theguardian.comadded August 2026
Sport | The Guardianby Tanya Aldred10h ago
No they can’t. Callum Parkinson hoikes with freedom and is caught behind off Dal. They will take tea, Durham 283-10, with 48 over left to be play today. Yikes, it’s nearly all over at Headingley.
Sport | The Guardianby Rob Smyth (now), Tim de Lisle (later)10h ago
To win a Test, you (nearly always) have to take 20 wickets. Joe Root’s new-look England managed it in 85 overs, 84 of them bowled by their four seamers, who took all 20.
Sport | The Guardianby PA Media10h ago
Mauritius’s Kim Le Court powered to victory in stage three of the Tour of Britain in Llandudno and moved top of the general classification.
Sport | The Guardianby PA Media10h ago
Jannik Sinner will miss the US Open with a right knee injury. The world No 1 has not played a match since beating Alexander Zverev last month to successfully defend his Wimbledon title, missing the...
Sport | The Guardianby Tom Garry12h ago
A year after taking up golf, Rachel Daly has already reached a handicap of 19. “I think that’s too generous, I was playing really well in the summer,” she point outs before politely declaring that...
Sport | The Guardianby Agencies12h ago
An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting.
Sport | The Guardianby Reuters and PA Media12h ago
The legal action over brain injuries in rugby has been brought back from the brink of collapse after the high court ruled to give a reprieve to hundreds of claimants who had been struck out from...
Sport | The Guardianby Jamie Jackson13h ago
Ed Woodward to MUTV in July 2015: “When people see Bastian Schweinsteiger on the team sheet, that’s going to send some shivers down the spine.” This prediction by Manchester United’s then executive...
Sport | The Guardianby Ross Heppenstall14h ago
On a baking spring bank holiday, Sergej Jakirovic basked in the glory of Hull’s fairytale promotion to the Premier League in an address to 40,000 ecstatic supporters from the balcony of Hull City...
Sport | The Guardianby Bryan Armen Graham16h ago
For more than a decade, Teófimo López’s friendship with Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero endured through amateur tournaments, Las Vegas sparring sessions and the mismatched peaks and troughs of two volatile...
Sport | The Guardianby Aaron Timms16h ago
For years, the NBA was built on the alliance of patient money and marketing pizzazz, and no team captured that curious mixture better than the Los Angeles Lakers.
Sport | The Guardianby Jeremy Whittle16h ago
Who’s coming second? That’s the question being most frequently asked as the peloton convenes for the final Grand Tour of 2026, the Vuelta a España, which rolls away from the start line in Monaco on...
Sport | The Guardianby Leonard Barden18h ago
Magnus Carlsen, Norway’s world No 1, triumphed again last weekend when he won the 2026 Esports World Cup, staged over four days at the prestigious venue of the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
Sport | The Guardianby Tumaini Carayol in Cincinnati1d ago
Towards the end of a messy first set tie-break late on Wednesday, Aryna Sabalenka wildly sprayed another painfully nervous backhand before slamming her racket to the ground.
Sport | The Guardianby Greg Wood at York1d ago
COURAGEOUS KALPANA KNUCKLES DOWN IN YORKSHIRE OAKS AndrewBalding and ColinKeane combined to land the feature race for the second day running at York’s Ebor Festival as Kalpana, the King George...
Sport | The Guardianby Giles Richards in Zandvoort1d ago
Max Verstappen has ended speculation about his future in Formula One by signing a new contract with his Red Bull team that will extend to the end of 2030, after almost 18 months of uncertainty...
Sport | The Guardianby Greg Wood4d ago
There is a Bow Echo-shaped hole in the remainder of the 2026 Flat season, after the news last week that George Boughey’s unbeaten colt was retired to stud after suffering a training setback.
Sport | The Guardianby Sean Ingle4d ago
Long before Amy Hunt catapulted herself into the mainstream by winning an unprecedented four gold medals at the European Championships, she was remarkably upfront about her ambitions.
Sport | The Guardianby Donald McRae4d ago
Less than two weeks before her world title unification bout against Mikaela Mayer, in a potential fight of the year for women’s boxing, Chantelle Cameron’s memory carries a quietly shocking force.
Sport | The Guardianby Tanya Aldred4d ago
The mercury-shattering European summer pants alongside us on the back straight, looming as we hug the shadows, sweaty sandals on the parched earth.
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