Dazzling is Fit and ready to re-enter winners’ circle for Eustace October 24, 2025 SUNDAY’s Panasonic Vitalift Handicap (8.15am) over 10 furlongs may look an open looking contest on paper but it is guaranteed to have a short-priced favourite in the line-up, with Gentleman’s Legacy and Purton seeking to gain compensation for a recent costly seasonal appearance defeat. A healthy revised weights advantage with the winner of that race [...]
Private equity in NFL incredibly successful, commissioner Goodell says October 24, 2025 Private equity sales in the NFL have been “incredibly successful”, according to the American football league’s commissioner Roger Goodell. It comes after the league voted to allow NFL franchise stakes to be sold to the sector for the first time in 2024. Those stakes are capped at 10 per cent of a franchise but are [...]
Sheffield Wednesday enter administration owing £1m in unpaid tax October 24, 2025 Struggling Championship club Sheffield Wednesday have filed for administration amid mounting financial issues under the stewardship of Dejphon Chansiri. Thai tuna tycoon Chansiri has owned the Hillsborough club for a decade but the Owls have been under pressure to pay staff for a number of months, and reportedly owe around £1m in unpaid tax to [...]
Messi signs new Inter Miami deal with $1bn stadium project in final stages October 24, 2025 Lionel Messi has signed a three-year deal to extend his spell in the United States with MLS club Inter Miami. The Argentine joined Inter Miami – owned by David Beckham, Jorge Mas and Jose Mas – in 2023 on a deal reportedly worth $60m a year and over $150m in total. It also promised the [...]
Welsh rugby should keep Scarlets but scrap Cardiff, Ospreys and Dragons October 24, 2025 With a decision expected at the end of the month, I back radical change to Welsh rugby’s regional structure. I wasn’t entirely shocked to read this week that there were over 80,000 tickets remaining for Wales’s autumn internationals, even though they’re taking on three of the southern hemisphere’s Big Four, plus Japan. What did flabbergast [...]
Tennis chiefs risk angering players by adding Saudi Masters event to calendar October 23, 2025 The ATP is to add a new Masters 1000 event in Saudi Arabia despite complaints from some top tennis players that the calendar is already too congested. The Saudi Masters event could become a fixture on the men’s elite tour as soon as 2028, with February earmarked as the most likely window but not yet [...]
Nike reveals England World Cup kit innovation to beat 50C heat October 23, 2025 England have been handed a new weapon to combat the extreme heat and humidity expected at next summer’s men’s World Cup by kit maker Nike. Thomas Tuchel’s team could face heat stress equivalent to almost 50C at the tournament, which is being co-hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada. But Nike has unveiled its latest [...]
NBA rocked as FBI arrests stars Billups and Rozier in illegal betting probe October 23, 2025 The NBA has been rocked after Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat point guard Tony Rozier were arrested by the FBI as part of a probe into alleged “illegal gambling schemes”. Billups, who became a five-time NBA All Star during a 17-year career most famously with the Detroit Pistons and is now coach [...]
Criminal complaint filed against Fifa over NFTs ahead of World Cup October 23, 2025 Fifa has been referred to prosecutors after Switzerland’s gambling regulator filed a criminal complaint against football’s world governing body over NFTs. The complaint was launched by Gespa, the Swiss Gambling Supervisory Authority, and relates to the “Fifa Collect” platform and the NFTs hosted on the site. It marks an escalation against the body over its [...]
In defence of sport’s blazers: Give them scrutiny, yes, but also empathy October 23, 2025 Spend a minute on social media during a major sporting event and you’ll find them: the keyboard warriors, the armchair pundits, the self-appointed arbiters of “what the fans really want”. Their target? The blazers in the boardroom perceived to be truffling for perks and who wouldn’t know how to find the nearest grassroots facility. While [...]