The NFL Academy is a major initiative that aims to provide full-time high-school education for 16-19-year-olds alongside elite training in American footballWe know what’s coming, we’ve seen it before. Every October since 2007, bar a Covid hiatus, the London sporting scene gets infiltrated by an invasion from across the pond. The sporting superpower...

Journalist Javier Cáceres asked many of the game’s biggest names – from Guardiola to Pelé and Bobby Charlton – to draw their favourite goals: the results are revealingLike the best stories, the biggest adventures and football itself, this begins in a pub. In 2005 the journalist Javier Cáceres flew from Berlin to Santiago to interview Leonel Sánchez...

Les Bleus’ captain has borne the brunt of the French public’s wrath and his current absence isn’t without controversyBy Luke Entwistle for Get French Football NewsIn a year of sporting highs in l’Héxagone, the France national team has not been one of them, despite a run to the semi-final of this summer’s Euros. The likes of Léon Marchand and Teddy Riner...

Katie Archibald, who returns to racing for GB at the worlds in Denmark, is eyeing the LA Olympics despite being upended by the death of her partner and a horrific injuryKatie Archibald reflects on the differences between sport, life and death with such moving insight that I have to look away. So much raw ­feeling is etched into her face, as her eyes...

As Major League Baseball’s final four take aim at the World Series starting on Sunday, playoff TV ratings are soaring thanks to big stars, memorable plays and unbridled funWe’re just about halfway toward determining who will become baseball’s World Series champions, which means there are just four teams remaining. The best-of-seven American League Championship...

The tradie turned ultra marathoner has run 1,300km in ten daysBrockmann, 25, has raised $1.3m for people experiencing homelessnessAs night closed in on Nedd Brockmann’s quest to run 1,000 miles (1,609.3km) in 10 days, the loneliness of Australia’s favourite long-distance runner could be felt by every member of a 1000-strong crowd who crowded into Sydney...