Rugby World Cup 2025: When the World Decides to Beat Each Other Up Politely By Our Correspondent, Nursing a Concussion of the Soul England, 7 September 2025 – While the planet smolders gently under record July temperatures and central banks play “who can spook the markets faster,” twenty nations have agreed to settle their differences…
Rory McIlroy: The Last Romantic in the Age of Sport-Washing By Our Man in the Rough DUBAI — While the rest of us are busy price-checking canned beans and wondering which hemisphere will ignite first this summer, Rory McIlroy is still out there trying to hit a tiny sphere into a slightly larger hole with…
De Minaur: The Last Australian Standing in Tennis’s Endless Game of Thrones By Dave’s Locker International Desk SYDNEY—If you squint through the smog of a Pacific bushfire haze, you can almost see the ghost of Pat Cash still arguing with umpires at the net. Australia, the nation that once weaponised tennis whites and exported surly…
