WEISSENSEE, Austria — A thousand Dutch skaters congregated before dawn on the frozen surface of the Weissensee, the long, slender lake that gives this small Austrian mountain town its name. The sky was dark, and the headlamps of the shivering skaters cast a spiritual glow onto the charcoal ice. They had been warned not to remove their goggles, lest their […]

Fast bowler Mitchell Starc will miss Australia’s limited-overs tour of India with a torn left pectoral muscle. National selector Trevor Hohns said on Thursday that Starc, who took 10 wickets in the final test against Sri Lanka earlier this week, tore the muscle on the final day of the match in Canberra. Hohns said Starc hopes to return for five […]

Ski queen Vonn grinned and bared it as she posted a photo of her injured face, next to the badly-bruised bruised buttock of fellow American Laurenne Ross. Downhill legend Vonn – in her penultimate race before retiring – straddled a gate in a high-speed, mid-air tumble in the super-G. The Olympic golden girl got a huge ovation from the crowd […]

After an overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks, the Winnipeg Jets embarked on a three-game road trip with the status of defenceman Josh Morrissey still to be determined. Morrissey left Tuesday’s game with an injury, having been hurt in the first period after blocking a shot on the Sharks’ first goal. He returned to the game to start the […]

In his latest Sky Sports column, Keaton Jennings discusses being left out of the England side for the second Test, why the players not in the XI still have an important role to play, and how he is going about earning a recall… Being told that you have been dropped is very tough. The whole mentality around selection for players […]

After a 3-0 test series whitewash the Shaheen went down 3-2 in the five-match ODI series, before narrow losses in their first two T20 internationals. When is South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd T20? THE third game of this series starts at 4pm on Wednesday, February 6. That's 6pm in South Africa and 9pm in Pakistan. The match is being held […]

Jack Leach says playing on a variety of pitches in England would help the national side become a force away from home. England slipped to a series defeat in the West Indies after coming unstuck on a surface in Antigua featuring variable bounce. Joe Root’s side were also blasted away on flat Australian decks during their 4-0 thumping in the […]

The United caretaker boss took his squad to Dubai last month and has continued his unbeaten run as manager. He has left three days free on players’ schedules after the FA Cup clash against Chelsea on February 18. And, depending on results, could take them on a training camp to prepare for the clash against Liverpool the following Sunday. That […]

Jurgen Klopp is fearing a growing injury list can derail his team's Premier League title challenge with three defenders on the sidelines. Clyne had played only 108 minutes for Liverpool in the Premier League this season before completing his move to Bournemouth in January. But the 27-year-old defender would now be a huge help for Klopp, who has to cope […]

The Lakers are barely being held together with a torn band aid. With the Lakers sitting in very public trade negotiations involving most of their roster for Pelicans star Anthony Davis, a quasi-team mutiny involving Michael Beasley and Luke Walton now apparently never happened. Beasley, who was reportedly involved in a postgame incident with his coach following Saturday’s loss to the […]