Top basketball prospect Alijah Arenas out of coma after Cybertruck crash

Alijah Arenas, a top basketball prospect and son of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, is out of an induced come after a car crash in Los Angeles, according to a statement from his family.The 18-year-old was involved in a crash in the early hours of Thursday morning when a Tesla Cybertruck left the road and crashed into a fire hydrant before hitting a tree. He was taken to a local hospital and placed into a induced coma. His family said he is now out of the coma but remains intubated. The family said he has “shown significant signs of progress within the last 24 hours

Will Jacob Kiplimo be the first to run a marathon in less than two hours?

Earlier this year Jacob Kiplimo produced a performance so staggering that it sent the jaws of even seasoned track and field watchers crashing to the floor. It came on the streets of Barcelona, where the 24-year-old Ugandan covered 13.1 miles in 56min 42sec – a half marathon time 48 seconds quicker than anyone else in history.Little more than two months later, Kiplimo is in London for his full marathon debut and the noise has only grown louder. Could he break the world record on Sunday? Could he even become the first man to break two hours in an official race? It is speculation that the event director, Hugh Brasher, is more than happy to stoke

Skelton v Mullins: ‘bouncer’ blocks path to title on final day of jumps season

Dan Skelton has been an immovable object at the top of the National Hunt trainers’ table since the opening day of the 2024-25 season on 4 May last year but, when he comes up against the irresistible force of Willie Mullins’s stable at Sandown on Saturday, the betting market sees only one winner.Mullins is top-priced at 1-6 to retain the title he won for the first time last year, and while stranger things happen in racing on a fairly regular basis – a 1-9 shot was beaten in a two-horse race at Fakenham less than a month ago – even Skelton has seemed slightly resigned to his probable fate in the run-up to this weekend’s decisive card.“We have never been champion and have never been to that dance,” Skelton said. “The excitement that we could still do it and the tenacity everyone has shown is something I have taken a lot of heart from. We are trying to get through the door and on the dancefloor, maybe the bouncer won’t let us to the party on Saturday but we’ll try

Your Guardian Sport weekend: Liverpool on verge, FA Cup semis, Women’s Six Nations finale and London Marathon

With Liverpool poised to clinch the Premier League title on Sunday, Jonathan Liew looks at how Mohamed Salah helped them recapture the crown. Sid Lowe sets up a clásico Copa del Rey final, while Andy Martin has all your need to know about Sunday’s London Marathon. And Barney Ronay’s weekly column focuses on Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn and boxing grudges.Join Gregg Bakowski and Barry Glendenning for the latest news and buildup to Saturday’s football action in our new weekend news blog. Send your thoughts to matchday

‘It’s a step towards hope’: a refugee’s journey from wartorn Eritrea to the London Marathon

Hagos Kidana Abrha has done a lot of running in his life. As a teenager he raced his friends up mountains in his home country of Eritrea. When the country’s government tried to conscript him he ran for two days to the border with Sudan to escape – his ability to run saving his life.On Sunday, he will join tens of thousands of runners speeding past an entirely different and much safer set of landmarks – Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf – when he participates in the London Marathon, raising money for a refugee charity.The event will be his first full marathon

Shedeur Sanders’s fall exposed the cruel heart of the NFL draft industry | Oliver Connolly

There are valid arguments for the quarterback falling out of the first round. But it came after anonymous backstabs and the harsh glare of the spotlightThe NFL draft can be cruel. Shedeur Sanders, a polarizing prospect in a weak class whose profile was magnified by the fact that he is the son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, had to sit and wait for his name to be called in Thursday night’s first round. He waited. And waited