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The opportunity for this tournament's legacy is in the fan fests, camps and tune-ups accessible to more than the lucky fewIn Germany, fans watched the games on screens in crowded town squares, their roars careening off ancient buildings, or from the banks of rivers, peering at floating, double-sided big screens on barges. At the next World Cup, in...
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Manager shoves his own midfielder in stoppage timeAston Villa into last 16 with victory at FenerbahceAston Villa sealed a top-eight finish in the Europa League after Jadon Sancho's first goal for the club gave them a 1-0 win over Fenerbahce in Turkey. But the Villa manager, Unai Emery, was involved in a touchline spat with Youri Tielemans after the...
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Lindsey Vonn set for fifth Games after comebackUS Ski & Snowboard to send 97 athletes to ItalyNearly half of US roster are first-time OlympiansLindsey Vonn will compete in her fifth Winter Olympics next month after being named to a 97-athlete US Ski & Snowboard roster for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games, a team led by some of the most...
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Nottingham Forest's first European adventure for almost 30 years was supposed to be a hoot but the mood music that accompanied a slender defeat in Braga felt rather alarming. The fact is Forest failed to perform and a stale display was typified by the chain of errors that culminated in the captain, Ryan Yates, scoring an own goal that proved...
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Report cites cardiac arrhythmia tied to sarcoidosisDrug use contributory but not fatal, examiner saysAmerican chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died last year after suffering a sudden heart rhythm disturbance, with an underlying heart condition identified as the primary cause, according to a report released by North Carolina medical...
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Mateus Fernandes steels West Ham, Dominic Calvert-Lewin faces a homecoming and Manchester City need Marc GuéhiTop scorers: check out the latest standingsThe absence of the wantaway Lucas Paquetá has given Mateus Fernandes a chance to take on more responsibility for West Ham. Paquetá, who is said to be nursing a minor back problem, was...
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Mitch Marner and the Vegas Golden Knights stop in Boston to take on the Bruins for the first night of a back-to-back on Thursday before taking on the Maple Leafs in Toronto. Catch all the action on Sportsnet or Sportsnet+ and follow every play with the live tracker.
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Midfielder suffered ankle knock against DortmundFrank wants club to offer new deal to Mick van de VenThomas Frank feels Tottenham are "cursed” with injuries after confirming Lucas Bergvall may face an extended period on the sidelines.The 19-year-old midfielder will miss Saturday's Premier League trip to Burnley after sustaining an ankle injury in...
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Sri Lanka (271-6) beat England (252 all out) by 19 runsKusal Mendis's unbeaten knock of 93 proves vitalAfter a year in the job, it was on: a first one-day international victory away from home for Brendon McCullum as England's head coach, a touch of joy in a troubling winter. With Ben Duckett and Joe Root hitting watchful half-centuries, the base...
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Fifa chief says he has been 'hammered' for 2026 pricesFans' group tells Infantino to focus on cheap ticketsGianni Infantino made a joke about British football fans' behaviour and defended ticket prices for this summer's World Cup in North America during a speech to world leaders on Thursday.Fifa's president addressed concerns around the staging of...
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France selection for Six Nations caused a huge stir but England's head coach has no need to spring any shocksSteve Borthwick names his England squad for the Six Nations on Friday and as much as we do not know about the precise makeup of the chosen party, there is plenty that we do. As much fun as it may be to imagine Borthwick rocking up at...
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Max Rushden is joined by Jonathan Liew, Lars Sivertsen and Paul Watson to discuss Premier League teams' success in the Champions League so far this seasonRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on email.On the podcast today: three victories for the Premier League sides in...
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Europa League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-offs Live scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail JohnFenerbahce have equalised against Aston Villa, with Kerem Aktürkoğlu getting it. It's 1-1 in Turkey.It's now 2-2 in Bologna, the Englishman Jonathan Rowe has got the goal, cutting across the Celtic defence to score. Continue reading...
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Elliotte Friedman joins the FAN Hockey Show to discuss the Sabres re-signing Josh Doan to a long-term extension, why Doan was a priority to re-sign coming off a trade in the offseason, the team’s turnaround since moving on from Kevyn Adams, and more.
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Montreal Gazette’s Stu Cowan joins FAN Hockey Show to discuss what the Canadiens might be targeting ahead of the deadline, which now is that big top six forward that could play with Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield, especially if Kirby Dach can’t do it.
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Kerri Einarson enters the 2026 Scotties Tournament of Hearts wearing the red-and-white of Team Canada and hunting her fifth national title. But Christina Black, whose rink upset Team Einarson at Olympic Trials, and the rest of the field will make adding to the mantelpiece as difficult as possible.
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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!The last time Manchester United tried to milk a few extra million quid, last summer, the club embarked on an ill-timed and ill-thought out post-season tour of Asia, which quickly turned into a PR farce. The 1-0 defeat against the "Asean All Stars”, a scratch, invitational side that had never...
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The injury-blighted crowd favourites were edged out by fellow Australians Jason Kubler and Marc PolmansIn the end, it was a one-night only affair. The return of the Special Ks – Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis – to the Australian Open saw the former champions go down 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (10-4) to fellow Australians Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans....
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United midfielder, 34 next month, out of contractJuventus's Douglas Luiz on loan at Nottingham ForestCasemiro will leave Manchester United when his contract expires in the summer after the club decided not to trigger a one-year extension.United have chosen to part ways at this point to allow time to shape their summer transfer strategy. There is an...
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Unprecedented times call for previously unthinkable conversations when it comes to the US-shaped problemCould European countries really decide to boycott the World Cup this summer? It is an astonishing question to be asking in 2026 and an indictment of the bind in which, as Donald Trump sows confusion around a potential annexation of Greenland, the...
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PTPA develops new Future Tennis blueprint for the sportFunding sought from investment banks for Pinnacle TourThe players' lobby group embroiled in a lawsuit with tennis authorities is seeking $1bn in investment to fund a radical restructure of the professional game based around a new Pinnacle Tour that would offer more prize money for the top men...
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Coaches are ranked on the basis of what their outfits achieve in terms of victories and silverware. In his year and a half in charge, the spunky former opener has had reasonable trysts with both these necessities, but has also courted a fair amount of failure, some of which the pundits have attributed to a lack of consistency in team selection
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Arsenal remained on top of the Champions League on the penultimate matchday of the group phase, which also featured a targeted Jude Bellingham celebration• Jonas Gahr Støre, the prime minister of Norway and the recent recipient of a Nobel peace prize-related missive from Donald Trump, took in a Champions League match on Tuesday. Bodø/Glimt's...
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Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to join torch relayOpening ceremony set mainly for San Siro stadiumWilliams already in Milan via fashion week appearancesHudson Williams and Connor Storrie, the stars of the hit television series Heated Rivalry, have been named official torchbearers for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.The actors will carry...
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Club continues January push for experienced playersKelly Gago wants to leave Everton, says Brian SørensenLeicester have signed the Switzerland forward Alisha Lehmann from FC Como. The WSL club have been targeting experienced players this month, having often had the youngest average age in the division in their starting XI this season.Lehmann, who...
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Romanian player accuses opponent after defeatOsaka: 'I don't react well to being casually disrespected'The courtside photographer pit was already full 10 minutes before call time on Thursday night inside Margaret Court Arena. As all cameras pointed directly at the players' entrance, it was not difficult to understand why they were there.A day...
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News from the series opener in Colombo, 9am GMT start Sign up for The Spin | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Daniel1st over: Sri Lanka 7-0 (Nissanka 3, Mishara 4) This is the first time Overton has opened the bowling in an ODI. He starts with a short ball that is pulled smoothly for two by Nissanka. A single behind square brings the left-handed...
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The NBA and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism announced an extension of their partnership Thursday, with the league agreeing to continue bringing preseason games to the Middle East and the sides completing talks to launch a new global academy in the United Arab Emirates’ capital for top boys players.
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No apparent ill-feeling between Ryder Cup pair 'I asked if he had any good wine over Christmas'The talk was of wines, not fines. Any notion of an awkward 18 holes between Rory McIlroy and Tyrrell Hatton was firmly dismissed by the Englishman in the immediate aftermath. McIlroy used pre-tournament media duties at the Dubai Desert Classic to assert...
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One of the Broncos, Rams, Seahawks and Patriots will claim the championship in a few weeks. Here are the factors that will help decide the resultA month ago, the Rams looked like a near-complete team. Special teams aside, they had answers everywhere. Coaching. Quarterback. Playmakers. A defense that could steal a game if necessary. They're still a...
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