Luis Enrique won PSG the Champions League after Mbappé left
PSG chased Europe's top prize from 2011, when Qatari owners arrived. In 2025, a year after Kylian Mbappé left, they won it with a 5-0 final over Inter.
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Slot won Liverpool's 20th English title with Klopp's squad
Jürgen Klopp called his squad a good base to hand on. Arne Slot added one player, changed the daily routine and won the 2024-25 Premier League.
Dick Fosbury turned his back on the bar and won Olympic gold
Foam landing mats let jumpers fall on their backs, and Fosbury's 1968 win in Mexico City showed the sport a style that nearly every jumper now uses.
Football mocked an Irishman's penalty kick, then adopted it
A Notts County defender's goal-line handball in an 1891 FA Cup tie broke football's belief that gentlemen never cheat, and helped force in the penalty kick.
Andy Ruiz Jr loses his comeback fight to Damian Knyba
Andy Ruiz Jr lost a unanimous decision to Poland's Damian Knyba in Newark, his first fight in two years, and says he wants a rematch.
Sabalenka reaches the US Open last 16 after a rocky summer
Aryna Sabalenka is into the US Open fourth round and chasing a third straight title, after a summer in which her Grand Slam form collapsed.
Jonah Lomu: the wing who helped rugby turn professional
A new documentary argues that even Jonah Lomu's own coaches underestimated how sick he was while he made rugby a global sport.
Lane Kiffin's $91m move to LSU divides US college football
Lane Kiffin left a playoff-bound Ole Miss for LSU's $91 million deal, and student season tickets sold out in five hours.
Patrick Mahomes returned from ACL surgery unbeaten
Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL in December, then threw three touchdowns in an overtime win nine months later. The Chiefs are 2-0 since his return.
A World Cup red card brings a one-game ban with no appeal
A red card sends a player off and brings an automatic one-game ban. At the 2026 World Cup that ban could not be appealed, only made longer.
Great Britain and Ireland win Walker Cup in record comeback
Great Britain and Ireland lost the Sunday foursomes 4-0 at Lahinch, then beat the USA 13½-12½ to win their first Walker Cup since 2015.
Kimi Antonelli wins the Italian Grand Prix from 19th
The Mercedes driver took an engine penalty, then won at Monza. Two days earlier he told the Guardian that F1 can be very brutal.
Littler and Van Gerwen traded 170 finishes in one Dublin match
Two treble 20s and the bull make darts' highest finish, 170. In 2026 it shaped a Premier League semi-final in Dublin and a world quarter-final.
Jai Arrow leads Rabbitohs out for 100th game after MND
The NRL gave South Sydney special dispensation to list the retired 30-year-old, and more than 40,000 fans sang Stand By Me as he walked out.
England's FA Cup draw handed Mansfield a tie with Arsenal
The 2025-26 FA Cup draws paired eighth-tier Maldon & Tiptree with Port Vale and gave League One Mansfield Town a fifth-round home tie with Arsenal.
Forty-eight teams, one trophy: how the World Cup runs
The men's World Cup takes 48 teams through 12 groups. The top two in each, plus the eight best third-placed sides, enter single-elimination knockout rounds.
Katie Taylor retires a three-time champion at Croke Park
Katie Taylor beat Flora Pili on points in Dublin to end her career as a three-time undisputed world champion, in front of 80,000 fans at Croke Park.