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Oct 26, 2026 - Sports

Kyle Larson drove away from Talladega with a nice lead over the field for The Chase. Find out who's been eliminated and who's still in contention.

Oct 26, 2026 - Sports

Plans to slash games by half and prize money criticised‘Hard for players to build and sustain a doubles career’More than 150 doubles players on the men’s ATP tour have signed an open letter addressed to the ATP board and management imploring the men’s tennis governing bodies to reconsider controversial doubles reforms and “protect” the format in professional tennis.The subject of potential reforms to the ATP has been a significant issue since players were informed in a meeting during Wimbledon that the ATP was conducting a review of its doubles regulations and potential changes could see doubles draws being halved at the ATP events in 2028. Under these proposals, ATP Masters 1000 events would host only 16 doubles teams and the main draws at ATP 500 and 250 events would accommodate only eight teams. Continue reading...

Oct 26, 2026 - Sports

Indiana coach Curt Cignetti says he expects quarterback Josh Hoover to start and deliver a stronger performance when the fourth-ranked Hoosiers host Minnesota on Saturday.

Oct 26, 2026 - Sports

The Chase looks like it's Kyle Larson's to lose, but with two races to go, he's not getting ahead of himself.

Oct 26, 2026 - Sports

There’s plenty of blame to go around at Old Trafford. Like all downfalls it started with a seemingly small, unconnected momentSign up for our free newsletter hereAnd so here we are again, at that point as the nights draw in and Manchester United prepare to sack a manager. Autumn: season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and a crisis at Old Trafford. Sunday’s 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth, coming on the back of last week’s 4-1 reverse against Como, made clear what many had feared from the moment Michael Carrick was given the job on a permanent basis: that he isn’t up to it.But then, who could be? When you’ve burned through a long list of managers in 13 years, it’s perhaps worth considering whether the manager is really the problem. Could some blame perhaps go to the director of football, Jason Wilcox, or the chief executive, Omar Berrada, the people making the appointments? Or perhaps to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the cost-cutting tax exile and minority shareholder with responsibility for sporting operations? Or to the Glazer family, who plunged the club into debt with a leveraged buyout in 2005 and have since made calamitous decision after calamitous decision, reducing the most successful club in English league history to a mid-table laughing stock with a roof that leaks symbolically?This is an extract from Soccer Desk, a newsletter from the Guardian US. Subscribe for free here. Continue reading...