Barcelona and Benfica produced a classic that swung from the sublime to the ridiculous. We hand out honours and dishonours from the latest round of action
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Clashes between players and spectators at Australian Open are just another example of the shouty polarities of our age
Eva Asderaki-Moore probably loves her job. But there were times, during Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open win over Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday, when the chair umpire clearly had it with the crowd. “Ladies and gentlemen, please,” she pleaded. And then “That’s e-nough!” – which she enunciated like a schoolteacher marshalling her charges on a very long, very noisy coach trip.
You had to feel for her. What is tennis thinking after all? It throws 15,000 people into an arena, whips them up into a state of delirium with some of the greatest feats of athleticism seen in a grand slam quarter-final, then expects pin-drop silence between points. At 1am? When some of these people have been drinking since lunchtime?
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Gatland: ‘Write us off at your peril’
Antoine Dupont can’t wait to get back into action in the Guinness Six Nations and he will return to captain Les Bleus against Wales on Friday 31 January. The Toulouse scrum half missed the 2024 tournament to concentrate on playing sevens rugby for France at the Olympic Games. It ended in a gold medal triumph […]
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Jones and McCann join Wales for Guinness Men’s Six Nations
Former Wales international Adam Jones and psychology and human performance specialist Andy McCann will join Warren Gatland’s back-room team for the 2025 Guinness Men’s Six Nations. 95-cap and triple Grand Slam winner Jones joins Wales for the 2025 Championship on secondment from Gallagher Premiership side Harlequins. He will work closely with forwards coach Jonathan Humphreys […]
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Shane van Gisbergen, Connor Zilisch ready to team up in No. 91 Trackhouse TF Sport Chevrolet at Rolex 24
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