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The climax to the greatest cricket game of all time began when England’s Jofra Archer ran in to bowl the…
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How new sport website the Athletic is disrupting Fleet Street
On 5 August, in anticipation of the start of the new Premier League football season, the American sport website the…
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The morning after Glastonbury, festival-goers wake up to abandoned tents, marks left in the turf where tents once were, and debris…
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The Ashes are a reminder of how cricket can make heroes of anyone at any time
With hindsight, it should have been inevitable. Of course pantomime villain Steve Smith would come to Edgbaston with a point…
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Roy Hodgson: English football’s internationalist
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