Ollie Phillips: Home nations within reach of rugby history July 15, 2022 Let’s be frank: the quality of rugby we have seen across this month of internationals hasn’t always been high – it’s been stop-start, mismatched and controversial at times – but it has been competitive. Heading into the final round of their Test series, Ireland are level with New Zealand, Scotland are equal with Argentina, England [...]
Paris primed for a British bash on Arc weekend July 14, 2022 ON A hot summer’s night, a crowd of 10,000 lounged around the beautiful grounds of Paris-Longchamp Racecourse, some to watch the Group One Grand Prix de Paris, but most to party hard to a Robin Schulz DJ set. Fast forward 80 days and an estimated 35,000 racing enthusiasts are expected to flock to the French [...]
Resurgent Rohaan to prove Wokingham win was no fluke July 14, 2022 ALL EYES will again be on Frankie Dettori this Saturday as he renews his partnership with Emily Upjohn in the Juddmonte Irish Oaks (3.45pm) at the Curragh tomorrow afternoon. The pair were painfully unlucky not to win the English equivalent at Epsom when stumbling leaving the stalls and narrowly missing out in a head bob [...]
British Athletics on mission to buck trend of mediocre Championships July 14, 2022 Just once has the Great Britain and Northern Ireland athletics team left a World Championships with medals tallying into double figures – at Stuttgart in 1993 – and there’s little hope of a repeat at this year’s edition, which gets underway in Eugene, Oregon, tomorrow evening. Of course there is medal hope – notably in [...]
Sky Sports pays more than £880m to extend broadcast deal with England cricket chiefs July 14, 2022 Sky Sports has agreed a four-year extension to its current deal as the main broadcast partner of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The ECB said the agreement, which runs from 2025 to 2028 and covers men’s and women’s internationals, The Hundred and the Vitality Blast, would see Sky show more cricket than ever [...]
Ed Warner: Challenge for women’s football is to create year-round interest July 14, 2022 Tournament organisers are learning to do right by women’s sport. But there’s a way to go yet. An Old Trafford sell-out for England’s opening match in the current Euros was widely and rightly applauded. Sticking Belgium and Iceland into the Academy Stadium at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus feels crass. We’ll never know how many might [...]
Open Championship: Prize money back on the rise in golf as all four majors boost payouts July 13, 2022 Top golfers are earning more than ever as the cream of the men’s game prepare to tee off at the Open Championship on Thursday. Prize money for the 150th edition of the oldest major has been raised to record levels, mirroring increases at the game’s other biggest events. Payouts on the PGA Tour are also [...]
Fan spending FOUR days on bus to watch World Athletics Championships July 13, 2022 Dedicated fan bases are what sports are built upon; the desire to be there for your team or player and witness any history they make. But would you spend four days on a bus going coast-to-coast for a few days of sporting action? Because that’s just what Jan Figueroa is doing. The 24-year-old Puerto Rico-born [...]
777 Partners vice president: ‘We want BBL to be next best rival to NBA’ July 13, 2022 Investment firm 777 Partners is determined to make the British Basketball League (BBL) the second biggest domestic league in the sport, behind the NBA. Since the US company’s acquisition of 45 per cent in the BBL last year, the league has seen record crowds and will have its first team – the London Lions, who [...]
BBL ready to slam dunk its rival basketball competitions July 13, 2022 British basketball has only ever featured at the Olympics when the team has participated as the host nation and has never qualified for the Fiba World Cup. A Sport England survey estimates the number of those participating in the sport in England has dropped by 100,000 since 2016. In spite of this, however, the British [...]