Updates from day two at Lord’s; play starts 11am Day one report | Sign up for the Spin | mail TimAs we had a shortened day yesterday, this is going to be a longer one. Play still starts at 11, but the intervals are a bit later than usual – lunch at 1.15pm and tea…
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UEFA is preparing a legal complaint against FIFA president Gianni Infantino over what it calls “unfair management” linked to his abandoned plan to open the World Cup to private investors. The European governing body has meanwhile suspended its threat to boycott FIFA competitions next season after receiving assurances from FIFA, but says it will keep…
The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US is becoming endangeredA few weeks ago, as I often do, I went to the Tennis.com site to get an update about a match and to check out the commentary…
America’s second biggest sporting obsession returns this weekend, which means marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real timeIs college football healthy? It’s a seductive question, one that now comes up every year around this time. Actually, it never recedes, so it’s just with the…
Winning the Europa League and finishing fourth did not inoculate Villa and Spurs were not hampered by a season of woeIn theory Aston Villa supporters should have been rubbing their hands together at the prospect of a Champions League season. Equally, Tottenham fans could have been despondent after a relegation battle that went to the…
Today’s tittle tattle is staring into the abyssThe absence of Enzo Fernández from the Chelsea squad that saw off Luton in the Carabao Cup on Thursday night set no end of tongues wagging before, during and after the game. Despite public pre-match assurances from Xabi Alonso that the Argentina midfielder would be included, Fernández was…
The Indian, just 21, scored his second major success of the summer following Norway Chess at Oslo while Wesley So halved to Sinquefield Cup victory with nine straight drawsIndia’s world No 12, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, won the Grand Chess Tour finals in St Louis on Thursday night when he defeated the US world No 2, Fabiano…
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