Games round-up: Observation and Heaven’s Vault reviews June 5, 2019 Observation Platform: PC, PS4 Observation is one hell of a proposition: a follow-up to the superlative indie horror game Stories Untold, set in a space station designed by alumni of Alien: Isolation, in which you control a rogue AI inspired by HAL from 2001. And for the most part, it lives up to that promise. [...]
Johanna Konta reaches French Open final four in style with remodelled clay game June 4, 2019 Sloane Stephens said that her two defeats to Johanna Konta earlier this year were “out of mind” ahead of their quarter-final clash at Roland Garros today. But as Konta raced to a 6-1, 6-4 win in just one hour 11 minutes, it appeared as though they were anything but. This is the first year that [...]
How Holland bounced back from World Cup and Euro qualification misery with the aid of their football talent factory June 4, 2019 Every so often a Dutch player capable of setting the world alight announces themselves on the international stage. And even more rarely a crop of them come through the ranks at the same time.
Sam Torrance: Patrick Cantlay back to winning ways with a little help from Jack Nicklaus June 3, 2019 Patrick Cantlay and Jack Nicklaus go back a long way, to when a young Cantlay earned the award named after the great man for the best player on the American college circuit eight years ago. Nicklaus has continued to look out for his protege, watching as Cantlay set a new record for the most weeks [...]
Stevenage FC launch share offering as they seek £1.2m boost to promotion ambitions June 3, 2019 For clubs scrambling to scale the ultra-competitive English football pyramid it can pay to go against the grain. Ambitious Stevenage FC are doing just that with an innovative equity offering designed to give them a leg up into League One and, later, the Championship. Chairman and majority owner Phil Wallace hopes to raise £1.2m by [...]
England v Pakistan: Hosts set to unleash Mark Wood and Jofra Archer in all-out pace barrage June 2, 2019 Trent Bridge has in recent years become a cricket ground associated with one thing and one thing only: runs, and lots of them. Over the last four years it has been the highest-scoring venue in England and Wales, with an average one-day international run-rate of 6.98 per over, its true, even-paced pitch and short boundaries [...]
How Liverpool dialled down their heavy metal football to beat Tottenham in the Champions League final June 2, 2019 Six was the magic number for Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp on Saturday night when a deserved yet unspectacular display in the stifling heat of Madrid yielded a 2-0 win over Tottenham. But while a sixth European Cup victory was the guiding motivation for all involved with Liverpool, the number also held personal significance to Klopp. [...]
Anthony Joshua’s seismic defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr is the shake-up that heavyweight boxing needed June 2, 2019 This wasn’t supposed to happen. Anthony Joshua’s first fight in the US was meant to be a glossy commercial for the Briton; more than merely a defence of his IBF, WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles, Saturday night’s clash with Andy Ruiz Jr was designed to break a new market, to wow an audience and [...]
Danny Cipriani sweeps up Premiership’s individual awards but will he get a World Cup call-up? June 1, 2019 If this season has not shown England head coach Eddie Jones that Danny Cipriani is deserving of a seat on the plane to the World Cup in Japan later this year, then perhaps nothing will. The 31-year-old has been instrumental to Gloucester’s revival this season as they reached the Premiership play-offs for the first time [...]
England show all the strings to their bow as they open the World Cup with dominant win over South Africa May 30, 2019 They waited a long time for the tournament to start, but when it finally did England did not disappoint. The hosts may not have produced their trademark – the gigantic total compiled through aggressive, explosive batting – yet, in a way, this was better. As the world’s best one-day international side for some time, we [...]