Category: Sport

Karim Benzema became Real Madrid’s second-highest goalscorer as his strike helped secure a 2-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Uefa Super Cup final. Real equalled a record in Helsinki, winning the trophy for the fifth time to join Milan and Barcelona with the highest total. David Alaba gave Real the lead in the first […]

Nick Kyrgios has continued his blazing run with a rollicking three-set victory over world No 1 Daniil Medvedev in Montreal. Australia’s Wimbledon runner-up wore down Medvedev 6-7 (2-7), 6-4, 6-2 in a sapping second-round encounter played in searing heat and humidity. After losing the opening set in a tiebreaker, Kyrgios had to dig deep and […]

The first stop on Serena Williams’s farewell tour came to a quick end as she fell 6-2, 6-4 to Belinda Bencic in the second round of the Canadian Open, a day after announcing her forthcoming retirement from tennis. Williams arrived on the court to a standing ovation and had the full support of the capacity […]

Adam Goodes has turned to football in an official capacity for the first time with a place on an advisory council charged with overseeing the development of Indigenous football in Australia. The AFL great, who has largely shunned Australian rules football since he was forced into retirement from the game in 2015, has a longstanding […]

Meg Lanning is never one to give much away. An intensely private person, she is known for predictable answers in interviews and her dislike of team meetings. She is a woman of few words and for years has appeared something of a cricket machine. Aside from a brief stint on the sidelines for shoulder surgery […]

Adrien Rabiot looks as if he is on his way to Manchester to sign for United. If things had turned out differently, the Frenchman could have been the poster boy for a new era on the other side of town but he managed less than a year in City’s academy as a teenager. In 2008, […]

Serena Willams announced her impending retirement from professional tennis in Vogue magazine on Tuesday. As we celebrate her greatness and all that Williams has achieved on the court – the 23 major singles titles, the four Olympic gold medals, the 319 weeks at No 1 in the world rankings – I think it’s important to […]