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Australia’s bowling quartet ripe for change with India on song for Adelaide Test | Geoff Lemon
It would be hard to make an argument that the best four bowlers in Australia are anyone but Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon. All four are in Australia’s top 10 Test wicket-takers, the first two closing on 300 scalps and the latter two comfortably past it. …
The curious case of South Sudanese streets named after Australian rugby league greats | Kieran Pender
I was on the hunt for Darren Lockyer Road, in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
This incongruous road nomenclature, half a world away from Queensland in Australia, where the rugby league great is a household name, first came to my attention via a tweet. Not just any tweet – …
Baseball has much larger problems than the farcical ‘golden at-bat’
The first time I saw a mention of a baseball “golden at-bat” came on Monday. A few entries flashed on X, my spam detector dismissed them immediately and I moved on in search of my next distraction. A day later, I was back wasting life away on social media and …
NFL rookie quarterback grades: from Maye’s flashes of genius to a brilliant A+
Caleb Williams, Chicago Bears
Williams walked into the NFL with sky-high expectations. He was compared to Patrick Mahomes and was billed as someone who could, almost single-handedly, turn Chicago into a playoff contender.
Thirteen weeks on, the Bears have fallen apart. The team’s defense remains solid. But, for much of …
Ding Liren and Gukesh D play to fizzling Game 9 draw in deadlocked title match
Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju are no closer to a verdict in their world championship match after Thursday’s ninth game fizzled out to a sixth successive draw after 54 moves and 3hr 56min, leaving the $2.5m contest deadlocked at 4½-4½ with five games to go.
“No one is clearly better …
Who could replace Barnier as French prime minister? Here are Macron’s best options
UK construction grows but housebuilding decline threatens government targets
Activity in Britain’s construction industry picked up in November but housebuilding weakened, throwing the government’s new homes targets into further doubt.
The S&P Global/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers’ Index for the construction industry came in at 55.2 last month, up from October’s 54.3.
Robust demand for commercial and civil engineering projects …
Man charged with manslaughter after Newcastle cannabis blast kills two
A man has been charged with manslaughter and cannabis production after a house explosion in Newcastle that killed two people including a seven-year-old boy.
The blast happened in Violet Close, in the Benwell and Elswick area of the city, in the early hours of 16 October.
Northumbria police said Reece …
A player’s foreseeable death raises existential questions for college football
“It is clearly the duty of the colleges which have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and become intense to purge themselves of such immoralities … Intercollegiate and interscholastic football ought to be prohibited until a reasonable game has been formulated.”
of …Vodafone and Three given approval to merge
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the pair must commit to upgrading 5G coverage and …