Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca praised the club’s academy graduates after Tyrique George scored his first senior goal and fellow teenager Josh Acheampong also impressed in their 3-0 Conference League quarter-final first-leg win over Legia Warsaw. Winger George, who has never started a Premier League match but regularly featured in Europe, showed quick reactions to hand...
Cricket’s return to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028 will be as a six-team T20 tournament for both genders, the International Olympic Committee has announced. Participating teams will be able to field squads of up to 15 players after the IOC allocated quotas of 90 athletes per gender for the event. The IOC has...
When making your Masters debut you’d think you would ensure you are on your best behaviour. Eyes are everywhere to make sure rules and etiquette aren’t broken at Augusta National. So you wonder what the Augusta National committee will make of Spanish amateur Jose Luis Ballester’s admission that he took relief in Rae’s Creek during...
Rory McIlroy birdies the ninth hole to shoot three under par on his opening nine holes in the first round of the Masters at Augusta. WATCH MORE: McIlroy’s daughter makes heart-warming putt at Masters Par 3 Contest Listen to live coverage of the Masters on BBC Sounds, and follow live text with in-play clips on...
Australia international Ellyse Perry has signed as an overseas player for Hampshire in the inaugural Women’s T20 Blast. The 34-year-old all-rounder has won two World Cups, six ICC Women’s World Twenty20 championships and a Commonwealth Games gold medal with Australia. Perry is a two-time winner of the Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, awarded to the best...
Businessman Alan Savage has been appointed preferred bidder to takeover Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The club was placed into administration last October after running up large debts. The administrators warned earlier this month that the Caley Jags were at “significant risk” after an unsuccessful attempt to find a new owner. Mr Savage, who has been providing...
Van Dijk re-signing would ease one of the key recruitment issues facing the club heading into the summer. Should the 33-year-old have left, Liverpool were likely to enter the market for a new starting central defender. Recruitment staff had already begun identifying potential targets, who are primarily left-footed or have experience of playing left-sided centre-back....
This has been Accrington’s first full season for over a decade without the reassuring presence of John Coleman at the helm. John Doolan has vast coaching experience but this has been his first job as a number one and it has been a challenging campaign, summed up by small bursts of good form and barren...
MS Dhoni will lead Chennai Super Kings for the remainder of the Indian Premier League season after Ruturaj Gaikwad sustained an elbow injury. The 43-year-old returns to captain the side he led between 2008 and 2024, taking the franchise to five IPL titles. There has been speculation in recent days that Dhoni might retire after...
Norwegian right-back Christian Borchgrevink will join Heart of Midlothian once the summer transfer window opens in June. The Edinburgh club has agreed an undisclosed fee for the 25-year-old Valarenga captain, who has signed a three-year contract. Borchgrevink, capped at under-21 level, has been a regular at the Oslo side since 2020 and led them to...
Northern Ireland will play their final home Nations League game against Poland at Seaview on Friday, 30 May. The game in north Belfast next month will kick off at 19:00 BST. Tanya Oxtoby’s side last played at Seaview, the home of Irish Premiership side Crusaders, in October 2023 when they drew 1-1 with Hungary in...
Rogers Jones & Co The jersey sold for £27,500 as part of an auction of a collection of JPR Williams’ items A rugby jersey worn by the late Wales legend JPR Williams in what is considered one of the sport’s greatest ever games has been auctioned off for £27,500. The jersey was worn in the...
Nottinghamshire all-rounder Lyndon James has signed a new three-year contract that keeps him at Trent Bridge until the end of the 2027 season. The 26-year-old’s deal extension comes just days after he scored a century in Notts’ season-opening County Championship victory against Durham. It was his fifth first-class ton for Notts since coming through the...
Lancashire have signed Hampshire and England fast bowler John Turner on a 14-day loan deal. The 24-year-old will go straight into the squad for the County Championship match at Northamptonshire on Friday. He made his England One-Day international debut in the tour of West Indies in November. Turner will provide cover with veteran James Anderson...
Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo has had his Audi RS Q8 car seized by police after he was suspected of driving without a valid licence. The Ecuador international, 23, was stopped in the car, which costs a minimum of £125,000 if bought new, on Friday near the club’s training ground in Cobham, Surrey. “A man in...
