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Twin peaks: meet the greatest pre-Curry pairings in sporting history
Back to the future for Scotland and Italy in rerun of 2000 Six Nations opener
And so we head back to where it all began. The Six Nations is a quarter of a century old. Wednesday will mark 25 years since its opening fixture on 5 February 2000, but of more visceral significance will be this weekend’s encounter at Murrayfield between Scotland and Italy, a …
Sutherland century turns screw on wretched England in women’s Ashes
After a mere 90-year wait, a second woman will finally join Peggy Antonio up on the Melbourne Cricket Ground honours board – take a bow, Annabel Sutherland. The 23-year-old already had a Test double-hundred to her name, scored against South Africa last year: now, she will go down in history …
Will the Dodgers’ billions make MLB like European soccer? Not so fast …
Deferred contracts were once baseball’s annual joke played on the New York Mets.
They released veteran third baseman Bobby Bonilla after a dismal season in 1999. But rather than pay the $5.9m left on his contract as a lump sum, the club offered a 25-year deferred deal at a munificent …
How the quick high of ‘fast-food gambling’ ensnared young men
Watching televised sports in 2025 can feel a little like sitting through one long gambling commercial, interspersed by occasional flashes of actual games. Those sports, meanwhile, are played in venues and uniforms plastered with the logos of yet more betting houses, airing on broadcasts that sprinkle in mentions of gambling …
Six Nations 2025 predictions: our writers on who will win and why
Ugo Monye
Who is going to win and why?
France are the favourites for me. The form their players have shown in the Champions Cup is extraordinary. There are six French teams in the last 16 and five have home ties. They are peaking at the right time and …Wood Green and Manx Liberty take Four Nations Chess League down to the wire
The UK’s national league, the 4NCL, is turning into a two-horse race after last weekend’s third and fourth rounds at Peterborough. Wood Green, the 2024 and London League champions, and Manx Liberty, the 2023 winners whose core is a group of Romanian and Hungarian grandmasters, have both won all their …
Friday briefing: How do you fix Britain’s broken disability benefits system?
Good morning. A new public accounts committee report has found that disability benefit claimants are receiving “unacceptably poor service” from the government, waiting on average 10 times longer than other claimants for their calls to be answered. Meanwhile, rising DWP underpayments are leaving many at greater risk of hardship.
For …
UFC president Dana White criticizes fighter Bryce Mitchell’s praise of Hitler
UFC president and CEO Dana White criticized Bryce Mitchell for making anti-Semitic and homophobic comments on a podcast during which the featherweight also praised Adolf Hitler and denied the Holocaust.
But, citing freedom of expression, White said the organization would not take any disciplinary actions against Mitchell.
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Easterby relishing step into limelight as Ireland target England revenge
Simon Easterby seems to be enjoying this. He reminds us of his umbilical connection to Italy and the Six Nations – all three came into the top end of the rugby world at the same time – and how 25 years after his international debut he has picked up a …