Timeforshowcasing into Classic contention after Burradon success

Charlie Johnston picked up a decent bonus on top of the trainer’s share of the prize money after backing Timeforshowcasing for the Burradon Stakes at Newcastle on Friday at prices up to 25-1, and could now fast-track his filly into Classic company at either Newmarket or the Curragh next month.Timeforshowcasing was up against some promising colts and geldings in the Listed contest over a mile but travelled easily through the early stages before taking it up at the furlong pole and holding off the late challenge of Padraig Dawn by a neck.“All day I’ve been thinking, ‘what do people know that I don’t?’, because this filly worked last Thursday and I thought she was in phenomenal order,” Johnston said.“She was 6-1, went out to 10-1, then 16s and she’s won at 25-1. I hope my bookmaker gives best odds guaranteed

Bill Leyland completes unlikely St Helens comeback to stun leaders Wigan

The derby rarely fails to disappoint, but just when you think this 130-year-old rivalry cannot get any more unbelievable, this happens. The scoreline looks unremarkable, but that tells only a fraction of the story of the 367th meeting between St Helens and Wigan.The pre-match talk was not who would win, it was how many Wigan, the league leaders going into the Easter programme, would win by. Saints, humiliated 52-10 at Hull KR last week, were without a dozen first-team regulars, many of them starters. They soon lost a 13th when prop Agnatius Paasi limped off after four minutes

The Boat Races, FA Cup quarter-finals and county cricket – follow with us

John Brewin straps in as a weekend of FA Cup quarter-final action looms large. Breaking news and reader input are the orders of the day before the first of Saturday’s three last-eight games kicks off at the Etihad as Manchester City – last season’s beaten finalists – host Liverpool, Cup winners in 2022. There’s bound to be reaction from Friday’s Championship fixtures while in the Scottish Premiership, Rangers will go above Hearts at the top for the first time this season if they beat Dundee United before the pacesetters face Livingston on Sunday. Join the conversation by emailing matchday.live@theguardian

Different strokes: Channel 4 steps up for debut as Boat Races get makeover

Channel 4 has screened plenty of elite sport since launching in 1982. Test cricket, the Tour de France, the Paralympics and even, for those with long memories, Masters golf in the mid-80s.Traditionally regarded as the most progressive and forward-thinking terrestrial TV channel, on Saturday a new string will be added to its sporting bow: the Boat Races, part of the English calendar since 1829. The plan is for an old event, famously and often controversially contested by Oxford and Cambridge universities, to acquire a new look.Clare Balding, previously the face of the BBC’s longstanding coverage, will again be the presenter but Jamie Laing – reality TV star, Radio 1 DJ and podcaster – arrives alongside

Tiger Woods told police he talked to ‘the president’ after arrest, bodycam shows

Bodycam footage of Tiger Woods’s arrest for DUI shows the golfer looking surprised when he was handcuffed by police officers at the scene of a vehicle crash last week and telling a deputy he had spoken to “the president” on the phone after the incident.“I do believe your normal faculties are impaired, and you’re under an unknown substance, so at this time you’re under arrest for DUI,” Martin County Sheriff’s deputy Tatiana Levenar told Woods after officers conducted a series of field sobriety exercises on the 50-year-old.“I’m being arrested?” Woods asked Levenar. She responded: “Yes, sir.”In the footage, obtained Thursday by the Guardian, as a deputy instructs him to wait nearby while taking a phone call following the crash, Woods is heard telling the officer, “I was just talking to the president

A family holiday, a lewd photo and a defamation suit. Inside the Luke Sayers saga and the AFL’s day in court

It was an incongruous place for an AFL scandal to unfold: on a family holiday in Italy during the northern winter of 2025.On the morning of 8 January that year, an image of Luke Sayers’ penis was posted on his X account.Sayers is the former president and chief executive of two blue-blooded institutions: the Carlton football club, and PwC.The post, in which a senior executive of a major Carlton sponsor was also tagged, was deleted about 15 minutes later. Instead, the @LukeSayers account posted: “Sorry my account has been hacked – please ignore all posts”