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Josh Ball

Another weekend rolls around, and with it the prospect of 48 hours of almost non-stop sporting action. Be that football, cricket, golf, NFL, baseball, Formula One or UFC there really is something for everyone over the next two days.
Of course, if you can’t watch it all, there will be this handy wrap up in your inbox every morning, which today has updates on the first three of those mentioned above.
If that wasn’t enough, we have the latest from the world of athletics too. What more could you ask for? So, here’s what happened while you were sleeping.
Are you ready for some football?
Now the international break is over we can get back to the important stuff, like Sheffield United beating Hull City 2-0 in the Championship. OK, so maybe not important, but at least it signals the return of club football, which is only ever a good thing.

United’s win was their third in five games, meaning they have now won as many league matches this season as they managed in the whole of 2023-24 when they finished bottom of the Premier League. Hull, in contrast, are winless in six league and cup matches so far.
In more important news for Spurs fans, and Fantasy Premier League managers everywhere, Tottenham Hotspur’s new striker Dominic Solanke should be available for Sunday’s clash with Arsenal. Signed from Bournemouth in a deal worth up to £65 million (US$85.47 million), Solanke made his debut against Leicester City, but missed the next two games with an ankle injury.
All to play for
Liam Livingstone smashed a magnificent 87 from 47 balls as England beat Australia by three wickets to level their three match T20 series 1-1 at Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens.
His second half-century in his 50th T20 match for England came after Australia, with Jake Fraser-McGurk hitting his first international 50, had set the hosts a target of 194.
Livingstone took England to the brink with a six and a four but was then caught by Matt Short with one run required, leaving Adil Rashid to close the game out with a single and six balls remaining.
The victory cancelled out Wednesday’s opening 28 run defeat in Southampton and set up a final decider at Old Trafford on Sunday.
A golden end to the year

Olympic gold is nice and all, but how about US$30,000 for 10 seconds of work? Fortunately, if you’re Paris women’s 100 metres champion Julien Alfred this is not an either or scenario.
The St Lucian completed her perfect season at the finale of the Diamond League series in Brussels, winning in 10.88 seconds, just ahead of Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, meanwhile, secured victory in the 1,500 metres to make up for his Paris hiccup. Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot was second and Olympic champion Cole Hocker just one hundredth of a second behind in third.
On a cool September evening in Belgium, the winners in 16 disciplines, which unsurprisingly also included pole vault king Mando Duplantis, earned a Diamond League trophy and that hefty bonus.
A Games like no other
More than 12 million tickets were sold for the Olympics and Paralympics and Paris organisers hailed it as “unprecedented success” on Friday.
The 12,132,647 tickets across both Games represented 95 per cent of crowd capacity at the venues, Tony Estanguet, the head of the Paris organising committee, said.
Estanguet noted the Paris Games set a new benchmark for attendance and engagement. The last evening of Paralympics athletics on September 7 sold 67,500 tickets at the Stade de France, the highest turnout for any session this summer.
And finally, some golf

Where to start with this one? The Solheim Cup, the Irish Open, LIV Golf’s championship decider? So much golf, so little time. Anyway, in the written equivalent of a 60-second round-up, here we go.
Solheim Cup: Nelly Korda won two matches to lift the United States ahead of Europe by a record-tying 6-2 margin after the opening day in Gainesville. The Americans grabbed a 3-1 lead in morning foursomes and took afternoon four-balls 3-1, equalling the 1990 US team for the biggest lead after eight matches. Korda became the first US golfer to win twice on day one by at least three holes, a feat done only by Swede Carin Koch in 2002 and current Europe captain Suzann Pettersen in 2003.
Irish Open: Matteo Manassero shot a five-under-par 66 to finish the day on six under and take a one-stroke lead at the halfway stage at Royal County Down. Rory McIlroy’s one-under 70 left him two shots back, and the world No 3, who missed the cut at his childhood course in 2015, said his first goal was “making sure I was here for the weekend”. Todd Clements (71) and Laurie Canter (68) were tied for second.
LIV Golf Chicago: Brooks Koepka birdied his final three holes for an eight-under 62, giving him to a four-shot lead after the first round of the final individual event of the season. Koepka is chasing a third win of the year, but is too far behind to claim the overall title, and the US$18 million bonus that goes with it. That race is between Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann, who shot 69 and 68, respectively. Koepka’s closest challenger in Bolingbrook was Paul Casey (66).


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While you were sleeping

United States’ Nelly Korda watches her shot on the first hole during the first day of the Solheim Cup at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville. Photo: AP

Leicester City’s Wout Faes (left) challenges Tottenham Hotspur’s Dominic Solanke. Photo: Reuters

St Lucia’s Julien Alfred (left) celebrates after winning the women’s 100m event in Brussels. Photo: AFP

United States’ Nelly Korda watches her shot on the first hole on the first day of the Solheim Cup at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. Photo: AP

Emotions high as Golden ride comes to an end: ‘He’s become one of our family’

Golden Sixty gets a hero’s welcome from the Sha Tin crowd. Photo: Kenneth Chan

Owner Stanley Chan (second from left), jockey Vincent Ho (third from left) and trainer Francis Lui (right) with Golden Sixty at the magnificent miler’s retirement announcement on Friday. Photo: HKJC

Golden Sixty (left) defeats California Spangle (middle) and Romantic Warrior in the 2023 Stewards’ Cup.

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South Korea’s Suwon agree to end Son Jun-ho’s contract after China match-fixing charges

South Korean player Son Jun-ho speaks during a news conference after China’s football association banned him for life. Photo: Reuters

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League football is back after the international break, and there is some good news for Tottenham ahead of their clash with Arsenal.
