Striker could make bench after over three months out as Salah also returns to training
THE unthinkable, at least for sports fans, already has happened.
The games, as we know them, are shut down. We’ll never know if San Diego State was a Final Four contender or if Tiger Woods would have defended his green jacket at the Masters.
There was no opening day in baseball. The odds are increasingly good that there will be no Stanley Cup Final or NBA champion in the year 2020.
As football grapples with overloaded calendars and commercial pressure, the Mariners’ triumph reminds us why the game’s soul lives far from the spotlight, writes JAMES NALTON
JAMES NALTON writes how at the heart of the big apple, the beautiful game exists as something more community-oriented, which could benefit hugely under mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
LARRY LAGE writes about the growth of tackle football and how it provides female athletes opportunities in a game previously dominated by men
JAMES NALTON discusses the use of dynamic ticket pricing at the 2026 World Cup and how it amplifies a culture already set up to squeeze as much money from fans as possible



