Snooker needs new faces and personalities – teenager Moody

While West Brom are sitting pretty at the top of the Championship, one of the sides who fell short in last season’s survival battle were Leicester. The Foxes are now languishing in 18th in League One, with just five points from their opening five games. They are already seven points behind leaders Sheffield Wednesday, who…

After reaching the final of the 2023 World Cup, England will hope to go one better at the 2027 edition, which will be hosted by Brazil. To celebrate the start of their World Cup journey, which begins with qualifiers against Ukraine and Iceland, we’re looking back at a historic night in Doncaster. In November 2021,…

England have showed character at this World Cup, coming from behind to defeat DR Congo at the last-32 stage and Norway in the quarter-finals. “The difference is hanging on against Norway or Mexico [in the last 16]. They have not got the quality this Argentina team have got in terms of the ability on the…

Judd Trump swept to a commanding 10-4 victory over Neil Robertson but expressed concern about his cue tip as he reached the final of the Tour Championship in Manchester. World number one Trump laid the platform for his success in Friday’s afternoon session which he dominated to establish a 7-1 lead, before finishing the job…

Ireland’s Ian Machado Garry will face former welterweight champion Belal Muhammad in the co-main event at UFC Qatar on 22 November. The 27-year-old beat Carlos Prates in his last UFC outing in April, after suffering a first defeat in the organisation to Shavkat Rakhmonov in December 2024. American Muhammad lost his belt to Jack Della…

With that, she became just the second Japanese woman in the Open era to record 80 Grand Slam singles wins, after Ai Sugiyama. It is also the first time since 2018 that Osaka, who reached the semi-finals in New York 12 months ago, has reached the third round at all four Grand Slam tournaments in…