Marcus Christenson    Captain Millie Bright says dispute settled after talksRusso to be rested for Nations League game against ScotlandMillie Bright has said England want to be world leaders on and off the pitch after reaching an agreement with the Football Association over bonuses and commercial structures.The issue...

Ali Martin    Opener may have played final game for England after decisionEngland add Kohler Cadmore to squad for Ireland ODIsJason Roy may have played his final game for England after turning down the chance to feature against Ireland in the last two one day internationals of the summer.Roy was dropped from the...

David Hytner in Munich    The Manchester United captain was staunch in defence of his teammates but there are problems for Erik ten Hag to solveBruno Fernandes did not like the sentiment and the answer was predictably defiant. Moments earlier, with another Manchester United inquest under way, Erik ten Hag had been asked...

Giles Richards at Suzuka    World champion says real fans’ appreciate team’s successSebastian Vettel returns to promote support for biodiversityMax Verstappen has dismissed suggestions that the dominance he and Red Bull have shown in the Formula One world championship this season is not appealing to fans.The world champion...

Max Rushden    Love for your club isn’t proportional to success. And there is a sense of pride in supporting a team in the tough timesLuton Town have no points. Four games. Four defeats. There is no shame in that. A question then: would there be a tipping point for Luton fans not the rest of us , where getting...

Nick Ames, European sports correspondent    West Ham’s Europa League opponents are one of several clubs outside Hungary benefiting from Hungarian assistanceOn the face of it there was nothing unusual when, in October , Viktor Orban attended the opening ceremony of a rural town’s new football academy. Hungary’s prime minister has long...

Gerard Meagher in Nice    Farrell expected to captain side and play at fly half against ChileGeorge Ford set for bench as Steve Borthwick rings changesMarcus Smith is expected to make a first start at full back for England against Chile on Saturday while Owen Farrell is poised to return as captain.England supporters who...

Tanya Aldred at the Oval    Updates from day three of the latest round of matchesContact Tanya by email, tweet her or comment BTLRhodes’ patient work is rewarded with his first hunded of the season. Despite the best efforts of Tim Murtagh, Warwickshire are pulling away:a lead of .Here come Burns and Sibley with only two...

Robert Kitson in Tours    James Ryan believes fly half’s presence and narky edge’ are invaluable for key pool game against SpringboksIt is peaceful on the banks of the Loire, serene enough to lull anyone into a sense of false security. Tours is a lovely, mellow place, with a beguiling old town, and even when journalists...

Gerard Meagher in Nice    Flanker has been terrific at Toulouse and is eager to make a World Cup starting spot his own when he lines up against ChileTrying to explain to the French rugby public why Jack Willis has been left out of both of England’s match day squads to date at the World Cup is easier said than done.The...

Australian Associated Press    Former Test player Drew Mitchell questions coach’s decisions We’re all sitting here scratching our heads,’ says Test wingerFormer Test winger Drew Mitchell has demanded Eddie Jones explain some of his selection decisions, blaming the coach for putting the Wallabies in danger of missing the...

Luke McLaughlin at Stade de Nice    Italy UruguayAzzurri score four second half tries for bonus point winAnother commendable Uruguay performance, another far more established rugby nation given an anxiety inducing examination on the biggest stage. Searching questions were asked, mistakes were forced, and half time daylight...

Gavin Willacy    Twelve of the teams in the second tier still do not know which division they will be playing in next yearBy Gavin Willacy for No Helmets RequiredWhen IMG reimagined rugby league, they would have struggled to come up with climaxes to the season that are as tight as the ones we have this year ...

Oliver Connolly    Cleveland gave up m, three first round draft picks and their dignity for the quarterback. They’ve been rewarded with one of the league’s biggest flopsWe now have a half season sample size of Deshaun Watson in Cleveland since he returned at the mid point of last season after an game...

Barney Ronay    Erik ten Hag’s team may have found a young striker who can rouse them from their miserable start to the seasonIt is a measure of where Manchester United are in this toxic early season, an early season where things just keep on happening, and where those things are divided into three distinct types,...

Sean Ingle    Groups say coaches who meet sanction criteria are not on list It represents a serious betrayal for many complainants’British Gymnastics has been accused of serious institution betrayal and a lack of transparency by campaign groups, who say the organisation’s newly created list of banned...

Guardian sport    Serb is all time leader in men’s grand slam singles titlesSpaniard says fans make their own decisions on playersRafael Nadal has said his longtime rival Novak Djokovic is the most successful tennis player in history, even though he was more ambiguous about who fans prefer to watch.Djokovic won his...

Tanya Aldred    All rounder praised by Durham’s director of cricket was instrumental in his country qualifying for India in OctoberBas de Leede stands in the middle of Himbleton cricket club, glowing in September’s last gasp evening light. He has been driven there by Sam the photographer, who took one look at the...

Tanya Aldred at the Oval    Matt Critchley fell one run short of his third Championship century of the season before title contenders Essex declared against HampshireWatch Karun Nair reach a memorable hundred at the Oval Continue reading...

Australian Associated Press    First joint CBA covering female and male players announcedLength of AFLW seasons to be increased to gamesThe AFL has struck a transformative . bn pay deal with players which includes longer contracts for first round draftees and big wage rises for women’s players.The average wage of AFLW...

Australian Associated Press    Danushka Gunathilaka has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a Sydney woman he met through the dating app TinderFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka started...

Guardian sport    Brotherly love, epic journeys and becoming the th man how travelling supporters are faring at the Rugby World CupMy brother is Martin Segrin, the captain of the Chilean team. My father also used to play for the Chilean national team a long time ago. We’re five brothers in total. We all play...

Ali Martin    Warwickshire batter has benefitted from a mid career change in thinking and is finally part of a full England squadIf Jason Roy being squeezed out of England’s World Cup plans underlines the bottleneck of white ball talent in the country then the same can be said about another player hoping to...

Donald McRae    Unbeaten hurdler has drawn comparisons with Arkle and Sprinter Sacre but his legendary trainer knows only the Gold Cup can justify that kind of talk We’re back in the same boat, Nicky Henderson says with a smile and a sigh as he considers the immense pressure bearing down on him while he plots...

Andrew Lawrence    The NFL hall of famer’s overpowering charisma has entrenched the once ailing Colorado at the heart of sports and culture in the USBulletin board material is not something you should give Deion Sanders, whose habit of taking the scoring attempts against him and returning them with interest is what...

Dave Caldwell    The nickname Commanders’ is unpopular with fans. Maybe a complete reboot will wash away the stench of the Dan Snyder eraIt sounds like another change is in store for Washington’s NFL franchise, whose nickname has been changed twice already in the last three years. The new owners did just insist...

Ben Fisher    Bristol City player coach goes back on Saturday to club where he spent years, rising from League One to a Premier League titleAndy King knows a cocktail of emotions awaits on Saturday at the King Power Stadium and that his first trip to Leicester City, the club which shaped him, as an opposition...

Nick Ames at the Emirates Stadium    When the Champions League anthem aired inside Arsenal’s home for the first time in six and a half years, its opening strains were drowned out by cheers. If that felt a touch saccharine, it summed up the crackling anticipation that had surrounded their return to the top table. Mikel Arteta’s side...

David Hytner at the Allianz Arena    It had been difficult to locate any pre match optimism around Manchester United. The club has sunk so low, so quickly in the early weeks of the season that it was almost as if their supporters would accept a defeat without humiliation on their Champions League return.It was what they got. There...

Agencies    Champions League roundup: Union Berlin undone by RealLate own goal hands Napoli win in Braga; Galatasaray drawJude Bellingham scored deep in added time as Real Madrid wore down a resilient Union Berlin to claim a win at the Santiago Bernabéu in their Group C opener, spoiling the Bundesliga side...

PA Media    Iheanacho and McAteer goals make it six wins from sevenLeeds held at Hull after Rodon red, Sunderland go fourthLeicester climbed to within a point of Championship leaders Preston with a win at promotion rivals Norwich.Kelechi Iheanacho fired Leicester in front from the penalty spot on the...

Ashifa Kassam in Madrid    Team name changed to show men’s and women’s sides equal’Secretary general sacked and other officials set to be firedThe majority of Spain’s top female footballers have ended their boycott of the national team after the government intervened to secure a promise of immediate and profound changes ...

PA Media    England manager says it would be an honour’ to take roleQualification rests with England’s Nations League performanceSarina Wiegman is in line to manage Great Britain at next summer’s Olympics in Paris should qualification be secured, the Football Association has announced.The women’s football...

Guardian sport    Plus: mythical beasts and monsters on shirts, one cap England hat trick heroes and much moreMail us your questions or tweet TheKnowledge GU I’m a Manchester United fan and have just seen Danny Welbeck score against us for what seems like the th time. Who is the most prolific scorer against a...

Louise Taylor at San Siro    Newcastle keep clean sheet in first Champions League gamePope made six saves in first minutes against MilanEddie Howe acknowledged his debt to Nick Pope after the goalkeeper made a string of outstanding saves to earn Newcastle a precious point in their opening Champions League game against Milan...

Sarah Bertram    Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag defended goalkeeper André Onana after his error led to Bayern Munich’s opening goal in their Champions League defeat. ’In football, there will always be mistakes. There was one mistake, so also, don’t make it bigger than it is. As I said already, it was...

Daniel Harris    England prop Joe Marler accidentally claimed a bizarre assist with his head, helping teammate Courtney Lawes to score their second try. In rugby, if the ball goes forward off a player’s hands or arm, the opposition are awarded a scrum. If the ball goes forward off any other part of the body however...

Sophie Downey    Spain’s World Cup winning squad agreed to end their boycott of the national team early after the country’s football federation said it would make ’immediate and profound changes’ to its structure. This comes after Spain’s national women’s team looked stony faced as they arrived for training camp...

Presented by Max Rushden with Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Lars Sivertsen. Produced by Joel Grove and our executive producer is Danielle Stephens.    Buddy Teevens, the innovative coach who brought robotic tackling dummies to Dartmouth practices, has died of injuries he sustained from a bicycle crash in March. He was . Teevens was a former star Dartmouth quarterback who went on to become the school’s all time wins leader with a ...

David Squires    Newcastle face Milan at San Siro as they return to the group stage of the Champions League for the first time since the season. It’s new ground too for their manager, Eddie Howe, who has never managed in Europe’s top club competition but he is determined to approach it as just another...

Greg Wood    Jürgen Klopp has said that he is ’not worried’ about losing Mohamed Salah after being asked about the forward’s future. Liverpool rejected a m offer for Mohamed Salah in the summer and Klopp has said he is not thinking about the January transfer window just yet. You are kidding me A week...

Melissa Jacobs    Sign up now Sign up now Sign up now Sign up now Every self respecting centre forward loves easy goals and useless opposition rightly so. But in the entirety of the game’s history, few, if any, have guzzled low hanging fruit with quite the same alacrity as Harry Kane. Whether terrorising Panama...

Guardian sport    Format promises a system where every match matters’ but is it too complicated and will it stall younger nations’ progress Moving the Goalposts: sign up for our free newsletterBlink and you will have missed the gap between international windows. A month on from the World Cup final in Sydney,...

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Tumaini Carayol    Cheating by using steroids on racehorses is unlikely to go undetected thanks to work in labs over the last decadeLast week’s news that Luke Comer, a billionaire property developer who trains a string of horses as a sideline, had been suspended from training for three years by the Irish Horseracing...

Sean Ingle    The head coach called out the efforts of his predecessor in Denver, Nathaniel Hackett. But he is hardly shining in Denver himselfWhen Sean Payton called Nathaniel Hackett’s game stint with the Broncos one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL, it sounded cruel and unnecessary....

Hannah Jane Parkinson    Onana not finding his passing range, Guardiola’s strikers thriving and Sheffield United must up tempoGabriel Martinelli’s disallowed goal at Goodison Park was another example of an offside law that has become almost too pedantic to function. The decisive action was a square pass from Gabriel Magalh...

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   Tottenham’s prospects of winning a trophy remain slim but the Australian’s approach is giving supporters reason to smileA few years ago, around the same time people started getting extremely animated by things such as net spends and expected goals, there came a school of emerging thought that...