Browns select Shedeur Sanders with 144th pick to end QB’s agonizing slide down NFL draft

One of the most extraordinary storylines in the history of the NFL draft came to a conclusion on Saturday as the Cleveland Browns, finally, selected Shedeur Sanders with the 144th pick in the fifth round of this year’s draft.Sanders entered the draft as the most famous current college player in the United States. Not only was he a star quarterback at Colorado, he was coached there by his father, Deion, one of the greatest football players of all time and one of US sports’ biggest personalities.But aside from his celebrity, Sanders was considered one of the best players in the draft at football’s most important position. While there were concerns over his size, arm strength and genuine arguments that his success at Colorado was partly down to his brilliant No 1 receiver, Travis Hunter, most analysts had him as a first-round selection, or a second-round pick at worst

England 43-42 France: Women’s Six Nations grand slam decider – as it happened

Sarah Rendell’s report is here:“It was a little bit nervy,” says Mitchell on the BBC. “Defence wins titles and that wasn’t really great today from us … but I thought our start was pretty good.“They got us through the middle, which we had planned for, but I don’t think we delivered. I thought we were poor in edge defence, to be honest. I’d rather get this kind of feedback any day of the week … we’ll have a little bit of a celebration and get ready for the World Cup

England hold on to claim Women’s Six Nations grand slam with one-point win over France

There was a moment after France’s Joanna Grisez scored where fans were looking left and right wondering if this would be the day England’s stranglehold on this competition would come to an end. The Red Roses were 31-7 up after 23 minutes but a resolute France stayed in the fight and cut back the lead to one point in the final minute . A French knock-on ended the game and the sheer pressure the hosts were under was plain to see by the wild celebrations by the England players at full time as they sealed their seventh successive Women’s Six Nations title.It felt like the French ran out of time and had their revival come five minutes earlier they could have become the first team since themselves in 2018 to beat England in this competition. It was most definitely the visitors’ best outing of this tournament with the scrum-half, Pauline Bourdon-Sansus, and the wing Kelly Arbey having particularly impressive performances

County cricket: Durham beat Worcestershire inside two days – as it happened

It was a late-April miracle that the Worcester groundstaff had coaxed New Road into action at all after the pitch was underwater for 39 days across five different floods during the winter. It still bore the scars, however, a verdant outfield that Worcestershire’s New Zealand fast bowler Jacob Duffy called “the slowest outfield he’d ever played cricket on”, and a surface that promised great bounty to the bowlers.And, in a match played at double-speed, it was injury-hit Durham who came out the best with a six-wicket win in a game where the highest individual score was 42. Twenty wickets fell on the second, and final, day, as first Durham were bundled out for 136, and then a hyperactive Worcestershire limped with chocolate sticks to 81 all out – Ben Raine, unplayable at times, taking four for 20 and Codi Yusuf four for 26. It left Durham chasing 108 for victory

Willie Mullins’ decisive surge beats Skelton to title on final day of season

Willie Mullins​ won the jumps trainers’ title for the second year running after getting the better of a last-day showdown with​ Dan Skelton​ at Sandown.Skelton started the day over £68,000 in front of Mullins, but an easy win for the Oaksey Chase favourite, Gaelic Warrior, and then a surprise as Il Etait Temps topped the odds-on shot Jonbon in Celebration Chase enabled the defending champion to seize control.A victory in the last race for the Irish handler merely underlined his dominance but he had actually wrapped up the contest when saddling the second, third, fourth and fifth in the previous contest, the Bet365 Gold Cup.Mullins ended the season with a total of £3,570,990, £199,507 clear of Skelton, who had led the trainers’ championship on every single day of the campaign bar the last, on a final amount totalling £3,371,483.The master of Closutton became the first Irish-based handler since​ Vincent O’Brien​ in the 1950s to lift the UK jumps trophy on the closing afternoon of last season​

‘After 26.2 miles of sheer hell ...’: John Barnes to hand out drinks at London Marathon

There will be a familiar face to greet the 56,000 runners during Sunday’s London marathon, just when their legs are heavy and their mouths desert dry. Because, at mile 23, the former England footballer John Barnes will be handing out drinks and revelling in a near-perfect day with the race expected to break the world record for the most finishers and his former club Liverpool likely to win the Premier League.“It’s going to be great,” he says. “I’ll be handing out Lucozade bottles at mile 23 as they’re the longest serving partner of the London Marathon, having worked with them for 24 years. From a charity point of view the race raises a lot of money, and for promoting fitness and mental health it’s also fantastic