Category: Sport

Mick Schumacher has been announced as Mercedes’ reserve driver for 2023 after parting ways with Ferrari. The Italian manufacturer announced on Thursday that the 23-year-old had left the company by mutual agreement after four years working together. He joined the Ferrari driver academy in 2019 and progressed to Formula One two years later by driving […]

Worcester’s hopes of resurrecting as an elite level club have been plunged into danger with their prospective new owners braced for the Rugby Football Union to refuse entry into next season’s Championship due to demands which “raise the spectre of shadow dictatorship”. The consortium – led by the chief executive Jim O’Toole – has taken […]

The Sheffield United striker Oli McBurnie has been cleared of stamping on a pitch-invading fan after claiming he hopped over him to protect his injured foot. The 26-year-old Scotland international was acquitted of assaulting Nottingham Forest supporter George Brinkley, after the player’s barrister said McBurnie had been “like a ballerina” in avoiding contact. Prosecutors had […]

Stephen Curry started Wednesday night unsure whether he would play at Indiana because of a sore right knee. He finished it in the locker room with an injured left shoulder. The eight-time All-Star, two-time MVP and NBA career leader in three-pointers is expected to have an MRI on Thursday after leaving during the third quarter […]

Things are going well for Jonathan Morgan. His team, Burnley Women, are the only unbeaten side in the third and fourth tiers of women’s football in the UK, having gone 16 games without losing since the start of the season. It is also a strange time for Morgan, who spent seven years at Leicester, taking […]

It was a job so comprehensive, so thoroughly performed to the letter, that France’s players converted it to song. “N’Golo Kanté, he’s short, he’s nice, he shut down Leo Messi but we all know he’s a cheater,” went the lyrics after their midfielder, detailed to smother Argentina’s No 10 in Kazan four years ago, barely […]

Erik ten Hag has said the Glazer family’s decision to explore a sale of Manchester United could be a good thing and that he has been reassured any change in ownership would not affect the “objectives, goals and culture” of the club. United’s US owners began looking at options last month, including new investment or […]