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Izzi Batt-Doyle obliterates Australian marathon record in Chicago

31-year-old finishes sixth to beat Jess Stenson’s national recordTime of 2:20:38 betters her personal best by two minutesIzzi Batt-Doyle is the new distance queen of Australian athletics, smashing the national record by more than 45 seconds with a blistering run in the United States. Batt-Doyle clo…

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‘So, so grateful’: Nathan Cleary confirms reason behind Mary Fowler’s Matildas absence

Fowler pulled out of Australia squad for ‘personal reasons’Attacker is now back in Australia with injured NRL star post-surgeryInjured rugby league player Nathan Cleary has expressed deep appreciation to Matildas forward Mary Fowler, his partner who flew to Australia to spend time with him as he re…

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Georgia Voll’s quickfire century lifts Australia to ODI series win against Bangladesh

Bangladesh 220-6; Australia 221-1 | Australia win by nine wicketsVoll’s unbeaten 131 off 97 helps hosts take unassailable 2-0 series leadOpener Georgia Voll smashed her third ODI century in just her 15th match to secure Australia a comfortable nine-wicket win over Bangladesh and a series victory.Ea…

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European football: Freiburg move top of Bundesliga while Isco keeps Betis flying high

Goto seals late 2-1 win over Schalke for 10-man FreiburgLazio join Inter at top of Serie A as Roma held at ComoTen-man Freiburg scored an 85th-minute winner ⁠through Keisuke Goto to snatch a 2-1 home victory over ⁠Schalke 04 ⁠on Sunday and move top of the Bundesli…

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NFL roundup: Daniels’ overtime blunder costs Commanders as Giants salvage wild 27-27 tie

Daniels’ late scramble leaves Washington unable to kickGiants rally from 14 down but settle for 27-27 drawMaye throws four TDs as Patriots rout Raiders 45-17Jaguars stun Eagles in London with one second leftJayden Daniels took off on an ill-advised scramble in the closing seconds of overtime with t…

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Canelo Álvarez ‘fears nothing’ and will fight in Riyadh despite deadly attacks, Al-Sheikh says

Álvarez vows to fight in Riyadh despite deadly strikesAirport attacks leave at least 12 dead, hundreds hurtMexican seeks redemption after Crawford defeatCanelo Álvarez intends to go ahead with his world title fight in Saudi Arabia later this month despite a series of deadly attacks on airports and …

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‘We make our own noise’: Maresca hails Manchester City after Liverpool triumph

‘You cannot imagine how happy I am … I’m here to win’City win 3-0 at Anfield in first game since guilty verdictEnzo Maresca praised Manchester City for “making their own noise” at Liverpool as they brushed aside the controversy and threats surrounding the club with a comprehensive 3-0 win at Anfiel…

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Kyrie Irving returns from 20-month injury layoff with vintage display in Macau

Mavericks star dazzles in return from ACL tearIrving scores 17 points in Dallas’s 132-115 winDusty May hails nine-time All-Star as an ‘artist’Kyrie Irving waited nearly 600 days for his return to the NBA. The Dallas Mavericks didn’t keep him waiting any longer for his welcome-back basket.Irving sco…

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Premier League returns in shadow of Manchester City’s judgment day | Jonathan Wilson

Football felt secondary on the first weekend of action since club were found guilty of breaking financial rulesThe Cimbri are heading menacingly south, but in Rome life goes on. The asteroid is definitely coming this way, but people go to work, eat, drink, plan as usual. The White Walkers are appro…

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Exeter finally find first win despite Christian Wade’s hat-trick for Newcastle

Prem Rugby: Exeter 34-28 NewcastleWade becomes second player to score 100 top-tier triesAmid the current gushing torrent of Prem tries here was a reminder that winning still trumps all else. Exeter finally have their first, relieving, victory of the campaign but there were times when it seemed Newc…

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‘I lost us that game’: Sirianni rues blunder as Jaguars stun Eagles in London

Little hits 57-yard winner as time expires in LondonJaguars snatch 19-17 victory after late Eagles leadSirianni shoulders blame for costly kickoff decisionWeek five roundup: Giants salvage tie, Vikings rollCam Little grew up playing soccer and watching Premier League games every weekend. So lining …

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Cherki cracker caps Manchester City win at Liverpool in face of Anfield taunts

It is a soundtrack that Manchester City have heard before but never for such sustained spells during a match. It came from the Liverpool support, first ringing out around Anfield before kick-off and coming at regular intervals thereafter.It was always going to be like this as City felt their way in…

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Kimi Antonelli admits he can taste F1 glory after Verstappen wins Singapore GP

Italian can win the title in Texas in late OctoberVerstappen led race at Marina Bay from start to finishKimi Antonelli said he can finally dare to dream about winning his first Formula One world championship after he finished in third place at the Singapore Grand Prix and put himself in a position …

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Scottish Premiership: Celtic end losing skid and take top spot back from Rangers

Bhoys on top of table, while Rangers beat Kilmarnock 3-1Calvin Miller scores two penalties in Hearts 5-0 St MirrenJota made his long-awaited return to action as Celtic claimed a much-needed 2-0 victory at Motherwell to move top of the Premiership again and ease the…

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Record-breaking quartet put Australia in full control against South Africa

Australia 390 & 33-0; South Africa 284Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins and Lyon share nine wicketsAs a fractured news environment demonstrates, observations can be made from just about any perspective. One view of Australia’s Test team could focus on age, with the principal bowlers all having more tha…

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Taylor Knibb wins Ironman world title after leader collapses in dramatic Kona finish

Knibb overtakes Norwegian rival in final kilometerDefending champion Løvseth collapses while leadingFrance’s Vincent Luis wins men’s title on Kona debutAmerican triathlete Taylor Knibb has won her first Hawaiian Ironman world title after one of the most dramatic finishes in race history.With a mile…

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‘That’s when I begin to scream’: Mick Fanning on punching a great white shark

The Australian surfing champion was monstered by a great white shark while competing against fellow Aussie Julian Wilson in the 2015 world tour event final at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. The attack was broadcast live on TV. Here, in an extract from his memoir, All Heart, he relives the encounterI…

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Joy for Eckert as 10-man Southampton edge out Portsmouth in feisty derby

At the full-time whistle in the south coast derby, Tonda Eckert thrust his arms out wide and roared into the sky with the rest of the Southampton supporters. It had been a tense 90 minutes after a tense few months, but finally the young German coach could let it all out. At the end of a week where …

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Robbie Savage the panto villain puts scepticism aside to leave Leicester reeling

Peterborough’s new boss has long been a divisive figure but a stunning 3-1 win at struggling former club offered a glimpse of his fearless philosophyIt felt as though the stars had aligned when Robbie Savage’s first League One match in charge of Peterborough – his first EFL managerial role – happen…

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‘My body is still peaking’: Eliud Kipchoge wins first marathon in three years

Kenyan breaks Melbourne Marathon record by two seconds‘I’m happy to run with the gen Zs,’ 41-year-old saysMarathon’s greatest competitor, Eliud Kipchoge, has sent a message to the next generation declaring that he’s not done yet.The 41-year-old Kenyan revelled in his Melbourne Marathon debut on Sun…

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Manchester United and Spurs come back to reality as City saga offers brief distraction | John Brewin

Manchester City’s rule breaches have dominated headlines and shifted focus from both clubs’ self-inflicted woundsTurning back the clock is impossible. Up in the Stretford End’s middle tier, the ticker had returned, a retouching job to “51 years” invoiced for the pertinent sum of £114. The Mancheste…

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Wallabies mugged at their own game to leave Kiss mulling hard lessons | Angus Fontaine

Old habits resurface as Australia fritter away advantage and allow All Blacks to mount aerial assault at Eden Park Les Kiss stood forlornly in the middle of Eden Park wearing a thousand-yard stare. The past 10 Wallabies coaches had all been where he was now, shaking their heads and cursing after a …

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Why we’re stuck with a Premier League in the clutches of the global mega-rich | Jonathan Wilson

There’s little prospect of the model changing in a country that welcomes wealthy international owners with open armsFootball, the world’s most popular sport, played by laws drawn up in London in 1863. The Premier League is the UK’s greatest soft power export. Premier League clubs are owned by a dep…

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LeBron James is everything Philadelphia wants. And everything it can’t stand | Bryan Armen Graham

The sports-mad city has embraced its new superstar, even as he choppers in from Manhattan and makes no secret of the fact that Philly was never his first choicePhiladelphia has always had an instinctive affinity with athletes who embrace the grind over the glamour. In a place where sports mean a li…

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Post-its, homework breaks and karaoke: inside the Women’s Pro Baseball League’s debut season

The first league of its kind in 70 years brought players from all around the world to Illinois for eight weeks, writing a new chapter in the history of women’s sportsOn the morning of 14 September, Rocky Henley sat at her rental home’s dining room table amid scattered rulebooks, colorful markers an…

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‘Franchise cricket isn’t as rewarding’: Jonathan Trott on Lions pride and England ambitions

Former Test batter and Afghanistan coach is taking the Lions abroad and is telling his players to ‘be smart’Jonathan Trott pretty much entered Ashes folklore from the outset, scoring a series-winning century on his Test debut at the Oval back in 2009. Less spoken about, but just as relevant to the …

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Sliding Doors meets Biff’s Almanac: City saga stirs up a world of alternate histories | Max Rushden

Even New Romantics have a view but this long story will not be cut short amid endless hypotheticals and split narrativesIt’s Wednesday afternoon (UK time) and I find myself interviewing Tony Hadley on TalkSport about his upcoming big band tour. We play a bit of Spandau Ballet, chat about the classi…

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Football Daily | The Premier League is back and you absolutely can’t look away

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Many events have shaped the British people – the birth of punk, Brexit, Tony Hibbert’s first goal of his career (in his own testimonial) – where for better or worse, the genie cannot be put back into the bottle. We do not yet know …

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Sports quiz of the week: Harry Kane, Victor Wembanyama and WSL winners

Have you been following the big news in football, tennis, basketball, rugby, hockey, cycling, darts and the NFL? Continue reading...

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Chess: France and US dominate rapid and blitz at Pall Mall Masters

The Chess England event was a rare test of UK skills against strong foreign oppositionMaster chess in central London is rare, although the annual ChessFest in Trafalgar Square attracts more than 20,000 visitors.In London’s clubland in Pall Mall, the RAC clubhouse has hosted the Oxford v Cambridge V…

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‘Like a movie script’: Michael McArdle backs Northern Ireland to make history

Manager says he has made team ‘playoff ready’ since taking over in March. They now face Portugal in their quest to reach World CupFor seven and a half years, Michael McArdle worked in the construction industry while playing semi-professional football, studying for a degree in building services engi…

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Manchester City go to Anfield and is Eckert’s Spygate ban too lenient? | Football Weekly video

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Paul Watson to preview the return of the Premier League including Manchester City’s first game since their guilty verdict Continue reading...

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Indiana Fever and the Magasphere: a WNBA team’s dangerous path to popularity | Howard Bryant

Teams have always symbolized division within America. And the Fever have come to prominence during a time of dark political intensityIt’s over for now, but no professional sports team spent more time receiving and drawing attention to itself than did the Indiana Fever this season. The Fever has bro…

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Is Fury v Joshua about meritocratic sporting excellence or just algorithmic celebrity power? | Jonathan Liew

This long-awaited fight is happening exactly as intended: at the sweet spot where commercial potential meets a genuine absence of jeopardyThe 1912 Olympic marathon was held in a brutal Scandinavian heatwave, and before long Shizo Kanakuri of Japan was flagging. His journey to Stockholm had been deb…

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The Spin | Schrödinger’s six, tiny boundaries and the hollow spectacle of ghost-town T10 cricket

‘It doesn’t look like proper cricket,’ says Faf du Plessis as Canada’s Super60 tournament raises a few eyebrowsHave you heard about Schrödinger’s six? When a cricket ball has spawned off the edge of the bat and flown all of 35 metres, is that really a six at all? How about when it comes in a hulkin…

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Which footballers have ended scoring droughts with a goal off their backside? | The Knowledge

Plus: two political leaders at the same club game, a very long-term suspension and extremely quick equalisersMail us with all of your questions and answers“Oli McBurnie is back in the Scotland squad,” noted John Cant last week. “With his record of 16 appearances [now
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