Broken bodies everywhere: are injuries about to be declared winners of the NBA playoffs?

A host of stars have gone down with injuries this postseason. For as long as the league resists change, its players will pay the priceShould we just cancel the rest of the NBA playoffs and declare injuries the winner? They’ve already dominated this postseason far more than one team possibly could. The Oklahoma City Thunder are playing without their second-best player, Jalen Williams, after what feels like his 10th hamstring injury. In the series against the Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Donte DiVincenzo tore his achilles, and Anthony Edwards gruesomely hyperextended his knee. Wolves backup Ayo Dosunmu put up a heroic 43 points in Game 4, then returned to the bench two games later to nurse an injured calf

Steph Gilmore sparks bedlam on Gold Coast as surf great rolls back years with WSL win

When Australian Stephanie Gilmore decided to return to competitive surfing this year following a two year hiatus from the World Surf League, more than a few eyebrows were raised. Gilmore, 38, is the greatest female surfer of all-time, with eight WSL titles to her name. But in recent years women’s elite surfing has made transformational progress, in big barrels and in the air. Did Gilmore still have what it takes?The first two events of the season only added fuel to that question. At Bells Beach, Gilmore was downed by rising Brazilian star Luana Silva, just 21, in their opening heat

‘A missing generation’: why are there are no female head coaches in Women’s Six Nations?

A 10-point plan will be introduced by Premiership Women’s Rugby next season that aims to increase the number of female coaches at international level, with only one top-10 nation currently being led by a woman.The scheme aims to create a springboard for more women at the elite tier of the sport, where there is a glaring lack of diversity among top coaches. Whitney Hansen is in charge of New Zealand, but, Jo Yapp and Gaëlle Mignot stood down from their positions after last year’s Rugby World Cup, with the Wallaroos and France respectively.At the groundbreaking 2025 tournament there were three female head coaches, but there are none in the 2026 Women’s Six Nations. At PWR clubs all the head coaches are men, and of the 22 women coaching in the league, just six hold senior roles

Relay team grab bronze at worlds on another red letter day for Australian athletics

Australia secured a thrilling bronze and ran the sixth-fastest men’s 4x400m time in history at the World Athletics Relays in Botswana, on a day the country proved its pedigree in the team-based format.The team of Luke van Ratingen, Reece Holder, Thomas Reynolds and Aidan Murphy pushed home heroes Botswana and South Africa right to the line in a marvellous contest that was not settled until the final metres.Their time of 2:55.20 broke the Australian record they set in the preliminary round the previous day, and would have won gold at every Olympics apart from Paris 2024, when the United States held off Botswana.The time set by the United States’ 1993 world championship-winning team, anchored by Michael Johnson, remains one of athletics’ longest-standing marks

Leading tennis players including Djokovic and Sabalenka unhappy with French Open prize money

A group of the world’s top 20 male and female players, including Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, have released a joint statement expressing their disappointment at the level of prize money on offer at the French Open later this month.The top players have been in dispute with all four grand slams for more than a year, as they feel they are given an insufficient share of each tournament’s increasing revenues, while they are also calling for enhanced welfare and pension provisions and a greater say in determining the schedule.The French Open last month announced a 9.5% increase in the prize money at Roland Garros to €61.7m (£52

Kimi Antonelli is Italian ‘superstar’ like Jannik Sinner, says Mercedes’ Toto Wolff

The Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, has praised the victory by his driver Kimi Antonelli at the Miami Grand Prix as his best yet and said that the 19-year-old’s astounding start to the season has put him in the same category as the Italian superstar tennis player and Wimbledon champion, Jannik Sinner.Antonelli won in Florida after a tight battle with the McLaren of Lando Norris who chased him to the flag but could not get past. The victory is his third in a row and ensures the Italian now leads the world championship from his Mercedes teammate, George Russell, by 20 points, in only his second season in F1.Wolff was relishing having such a young charger with so much potential in the Mercedes stable. “It seems like a lot of the speed has always been there, everything is chipping away at the finer details,” he said