England’s hopes of a first Netball World Cup title are over after they were beaten 47-45 by New Zealand, who set up a final showdown with Australia for the gold medal on Sunday. Having won Commonwealth gold last year, the Roses had high hopes of leaving the M&S Bank Arena this week with the title but the best they can […]

MS Dhoni will miss India’s tour of the West Indies in August in order to serve with his army regiment. The 38-year-old will link up with the Parachute Regiment of the Territorial Army, where he is an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, while India play Jason Holder’s men in three T20Is and three ODIs. Dhoni played his 350th ODI as India lost […]

A much changed Australia made it through to their eighth World Cup final, but survived a huge scare against a South Africa team playing in their first semi-final since 1995 to eventually win 55-53. Coach Lisa Alexander insisted that the Proteas had not been underestimated, maintaining her changes that included captain Caitlin Basset not playing and influential duo of Kelsey […]

OPEN contender Xander Schauffele had a heated run-in with rules official after they found he was using an illegal driver. American Schauffele, 25, thought he had been unfairly treated and moaned that "130 other players" could be using a club banned by the rules as well. The R&A began randomly testing players' clubs at last year's Open and Tiger Woods […]

JOHOR BARU – After losing the first two games and facing two game points in the third against a younger and higher-ranked opponent, Feng Tianwei looked out for the count. But the 32-year-old Singaporean made her experience count and tweaked her tactics to surprise 19-year-old Miu Hirano 4-2 (8-11, 9-11, 11-10, 5-4, 5-3, 5-4) in the Seamaster T2 Diamond 2019 […]

ST. MARY’S, Ontario — Ferguson Jenkins, the former Cy Young Award winner, sat in a white tent outside the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame last month. It was induction day, and Jenkins, who was enshrined in 1987, greeted autograph seekers next to his van, the one with “FERGIE31” pounded into the license plates. In between autograph requests, Margaret Higgins, a […]

Lawrence Okolie was so desperate to fight this weekend that he had to cancel a trip to Nigeria with his friend Anthony Joshua. While Joshua has been living his best life on vacation in Africa, Okolie has been training for a fight at the 02 Arena on Saturday. He is backed by his promoter Eddie Hearn to win, achieve greatness […]

Dutch rider Marianne Vos won her second La Course title with a stunning late surge up the final climb in Pau. Australia’s Amanda Spratt led by 10 seconds into the final kilometre of the 121km circuit and was alone when she started the sharp ramp with 450m to go. But Vos burst away from the other chasers, sprinted past Spratt […]

EMILY BRAISHER is the stunning partner of The Open golfer Tyrrell Hatton. The university graduate was alongside the Englishman in Paris in 2018 to keep him calm as he played a key part in victory at the Ryder Cup. Who is Emily Braisher? Emily grew up Buckinghamshire and graduated from Nottingham Trent University last summer. But she has since decided […]

Gary Anderson begins the defence of his World Matchplay crown against former Lakeside finalist Danny Noppert on Saturday and ‘The Flying Scotsman’ is in relaxed mood ahead of his return to the Winter Gardens. The two-time world champion defeated Mensur Suljovic 21-19 in a classic contest 12 months ago to seal his maiden Matchplay title and complete the ‘triple crown’ […]