NFL receiver Rondale Moore dies at age of 25: ‘Way too soon. Way too special’

• Former coach says player was ‘complete joy’

• Teammates pay tribute after Moore’s death

NFL wide receiver Rondale Moore died on Saturday at the age of 25, his former college coach, Jeff Brohm, has confirmed.

“Rondale Moore was a complete joy to coach,” Brohm, who worked with Moore at Purdue, said in a statement. “The ultimate competitor that wouldn’t back down from any challenge. Rondale had a work ethic unmatched by anyone. A great teammate that would come through in any situation. We all loved Rondale, we loved his smile and competitive edge that always wanted to please everyone he came in contact with. We offer all of our thoughts and prayers to Rondale and his family, we love him very much.”

In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

Published: February 22, 2026, 3:33 am

Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live

⚽ Premier League updates from the 2pm GMT kick-off
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Eric Peterson gets in touch: “I wouldn’t mind Wayne Rooney pulling on an old Everton kit and getting on some podcast to remind Arne Slot, “Easy there, sport. You say that the only thing you and Jurgen Klopp have in common is that you both won the league. That’s not true. You both won the league with Jurgen’s team. Whether you can build a champion of your own is a different question.”

Arne Slot just spoke to Sky, starting with Dominik Szoboszlai at full-back: “He needs to be because that’s what we need. We have our issues, especially in defence. Missing our 2 fullbacks, but Dominic has done that job really well. Last week, Curtis Jones, did his job really well. So that’s the good thing about midfielders, they are usually able to play in more positions than only in the midfields.

Published: February 22, 2026, 1:48 pm

‘Caipirinhas, daiquiris’: Guardiola tells City players to chill and ignore title pressure

• Manchester City beat Newcastle to cut Arsenal’s lead to two

• Team given three days off before facing Leeds

Pep Guardiola told his players to “take a lot of caipirinhas, daiquiris” to handle the pressure of the title chase after Manchester City beat Newcastle 2-1 to close to within two points of Arsenal.

Two goals from Nico O’Reilly on 14 and 27 minutes at the Etihad Stadium were answered only by Lewis Hall’s strike in between as City moved to 56 points and a goal difference of 31, one fewer than Arsenal’s.

Published: February 21, 2026, 11:28 pm

Jorrit Bergsma wins mass start to continue golden Winter Olympics for 40-somethings

• Dutch skater claims his first gold since 2014

• Jordan Stolz misses out on fourth medal of Games

Jorrit Bergsma, the mullet-wearing 40-year-old speed skating legend from the Netherlands, won the men’s mass start on Saturday afternoon for his second medal of the Milano Cortina Games and his first Olympic gold since 2014.

Bergsma crossed first in 7:55.50, ahead of Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark and Andrea Giovannini of Italy, denying American star Jordan Stolz in his bid to become the first man in 32 years to win three long-track speed skating golds at a single Olympics.

Published: February 21, 2026, 5:09 pm

Polish speed skater Kamila Sellier undergoes surgery after taking blade to face at Winter Olympics

• 25-year-old says she is ‘doing okay’ after injury

• Athlete posts update to Instagram after scary crash

Polish short track skater Kamila Sellier says that she is “doing okay” after suffering a bad cut to her face in a crash on Friday.

Sellier went down along with 14-time Olympic medalist Arianna Fontana of Italy and American skater Kristen Santos-Griswold, who was penalized for an illegal lane pass that contributed to the collision. That kept Santos-Griswold from advancing through the quarter-final round.

Published: February 21, 2026, 7:56 pm

Winter Olympics 2026: China’s Gu soars to gold, build-up to the closing ceremony and more – live

• Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing

• USA v Canada ice hockey final – live | email Yara

We’re heading over to Livigno shortly for the women’s halfpipe. Team GB’s Zoe Atkin qualified first but there is plenty of competition, not least from China’s Eileen Gu.

Some big news coming out of the 50km women’s cross-country skiing, with Frida Karlsson pulling out. The Swede was the gold meal favourite having won the skiathlon and the 10km intervals, as well as a silver in 4x7.5km relay.

Published: February 22, 2026, 1:38 pm

Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final: Canada v USA – live

• Canada captain Sidney Crosby ruled out with injury

• Old rivals face off with gold medal on line

• Email Beau or drop him a line on BlueSky

• Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing

Away we go …

What else has happened at the Games today? And what were some of the highlights of the past two weeks and change? Check our multisport coverage:

Published: February 22, 2026, 1:48 pm

The Great Olympic lie: untold story of Winter Games’ huge environmental impact

Rivers drained dry to create artificial snow, a forest cut down for the bobsleigh track – IOC’s claims to prioritise sustainability at Milano Cortina exposed

On the foothills of the mountains, by the banks of the river in Cortina, there was a forest. It was full of tall larch trees. Arborists said the oldest of them had been there for 150 years and dendrologists that it was unique because it was unusual to find a monocultural forest growing at such a low altitude in the southern Alps.

The locals knew mostly it was the place where the old wooden bobsleigh run was, where you went on your walks in summer or autumn, or when you wanted to play tennis on the small courts built near the bottom. They called it the Bosco di Ronco and it isn’t there any more.

Published: February 22, 2026, 8:00 am

Ilia Malinin performs to Fear as he completes cathartic Olympic gala routine

• American given rousing reception by crowd in Milan

• Alysa Liu and Mikhail Shaidorov among other performers

Alysa Liu had the opportunity to cherish skating on the same Olympic ice where she won two gold medals one more time. Ilia Malinin had the chance to replace some disappointing memories with much better ones.

The two Americans were among more than 40 Olympic figure skaters who took part in the traditional exhibition gala on Saturday night, which not only serves to wrap up the program but to celebrate the entire sport.

Published: February 21, 2026, 10:44 pm

How Italians fell in love with their Winter Olympics after gaffes turned into gold

After a slow start, when the hosts began to pick up medals in the second week the public’s imagination was captured

With the atmosphere in Rome subdued as the Winter Olympics unfolded across northern Italy, travelling to the Games was not on Amity Neumeister’s radar.

That was until the event entered its second week and, inspired by images of the Dolomites on TV, Italy racking up the medals and friends in Milan describing an energetic vibe, Neumeister, originally from the US, decided she wanted to join the action. “It was a late-night, last-minute crazy decision, completely unplanned,” she said. “I hadn’t even considered going before, but it felt like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the Games and celebrate people coming together from around the world.”

Published: February 22, 2026, 8:00 am

Chelsea’s Fofana and Burnley’s Hannibal abused by online racists

• Fofana’s first of two bookings was for fouling Hannibal

• Burnley: ‘There is no place for this in our society’

Hannibal Mejbri and Wesley Fofana have both been racially abused on Instagram in the wake of the former’s Burnley side drawing 1-1 at Chelsea after the latter was sent off.

Hannibal, who was fouled for the first of the two yellow cards that led to Fofana’s dismissal, posted the abuse he had received via a direct message on Instagram and wrote: “It’s 2026 and there still ppl like that … Educate yourself and your kids pls.” Fofana likewise posted the abuse he received.

Published: February 21, 2026, 10:43 pm

Bill Mazeroski, walk-off hero of Pirates’ 1960 World Series win, dies at 89

• Infielder hit historic shot in 1960 World Series’ Game 7

• Pirates pay tribute to ‘one of a kind’ Hall of Famer

Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89.

Pirates owner Bob Nutting said “Maz was one of a kind, a true Pirates legend ... His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history and the 1960 World Series championship, but I will remember him most for the person he was: humble, gracious and proud to be a Pirate.”

Published: February 21, 2026, 5:50 pm

Rahm’s refusal to pay fine over LIV Golf puts Ryder Cup future in peril

• LIV rebel rejects European Tour Group’s offer

• Tyrrell Hatton has settled over seven-figure fine

Jon Rahm’s Ryder Cup future is in serious doubt after the Spaniard failed to join his teammate Tyrrell Hatton in settling a dispute over a seven-figure fine with the European Tour Group over participation in LIV Golf.

Hatton is one of eight players who have agreed to settle all outstanding fines due in Europe and withdraw any appeals in return for releases to play on LIV tournaments in 2026. Luke Donald, who is expected to remain in office for a third stint as Europe’s Ryder Cup captain, wanted the situation with Hatton and Rahm resolved. Donald has only partly got his wish, with Adare Manor in 2027 looming ever closer.

Published: February 21, 2026, 11:49 am

Cheating, Penisgate and boos for Vance: the 10 wildest stories of the Winter Olympics

Amid the triumphs, failures and broken medals in Milano Cortina, here’s our countdown of the outstanding moments that will live long in the memory

Cheating has been part and parcel of the Olympics since at least Eupolus of Thessaly in 388BC. But crooked boxers from ancient Greece never confessed their indiscretions on live television. The Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid did exactly that after winning bronze in the men’s 20km biathlon for his first individual Olympic medal, publicly admitting he’d two-timed his girlfriend three months earlier and calling it “my biggest mistake” in an overshare for the ages carried live by national broadcaster NRK. Lægreid’s shot appeared to have missed the target one day later when the wronged party, wishing to remain anonymous, told the Norwegian paper VG it was “hard to forgive” what he did.

Published: February 21, 2026, 8:00 am

Chelsea v Manchester United: Women’s FA Cup fifth round – live

• Updates on the 1.30pm (GMT) kick-off at Kingsmeadow

• Report: Birmingham 8-0 Chatham | Email Xaymaca here

5 min: Lauren James progresses with the ball before slipping in Thompson. Thompson plays it on to Johanna Rytting Kaneryd but she can’t get a shot away.

4 min: Chelsea are dominating possession in the opening stages.

Published: February 22, 2026, 1:47 pm

Sheffield United aim to relegate Wednesday, Spurs v Arsenal buildup and more – matchday live

⚽ Buildup to the weekend’s football action
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Liam Rosenior has revealed that one of his Chelsea stars marked the wrong Burnley player in added time yesterday, resulting in Zian Flemming’s equaliser.

The Chelsea head coach said: “An assignment was missed. An assignment, a marking assignment wasn’t done. Flemming, we know, is their best header of the ball.

Published: February 22, 2026, 1:38 pm

All change at Spurs again and Igor Tudor has a relegation battle on his hands | Jonathan Wilson

Tottenham have rolled the dice and an injury-ravaged side’s anxiety may only get worse as West Ham close the gap

When did the reality dawn? Perhaps it was towards the end of the first half of West Ham’s game at Chelsea at the end of January with the away side leading 2-0. Or perhaps it was when West Ham took the lead against Manchester United 10 days later. As it turned out, West Ham won neither fixture; had they done so they would have had five points more and so been level with Tottenham going into this weekend. And then Tottenham’s proximity to relegation could not have been denied.

West Ham’s revival means this isn’t like last season, when a win at Ipswich at the end of February took Tottenham to 33 points and as good as confirmed their continued presence in the Premier League, allowing Ange Postecoglou to focus on Europe. Were Spurs to pull off something extremely unlikely and beat Arsenal on Sunday, they would move to 32 and, for all the glee their fans would feel, nobody would feel secure.

Published: February 21, 2026, 8:00 pm

‘You need to be a team’: Rowett urges unity as depleted Leicester show fight

Gary Rowett has told his Leicester players to deprioritise ‘individual ambitions’ after Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Stoke

By the stage Ben Nelson headed against the bar in stoppage time and then Luke Thomas nodded against the inside of a post, it felt as if Leicester City were missing the chance to move into the promotion playoffs, so dominant had they been in the second half of this absorbing 2-2 draw with Stoke City.

Yet after this month’s six-point deduction for breaching the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules, against which they are appealing, Ben Wilmot’s 89th-minute equaliser dropped Leicester back into the Championship’s relegation zone, placing the challenge facing them and their new manager, Gary Rowett, into stark context.

Published: February 22, 2026, 8:00 am

Tammy Abraham salvages late point for Aston Villa to deny battling Leeds

This felt like the day Aston Villa’s faint title hopes were extinguished despite Tammy Abraham’s late equaliser against Leeds. Unai Emery’s side have won only once in their past four Premier League home games and fell short again to leave them seven points behind leaders Arsenal. They were punished for a sloppy opening 45 minutes when they failed to get almost anything right against their more aggressive opponents.

Anton Stach’s incredible free-kick looked like it would secure victory for Leeds until the 88th minute but it felt like another important step in their fight for survival.

Published: February 21, 2026, 5:13 pm

‘Delighted’ James Milner celebrates record with Brighton win at Brentford

James Milner showed he can still contribute during his record-breaking 654th Premier League appearance as Brighton won at Brentford. Milner’s inclusion meant he moved past Gareth Barry’s record tally in the competition and it proved an occasion to remember for the Seagulls after first-half goals by Diego Gómez and Danny Welbeck.

The pressure had mounted on Fabian Hürzeler after one league win in 13 games and he turned to the veteran midfielder in an attempt to arrest a worrying run of results after a recent start at Aston Villa. The 40-year-old produced an accomplished display on a landmark occasion before his 90th-minute substitution was marked with applause from both sets of supporters.

Published: February 21, 2026, 5:07 pm

T20 World Cup Super 8s: Sri Lanka v England – as it happened

Will Jacks leads an excellent England bowling display as they pocket a win against stuttering Sri Lanka in the Super Eights

In the battle of the anthems, a crushing win by Sri Lanka’s jaunty tune. The crowd, with parasol, flag and face paint, sing along enthusiastically.

More news from Simon, who has become something of a banana expert on his trip.

Published: February 22, 2026, 1:19 pm

China’s Eileen Gu soars to ski halfpipe gold as Zoe Atkin claims GB’s fifth medal of Games

• Gu and Li Fanghui take Winter Olympic gold and silver

• Zoe Atkin’s bronze matches that of sister Izzy in 2018

Zoe Atkin won women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe bronze to claim Great Britain’s fifth medal of their record-breaking Winter Olympics as China’s Eileen Gu soared to win her first gold of the Games.

Atkin qualified for the final in first place and led after the first run, in which the single best score from three runs counts in the standings.

Published: February 22, 2026, 12:30 pm

Australian teenager Daniel Bennie scores stunning first goal for English club from long range

• Former Perth Glory winger blasts debut goal for Queens Park Rangers

• ‘It’s the best feeling in the world,’ 19-year-old says

A stunning first goal in the English Championship by Australian youth international Daniel Bennie has helped Queens Park Rangers to a vital win in their push for a Premier League return.

Bennie, a former Perth Glory winger who helped Australia’s Young Socceroos to U20 Asian Cup glory in February 2025, blasted home a shot from outside the box in the 84th minute to see off fellow promotion hopefuls Hull City 3-1 on Saturday.

Published: February 22, 2026, 2:58 am

European football: Osasuna stun Real, Kane edges Bayern past Frankfurt

• Raúl García’s 90th-minute winner sinks Real Madrid

• Bayern go eight points clear at top; PSG return to Ligue 1 summit

Raúl García’s superb 90th-minute strike consigned La Liga leaders Real Madrid to a 2-1 defeat at Osasuna in La Liga on Saturday.

Champions Barcelona trail Madrid by two points but can overtake them on Sunday if they beat Levante at Camp Nou.

Published: February 21, 2026, 10:30 pm

Winter Olympics 2026: Canada beat GB to curling gold, bobsleigh, ice hockey and more – as it happened

• Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing
• Klæbo claims sixth gold of Games | And email James

Men’s four-man bobsleigh In the workshop, a man carefully waxes down a sleigh. Another Canadian team next, under Dearborn, but they can’t improve on their countrymen.

Men’s four-man bobsleigh: The French have a cracking silver sled, but it all goes wrong at the start when one of the riders gets his foot stuck.

Published: February 21, 2026, 9:47 pm

Brady Tkachuk admits to ‘hatred’ as US and Canada prepare for Olympic men’s ice hockey final

• Long-time rivals play for gold on Sunday at 2026 Games

• Tensions are high between two teams

• Status of Canada’s Sidney Crosby still uncertain

The US and Canada are prepared for a stormy men’s ice hockey final on Sunday as the long-time rivals face off for Winter Olympic gold.

This year’s Olympics mark the first time NHL players have competed at the Winter Games since 2014, meaning many of the best players in the world will face each other on Sunday. While Canada are the betting favourites – and have won the most ice hockey golds in Olympic history – the US players say they have motivation to upset their northern neighbours.

Published: February 21, 2026, 3:38 pm