5+ hour, 12+ min ago   (667+ words) There are dreams that arrive dressed in silk, with surnames, safety nets and soft landings. And then there are dreams that arrive in the rain. Himanshu Yadav was four or five when a friend next door carried a football outside…...

11+ hour, 52+ min ago   (1367+ words) The first championship point disappeared with a double fault. Elena Rybakina had arrived at the edge of her first US Open title and served herself another moment of uncertainty. Across the net stood Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending champion, a…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1128+ words) India know the way to an Asia Cup final. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have taught them how quickly the road can end there. Seven titles make India the most successful team in the history of the women’s tournament. Yet the…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1243+ words) For a few seconds in Beijing, the future looked like it was running on two legs. A humanoid robot called TianGong Ultra sprinted 100 metres in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, finishing well ahead of the 9.58-second men's 100m world…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1608+ words) One shoe lay unused in Major DP Singh’s cupboard. It was new. It was expensive. It was also completely useless to him. Singh had lost his right leg after suffering severe injuries during the 1999 Kargil War. When he subsequently began…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (556+ words) There are footballers who arrive with hype. Then there are footballers who make history so often that even the hype struggles to keep up. On Wednesday night, Barcelona opened their UEFA Champions League campaign with a 5-1 win over Feyenoord. The…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (444+ words) Alexander Zverev swept into his third US Open semi-final, overpowering Botic van de Zandschulp 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 and moving past a Grand Slam benchmark set by Boris Becker in 1989. The German top seed needed little more than two hours to reach the last…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1679+ words) Pakistan changed four players at Edgbaston. It changed the head coach before Edgbaston. It changed the bowling coach, flew seven cricketers home, brought seven others into the squad and reportedly began investigating player conduct before the final Test. The scorecard…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (454+ words) At 3:33 am in New York, Ben Shelton finally had his breakthrough. After five sets and four hours, 28 minutes of wildly shifting fortunes, the American knocked defending champion Carlos Alcaraz out of the US Open. Watching the drama unfold, Sachin Tendulkar…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (646+ words) The first set did not look like the beginning of a semifinal run. Jessica Pegula was spraying double faults, struggling to find rhythm on serve, and watching fellow American Emma Navarro dictate play on Arthur Ashe Stadium. For a while,…...