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The Shot That’s Becoming a Reliable Offensive Weapon in the NBA

Throughout the 2024-25 NBA season, fans and media members have bemoaned another spike in 3-point attempts. Old heads proclaim that there’s no creativity in the game anymore. Yet not all 3s are the same. A new approach is adding a subcategory to the deep ball while countering the notion that imagination is dying out in …

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Finn Russell fit to face England but Scotland decide against risking Graham

  • Co-captain recovers from injury for Six Nations clash
  • ‘Every brain injury is different,’ says Gregor Townsend

Scotland will have the one player they could not afford to lose for their Calcutta Cup match against England, after their medical team confirmed that Finn Russell has recovered from his concussion in good time to play for them tomorrow.

Russell suffered the injury in the first half of their game against Ireland in the previous round, when he collided with Darcy Graham, but he was found to be symptom-free 24 hours later, and has since completed a 12-day return-to-play protocol before recommencing full contact training while the team were away in camp in Spain this week.

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Mee to make Wales bow against Ireland as both teams ring Six Nations changes

  • Scarlets gets nod under interim Wales coach Sherratt
  • Sheehan to captain Ireland in absence of Doris

The Scarlets back Ellis Mee will make his Test debut when Wales begin life after Warren Gatland against the Six Nations title favourites Ireland on Saturday, while Dan Sheehan has been named captain of Simon Easterby’s much-changed visiting team in Cardiff.

The Nottingham-born wing Mee, whose mother is from Newport, is among eight personnel changes made by the interim head coach, Matt Sherratt, following Wales’s 22-15 loss to Italy.

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Competitive Truck Series tries to carry momentum into Atlanta

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series follows up its dramatic Daytona season-opener in the first half of Saturday‘s NASCAR double-header at Atlanta Motor Speedway with the Fr8 Racing 208 (1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Championship favorite Corey Heim was declared the winner of the Daytona opener after Parker Kligerman‘s team was […]

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Harassment of Emma Raducanu reminds us women still bear brunt of abuse | Emma John

Women in sport are left exposed by the lack of backing that men receive, and by toxic attitudes that must be called out

If you watched any of Emma Raducanu’s Tuesday match against Karolina Muchova, it was probably only the two clips, stitched together neatly for the news highlights. Raducanu approaching the umpire. Raducanu wiping away tears with a towel.

An emotional Raducanu is an instant headline, although this wasn’t a case of injury or frustration. Having seen a man in the crowd whose off-court behaviour had already concerned her, she was doing the sensible thing and reporting it. The Daily Mail reported that she was “reduced to cowering behind the umpire’s chair”. What a brilliantly multi-purpose use of language: paternalistic readers can get heroically angry on her behalf while the others write her off as a snowflake.

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