Great Britain out of Davis Cup as Evans questions tennis future September 15, 2024 Great Britain were knocked out of the Davis Cup on Sunday after losing to Canada in Manchester as Dan Evans questioned his future in the competition. The team, who beat Finland but lost to Argentina last week, needed to win all three of their matches at the AO Arena to progress through to the quarter-finals [...]
Glorious Glosters beat big dogs and prove there’s life beyond The Hundred September 15, 2024 If you looked up “Glorious Glosters” in the sporting dictionary its entire synopsis would be focused around Saturday afternoon. Because the rank outsider of T20 teams, the forgotten bunch who some said were at Finals Day to make up the numbers, handed cricket a healthy reminder of what is cooking around the counties, no matter [...]
F1 Driver Standings after Piastri wins in Baku and Norris closes gap on Verstappen September 15, 2024 Oscar Piastri won a thrilling F1 race in Baku on Sunday as McLaren overtook Red Bull in the Constructors’ Standings and Lando Norris inched towards title leader Max Verstappen. Piastri and Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc were in a bitter battle for the race win before the McLaren driver pulled away and a crash between the [...]
Back in Baku, F1 season in for fierce run-in between McLaren and Red Bull September 14, 2024 The Formula 1 paddock is in Baku this weekend for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in the first of back-to-back street races. The final race, partially at least, in Europe for the rest of the season, Baku should throw up a number of surprises where the most successful driver – surprisingly – over the race’s six-edition [...]
T20 finals day: Favourites, format and can I still get tickets? September 14, 2024 Today at Edgbaston in Birmingham four teams will battle it out to be crowned T20 Vitality Blast champions on Finals Day. The traditional Finals Day has been held in Birmingham uninterrupted every year since 2013 and it’s a day where fans get three matches for their ticket cost. So who is in Finals Day and [...]
How the Solheim Cup got its name – and why its sponsors left it unbranded September 13, 2024 There can’t be many brands that would financially underwrite a brand new sporting event without insisting on calling it after themselves, but that’s what Ping did with the Solheim Cup. As the biennial contest between the best women’s golfers from the United States and Europe reignites this weekend, it’s a story of monetary sacrifice – [...]
How Jon Rahm can finish chequered season with a £15m double September 13, 2024 By his own very high standards 2024 has not been a vintage season for Jon Rahm but this week the former world No1 could claim the first leg of a LIV Golf double worth more than $20m (£15m). Rahm has endured the most fallow year of his prolific career, the first in which he has [...]
Rugby needs to look to USA and other wild ideas September 13, 2024 When I read this week in City A.M. that Premiership rugby clubs are keen to head to the United States again I was pleased, if not too surprised. It didn’t really take off in 2016 and 2017, when clubs from the Gallagher Premiership last went across the pond, but that’s not to say rugby cannot [...]
MK Dons investigating misogynistic posts by new owners’ spokesperson September 12, 2024 MK Dons say they are investigating dozens of misogynistic, racist and homophobic posts written by the mouthpiece for the League Two club’s Kuwaiti ownership. Moath Al Manayes, whose now deleted profile on X stated that he was the “owner’s representative at Milton Keynes Dons”, is understood not to be a direct employee of the club [...]
Clubs in dark over Premier League semi-automated offside technology plans September 12, 2024 The Premier League has yet to inform clubs when the new system of semi-automated offsides will be introduced – but it will not be this weekend. When England’s top-flight clubs voted to introduce the new technology last April they were told it would be brought in after one of the international breaks at the start [...]