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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sorry, purists: the Coachella-fication of the US Open is here to stay Once the people’s slam, New York’s major now doubles as a lifestyle carnival where attending is no longer just about watching, but being seen watching

really good on how the US Open turned itself into pure content scroll

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Rocky road ahead for Brailsford and Ineos as questions remain amid Tour doping investigation | Jeremy Whittle Dave Brailsford was hailed as a ‘secret-weapon’ on his return to the Tour de France but an investigation into a staff member has overshadowed the team’s modest successes

‘For a man who used to love holding court, expounding his theories of marginal gains, three weeks is a long time to keep schtum…’

New manager bounce…

Paul Kimmage: Revealing the links between the Team Sky masseur and a convicted doping doctor at the Tour de France It was late last Sunday evening when Sebastian Krause arrived in Lille. He had taken a flight from Munich, and a train from Paris and left first thing the next morning in a car to Dunkirk.

Doping in cycling. Some things never change.

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Nick Kyrgios piles back into Jannik Sinner doping saga with furious new doubts The Australian has once agan spoken his mind.

Nick Kyrgios on Jannik Sinner case:

"He's the number one in the world. Do you really believe he's going to hire a physiotherapist who carries a scalpel without a cover in his bag, accidentally cuts himself with it, and then gives him a massage without protection?"

www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis...

Football 🤝 Rugby

Cricket paying the price for being ruled by the big stick, and the big cheque | Barney Ronay The suspension of the IPL has ramifications for the game worldwide, but it has allowed itself to be too in thrall to the Indian money machine

Cricket: time to pay the ferryman
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

Media rights expert David Kogan set to be named chair of English football’s new independent regulator Kogan has emerged as the government’s preferred candidate in recent weeks largely thanks to the support of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/630...

That was just in the old place - it’s all about a folding chair & newspaper (just beyond the boundary rope) under this blue sky

Bluey - Series 3: 47. Cricket During a friendly game of neighbourhood cricket, the dads struggle to bowl Rusty out.

Lads- the Cricket episode of Bluey has just gone on iPlayer. If you have 7 minutes there isn’t a better distillation of the love of the game. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?

as the late economist Allen Sanderson put it: “if you want to inject money into the local economy, it would be better to drop it from a helicopter than invest it in a new ballpark”. column on the facts and the fictions of New Trafford www.theguardian.com/football/202...

DAZN, Sky bosses warn that rampant piracy threatens broadcast industry with financial crisis 'I think there’s almost an argument to say you can’t get exclusive rights anymore because piracy is so bad', a DAZN executive said.

I know this is the type of story that has many of you looking for your smallest violins but I suspect your favourite teams have been bankrolled by pay-TV money, so there are consequences to pinching this stuff.

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/616...

SuperBowl MVP

Wealthy backers plan basketball shake-up with upstart rival to NBA Singapore, Saudi Arabia and executives including Maverick Carter plot new global circuit to take on dominant US league

www.ft.com/content/ff76...

Nick Kyrgios left baffled by latest doping saga to rock tennis On Wednesday, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced the 29-year-oldhad provided a sample that contained the banned substance at an ATP Tour Challenger event.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis...

A chronic lack of ambition has laid waste Tottenham Ange Postecoglou has serious shortcomings as Spurs manager. But he has hardly been helped by a team trying to do things on the cheap

“A chronic lack of ambition”.

🦅 #GangGreen

Gang Green 🦅

and Partey’s…

Ballon d'Or, surely

YouTube video by Damien Robitaille Damien Robitaille performs SABOTAGE by Beastie Boys

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Tennis looks ‘cooked’ as Australian Open starts under giant doping cloud Fall-out from Sinner and Swiatek sagas dominating start of grand slam as strain begins to show on men’s world No 1 ahead of title defence

www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/...

The X-ification of Meta By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms.

NEW: By abandoning fact-checkers and loosening its Hateful Conduct policy, Meta has made clear the future it wants for its platforms.

With Mudryk’s positive a rarity, is football tackling drugs issue the right way? | Rob Draper The game either lacks a big drugs problem or isn’t catching cheats – and has long struggled to bring prosecutions

With Mudryk’s positive a rarity, is football tackling drugs issue the right way?

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Malaysia plans to restart a private search for the missing Flight MH370 Over a decade later, none of the bodies of the 239 passengers and crew members abroad have been recovered.

Over a decade later, none of the bodies of the 239 passengers and crew members abroad have been recovered.

How big is football’s doping problem, and what’s being done to stop it? From Diego Maradona to Paul Pogba, the list of high-profile stars banned for drug-related offences is long and varied, but how prevalent is the issue in the modern game?

www.thetimes.com/sport/footba... (£)

Should be in every newsagents window.