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Buffalo Bills (10-3) v Detroit Lions (12-1)

The contenders for the No 1 seed in each conference collide in Detroit. The bulldozing Lions want to keep their foot on the accelerator to fend off the Eagles at the top of the NFC while the …

Agony for Kane Williamson, ecstasy for Matthew Potts. Granted, it may not trip off the tongue like Ian Smith’s famous commentary at Lord’s five years ago, but both emotions were very much on show after the moment that changed day one in Hamilton.

Williamson had looked indelible during the opening …

Cricket writer’s challenge: discuss bowling first in a Brisbane Test without referring to Nasser Hussain. Better to fail at that challenge in the first line and get it out of the way. England’s former captain has copped an unfair amount of grief for his decision at the toss in 2002. …

Through a combination of a series already won by England, the various adornments for the retiring Tim Southee, and fancy dress being in vogue on the banks of leafy Seddon Park, this

final Test could easily have taken on an end of term vibe

One month ago, during a meeting in Beirut, a senior western diplomat was venting his frustration: when would international sanctions be lifted from the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad? Though the dictator had few friends, it seemed that the brutal killing and torture of hundreds of thousands of protesters had succeeded …

Fares on London Underground and rail services in the capital will increase by an inflation-busting 4.6% next March, while bus and tram fares will remain frozen.

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said the significant increase, double the rate of inflation, was forced on him by ministers who expected such a …

Phil Vickery sighs. His cheeks are red, his eyes are wet. “I’m quite emotional, always have been,” he says. “I don’t know why. Maybe it’s my upbringing, middle child, the-forgotten-about-one, I don’t know. No one ever gave me anything. I used to argue with the sports psychologist, they always told …

Scottie Pippen is selling out his NBA legacy again, to be world champion of crypto.

In his heyday, the hall of famer was happy to be the Robin to Michael Jordan’s Batman. But time, Netflix’s Last Dance documentary and

the compounding embarrassment

Bronny James, rookie guard for the Los Angeles Lakers and son of NBA superstar LeBron James, delivered the most impressive performance of his young career on Thursday night in his first G League road game.

The 20-year-old scored a game-high 30 points for the South Bay Lakers in a 106-100 …

It’s passing strange. In town ahead of the Australia-India Test, Brisbane feels as it always has: guys walking down Queen Street carrying boxes of mangoes, the Queensland humidity performing its ritual of luxuriant suffocation as the city’s air begrudgingly shifts along the snake-path of the river. The Gabba Test though, …