13 h. ago The exact SPFL reconstruction plan that could be on as 14 team Championship scenario laid out

The Premiership is staying as is but the rest of the leagues are up in the air after a recent meeting

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21 h. ago Ryan Reynolds made genius move as Wrexham hit with immediate £1.5m bill after promotion

Wrexham's Hollywood owners have been hit with a hefty player bonus bill after their team won promotion to the Championship, but a crafty manoeuvre has softened the blow

Economics

40 h. ago Lando Norris makes brutally honest Miami GP admission and admits something has changed

Oscar Piastri has taken control of the Formula 1 drivers' championship heading into the Miami Grand Prix but McLaren team-mate Lando Norris is the defending winner in Florida

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58 h. ago Two Scots in 2025 Women’s Six Nations Team of the Championship after huge surge in public vote

Back-rower and stand-off fly the Saltire in composite side

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3 d. ago Blake Lively shares insight into celebrations with husband Ryan Reynolds as his team Wrexham AFC make history with third successive promotion to reach the Championship

The Gossip Girl actress, 37, shared an album of moments from Saturday's game which saw his Welsh team triumph 3-0 over Charlton Athletic.

Culture

4 d. ago Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravelledThe tunnel in which athletes wait before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she has stood in enough of them to know. “Different people handle it differently,” she says. “Some people are really relaxed and friendly; other people just look right through you. It’s scary. I remember my coach saying to me, ‘When you go to the Olympics, you’ll be standing next to the meanest, toughest, hardest people that you’ll ever face.’ Everybody wants to win.”As it turned out, the wait to walk into London’s Olympic stadium for the final of her event in August 2012 was even more stressful than she’d been warned. With British excitement ...

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6 d. ago NFL Hall of Famer and Bears legend Steve ‘Mongo’ McMichael dies at 67

Former defensive tackle had been diagnosed with ALSEntered into wrestling career after football retirementSteve “Mongo” McMichael, a star defensive tackle on the Bears’ 1985 Super Bowl championship team who remained a fixture in the Windy City for decades, died on Wednesday after being diagnosed with ALS. He was 67.An All-Pro in 1985 and 1987, McMichael was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2024. He played in a franchise-record 191 consecutive games from 1981 to 1993 and ranks second to Richard Dent on the Bears’ career sacks list with 92.5. His final NFL season was with Green Bay in 1994. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Leeds are back among the elite but the real task for Farke is to keep them there | Louise Taylor

The Championship’s best team will need to be smart in the transfer market to give themselves a chance next seasonWhen Leeds United sold £140m of playing talent last summer, Daniel Farke deviated from accepted managerial convention and declined to throw his toys out of the pram. Farke is a little too unconventional, a little too resistant to groupthink, to always do the expected and his club’s owner, the San Francisco-based 49er Enterprises, is set to reap the benefits.The German’s unusual amalgam of high emotional intelligence and advanced numeracy have helped provide the framework for the freshly secured promotion to the Premier League Leeds so narrowly missed out on last May. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Tony Mowbray brutally sacked by West Brom just three months after emotional return

Tony Mowbray returned to West Bromwich Albion earlier this year having previously guided the team to success and won the Championship in 2007/08 but this spell has not panned out as well

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1 week ago Becky Lynch makes shock WrestleMania 41 return in WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match

The Man Becky Lynch made her shock return to WWE at WrestleMania 41 night 2 to help out Lyra Valkyria after her tag team partner Bayley was ruled out of the match

Sport

1 week ago Lando Norris sets practice pace after Yuki Tsunoda crashes at Saudi Arabian GP

Championship leader Norris had the edge on McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in the second practice

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2 w. ago JD Vance drops Ohio State's national championship trophy and threatens to set Secret Service on Michigan fan

Vice President JD Vance endured an embarrassing moment on Monday as he dropped Ohio State's national championship trophy to the ground while the team was being honored.

Sport

2 w. ago Wiegman’s Lionesses No 2 Veurink to take Netherlands job after Euro 2025

He has assisted Wiegman with England since 2021‘Great challenge and a wonderful new adventure,’ he saysArjan Veurink, assistant coach to Sarina Wiegman, will leave the England women’s team after July’s European Championship to become the head coach of the Netherlands women’s national side.The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has confirmed that the 38-year-old will succeed Andries Jonker, who has been in charge since 2022. Veurink has a deal until after 2029’s Euros. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Watch: JD Vance fumbles American football team's championship trophy during White House visit

In a clumsy mishandle, the trophy broke apart in JD Vance's hands, resulting in an awkward blunder for the vice president

Sport

2 w. ago JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit

Vice-president unable to hang on to trophyBuckeyes were celebrating last season’s title winJD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the team’s national championship trophy.After laudatory speeches by Donald Trump, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Lawn, the Vance – an Ohio State graduate – tried to lift the trophy. He didn’t appear to realize that the top of the trophy is detachable from its base. After a moment of struggle, the vice-president lost his grip on the two pieces. OSU running back TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped top of the trophy, but the base fell to the ground, forcing Vance to grasp around as it rolled away from him. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Brendan Rodgers and Rangers insider join forces as 6 leading Premiership figures put 10 team league in the ground

The shortest lived Scottish football reconstruction plan in memory has been buried

Politics

4 w. ago SPFL owner shows off his Premiership reconstruction plan that goes bigger and bolder than ever before

Talk of reconstruction is back on the agenda in Scotland and what a new top flight should look and be structured like

Politics

4 w. ago SPFL braced for new reconstruction row as 10 team Premiership plan floated but insider delivers damning verdict

New plans are being discussed that could shake up Scottish football

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