Premiership: Five things we’ve learned as Leicester rumble on October 18, 2021 Premiership clubs Saracens and Leicester completed demolition jobs, Bristol continued their struggle to match the highs of last season and Harlequins lost their first game. Worcester, meanwhile, cannot do anything but lose. Here’s five things we learned this weekend from the weekend’s Premiership action. Sarries Rec Bath Saracens’ English contingent put on a show for [...]
20th PGA title: Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy wins CJ Cup in Las Vegas October 18, 2021 Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy has won the CJ Cup in Las Vegas, shooting a last round of six-under 66 to win by a stroke from American Collin Morikawa. Starting the day two shots off the pace, McIlroy showed a cool head throughout to end on 25-under par and join the select club of golfers to [...]
Cameron Norrie becomes first Brit to win Indian Wells after three-set victory October 18, 2021 Cameron Norrie has become the first Briton to win tennis’s “fifth-major” by fighting back for a storming three-set victory over Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Sunday. The 26-year-old won 3-6 6-4 6-1 in an hour and 49 minutes, recovering after being down a break at 3-1 [...]
Newcastle 2, Tottenham 3: New owners witness false start to Saudi era October 17, 2021 Out with the old, in with the new. That was meant to be the theme as Newcastle United played their first game under Saudi ownership today. In the St James’ Park directors’ box, the club’s new rulers – chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan and Amanda Staveley, the public face of the £300m takeover – took their seats [...]
Axe hovers over Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as familiar questions haunt Man Utd boss October 17, 2021 It was a 3-1 loss to Liverpool that finally brought the chop for Jose Mourinho and opened the door for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to return to Manchester United. Mourinho went into that December 2018 game on a run of two wins in seven matches and amid a growing sense that, 31 months on from being [...]
EP: 92 Ascot Champions Day & Hong Kong October 15, 2021 One of the highlights of the British flat season is Champions Day at Ascot with four Group 1’s, a Group 2 and a handicap to look forward to on Saturday. Jockey Rossa Ryan is back onboard Albaflora who runs in the Group 1 ‘Fillies & Mares Stakes’ over a mile and a half and he [...]
Football training can be safer with VR technology October 15, 2021 A whipped cross and a powerful header towards goal are staples of football and the essence of set-piece tactics used by every football team. But building Cristiano Ronaldo-like leg power to spring higher than your opponent and honing the skill to guide the ball into the net requires endless training drills. The other, more serious [...]
Ollie Phillips: Marcus Smith can be the catalyst for a new England team October 15, 2021 Marcus Smith is the name on everyone’s lips as Eddie Jones prepares to name his England squad for the Autumn Nations Series on Monday. The Harlequins fly-half was on fire on his first Premiership appearance of the season last Friday, coming off the bench to help Quins surge from 21-0 down to beat Bristol 52-24. [...]
T20 World Cup: Who are the outsiders looking to shout Howzat? October 14, 2021 Sunday will see the first over of the seventh Twenty20 World Cup bowled in Oman. The Middle Eastern state, co-hosting the competition with the United Arab Emirates, feature in a preliminary round-robin set of fixtures in which four sides will earn spots against the bigger nations in the next stage, the Super12. The preliminary round [...]
Last year’s winner The Revenant can be crowned again October 14, 2021 RACE of the day could well be the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (3.10pm) as it features another box office clash between Palace Pier and the unbeaten Baaeed. The former only has one blemish on his glittering CV and that came in this race last season when he was sent off favourite. He has had a [...]