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Former Premier League referee Mike Dean insists Newcastle’s equaliser at Tottenham was correctly allowed to stand after the hosts were unhappy with an alleged handball from Joelinton. Source link

LeBron James broke Michael Jordan’s NBA record for 30-point games during the Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over Atlanta on Friday night. With a turnaround jumper with 5:58 to play for the last of his 30 points, James reached at least 30 points in the regular season for the 563rd time in his career, surpassing the mark established by Jordan in …

How does Premier League Darts work? Here’s a guide for everything you need to know about the tournament which you can watch live on Sky Sports between February and May. Premier League Darts is an annual PDC tournament that was founded in 2005. It is not one of the seven ranked majors, but is one of six non-ranking television tournaments. …

Wolves looked bound for relegation under Gary O’Neil. Their defensive record was one of the worst in Premier League history and chaos threatened to consume the club. Three games later and new coach Vitor Pereira has them out of the relegation zone. His first two fixtures brought two wins without conceding, the first back-to-back clean sheets of the season. A …

Tottenham have agreed a deal to sign goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky from Slavia Prague. The 21-year-old will fly into London on Saturday and have a medical on Saturday evening. Spurs will pay £12.5m for Kinsky, who is a Czech Republic U21 international. Spurs have serious issues in goal with first-choice Guglielmo Vicario out injured and Fraser Forster among those who have …

South Africa’s Ryan Rickelton (right) with Temba Bavuma (left) after scoring 150 runs during the the second Test between South Africa and Pakistan at Newlands stadium in Cape Town on January 3, 2025. — AFP    Pakistan sought to launch a fightback on the second day of the final Test as South Africa continued racking up huge scores on Saturday. …

Naomi Osaka defeated Alycia Parks in straight sets at the ASB Classic in New Zealand to reach her first WTA final since 2022 and since her return to tennis last year after the birth of her first child. The four-time Grand Slam champion defeated Parks 6-4 6-2 to advance to Sunday’s final where she will face Denmark’s Clara Tauson. Osaka …

Claressa Shields ‘stands among’ elite champions such as Oleksandr Usyk ahead of her bid to unify the heavyweight division, says promoter Dmitriy Salita. The American star has already been crowned as a world champion in five weight divisions and can match Oleksandr Usyk’s achievements when she bids to become an undisputed world title holder at heavyweight next month. Usyk defeated …

Luke Littler said he would love to take the trophy to Old Trafford and was glad he beat Stephen Bunting in the semi-final, or he would have taken it to Anfield! Source link

After Luke Littler became the youngest world champion in darts history at the age of 17, we look back at some of the most successful teenage stars across the world of sport. Boris Becker (tennis) Like Littler, Becker won arguably the most prestigious event in his sport at the age of 17, triumphing at Wimbledon in 1985 as he became …