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Alex Marquez predicted his first MotoGP win: “I told my assistant… Everyone started getting nervous!”
Alex Marquez says he woke up on Sunday at Jerez knowing he would take his first MotoGP win – and even told his assistant before the race.
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Jorge Martin says his “shitty” 2025 MotoGP season “won’t define my career”
Aprilia rider’s 2025 was plagued by injury problems
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England batters opt out of pink-ball warm-up match despite first Ashes Test failures
Only three fringe players will go to CanberraRest of squad to have extra sessions at the GabbaTo hell with the optics was the message from England on Monday after confirmation that none of the players who collapsed to the shattering two-day defeat in the first Ashes Test will change tack and travel to Canberra.In a…
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England will be held to account if preparation backfires – Agnew
England’s decision not to send first-choice batters to pink-ball warm-up is a strange decision, writes Jonathan Agnew.
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Players Championship Finals LIVE! Cross, Chisnall, Wade and Clayton all in action
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NHS facility opens boxing gym for first time in UK
For the first time in the UK a boxing gym has been opened in an NHS facility with the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust giving mental health charity Off The Ropes a long-term base.
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Oregon Maintains Four-Track Fairs Circuit for ’26
The Oregon Racing Commission approved 18 fairs-circuit dates at four tracks for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses in 2026 during its Thursday meeting. The Eastern Oregon Livestock Show meet in Union traditionally kicks off the state’s summer fairs circuit. It will race June 12-14 in ’26. Grants Pass Downs, in the southern tier of the state,…
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Lone IRB Commissioner Prods Hawthorne, but Elicits Only Very General Update on Long-Overdue Racino
With 2025 drawing to a close and the beleaguered Chicago racing community having gone two months since the last public update from Hawthorne Race Course regarding its long-promised but still unbuilt racino, you’d think the focus of Thursday’s Illinois Racing Board (IRB) meeting might have involved some sort of formal request to know where Hawthorne…
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Mirco Demuro Rises to the Top of the Del Mar Standings
It’s no surprise that Italian-born jockeys are doing well at the current meet at Del Mar. They have been making their mark in Southern California for some time now. Antonio Fresu is second in the standings and Umberto Rispoli is third. But who is the leading rider? The answer might surprise you. The 46-year-old veteran…
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Man Utd’s tough week continues as defensive howlers hand Wolfsburg victory
Man Utd’s tough week continued with a second defeat in five days ending their perfect Champions League record as Wolfsburg bounced back from Fridolina Rolfo’s early opener to run out 5-2 winners in Germany.
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