskan, but the challenge for them is getting tougher and tougher every year.And it is not a small budget compared to clubs such as Hammarby and Häcken...
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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!While a church bell clanged intermittently and bits of tumbleweed blew across the pitch at the Emirates Stadium, the Allianz Arena hosted a ding-dong battle that pretty much had it all on Wednesday night. For the second evening in eight days, it was left to Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to pull out...
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The venerated trainer could not find a guru in the world to cure one of the greatest hurdlers in history but a surprise switch to the Flat promises a career swansongNicky Henderson is 75 years old and, after almost half a century of training horses, he has seen everything in the strange and compelling world of racing. But the extraordinary and...
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Barcelona increasingly unlikely to make loan permanentUnited keen to sell forward but few can afford wagesMarcus Rashford could have a summer of transfer limbo in store despite Michael Carrick admitting the door is not completely closed on the forward playing for Manchester United again. Rashford is currently on loan at Barcelona but it is becoming...
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Talks held with German over replacing Andoni IraolaRose out of work so can start planning immediatelyBournemouth are set to appoint Marco Rose as their new manager after successful talks with the German. Rose has emerged as the favoured candidate to replace Andoni Iraola, who is stepping down when his contract expires this summer, and an agreement...
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Kieran McKenna's team face a crunch clash with Middlesbrough but charging Southampton loom large At the end of July, Ipswich and Middlesbrough reached an agreement. If the Boro midfielder Hayden Hackney agreed personal terms he could join the Suffolk club, freshly relegated and awash with ready funds, for a Championship record fee of around £20m....
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Real Sociedad's coach's career reveals plenty about the man leading the proud Basque club to only their eighth Copa del Rey finalThere is a moment, about halfway through a long conversation about an extraordinary journey from New Jersey to Seville, when Pellegrino Matarazzo stops mid-sentence. "I keep using that word: 'special'. I'm realising now...
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Australian guard has endured a mixed campaign but will be one of the Hawks' main protagonists in a marquee match-up against the New York KnicksThe so-called "Great Barrier Thief” will be unleashed on to one of basketball's most storied stages this weekend, as Australian Dyson Daniels storms into an NBA playoff battle against Jalen Brunson and the...
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As West Country club join rugby's modern-day gold rush, their chair looks forward to some US razzmatazz and a possible Prem expansion into WalesTony Rowe has not yet had time to ensure Exeter's proposed new American owners feel fully at home in the west. On a damp morning at Sandy Park no one is wearing a Stetson and there is not even a horse tied...
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Scott O'Neil rejects claims LIV is close to collapse'Structural changes' afoot, chief executive saysThe LIV Golf chief executive, Scott O'Neil, has admitted the nascent golf league's finances are "managed very tightly” and said structural changes are on the way that would probably mean they needed to raise money, but he remained adamant the...
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James Rew's unbeaten 77 helped put Somerset in a strong position after bowling out Hampshire for 238, while Jamie Porter made inroads for Essex at Egbaston before the weather intervenedBad news for Lancs at Bristol, where Ajeet Singh Dale seems to have done something nasty to his hamstring and has limped off. A real shame on his return to his old...
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Coach Umaga calls for more support for union in Samoa and TongaSuper Rugby club's future in grave doubt beyond this seasonAll Blacks great and Moana Pasifika coach Tana Umaga fears the region's talent will gravitate to league and derail the Tongan and Samoan Test sides without a Super Rugby presence.The Super Rugby Pacific franchise is set to be...
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Lionesses sit top of World Cup qualifying groupSaturday's match will be 500th in team's historySarina Wiegman has said it is important England get the right result against Iceland in Saturday's World Cup qualifier to make the win against Spain at Wembley on Tuesday "even more valuable”.England put themselves in pole position in their qualifying...
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Researchers say mainstream framing of the condition as a characteristic for success can be invalidating for those who are strugglingKirsty Brown is a keen golfer. "If I could just transport myself straight to the first tee, that would be amazing,” she says. "But getting there on time, remembering all my kit, making sure I've eaten before I play...
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The Premier League has history when it comes to clashes between the two teams fighting to become championsKevin Keegan's swashbuckling Newcastle looked set to be runaway champions, but from 12 points clear they were slowly reeled in by Alex Ferguson's ruthless Manchester United. When the two title-chasers met at St James' Park in early March,...
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Saturday's Women's Six Nations hosts hope to end 28-game losing streak against the Red Roses in front of record crowdMurrayfield usually looms over Scotland women's home games. Its fortress walls arch over the team's regular home at the Hive like a villain in a children's cartoon. The two rugby stadiums are direct neighbours in Edinburgh but on...
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Mercedes driver doesn't want to lose four-time champion'Natural' for lack of competitiveness to start taking its tollGeorge Russell has said he would understand if Max Verstappen chose to leave Formula One after the four-time champion recently cast doubt on his future in the sport because of his dissatisfaction with current regulations.Russell, who...
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Saudi's PIF undergoing 'value realization' of plan'The [Iran] war would add more pressure to priorities'Saudi Arabia has abandoned its aspirations to host the 2035 Rugby World Cup as a result of the Public Investment Fund's new financial strategy.The sports minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki al-Faisal, confirmed Saudi Arabia's interest in bidding...
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Neither former world champion was at obligatory event as two British prospects look forward to moment in spotlightIf there were any doubt remaining that Ronnie O'Sullivan retains a gravitational pull on the world of snooker, few moments hammered home the point better than Friday's launch of this year's World Snooker Championship when the seven-time...
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Will an Oklahoma City repeat end an NBA-record run of seven different champions in seven years? Our writers make their picks ahead of Saturday's postseason tip-offWemby will no doubt be the answer to this question at some point in the (perhaps not-too-distant) future. But for now, I defer to those with at least some playoff experience. For my...
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An emotional Frank Lampard basked in the historic achievement of leading Coventry City back to the Premier League after an absence of a quarter of a century. The Sky Blues have returned to the big time for the first time in a generation, after a turbulent period in which they changed stadiums, hit financial rock bottom and plummeted to the depths...
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The Blues' star talks candidly about treatment-room frustrations, transfer talk and how he's learned to love living down southThere are two sides to Cole Palmer. There is the shy character who can fool you into thinking he has nothing much to say for himself. On the other hand there's the artist with the ball at his feet. The player with the "Ice...
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Despite the inevitable dismissal of GM Patrik Allvin, president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford still believes the Canucks are “in a very good place to move forward.” Iain MacIntyre has more on Rutherford’s plans for a team in the midst of its first rebuild this century.
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