A round-up of all the big Gaelic football results on a busy weekend of club action around Ireland. Dublin SFC Ballyboden St Enda’s remain on course for a football-hurling double in the capital, after seeing off St Jude’s on Saturday. The reigning champs overcame their neighbours 2-11 to 1-11, with Simon Lambert and Robbie McDaid […]

Fallon Sherrock will make her big-stage return against Jeff Smith at the World Series of Darts Finals in Austria next weekend. Sherrock, who made history as the first woman to win a game at the PDC World Championship last December, will play Canada’s Smith – the former North American Championship winner – in a blockbuster […]

Peter Wright’s brilliant 2020 continued as he opened the PDC Autumn Series in Niedernhausen with a superb Day One victory, while Lisa Ashton recorded a memorable win over Michael Smith. The world champion showed his class in a superb day of darts as he beat Madars Razma 8-1 in the final to clinch a second […]

Peter Wright has been like a different player since winning his first World Championship title earlier this year, says Colin Lloyd. Snakebite carried his sparkling form into this year’s Premier League campaign and last week clinched a place in the semi-finals after beating Michael Smith 8-3 to finish second in the league phase with a […]

Ireland’s three major sporting bodies, the GAA, FAI and IRFU have announced they are making a joint submission to the Government with a view to re-introducing fans at matches. The Irish Government moved all sports in the country behind closed doors on August 18, in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus. That stance […]

Michael Holding says England’s decision to stop taking a knee before matches is out of line with global attempts to raise awareness about institutionalised racism and inequality. The West Indies great spoke passionately in conjunction with Sky Sports colleague Ebony Rainford-Brent in July about the need to bring about meaningful change in society in the […]

At a time when women’s sport needs support and investment more than ever, London Pulse have announced a three-year, six-figure partnership with Atlantic House Investments that head coach and CEO Sam Bird believes takes the franchise a step closer for professionalism. At a time when Vitality Superleague franchises have been turning to their fans for […]

Yorkshire have appointed a sub-committee including prominent figures in the British-Asian cricket community, as it launches a review into allegations of institutional racism from former player Azeem Rafiq. Rafiq has said “deep rooted” racism at the club left him close to taking his own life. The ex-England U-19s and Yorkshire captain walked away from cricket […]

After months without any hurling training sessions taking place, or indeed club grounds being opened, June came as a relief to players all over Ireland as GAA action resumed. To Patrick Horgan, who was facing the potential of losing a year of his career at 32, it came as a huge relief. “It was like […]

Former England batsman Ian Bell narrowly missed out on a century in his final innings before retiring from first-class cricket. The 38-year-old – who was the last member of England’s 2005 Ashes-winning team still playing red-ball cricket – scored 90 in Warwickshire’s Bob Willis Trophy match against Glamorgan at Cardiff. Bell shared a partnership of […]