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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature It’s 1-0 to PSG, by the way. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored against Liverpool Share Benfica 0-0 Barcelona Pavlidis, such a star for Benfica – and Greece – this season, makes a pest of himself. He scored a hat-trick in the previous meeting, … Read more
The Football Association has requested that Millwall’s goalkeeper Liam Roberts receive an increased punishment for his challenge on Jean-Philippe Mateta that led to the striker receiving 25 stitches in his left ear. Roberts was shown a red card for serious foul play eight minutes into Saturday’s FA Cup fifth-round tie, after running outside the area … Read more
The 2026 World Cup final is to feature a half-time musical show, imitating the Super Bowl, with artists set to be chosen by Coldplay. Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, announced the move after meetings in the US and promised the performance would be “a show befitting the biggest sporting event in the world”. There … Read more
LeBron James is redefining basketball longevity. On Tuesday night he became the first player to score 50,000 combined points in the NBA regular season and postseason, surpassing the mark with a three-pointer early in the first quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 136-115 win over New Orleans. James finished with 34 points against the Pelicans … Read more
Australian great Steve Smith has quit one-day international cricket, but says prolonging his stellar Test career is a priority. Smith told his teammates of his ODI retirement after captaining Australia to a Champions Trophy semi-final loss against India in Dubai. The 35-year-old signalled his intent to continue his Test career until at least the Ashes … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Arne Slot talks to TNT Sports. “It’s a nice part of the schedule for the people at home watching football … PSG’s fans will be behind the team … it’s all about the quality PSG have … it’s going to be … Read more
In 1970, Alaskan doctor and mountaineer Grace Hoeman led a team of six women in the first all-female attempt to summit Denali – which was the first all-women’s ascent of any of the world’s big peaks. At the time, people thought that women were incapable of climbing mountains without men’s help. We had sent men … Read more
New Zealand will take on India in the final of the Champions Trophy after centuries from Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson enabled them to outmuscle South Africa in their Lahore semi-final. The Black Caps piled on the pressure with a new tournament-record score of 362 for six, Ravindra with 108 and Williamson adding 102, and … Read more
Georgia Hunter Bell, Britain’s Olympic 1500m bronze medallist, has revealed she no longer goes online before her races because of the “really dark side of social media”. Eilish McColgan was subject to a wave of body shaming abuse this week with people posting that she “looks like a skeleton” and had anorexia, and Hunter Bell … Read more
West Ham are trying to sign the England midfielder Angel Gomes on a free transfer from Lille. Gomes, who was given his international debut by Lee Carsley last September, is out of contract at the end of the season and is looking for a new challenge. Graham Potter quickly identified midfield as an area to … Read more