By: Matt Hardy

Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt is the Deputy Sports Editor covering sport, the business of sport and the politics of sport. He covers the likes of football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1, golf and tennis.

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Open champion Cameron Smith joins LIV Golf Series

August 30, 2022

This year’s Open golf champion Cameron Smith has joined the Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series. The 29-year-old Australian who won at St Andrews this year will take part in the fourth event of the Greg Norman-backed league. Chilean Joaquin Niemann, Harold Varner III, Cameron Trimngale, Marc Leishman and Anirban Lahiri will also take part [...]
US Open: The teenage dreamers looking to cause a stir

August 30, 2022

The 142nd US Open got underway yesterday afternoon, when 256 singles players began to whittle themselves down in the hope of securing one of tennis’s most iconic trophies at the end of next week. The women’s draw will see Emma Raducanu look to become the first woman since Serena Williams in 2014 to defend a [...]
Verstappen’s win in Belgium sees Dutchman close in on second F1 title

August 29, 2022

In his ninth Formula 1 win of the season on Sunday in Belgium, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen moved ever closer to his second consecutive title in the world’s biggest motorsporting discipline. There was a sense, when the F1 circus headed to the historic track of Spa, that this might be the final time the paddock [...]
Stokes and his Test side’s honesty refreshing at elite sporting level

August 24, 2022

England captain Ben Stokes admits that honest and frank conversations with bowler Ollie Robinson contributed to the paceman earning a recall to the team for today’s second Test against South Africa. Robinson has not featured for the national team since the Ashes in January amid a series of setbacks – lower back injury, food poisoning [...]
England’s outgoing Commonwealth chief still sees future for Games

August 24, 2022

Team England’s outgoing chief executive insists there is a future for the Commonwealth Games despite debate surrounding where a multi-sport tournament rooted in Britain’s former Empire sits in the 21st century. Paul Blanchard is preparing to leave his position at the head of the team who hosted this year’s competition in Birmingham games after seven [...]
Women’s IPL could blow competitors out of the water

August 24, 2022

It has become the biggest domestic cricket competition in the world and raised $6.2bn (£5.2bn) from its latest media rights deal, and now the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to launch a women’s competition. Women’s Twenty20 cricket isn’t new to India, whose population of more than 1bn represents the sport’s biggest market, with the [...]
Warriors’ land deals could be overturned if they enter administration

August 23, 2022

Unexplained land deals undertaken by the owners of Worcester Warriors could be investigated and ultimately overturned if the Premiership rugby club goes into administration. The West Midlands club’s hierarchy have confirmed talks with HMRC after receiving a winding-up petition over unpaid tax, amid fears that a team who finished 11th last season could go into [...]
Hudson-Smith’s golden Europeans an ode to himself and the human condition

August 22, 2022

It has been a difficult path to get there but British 400m runner Matthew Hudson-Smith can now reflect with satisfaction on a stellar season. The 27-year-old backed up a bronze medal at the World Championships in July with a silver in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games weeks later, before defending his European title in Munich [...]
Worcester woes suggest wider issues for rugby as a whole

August 22, 2022

Rugby union has never been the cash cow that football has developed into and this week we could be seeing the latest club enter administration following a series of financial woes. It is expected, according to multiple reports, that west midlands Premiership club Worcester Warriors could suffer that fate later today following a winding-up petition [...]
La Vuelta a Espana: Ones to watch as third Grand Tour departs

August 19, 2022

This lunchtime the eyes of the cycling world will be on Utrecht, the unlikely starting point for the third and final Grand Tour of the year, La Vuelta a Espana. A Dutch Grand Depart kicks off the 77th edition of the race, which has traditionally followed the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, and this [...]

Orange or CMA CGM: Who could replace Altrad as France Rugby’s shirt partner?

Orange or CMA CGM: Who could replace Altrad as France Rugby’s shirt partner?

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