The Guardian Articles

Round 1

Usyk and Fury practically sprint from their corners to meet each other in the center of the ring and Fury is already looking more aggressive than in round one of the first fight, pumping his jab with urgency. Usyk bursts into the pocket and lands a right hand …

Oleksandr Usyk remains the shining king of boxing’s dark and chaotic world. The great Ukrainian retained his three titles as the heavyweight champion of the world when he defeated Tyson Fury on points in a defining contest in the early hours of Sunday morning in Riyadh. Usyk boxed with clinical …

Rickey Henderson, baseball’s greatest leadoff hitter and the all-time stolen base king, died Friday in Oakland at the age of 65 after battling pneumonia, multiple sources confirmed on Saturday.

Henderson’s career was a testament to speed, power and charisma. Over 24 seasons, he racked up a record-breaking 1,406 stolen bases, …

Sale Sharks navigated a game effort from Exeter Chiefs and horrendous pre-Christmas conditions to move into fourth place and extend the ­visitors’ winless start to the season in the process.

Both these sides needed victory here for very different reasons. Sale’s playoff hopes approached a decisive juncture after a sluggish …

American Hannah Roberts roared back from

her Paris Olympic heartbreak

Roberts, 22, set the bar with a 95.70-point first run, a score no competitor could beat. …

Pressure on Maddi Levi, Australia’s best women’s rugby sevens player, had been building. In a whirlwind four years she had swiftly progressed from D-grade teams in Queensland, through a brief stint in AFLW, to an Olympic Games and recognition from World Rugby as one of the best female athletes in …

First, a simple stat: Bristol notched a 10th consecutive away win in the Premiership. A new record for the league. Impressive. Second, another: they scored the most points any team have ever registered against Leicester at Welford Road, as much as any have ever scored against the Tigers anywhere in …

At least 22 people have been killed in a “tragic” traffic collision between a bus and truck in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the Associated Press reports, citing fire department officials who attended the scene.

A further 13 people were taken to hospitals near the city of Teófilo Otoni.

Baron Edmond de Rothschild was one of Europe’s richest and best connected men. But his lifelong hobby – hunting the autographs of the famous – was more akin to that of an idolising youngster.

Nine decades after his death, more than 220 letters he collected over 60 years have just …

Crambo, dismissed in the betting at 9-1 despite his narrow win in the Long Walk Hurdle 12 months ago, returned to Ascot for the first time since and rediscovered his form in impressive fashion here on Saturday, edging home by a head from Hiddenvalley Lake and briefly reducing Fergal O’Brien, …