England’s greatest ever bowler is hardly an undervalued asset. Yet Lancashire seem to have valued his age above his numbers. Many fans were angrier about how he was let go, with no real farewell, but I want to ask whether they should be angry on purely cricketing grounds.

Recent years have been marked by debates as to whether sport should be about politics, and German football is no different. Ahead of the 2026 World Cup, the sporting director of the German Football Association (DFB) Rudi Völler urged players to exercise restraint with regard to expressing political views.

Running is having a moment. A record 1.3 million people entered the ballot for the 2027 London Marathon, so many that organisers are now staging the event over two days. Strava run clubs are springing up left, right and centre, and parkrun has hundreds of thousands of weekly runners. 

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli could mathematically win the 2026 World Drivers Championship (WDC) in Austin this weekend, a feat that would make him the youngest world champion in the sport’s history. Would his title mark the start of an era of dominance, or merely the culmination of a season of good fortune?

The tide has turned on F1 academy. What was initially celebrated as a groundbreaking step to increase female participation in the single seater racing world, is now being regarded as a failure.

Lines broke and re-formed. People spun too far, recovered and laughed. I was still getting it wrong, but I was no longer getting it wrong alone.

Coco Gauff became the latest female athlete to face a wave of online abuse after her third-round win at the China Open. She is far from alone.

Last month in Poland, a new generation of North Korean players reached another under-20 World Cup final.