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No one in Ireland needed another reason to be up for this Saturday’s match against France, not with the title on the line, and the grand slam, and the promise beyond it of a shot at becoming the first team in history to win the Six Nations back-to-back-to-back. All that, and the prospect of a … Read more

When George Mills is not pushing his body through 120-mile training weeks at his sparse altitude camp in Dullstroom, South Africa, he could teach Benedictine monks a thing or two about abstinence. Last summer, when he won a­­­ ­European Championships 1500m ­silver medal in Rome, his ­celebrations consisted of nothing but a kombucha followed by a … Read more

The world champion, Luke Littler, beat Nathan Aspinall 6-3 to win night five of the Premier League in Brighton, where there were two nine-dart finishes. Littler, who added the UK Open title to his growing collection last weekend, had too much for Aspinall, closing out his second nightly win to keep the pressure on Luke … Read more

New York star guard Jalen Brunson could miss an extended period of time after suffering an ankle injury during overtime in the Knicks’ 113-109 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night. Coach Tom Thibodeau said after the game that Brunson was still being examined by the medical staff. “It’s a bummer of an … Read more

Four decades ago, the eighth and last series of BBC Two’s much-admired chess programme The Master Game was never screened in the UK, because of industrial action by technicians. Tony Miles defeated Anatoly Karpov in the 1983 final, the Englishman’s second victory over the then world champion after his stunning 1 e4 a6 win at … Read more

Kate Cross has admitted there are cultural issues within English women’s cricket and said she fears the national team have lost fans after a disastrous Women’s Ashes series in which the side were whitewashed 16-0 by Australia amid a sea of glaring fielding and batting errors. Cross, an unused squad member on the tour, also … Read more

Neither of these two are where they want to be after three rounds. In the case of Wales, rock bottom cannot be worse than where they feared they might be; in the case of Scotland, fourth must be so much worse than they had hoped. And some might say deserve. Eyebrows may rise, then, at … Read more

It transpires the viral moment of ­Netflix’s latest series on golf may have been as much of a surprise to the main protagonist as those looking on. The assertion of Keegan Bradley, the US Ryder Cup captain, during Full Swing that his contingent are “gonna go to Bethpage to kick their fucking ass” in September … Read more

Melanie Reay is leading the way through the maze of corridors inside the Academy of Light when a corner is turned and she almost collides with Régis Le Bris. The managers of Sunderland’s women’s and men’s teams stop for a brief, friendly chat. It is a commonplace occurrence at this fully integrated, Premier League standard, … Read more