with Jamie J

How soaring prices, celebrity spectacle and political hypocrisy are overshadowing the beautiful game on the sport’s biggest stage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Snippets of news from the sporting world with JAMIE J

JOHN WIGHT writes about the shared love of the ring that strengthened two icons in their struggles against racism and injustice

F1 admits pit-lane measurement discrepancy as Russell fumes over penalty fallout

Zohran Mamdani pushes an inclusive vision for football, but basketball still dominates the city’s imagination, writes JAMES NALTON

Including races at Chester, York and Sandown

In the second of his Canadian World Cup diaries, LAYTH YOUSIF finds Toronto buzzing with anticipation ahead of the forthcoming global tournament

Omar Artan was questioned for hours and refused entry to the US despite his Fifa appointment and valid documents, writes OMAR FARUK and GERALD IMRAY