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Rory Mcllroy Australian Open - first-round leaderboard -6  E Smylie (Aus), C Ortiz (Mex), R Fox (Nzl);  -4  C Adam (Sco), C Charmasson (Fra), R Neergaard-Petersen (Den);  -3  C Lamb (Aus), E Pepperell (Eng), S Leaney (Aus), W Ormsby (Aus), D Hillier (Nzl) Selected others: -2  A Scott (Aus), MW Lee (Aus);  -1  C Smith (Aus);  +1  R McIlroy (NI) Rory McIlroy shot a one-over round of 72 on a "rollercoaster" opening day at the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne. The Masters champ

Jannik Sinner & Carlos Alcaraz A year which belonged to Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz had to finish this way. Another pulsating contest between the pre-eminent pair on the men's tour - this time with the season-ending ATP Finals trophy at stake - was a fitting conclusion. For the victorious Sinner, the win perhaps mattered that little bit more. The way the mild-mannered Italian collapsed on his back in celebration after championship point seemed to indicate it did. "I am v

Fernando Mendoza Fernando Mendoza  is going to lead No. 2  Indiana  into the Big Ten championship game on Saturday, and he’ll do it without having lost a single game in crimson and cream. If he leads the Hoosiers past No. 1  Ohio State , it will be the biggest win in college football this season and the biggest win in IU school history. Mendoza will also be a Heisman Trophy finalist and could be a first-round selection in the 2026  NFL Draft . He’s been prepared to and shown

AIFF Super Cup 2025 With the victory, East Bengal will return to the Super Cup final for the third time, hoping to recapture the crown for the second time on Sunday. East Bengal  backed up its coach Oscar Bruzon’s words before the  AIFF Super Cup  semifinal when he said his team will play with ‘hunger, attitude and aggression’ as it got the better of  Punjab FC  3-1 in a bruising encounter in Margao, Goa on Thursday. It was fitting that under the scorching heat at the Pandit

The Ashes 2025 It finally happened.  Ashes 2025  witnessed what no Test in Australia had seen before.  Joe Root , England’s run machine and a modern legend of the game, scored his first Test 100 on Australian soil. The 34-year-old hit his 40th Test century in his 160th match. This also takes him closer to the top three with Ricky Ponting being just ahead of him with 41. Joe Root Gets the Monkey Off His Back Root has the most 100s by an active player and the fourth most on the

Arne Slot Since winning their opening five league games of the season, Liverpool have won just two of their last nine. Liverpool boss Arne Slot conceded his side have lost their fear factor during a miserable run as Sunderland emerged with a 1-1 draw at Anfield on Wednesday. The Premier League champions have now failed to win in three consecutive home games and needed a Nordi Mukiele own goal to rescue a point against the Black Cats. Sunderland were on course for their first

Kennet Eichhorn Kennet Eichhorn, 16, defensive midfielder for Hertha Berlin, set records as youngest 2 Bundesliga debutant and DFB Pokal goalscorer, attracting interest from top European clubs. At the tender age of 16, Hertha Berlin's defensive midfield sensation, Kennet Eichhorn, is not only tearing up the record books in Germany but has also ignited a transfer war among Europe's biggest clubs. Dubbed the 'next  Toni Kroos ,' the teenager's recent historic goal in the DFB-Po

Arsenal Liverpool needed a late own-goal to salvage a 1-1 draw with Sunderland at Anfield, whilst Chelsea suffered a shock 3-1 defeat to relegation-battling Leeds United. Another win for Arsenal. More misery for Liverpool and its under-fire manager Arne Slot. While Arsenal accelerated its Premier League title charge with a 2-0 victory over Brentford to regain a five-point lead, Liverpool needed a late own-goal just to salvage a 1-1 draw with Sunderland at Anfield. Slot will b

Ruturaj Gaikwad & Gautam Gambhir Ruturaj Gaikwad has featured as an opening batter almost all of his career, but was given the No. 4 spot in the Indian team for the ODI series against South Africa. Despite twin centuries in the 2nd ODI against South Africa, India endured a defeat as the tourists levelled the series 1-1. While Virat Kohli followed up his hundred in the Ranchi match with another triple-digit score in Raipur, Ruturaj Gaikwad gave him company in the middle, slamm

FIFA 2026 World Cup The draw for the first 48-team World Cup takes place on Friday (Saturday Manila time), ahead of the finals from June 11 to July 19 next year in North America.  AFP Sport tells you all you need to know about how it works: Top seeds kept apart Teams are split into four pots of 12 based on the latest world ranking, with one team from each pot going into each of the 12 groups of four. For the first time, FIFA has decided that the draw will be done in such a wa

Katie Ledecky Global swimming superstar  Katie Ledecky  isn’t racing at this week’s U.S. Open, but that doesn’t mean that she won’t be racing this December. Instead, Ledecky will travel back to her home state of Maryland to race at her home club’s annual December invite, which this year has renamed in her honor. Ledecky will race at the former NCAP Invite (also previously the Tom Dolan Invitational), which is now called the  Katie Ledecky  Invitational. She will attend the me

India T20 Squad Hardik Pandya returns to the Indian setup for the first time since the Asia Cup, while vice-captain Shubman Gill has been named in the squad subject to fitness clearance. India have announced the squad that will take on South Africa in a five-match T20I series starting on December 9. Vice-captain Shubman Gill returns from injury after missing out a part of the Test series and the entire ODI series against the Proteas. He has been named in the squad, but his pa

AIFF Super Cup 2025 Punjab FC will look to script history when they take on East Bengal FC in the first semifinal of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Super Cup 2025 on Thursday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Fatorda Stadium. Both teams progressed as group winners and will now battle for a place in the final when the match kicks off at 4 PM. Punjab FC were unbeaten in the group stages with two wins and prevailed over Bengaluru FC in a crucial winner-takes-all final group stag

India vs South Africa South Africa completed the joint-highest chase in the history of one-day internationals in India as they passed a target of 359 to win by four wickets in Naya Raipur. Aiden Markram hit 110 from the top of the order, while Matthew Breetzke and Dewald Brevis both made half-centuries as the tourists beat India with four balls to spare. Virat Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad had both made centuries in the home side's innings, but having closed on 358-6, they were u

NBA Jaylen Brown made 16 of 24 shots from the floor and 8 of 9 from the free-throw line. The Boston Celtics received 22 points and five assists from Derrick White while winning for the fourth time in five games. Jaylen Brown scored a season-high 42 points while leading the Boston Celtics to a 123-117 victory over the visiting New York Knicks on Tuesday night. Brown made 16 of 24 shots from the floor and 8 of 9 from the free-throw line. It was his third game with at least 40 p

Sarfaraz Khan Sarfaraz Khan scored his first-ever T20 century on Tuesday in a match against Assam during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. On Tuesday, Sarfaraz Khan silenced his critics by scoring his first-ever T20 century during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 group stage clash against Assam at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. The Mumbai right-hander has been at the center of discussions since India’s home Test series defeat to South Africa, with many fans and experts ques

Treesa Jolly and Gayatry Gopichand The duo became the first Indian doubles team to win a BWF World Tour title this year. Kidambi Srikanth lost in the men’s singles final. Top seeds  Treesa Jolly  and  Gayatri Gopichand  successfully defended their women’s doubles title at the  Syed Modi International 2025 badminton  tournament on Sunday. Ranked 14th in the world, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand beat Japanese eighth seeds Kaho Osawa and Mai Tanabe 17-21, 21-13, 21-15 in the

Alan Shearer All the teams chasing Arsenal have got things they need to work on - for Chelsea, their lack of discipline is something that has to change if they are going to challenge for the title. Moises Caicedo's dismissal in Sunday's 1-1 draw against the Gunners was the fourth time in 13 Premier League games that a Chelsea player has been sent off this season. One of those red cards, for Malo Gusto against Forest, came so late it did not affect the outcome but against Manc

Robby Williams American disco group Village People and British superstar Robbie Williams are among the artists set to perform at Friday's World Cup draw in Washington DC. The Village People are due to perform their iconic 1970s song 'YMCA', which has more recently become  synonymous with president Donald Trump's campaign rallies. The draw for the 2026 World Cup, which will feature 48 nations, takes place at the Kennedy Center, at 17:00 GMT (12:00 local time). Italian tenor An

Mitchell Starc The gladiatorial stadium stands between England and parity in the Ashes series. The Gabba is not a happy hunting ground for England - they have not won in Brisbane since 1986 - and it will take all of their resolve, stubbornness and togetherness in order to change that record. There is also the added challenge of the pink ball and how much Australia quick Mitchell Starc - player of the match for his 10 wickets in the first Test - loves bowling with it. Starc wi