Category: Sport

Jos Buttler has said the team which best deals with the distractions around the Ashes will win the series as he arrived in England’s camp in Brisbane before the opening Test. The wicketkeeper joined his teammates on Tuesday following a period of quarantine on the Gold Coast after the T20 World Cup, with no play […]

In 1933 Cliff Roberts, co-founder of the Augusta National club in Georgia, home of the US Masters golf tournament, declared that “all the golfers will be white and all the caddies will be black” for as long as he could influence the situation. He was as good as his word for the next four decades, […]

It is rare that the women’s football community is united when awards season rocks around but no one could argue there was a worthier winner of the Ballon d’Or than Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas. Social media was awash with debate over the order of the players placed second to 10th: should the Arsenal forward Vivienne Miedema […]

Lydia Bedford has said she is “unbelievably excited” after being announced as the new manager of Leicester City’s women’s team on a contract taking her to the end of the current season. She will step into the vacancy left by Jonathan Morgan, who was sacked last Thursday after failing to win a single point from […]

Glowing tributes from across the game of football have been paid to Ray Kennedy – one of the finest players to grace Highbury and Anfield – following his death, aged 70. Kennedy, who was once rejected in his youth by Stanley Matthews at Port Vale, went on to lift three European Cups and five league […]

Adam Peaty, the British Olympic gold medal swimmer, has said he believes there is “not enough funding, not at all, and not in any sport” and called on government to do more to support grassroots activity in the UK. Addressing MPs at a session of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday, […]

Tiger Woods understandably values nine lives more highly than 15 major championships. Speaking at a press conference for the first time since the February car crash that left him wheelchair bound and fearing he may have to have a leg amputated, the golfer laid bare the scale of his worst fears. “I’m lucky to be […]