The video call cut out mid-story. Sonny Baker had been talking about a bike from Facebook Marketplace and a tomahawk steak, the energy pouring through the screen like he was still running in from the boundary. Then the phone died. The symbolism was almost too neat. Baker’s England career to date has been a series […]
The blazer was in the garage. Joe Root had put it there after stepping down as England Test captain in 2022, exhausted by a job that had consumed him, ending a record 64-Test tenure with one win in 17 matches and a relationship with the role he described as “very unhealthy.” Earlier this year, he […]
The list is short. Only nine players aged 40 and over have ever featured in a men’s World Cup match across 96 years of the tournament. Two of them have already appeared at this one. By the time the group stage ends, that number may double. Manuel Neuer started for Germany against Curaçao on 14 […]
The fifth goal went in. The Swedish players celebrated. The Tunisia bench did not move. Sabri Lamouchi stood at the edge of his technical area, arms crossed, watching a match that had already ceased to be a contest and had become something closer to an autopsy. The final score—5-1, Estadio Monterrey, Guadalupe, Mexico—was not the […]
He walks now. More than he runs. Across the pitch at Inter Miami, across the 2024 Copa America, across the training grounds where younger players sprint and press and recover, Lionel Messi walks. Critics once used this against him. The footage would surface after defeats—Messi, hands on his hips, watching the game pass him by. […]
The US-Iran memorandum of understanding that paused the war is “about a page and a half” and “very general,” Vice President JD Vance has disclosed, as both sides prepare for technical negotiations that will determine whether the framework becomes a durable settlement. President Donald Trump, speaking at the G7 summit in France on Monday, said […]
SpaceX has raised a total of $85.7 billion (£64.4 billion) in its initial public offering after the banks managing the listing exercised a greenshoe clause to purchase an additional $10 billion in shares, the company confirmed in a statement on Monday. The extra allocation, an overallotment option that allows underwriters to sell more shares than […]
The first thing was the sound. Not the darkness. The sound—a low rumble that deepened into something felt in the chest, a compression of air and water and gravity that announced the falls before the falls announced themselves. There were no floodlights. Only the pale wash of a rising full Moon and the thick blue-black […]
The start line sat at 6,893 metres. To reach it, runners climbed for 11 hours through temperatures of -30 °C and winds up to 100 kilometres per hour. Sixteen people signed up for the World’s Highest Marathon on Chile’s Ojos del Salado, the tallest volcano on Earth. Five made it to the start. Then they […]
The hire-car agent handed over the keys with a warning that had nothing to do with the vehicle. “Remember not to park under any coconut trees.” The advice was practical. It was also the first signal that Mo’orea operates on a logic that does not accommodate the cruise ships that bring more than a third […]
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