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Rybakina Finds a Way Past Gauff and Sets Up the Final the Whole Season Was Pointing Towards
Elena Rybakina lost the first set, could not find her serve and had 22,000 people in Arthur Ashe willing her out of the tournament. She still won 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to reach her first US Open final, where the newly crowned world No 1 meets the departing one: Aryna Sabalenka, two-time defending champion, in a rematch of the Australian Open final.
Read moreA Million-Pound Settlement and an Ashes Summer That Skips the North
Next summer's Ashes has one Test north of Birmingham and none at Headingley or Old Trafford - and according to a Guardian report, the reason traces back to a legal dispute over the 2023 allocation that ended with the ECB paying Hampshire around £1m. Colin Graves, ECB chair at the time, says he recused himself and had no involvement in awarding Test matches.
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Eight Wickets From a Clean Sweep: England Grind Through Pakistan's First Real Resistance at Edgbaston
England resumed day three at Edgbaston needing eight wickets to complete a 3-0 sweep, and for the first time all series Pakistan made them work for it. Shan Masood and 21-year-old Azan Awais put on the tourists' first century stand of the summer before Dan Lawrence's part-time spin broke it. Ollie Robinson, meanwhile, keeps adding to a season that now reads 28 wickets at 7.75.
Read moreArch Manning, Myth by Myth: What Six Games of Data Actually Say Before Ohio State Comes to Austin
Eleven months ago Arch Manning sat 74th in the country in Total QBR and the "bust" label was everywhere. Since November he has posted the best QBR in college football, almost halved his sack rate and stopped throwing interceptions — while his accuracy on the move remains a genuine weakness. With top-ranked Ohio State visiting Austin on Saturday night, here is what the numbers confirm and what they still refuse to settle.
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A Record in the First Match: Korda and Corpuz Draw First Blood as the Solheim Cup Opens in the Netherlands
The Solheim Cup has come to the Netherlands for the first time, and Bernardus Golf delivered a marquee opening match: Nelly Korda and Allisen Corpuz against Charley Hull and Lottie Woad. The Americans won it 4&3 - a fifth straight foursomes victory together and a new Solheim Cup record for a pairing. Anna Nordqvist's Europe need 14 and a half points to take the trophy back; Angela Stanford's USA need only 14 to keep it.
Read moreThe Darkest Hour Theory: England's Test Summer Fell Apart, and It Might Be the Best Thing That Happened
A captain gone mid-series, a head coach sacked weeks after being backed, a curfew that quietly disappeared and now a fast bowler in handcuffs outside a Derby bar. England's Test summer has been chaos — but under Joe Root, with Stephen Fleming inbound and a genuine fight for places, the wreckage is starting to look like foundations.
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Sixteen Laps, One Order: Inside the Mercedes Swap That Cost Russell a Place at Zandvoort
Mercedes pitted Kimi Antonelli under a late virtual safety car, then told George Russell to move over — leaving him to defend the podium from Lewis Hamilton on fresh tyres. Toto Wolff says it was "not a difficult decision", and that the rule was agreed hours before the race.
Read moreFollowing the Untouchable: Enzo Maresca Inherits Manchester City Without Guardiola or Rodri
Pep has gone, Rodri has gone to Barcelona, and the men who held the back line together went with them. Enzo Maresca gets Haaland, a £116m midfielder from Nottingham Forest and a set-piece problem nobody has fixed — plus 130 unresolved charges hanging over the whole thing.
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Reset 2.0: Root Retakes the Captaincy, and This Time There Is No Stokes to Rescue Him
England begin life after Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum at Headingley on Wednesday, with Joe Root back in a job he left in 2022 and Marcus Trescothick keeping the coach's seat warm for Stephen Fleming. The promise is Bazball with the volume turned down — and results turned up.
Read moreTears in Montreal: Jack Draper's Comeback Lasted Two Sets
For one set Jack Draper looked like the world number four again. Then the arm gave out, the tears came at a change of ends, and a first-round exit in Montreal turned into a much bigger question about Cincinnati, the US Open and the rest of his season.
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