Top Sports News

Oct 31, 2026 - Sports

Former NC State standout Philip Rivers has reportedly emerged as the "focus" of the Wolfpack's head coaching search.

Oct 31, 2026 - Sports

Once among the NFL’s most punishing running backs, Larry Johnson opens up about memory loss, intrusive thoughts and his fears over football’s lasting tollIn his heyday, Larry Johnson was the NFL tailback you’d least want to line up against, the steamroller in pads who had defensive players and coaches questioning their life choices on every down. But since Johnson walked away from pro football in 2011, after seven seasons in the league and an All-Pro run with the Kansas City Chiefs, he’s the one doing the soul-searching, grappling with the toll all that gridiron glory has taken on his brain.Johnson, who still cuts a fit and formidable figure at age 46, can scarcely recall his glittering career, much less its highlights. “I go up to maybe 2006, 2007,” he tells me. “Anything before or three years after, I really don’t remember.” Continue reading...

Oct 31, 2026 - Sports

Joanna Wietrzyk claims victory in first event of season in HamburgAustralian says pre-race that she is ‘truly so sorry’ for events in BeijingThe Australian athlete who sparked outrage when winning a Hyrox event in Beijing despite soiling herself during the race has returned in style with victory in the first event of the new season in Hamburg.Joanna Wietrzyk won the endurance sports event in China last month but forfeited the points and soon faced a stinging public backlash as footage of her continuing through demanding exercises and using communal equipment with faecal matter running down her legs went viral on social media. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

European-trained runners completed a second successive clean sweep of the juvenile events on turf at a Keeneland Breeders’ Cup OFF AND RUNNING IN THE BREEDERS’ CUP JUVENILE TURF SPRINT!They are down at the start before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, Libertango remains a solid favourite at 2-1. And they’re loading now … Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

Club’s predicament raises interesting questions about principles, both for individuals and the Premier LeagueI felt unbelievably ponderous. My head was made of Aztec stone. I realised I didn’t want to be with all these people. Somebody came at me, a huge individual in silver and blue. I fell at his feet and grabbed one shoe. I started untying the lace. He kicked away from me. I got up and walked off. I was exceedingly hungry.Not my words. Also not the words of the Manchester City centre-back Marc Guéhi, despite what you were thinking there. This is instead a condensed quote from the mind of Gary Harkness, existentially curious college running-back and the narrator of Don DeLillo’s great American football novel End Zone. Continue reading...