The key area Honda still needs to improve with its new F1 engine

After Adrian Newey’s first major upgrade package in Hungary for Aston Martin, Honda introduced its first power unit update of the Formula 1 season in Zandvoort.
Chief engineer Shintaro Orihara explained that the upgrade was entirely focused on the internal combustion engine, although in Zandvoort he brought a piece of paper with him to his media session to stress that he absolutely did not ...Keep reading

Women’s Super League Q&A: ask football writer Suzanne Wrack a question ahead of the new season

The WSL season kicks-off tonight and the Guardian’s women’s football writer Suzanne Wrack will be here to answer your questions at 1pm BST/8am ET. Ask her anything: from her career as a sports reporter to her hopes for the new season and the future of the women’s game

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The Women’s Super League season kicks off tonight with London City Lionesses versus Manchester United. The 2026/27 marks an exciting new era for women’s football with an expansion to 14 teams, the introduction of playoffs, increased investment and some huge transfers. sport-newz.biz

Suzanne Wrack has been reporting on women’s football for the Guardian since 2017, appears on our Women’s Football Weekly podcast and is the author of the award winning A Woman’s Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women’s Football. She will be here at 1pm BST/8am ET to answer your questions. Will London City’s superstar signing Alexia Putellas be the magic bullet? How will newly promoted Birmingham City, Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace fair? Can Manchester City go back to back?

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Surrey v Yorkshire, Hampshire v Warwickshire, and more: county cricket, day three – live

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There were warm words for hat-trick hero Henry Crocombe last night from one who should know, Jamie Porter.

“I think he is very exciting.” said Porter. “He bowled with serious pace. The element that I felt was potentially missing from his game to take him to that level of being on the cusp of international cricket he seems to have added.”

Report: D'Andre Swift left Thursday's practice due to a cramp

The Bears saw two offensive players leave practice early on Thursday and a report updates the reason why one of them left the field.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that running back D'Andre Swift had a cramp. Reporters at the practice said that Swift was holding his midsection as he made his way to the sidelines.

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There's no word on Swift's outlook, but the Bears will take a few days off before returning to finalize their preparations for their Week 1 trip to Carolina and a cramp would not seem to be a long-term injury. That would be good news as Kyle Monangai is questionable to play due to a hyperextended knee.

Odunze's condition has not received a similar update, but reporters at the practice said he was trying to get back into the workout so the Bears may have avoided major injuries on both fronts.

Nottingham Forest’s Liam Delap: ‘I play at my best on the edge of being horrible’

After a difficult year at Chelsea the striker hopes to get his career back on track at the City Ground

‘You can imagine it: he’s a centre-back, I’m a striker,” says Liam Delap, Nottingham Forest’s £45m club-record signing, smiling as he sets the scene. He is reliving taking on his younger brother, Finn, in the garden. These days, they are each other’s biggest supporters – Liam attended Finn’s victory for third-tier Burton on Wednesday – but as kids there was a friendly rivalry. “There were probably a lot of tears, a lot of fights … whether it was playing Monopoly or football, it always ended in either the table being flipped or kicking the shit out of each other.”

It is a competitive streak that has stuck and Delap is determined to make his presence felt at Forest, for whom he could make his full debut against Tottenham on Saturday. It has been a testing 16 months; he left Chelsea a season into a six-year contract and after one goal in 28 top-flight appearances, a dozen of those starts. “It is never a linear path straight to the top,” Delap says, his right hand taking flight in the City Ground boardroom, the 1979 and 1980 European Cups shimmering behind him. “I just want to get my head down, focus and keep improving because I’m still so young and I have so much to learn. I even at times probably think I’ve been in football a lot longer than I have. I’ve still, hopefully, got a long career ahead.

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Women’s Super League Q&A: ask football writer Suzanne Wrack a question ahead of the new season The WSL season kicks off tonight and the Guardian’s women’s football writer Suzanne Wrack will be here to answer your questions at 1pm BST/8am ET. Ask her anything: from her career as a sports reporter to her hopes for the new season and the future of the women’s gameAsk a

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The key area Honda still needs to improve with its new F1 engine