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Wallaroos outmuscled by USA Eagles after wild weather delays Pacific Four clash

Australia suffer 33-12 defeat to United States women in Kansas City Tornado warnings and storm delay start of game by nearly three hours Wild weather delayed play for nearly three hours before the Wallaroos were outmuscled 33-12 by the United States in a Pacific Four Series rugby clash that went beyond midnight in Kansas. Prop […]

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Gout Gout waves off rivals to claim 100m national junior title in style

Teenage sensation wins in 10.21sec with legal tailwind in Brisbane 18-year-old celebrates before crossing line ahead of Zavier Peacock Gout Gout has blitzed the field but fallen short of breaking the 10-second barrier while winning the 100m at the Australian athletics junior championships in Brisbane on Saturday. The 18-year-old took time to get his motor

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Supercharged GOAT-level swim‑genius Adam Ramsay-Peaty is the Messi of breaststroke | Barney Ronay

The three-time Olympic champion is brilliant, charismatic, relatable, basically the best British athlete of all-time. But he’s also a victim of the decline of minority sports The Austrian philosopher and novelist Robert Musil once wrote a lengthy meditation on human capacity based around seeing the phrase “a racehorse of genius” in a newspaper sports section.

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No more gimmicks: Coventry’s perilous journey back to the Premier League is finally over

Supporters and club insiders look back at the Sky Blues’ journey, from the depths of text-a-sub ridicule and fan mutinies to promotion To understand the extraordinarily wild ride that Coventry have been on, culminating in the promotion achieved at Blackburn on Friday night, you need only look at the text-a-substitute idea that has become part

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Premier League shootout arrives with odd twist for feelings guy Guardiola

Manchester City v Arsenal is a rare late-season title decider and comes with a set of surprising plotlines OK, so it was all building to this, then. The slow‑burn plotlines. The room‑temperature action sequences. The winter afternoons on the sofa watching men wrestle unhappily, staring out of the window as the frigid wind tousles the

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