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Rugby League Ashes: Mickey Lewis wins grand final and England call-up

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💥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: This is a sentiment shared by the Australian camp, as they aim to continue their remarkable period of dominance on British soil.The Australians have not lost a series in England since 1959, nor the Ashes since 1970.“It's huge to get the Ashes team back,” Kangaroos midfielder Nathan Cleary told BBC Sport. “The international game is moving in the right direction.“I feel very lucky to be part of this series. I was very young in 2003 but in Australia they were showing a lot of…

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Track Cycling World Championships: Katie Archibald wins silver as British women take bronze in team pursuit

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💥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Katie Archibald won a silver medal in the women's elimination event while Great Britain took bronze in the women's team pursuit at the World Track Championships.Two-time Olympic champion Archibald was competing in an elimination for the first time at the World Championships and the race took three attempts to start due to crashes.With the number of riders reduced to four in Santiago, Chile, Archibald made the final sprint to beat France's Victoire Berto and claim her 16th world medal overall.Belgian Helen Hesters then withdrew, leaving a…

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Five things to watch in the Premier League: Ipswich, Southampton, Leicester, Preston, Sheffield United

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✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Ipswich Town, Southampton and Leicester City were the three names at the top of the bet for promotion to the Championship at the height of the summer.The ladder from the Premier League to the Premier League has turned into a revolving door in recent years, with the three teams promoted from the Championship heading straight back to relegation in the past two seasons.In each of the past five seasons, two of the three teams promoted to the top flight have received parachute payments, following previous relegation.But…

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Manchester United: Marcus Rashford wants to extend his stay in Barcelona

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🔥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Marcus Rashford is hoping to stay at Barcelona when his loan deal from Manchester United expires in the summer.Barcelona have the option to sign the England striker permanently for £28m, a lower fee than United's £40m demand from any other club.The 27-year-old's United contract runs until 2028, but it appears he has no future at Old Trafford while Ruben Amorim takes charge of the team.“Absolutely,” Rashford told ESPN when asked if he wanted to stay in Spain. "I enjoy this football club and I think that…

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UFC 321: Inside Tom Aspinall’s fight camp for his heavyweight title fight with Cyril Jean

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Aspinall prioritizes sleep when he gets home after training, but for Andy, that's when he mostly watches Jane's fight footage.“Tom keeps an eye on him too, but he doesn’t have any say in what we do for eight to 12 weeks,” Andy says.Aspinall and his team respect Gene and know the nature of heavyweight mixed martial arts, where the tide of a fight can turn in an instant, meaning preparation can sometimes be thrown out the window.“You never know what you're doing outside…

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Scottish Premier League: Can Hearts challenge the Old Firm for the title?

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💥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: It is difficult to get away from the different atmosphere in the top two places in the Premier League before they go head-to-head for the first time this season on Sunday.Hearts have already beaten Rangers at Ibrox, but if they defeat Celtic in front of their own fans and go eight points clear, the hype will reach new heights.Former Celtic striker Chris Sutton said on the BBC's Monday Night Club programme: "I think Hearts can win the title, that's what I do."“Partly because of the way…

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NFL: The Los Angeles Chargers beat the Minnesota Vikings 37-10 on Thursday Night Football

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💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: The hosts reached the end zone on both of their opening drives, with Herbert making an eight-yard touchdown pass to Oronde Gadsden II before Kimani Vidal, who finished with 117 yards, nailed his first NFL touchdown from three yards out. Herbert then fired a 27-yard pass to the corner to help Ladd McConkey make it 21-3 at halftime, but the Chargers' quarterback gave up his only interception midway through the third quarter.The Vikings took advantage, as Carson Wentz found Jordan Addison in the…

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Ireland vs New Zealand: Jack Conan doesn’t expect a British and Irish Lions hangover in Chicago

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Irish back-row Jack Conan says any potential hangover from the British and Irish Lions tour is "not on anyone's mind" ahead of their return clash in Chicago with New Zealand.Andy Farrell's Lions panel included 18 Irish players, but Leinster, who had a 14-strong squad in Australia, lost three of their four United Rugby Championship matches this season.Ireland will take on New Zealand in Chicago on November 1 at Soldier Field where the Irish defeated the All Blacks for the first time in 2016.“I don't think it's…

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Arsenal: Can the Gunners’ defense win the Premier League title?

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: But Arsenal have had the best defense in the last two seasons and still finish second, so what might be different this time?Although it is still early days, we look at them not only as having the best defense of the season, but also one of the best defenses of any season in the Premier League.Their current rate of conceding just 0.38 goals per game means that if they maintained that throughout the entire season, they would concede just 14 goals and break the astonishing record…

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Crystal Palace: The Eagles “need” defeat against Larnaca to “stay humble”

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💥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Crystal Palace's first home game in a major European competition did not go to plan as they lost to AEK Larnaca, but manager Oliver Glasner said "maybe the whole environment needed that to stay humble."Thursday was supposed to be Palace's big night as Selhurst Park hosted a match in Europe for the first time in its 101-year history.There was an extra buzz at Selhurst station, and inside the ground there was a large crowd of people chanting Glasner's name and singing songs about winning the FA…

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