With a reputation for attractive rugby league, new boss Paul Rowley hopes his approach will give St Helens a new attacking style in Super League’s 30th year.

Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor says she wants Paul Green’s exit as head of women’s football after 13 years kept “private and confidential”.

After more than two years in the international wilderness, Tomas Francis says it is “awesome” to be back with Wales.

Dundee United face playing four matches in 14 days on their weather-beaten Tannadice Park pitch after a request for postponed games to be rearranged for later dates was turned down.

Barnet manager Dean Brennan is given a nine-game touchline ban for verbally abusing referee Kirsty Dowle, with reference to gender.

The head of the international ice hockey federation, Luc Tardif, says he would like Russia and Belarus to return to international competition “as soon as possible”.

Four-time world champion Max Verstappen says the new cars in Formula 1 this year are “not a lot of fun”.

Ireland boss Andy Farrell says “nobody was holding back” when his squad addressed last week’s humbling Six Nations defeat by France.

Saleng is moving to Sundowns but it could have been different.

Bryson DeChambeau recovers from topping a drive to share the lead with home hope Marc Leishman after the first round of LIV Adelaide.

The best Olympic Games in history?

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry gets tearful as she explains the conversation she had with Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych.Heraskevych was banned from participating for continuing to wear a helmet featuring images of athletes killed during Russia’s invasion of his home country, which the IOC says breaks its rules.

Alessandro Haemmerle retains his Olympic snowboard cross title in dramatic style, snatching the win on the finish line.

Tottenham winger Wilson Odobert will undergo surgery after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

Lance Stroll says Aston Martin are four seconds off the pace in the run-up to the new Formula 1 season.

Watch India’s Ishan Kishan hit four sixes back-to-back against Namibia.

Ex-Arsenal and English Premier League star, Thomas Partey, has been hit with fresh sexual assault allegations ahead of his upcoming trial.

Jamie Ritchie, Nathan McBeth, George Turner and Gregor Brown come into the Scotland XV to face England in the Six Nations, with Blair Kinghorn and Duhan van der Merwe again overlooked.

Ulster duo Robert Baloucoune and Cormac Izuchukwu will make their Six Nations debuts as part of a much-changed Ireland side for Saturday’s game against Italy in Dublin.

The biggest controversy of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics came to a head on Thursday morning, as Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from competing.

With three straight wins in the group stages, Kaizer Chiefs are building momentum nd continental glory could bring a lucrative reward.