OMG. That’s all I can say about Cheltenham 2019. It had it all. In sport so many times things are built up only to fall flat as a pancake. Well no one can say that about what we experienced this week. It was sport – horse racing – at its very best. From the drama of Buveur d’Air coming down, […]

DEONTAY WILDER is set to snub a £75MILLION offer from Anthony Joshua. AJ’s American broadcast backers DAZN met with the Bronze Bomber and his management team on Tuesday to discuss a three-fight deal. That would have included a warm-up, then a unification fight AND a rematch between WBC champ Wilder and Watford hero Joshua, the WBA, IBF and WBO king. […]

SAN ANTONIO — Kevin Knox is grateful the Knicks have shown patience and not shown him the G League. In San Antonio, the Spurs rookie first-round pick Lonnie Walker IV has spent most of the season developing in the G League – part of a strategy often employed by that organization. As the season winds down, Knox is sixth among […]

ASKED about their biggest problem, several of the US women’s World Cup winners joked it was putting on skinny jeans. “My legs aren’t built for them,” said one. They have a bigger and more serious problem now — equal pay. The players are united in demanding to be paid the same as the country’s men’s team. And, no wonder, as […]

CHELSEA fans have urged Maurizio Sarri to "f*** off the Premier League" to focus on their "easy route" to next season's Champions League. Supporters on social media claimed the Blues only have to beat Slavia Prague and Benfica to reach the Europa League final. Chelsea managed to avoid Napoli, Valencia, Villarreal and Arsenal when they were picked to face the […]

JURGEN KLOPP has rarely been short of a smile. But when he watched the Champions League draw his grin would have been as wide as the Mersey. It was not just that Liverpool got the last eight opponents everybody else wanted – Porto. Even having to play the first leg at home will have been a minor inconvenience. The Estadio […]

YOU won’t see a better days racing than Cheltenham produced on Thursday. Jumping’s patron saint J P McManus landed a treble, Paisley Park tugged at the heartstrings, while Ted Walsh is still talking about the tickle Any Second Now (10-1 to 6-1) landed in the Kim Muir. Punts were landed faster than an AJ combination, Bryony Frost and Frodon (15-2 […]

DUNEDIN, Fla. — The Yankees don’t visit Toronto until early June, so Troy Tulowitzki will have to wait a while before he returns to Rogers Centre, where he played for parts of the past four seasons before the Blue Jays released him in December with $38 million left on his contract. But the 34-year-old got a small preview of what […]

THE Bangladesh cricket team was miraculously "saved" from being caught up in the horrific Christchurch massacre. Players and members of the team's coaching staff were just "minutes" from the Masjid Al Noor Mosque in Hagley Park when the shooting started. At least 49 people have been killed in the terrorist attack – with 41 deaths at the Masjid Al Noor […]

NEW ZEALAND's scheduled third Test against Bangladesh has been cancelled after the attack on two Christchurch mosques which has left over 40 people dead and dozens injured. The tourists were in the vicinity of the Al Noor Mosque when one attack began and fled to the nearby Hagley Oval, narrowly escaping injury. Bangladesh remain on lockdown at their hotel and […]