Victor Wembanyama delivered another masterpiece with 39 points, 15 rebounds and more game-wrecking defense for the San Antonio Spurs, who took a 2-1 lead in the second-round NBA playoff series with a 115-108 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Le Mans is most commonly known for its 24-hour race, but the city's football club is backed by big-name sportsmen and on a rapid rise.

Big game at Anfield with implications for European qualification

Newly crowned FWA player of the year Bruno Fernandes is going to assist record

Must-win fixture for Pep Guardiola & Co. to keep pressure on Arsenal in title race

Managerless Blues likely to be without six players for Anfield trip amid dreadful losing run

Alexander Isak is back in contention, along with one other

City cannot afford to drop any more points

Michael Carrick ponders squad rotation with Champions League qualification sealed

WBO heavyweight title on the line in all-British blockbuster at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena

Home T20 World Cup and a historic Lord’s Test loom for Charlotte Edwards but with selection questions mountingHistoric occasions are like buses: you spend ages twiddling your thumbs and then two come along at once. England have waited nine years for another home World Cup, wallowing all the while in memories of their win in 2017, and almost a century for a …

Footballer has 664 million followers but his boring presence is a reminder of how reel-life destroys what it touchesBuy the backpack airlines hate. Fawn strangely at a child athlete. This TV presenter drank olive oil for a month and absolutely nothing happened. The streets (no actual streets involved) won’t forget (robots can’t forget) Paul Pogba (or …

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Wealthy players asking for more money may feel wrong but the big four tournaments are not sharing the revenue fairlyAt some point in the quiet buildup to her opening match at the Italian Open, Aryna Sabalenka decided to attack one of the most contentious subjects in her sport with the same force as her forehand. In her press conference, the subject of the …

Rory McIlroy has questioned why players would not want to return to play on the PGA Tour amid uncertainty over the future of LIV Golf, bluntly saying "if you don't want to play here, I think that says something about you".

Luis Suarez says he "would never say no" to a return to international football if Uruguay needed him for the World Cup.

Victor Wembanyama scores 39 points as the San Antonio Spurs go 2-1 up in the NBA's Conference semi-finals - while the New York Knicks are one win from progressing.

Rory McIlroy says bringing back LIV Golf defectors would be "good business" for the PGA Tour amid doubts over the future of the breakaway series.

England prop Maud Muir discusses her childhood cricket days and love for pottery and "boshing" defenders.

Former world champion Canelo Alvarez is set to fight newly crowned super-middleweight title-holder Christian Mbilli in the autumn, says Top Rank president Todd duBoef.