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Callum Simpson defended his British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles with a second-round stoppage of Steed Woodall on an emotional night in Sheffield.

Simpson was fighting for the first time

since the death of his sister

Henry Pollock pressed home his claim for a place in England’s Six Nations squad on Tuesday, scoring two tries as Northampton’s standout performer before the patched-up Saints were ultimately put to the sword.

Pollock stole the show in a breathless first quarter when Northampton raced into a 21-0 lead with …

Australia’s once-in-a-generation crop of men’s tennis players may be remaining coy about their own chances of breaking a 49-year drought and winning their home grand slam, but they are happy to talk up each others’ prospects for the tournament starting on Sunday.

Fourteen locals are in the …

The gulf between the top French sides and the Premiership’s lower reaches grows wider by the week. First Toulouse and now Bordeaux have travelled to Exeter this season and been so markedly superior that a boxing referee would have stopped the fight long before the end. This was not even …

Castling. The Berlin defence. En ­passant. If you haven’t heard these terms, chances are you soon will. School chess clubs are booming, new apps are capturing a gen-Z ­audience and

stone chess boards have been installed in parks across the country

This year, a chess competition show …

Aldous Huxley wrote about the spiritual visions he had

while taking the drug mescaline

But now a growing number of …

Few players wear their heart on their sleeve as much as Ons Jabeur. The Tunisian, whose sublime skills and smile have lit up the women’s Tour over the past decade, reached the

Wimbledon final in 2022

Somewhere …

On 28 January 2017, I rushed to the San Francisco international airport (SFO). Like elsewhere in the US that night, demonstrations were growing against a travel ban Donald Trump had issued against visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries. The night was chillier than normal, and I had not brought an adequate …

Elena Rybakina has backed her former coach Stefano Vukov and expressed her disagreement with the Women’s Tennis Association as the governing body continued its investigation into the Croat on the eve of the Australian Open.

“I don’t agree with a lot of things what the WTA do in the sense …

Tablets and appliances made in China, hybrid cars built in Canada, European wine. As Donald Trump’s second inauguration as president quickly approaches, Americans are stocking up on goods in anticipation of tariffs Trump plans to place on imports, according to a Guardian reader poll.

Since the election, Trump has promised …