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October 23, 2025

Tour de France unveils 2026 route with double Alpe d’Huez for men and Ventoux debut for women

Men’s race starts in Barcelona on 4 July
Women’s race starts in Lausanne on 1 August

The routes of the 2026 men’s and women’s Tours de France, revealed in Paris on Thursday morning, will climax on two of the most famous climbs in world cycling, Alpe d’Huez and Mont Ventoux.

The mountains will host key stages, with the Ventoux featuring in the Tour de France Femmes for the first time and a double stage finish to the ski station at Alpe d’Huez providing the pivotal moment in the 113th running of the men’s race.

October 23, 2025

Rookies Cooper Connolly and Matt Short help Australia to tense two-wicket ODI win over India

Victory hands hosts unassailable 2-0 series lead
Connolly’s unbeaten 61 steers Australia to target of 265

Novice batsmen Cooper Connolly, Matt Short and Mitch Owen have produced career-best ODI knocks to steer Australia to a tense two-wicket win against India.

Australia claimed a series victory after the win at Adelaide Oval on Thursday gave them a 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

October 23, 2025

‘It’s part of the movie.’ Adversity made UCLA tailback Anthony Frias II’s success sweeter

Anthony Frias II was not heavily recruited out of high school and struggled to find a college football home, but he finally got to shine at UCLA.

October 23, 2025

College football Week 9 picks for every Top 25 game include three SEC showdowns

The final weekend of October brings critical matchups in the SEC that will shape the College Football Playoff. Our experts pick every Top 25 game.

October 23, 2025

Brian Kelly, Hugh Freeze lead the 10 college football coaches on the hot seat

The college football coaching carousel is already in full flight. A look at the hot seat rankings of those that might still lose jobs.

October 23, 2025

Michigan football plans to shut down MSU QB Aidan Chiles. Here’s how

Michigan football has faced a handful of the nation's top QBs. Now the Wolverines face another talent in Michigan State's Aidan Chiles.

October 23, 2025

Tom Izzo juggles new NCAA exhibition rules with Michigan State basketball scheduling

With new NCAA rules, Tom Izzo has Michigan State basketball playing two Division I exhibition games, starting Thursday night vs Bowling Green.

October 23, 2025

Andrew Luck paving a new road with supreme power over football as Stanford’s GM

Forget individual needs, Stanford GM Andrew Luck believes in creating team legacies. He gets to do that with supreme power in new role with Cardinal.

October 23, 2025

Inside college football’s GM race and how new position of power is changing the sport

College football's race to hire a general manager and build a front office is well underway in the NIL era. Here are some potential trend-setters.

October 23, 2025

Once an obvious choice to be fired, Ryan Day is now bulletproof

From you’ve got to fire him, to the top of his profession in 11 months. What a long, strange road it has been for Ohio State's Ryan Day.

October 23, 2025

Nick Saban throws pity party for James Franklin, but is he right?

Nick Saban says pay-to-play is influencing coach firings. Interesting theory. Is he right?

October 23, 2025

‘Long overdue’: England players finally follow in footsteps of giants | Aaron Bower

First series against Australia since 2003 starts on Saturday and there is no shortage of motivation for the home side

The pantheon of players who have represented England and Great Britain in the past 22 years is a modern‑day who’s who of the game. Sam Burgess, James Graham, Sean O’Loughlin, James Roby … the list is long, storied and impressive.

You could argue there is plenty dividing those players, not least their ferocious rivalries at club level in Super League. But the one thing they have in common is that they were never able to represent their country in the most intense series of them all, the Ashes. Since 2003 the concept has been on hiatus but, finally, on Saturday it returns in some style.

October 23, 2025

Wallabies change 13 starters and hand captaincy to two-Test rookie for Japan clash

Nick Champion de Crespigny to captain Australia in Tokyo
No place for Carter Gordon after return to union from league

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt has rested a host of stalwart campaigners and changed all but two of his starting side for Saturday’s Test against Eddie Jones’s Japan, which opens Australia’s end-of-season tour.

Schmidt has kept only halfbacks Tane Edmed and Jake Gordon from the starting team that lost to New Zealand at the end of the Rugby Championship with flanker Nick Champion de Crespigny captaining the new-look side in his third Test.

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New Zealand v England: final men’s T20 abandoned – as it didn’t happen

England’s T20 series against New Zealand finishes on a rather damp note but the tourists claim 1-0 win

Here we go! That’s tough on the two Tims, who had made a rollicking start.

After three balls: NZ 8-0 (Seifert 8, Robinson 0) Wood’s first ball is an inswinger that swings all the way to the square-leg boundary, with an easy nudge from Tim Seifert. The second ball is a dot, and the third is another four – a full toss, thumped through the covers. But then …

October 23, 2025

Felipe Mora double leads Timbers over RSL and into MLS Playoffs’ next round

Justen Glad scores for RSL after two from Mora
Kamal Miller header seals result for Phil Neville’s side

Felipe Mora’s first-half brace halted an extended dry spell and helped lift the Portland Timbers to a 3-1 victory over visiting Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference wild-card game on Wednesday night.

Kamal Miller’s late header gave eighth-seeded Portland some insurance as the Timbers sealed a first-round series meeting with Western Conference No 1 San Diego FC. The best-of-three set will begin Sunday in Southern California.