Sports Editor
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Vikram Rao is the sports editor at The NE Times, following football, cricket, tennis and the athletes, leagues and international fixtures that matter most to fans worldwide.
Brentford beat Tottenham 3-0 at the Gtech as Mamadou Sangare drove a performance that exposed Spurs’ problems in duels, structure and transition.
Former West Bromwich Albion midfielder Quévin Castro has died aged 25 after collapsing during a friendly in Portugal, with no cause announced.
Semi Ajayi and Nobel Mendy scored from set pieces at the MKM Stadium as Michael Carrick lost his first league match as United's permanent manager.
Twenty-five corners, the Fairmont hairpin and the Louis II tunnel decide the first red jersey of a race that ends in Granada on 13 September.
The Kazakh stopped at 4-1 down in the first set, ending a run that could have taken her to the top of the world rankings this week.
The world number one says he needs more time to recover from a right knee problem, nine days before the main draw begins in New York.
A late diving save from Bichu Devi preserved the draw India needed, leaving England to play for classification places instead of the knockouts.
Dallas outlasted Indiana on a night Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark both misfired, with Jessica Shepard adding a career-best 26 points.
The 49ers head coach, hurt in a July head-on crash in Palo Alto, corrected the record as police confirmed a clerical error in the official report.
McIlroy, Gary Woodland, Wyndham Clark, JJ Spaun and Chris Gotterup all opened with 6-under 64 in St Louis as Scottie Scheffler faded late.
Cleveland hands Denver an unprotected 2031 first-round pick and gives Watson a four-year, $88m deal, with Wizards, Clippers and Nuggets all in the mix.
Victor Wembanyama's first France appearance since the Paris Olympics ended in a three-point defeat to Nikola Jokic's Serbia, with a rematch on Sunday.
The Portugal full-back tore up his Saudi contract to rejoin the champions on a free, telling Al Hilal it was Barcelona or a year in the stands.
Even a Masters green jacket would not be enough, Rory McIlroy says, after Scheffler's eight-shot St Jude rout and a season of relentless top finishes.
The announcement before his home Dutch Grand Prix adds two years to a deal that had run to 2028, and would take him to 15 seasons with Red Bull.
Lionel Messi struck in the 26th minute at Subaru Park, but Neil Pierre's second-half equaliser earned the resurgent Union a point against Miami.
Hamza Abdelkarim scored against his boyhood club and Raphinha converted a penalty as Barcelona won the 61st Gamper before Zizo's reply for Al Ahly.
The 79th edition runs to 30 August, and Curacao and Panama arrive for the first time through guaranteed direct entry.
The 2026-27 campaign kicks off on 21 August with the champions hosting promoted Coventry City, two London derbies on opening weekend, and every squad managing the shortest reset in modern football.
The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to a group led by investor Josh Kushner and former Disney chief Bob Iger for a reported $12.5 billion, the largest price ever paid for a US sports franchise.
The 2017 MVP announced his retirement in a farewell video narrated by Michael B. Jordan, leaving the game as its all-time leader in triple-doubles after 18 seasons and nine All-Star selections.
A Texas judge dissolved the restraining order that had briefly kept Tulsa National's season alive, backing Little League's ruling that the Oklahoma champions used an ineligible player and sending Boerne, Texas, to Williamsport.
An independent appeal board found five members of Canada's 2018 world junior team breached Hockey Canada's code of conduct, reinstating one player immediately and extending suspensions for the others to dates between 2026 and 2030.
Tadej Pogacar claimed his first career stage win on Alpe d'Huez, taking stage 19 and stretching his overall Tour de France lead past seven minutes.
Britain's Josh Kerr became the first man under 3:43 for the mile, clocking 3:42.66 in London to break Hicham El Guerrouj's record from 1999.
England edged a Lord's run-fest by 27 runs as Ben Duckett's 141 trumped Rohit Sharma's 138, clinching a 2-1 one-day series against India.
Soren Waerenskjold won the fastest road stage in Tour de France history at about 50.9km/h into Nevers, as Tadej Pogacar kept his 3:36 lead over Jonas Vingegaard.
Dan Brown and Sungjae Im fired matching 66s to share the first-round lead at the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale, with Bryson DeChambeau among the chasers.
Kimi Antonelli takes a shrinking 25-point lead into a wet Belgian Grand Prix week, with Lewis Hamilton chasing Michael Schumacher's record of six Spa wins.
Jannik Sinner tightened his grip on world No.1 after Wimbledon as Alexander Zverev rose to second and wildcard hero Arthur Fery rocketed 78 places to 36th.
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