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Saracens serve Premiership notice with six-try victory against Northampton
It was a cold, bleak midwinter afternoon in north London but the race to be crowned as England’s top club side in 2025 is hotting up. Saracens also have key upcoming games against the Premiership pace-setters Bath and Bristol over the next fortnight and this emphatic win over last season’s …
Pitch perfect: why listening to cricket on radio soothes a world that won’t hear sense
My father was a man of his generation, which meant when summer rolled around and the cricket season started, he insisted on muting Channel Nine’s coverage and blasting the ABC’s radio commentary instead.
Ours was a complicated relationship but one thing for which I’ll be forever grateful was the way …
Guinness raids its Irish reserves to ease UK shortages amid gen Z demand
Usyk stakes claim as best man in boxing after making Fury eat his words
As Oleksandr Usyk walked towards us just after three in the morning, resplendent in his purple tracksuit while carrying Eeyore under his arm, his promoter let slip a gentle cry: “Here he comes, the best man in boxing …”
Alex Krassyuk is not a traditional boxing promoter, being a much …
Assisi braces for visitor influx as Jubilee year for Catholics starts on Christmas Eve
Inside a souvenir shop in Assisi, the face of a boy with thick black curly hair smiles out from wall tapestries, fridge magnets and key rings, outshining the flying cherubim, snow globes and other religious trinkets that cram the shelves.
But the owner, Elvira Boccacci, is struggling to explain to …
Joe Root returns to England’s ODI squad but Ben Stokes not selected
Joe Root has been recalled to the England ODI side for the first time since the Jos Buttler-captained team put up an underwhelming ODI World Cup defence in November 2023.
England’s white-ball squads will depart for the sub-continent on 17 January under the new coach and captain combination of Brendon …
Generation TikTok: how sportswomen set the bar higher than the men
Lina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was bored. “I said to Yemi Mary John: ‘I’m gonna make this TikTok’,” Nielsen recalls. She took herself to her bedroom, got out the flip …
Sunday with Jeff Stelling: ‘I won’t have more than two beers’
Early riser?
I’ll often be wide awake at 4.30am. The elderly dogs, cocker spaniel Lottie and jackapoo Meg, need to go out to the garden. I go back to bed for a few hours after that. We live in a very rural area outside Winchester – it’s perfect for …From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024
POLITICS
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s longest-serving prime minister ends the year under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and taking the stand in a long-delayed corruption trial at home.
is also in a …‘I won that fight’: Tyson Fury rejects defeat as judges’ ‘Christmas gift’ to Oleksandr Usyk
Tyson Fury described Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over him as a “Christmas gift” from the three judges who all scored the fight 116-112 in favour of the champion. The verdict was justifiably much more clear-cut than the split-decision ruling which had also given Usyk victory in May.
But Fury offered his …