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Gout Gout, the fastest teen ever in the 200m, got his start when a coach saw him running around with friends

Australian sprinter Gout Gout thought he was in trouble when his school's "cranky" track coach called him over for a chat six years ago.

Rashford seals title for Barcelona and completes week to forget for Real Madrid

This time it was Marcus Rashford who delivered the knockout blow. Three days after the fight between Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni that ended with Real Madrid’s vice captain taken to hospital and the crisis at the club laid painfully bare for all to see, they went to the Camp Nou and finally relinquished the league title they had effectively lost long ago. For the first time in 94 years a meeting of sport’s greatest rivals decided La Liga, 62,000 fans starting the party as goals from the Englishman and Ferran Torres took Hansi Flick’s team over the line with three games to spare.

VAR offers up Arsenal’s title-deciding moment for digital mess generation

Multibillion stage of title-relegation stagger boils down to a referee in front of a screen decoding a raised forearm

Mikel Arteta’s relief as ‘brave’ VAR decision takes Arsenal closer to title

17 pitchside replays before West Ham goal ruled out

Wizards eye Dybantsa, Boozer, Peterson and Wilson at No 1 after winning NBA draft lottery

The league’s worst team this season are getting the No 1 pick in the NBA draft. The Washington Wizards won the draft lottery on Sunday and are poised to pick first overall for the first time since choosing John Wall in that spot in 2010. Wall was the Wizards’ on-stage representative for this year’s lottery.

Leandro Trossard gives Arsenal dramatic win with West Ham denied by huge VAR call

It was the most extraordinary finale to an occasion when the tension seemed to override everything. The spectacle suffered. Was there even one to speak of? It came to feel purely like a slow stumble towards the end; towards something decisive.

Ruud says Sinner is ‘beatable’ as world No 1 seeks record run at Italian Open

Italian could win record sixth straight Masters 1000 title

BAFTA TV Awards 2026: On the Red Carpet

It’s the biggest night in British television! Join Aimee Lou Wood, Alan Carr, Owen Cooper and stars of the year’s best shows on the red carpet.

Giro d’Italia: Paul Magnier powers to victory in another nail-biting sprint

French rider claims second victory of this year’s race

Is the Premier League starting to gobble up Uefa’s lower-tier competitions?

Aston Villa and Crystal Palace’s runs to European finals are historic achievements, but symptomatic of a worrying trend

Bobby Cox, longtime Braves manager and World Series winner, dies at 84

Updated on: May 9, 2026 / 9:01 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Daniel Dubois stops Fabio Wardley in bloody epic to win WBO heavyweight title

Daniel Dubois completed his latest resurgence with brutal efficiency when he became the WBO world heavyweight champion after stopping Fabio Wardley early in the 11th round of a dramatic and blood-soaked contest. Howard Foster, whose pale blue shirt had turned crimson as if he worked in an abattoir rather than in a boxing ring as a referee, jumped between the courageous fighters to rescue Wardley 28 seconds into the penultimate round.