SPECIAL REPORT BY MIKE KEEGAN: Shock figures highlight the desperate state of play outside the promised land of the Premier League, with the staggering sums lost each year laid bare.

This is not the news readers of this column will want to hear, much like Alexander Isak and Liverpool last year, but a possible Sandro Tonali transfer has gained momentum in recent days.

Uli Hoeness, the club's honorary president, doubled down on the German giants' refusal to entertain any offers for Olise.

Sharron Davies and Laura Woods have both shared statements celebrating the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to ban trans athletes from competition. 

Huge play-off clash at the Cardiff City Stadium

Both nations bidding to move one step closer to World Cup qualification

Can Wales repeat their 2022 heroics and seal World Cup qualification via the play-offs?

Horse racing correspondent Jonathan Doidge picks out his best bets for Wetherby and Newcastle.

Tom Brady has revealed he asked the NFL about potentially making a comeback

Brazil and France will head to this summer’s World Cup finals among the favourites to lift the trophy

Will Wade expressed his excitement over the move and to be able ‘to go home’ to LSU

Can the Republic of Ireland go one step closer to World Cup qualification?

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!It’s Geopolitics World Cup playoff day, dear reader, and Gibraltar are playing Latvia in a winner-takes-all clash. Sadly, for football romantics, that game is the first leg of a Nations League promotion/relegation playoff. Uefa’s scheduling feels a bit cruel, like making some poor flunky do the graveyard …

American on course for victory after short program21-year-old had disastrous sake at Winter OlympicsIlia Malinin bounced back from his disappointment at this year’s Winter Olympics by leading after the short program at the figure skating world championships on Thursday.Malinin, sporting a new haircut, gave fans what they expected from the defending …

Role as minority owner of Raiders causes problemsFormer QB says he is ‘very happily retired’Tom Brady says he explored the idea of making a return to the NFL as a player but the league “don’t like that idea very much”.Brady’s last NFL game came in a defeat to the Dallas Cowboys in January 2023. Since then he has become a part-owner of the Las …

He was the most high-profile omission amongst Tuchel's far-ranging call-ups, with Reece James , Tino Livramento, Jarrell Quansah, and Djed Spence considered ahead of him.

Max Verstappen certainly isn't happy with the new regulations.

Wales, Italy, Northern Ireland and Bosnia & Herzegovina are all competing for a place at this summer's World Cup.

RC Lens have issued a statement following the decision to postpone their Ligue 1 fixture with Paris Saint-Germain.

Aryna Sabalenka is two wins away from completing the Sunshine Double.