Saracens to continue team-bonding trips despite Billy Vunipola incident
Saracens intend to continue their team-bonding social trips, with Mark McCall insisting the recent excursion to Mallorca was “really enjoyable” despite Billy Vunipola’s arrest. McCall insisted that as far as Saracens are concerned “the case is closed” over Vunipola, who…
Giro d’Italia 2024: Jonathan Milan makes most of sprint chance to win stage four
Italy’s Jonathan Milan went one better than the previous day to win the sprint and take the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia after an early breakaway was reeled in, with Tadej Pogacar maintaining his overall lead. Milan of Lidl-Trek…
County cricket: Essex go top but Surrey may be the real winners | Gary Naylor
Ball one: Taunton taunts new leaders As JosĂ© Mourinho knew, points at the start of the season are worth exactly as much as points at the end of the season. When these cold, wet, uninspiring rounds of matches are forgotten…
The Breakdown | There has never been a Premiership run-in quite like this one
In the minutes after Harlequins’ Champions Cup semi-final defeat by Toulouse on Sunday, the sense of frustration, of missed opportunity, was palpable. To a man they believed they would have pulled off the greatest European victory in their history without…
County cricket: Kent beat Lancashire, Yorkshire and Glamorgan draw – as it happened
Kent fought through a testing morning against a lively Nathan Lyon and Tom Hartley. Lyon took both wickets to fall, including an electric reflex caught-and-bowled, but Lancashire couldn’t stem the runs. They remain without a win this summer and sit…
Champions Cup organisers considering one-city semi-finals weekend in 2025
Champions Cup organisers are exploring the possibility of hosting “destination” semi-finals in the same city in the future with Portugal among the places under consideration. In a move that would ape the Top 14, which staged both its semi-finals in San…
Merlier wins Giro d’Italia stage three as Pogacar and Thomas surge falls short
Belgian sprinter Tim Merlier sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Giro d’Italia on Monday, after race leader Tadej Pogacar had threatened to steal a march on the sprinters with a late burst. The mostly flat 166km ride…
Lando Norris: nice guy finishes first after long road to top of F1 | Giles Richards
Lando Norris’s debut Formula One victory in the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday may have taken an awfully long time for a driver with such prodigious talent but it is without doubt a win well-deserved. This is the culmination of…
‘Today was my day’: Lando Norris proud to win first Grand Prix – video
Lando Norris ended Max Verstappen’s crushing winning streak by claiming the maiden victory of his career in the Miami Grand Prix. In his 110th Formula One appearance, the 24-year-old from Bristol, who started fifth, took advantage of a safety car…
Sport and the climate emergency: collating injustice with an action plan
If Madeleine Orr had been searching for a launch pad for her book, Warming up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport, last week provided the perfect rocket boosters. Only two years after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, brandished a “green…