How do Premier League footballers get so fit? Era of losing holiday weight and ice baths in bins is history: as Tom Kershaw discovers in visit to Brighton & Hove Albion, top-level fitness is a relentless and technical beast Tap for the full story⬇️ thetimes.com/sport/football…

Exclusive: The BBC obtained formal written assurances from its new promoter Boxxer that convicted cricket spot-fixer Mazhar Majeed would have no involvement in any of its fights on the channel. With Matt Lawton thetimes.com/article/806af8…

It was very moving to speak to Stephen and Nikita Eastwood about the tragic loss of their 15-year-old son Alex, who died after competing in an ‘unsanctioned’ kickboxing fight thetimes.com/article/b931db…

Exclusive: British horse racing will take the unprecedented step of going on strike next month, cancelling all meets for a day in protest at the proposed ­betting tax increase thetimes.com/article/e56c84…

🔺EXCLUSIVE: British horse racing to go on strike over betting tax rise All four meets on September 10 called off in attempt to protect nation's second-largest spectator sport Full story from Tom Kershaw below⬇️ thetimes.com/article/e56c84…

Could athletes be using weight-loss drugs like Ozempic to enhance performance? The World Anti-Doping Agency is monitoring them, and I understand incidences have been found in both weight-restricted sports, and those with a judged aesthetic component too thetimes.com/article/15e81c…

Proud moment to have our exclusive story on the racing strike on the front page of this week’s Sunday Times

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Bairstow fined £25k for transgression caught on fan's mobile phone. The locker room aint happy at what it feels is a lax sanction telegraph.co.uk/golf/2025/08/2…

Haiti's capital has been over-run by gangs who rape and murder with impunity. We went there to speak to the civilians terrorised by the gangs - and the thugs who control them thetimes.com/world/latin-am…

‘We’d live in a ghost town’ — how tax fears are haunting the racing community, as told by trainers, jockeys, stable staff, and the racecourse that upholds so many local businesses in Doncaster thetimes.com/article/6b1efb…

Boxing tries to escape shadow of Olympic gender controversy at World Championships in Liverpool, where mandatory sex testing is in place. “I was so much more happy to come here,” said a former opponent of Imane Khelif thetimes.com/article/4c336b…

‘I woke up in my own vomit’: Tyrrell Hatton after making Ryder Cup team thetimes.com/article/095354…

NEW: Boxxer accuses senior executive John Wischhusen of undermining Sky Sports broadcast deal at High Court thetimes.com/article/cda230…

Jimmy White: I lived life like I played snooker. I went for my shots thetimes.com/article/23260e…