Todays Sporting News – 2 September 2025

• After 10 years in cycling, with his professional career now largely behind him, Nic Dlamini is also looking to build his businesses and give back to the community that supported him.
• Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi’s proposed transfer to Liverpool collapsed on Monday despite the Premier League champions agreeing to a reported £35-million deal for the England international.
• Naomi Osaka produced a commanding performance to knock out third seed Coco Gauff 6-3 6-2 in a highly anticipated fourth round showdown between two former US Open champions on Monday.
• Isak on brink of Liverpool move on frantic Premier League deadline day: Liverpool have reportedly agreed a British record fee of £125 million ($169 million) to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle, with the deal set to be completed on a frantic final day of the summer transfer window.
• Morocco set to be first African qualifiers for 2026 World Cup: Morocco, captained by Ballon d’Or nominee Achraf Hakimi, could this week become the first African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. A matchday-7 win over Niger in Rabat will give the Atlas Lions an unassailable lead in Group E.
• Liverpool and Arsenal look incomplete, Fulham VAR drama, more: And don’t forget about Real Madrid either, as they picked up a third win from three games to take an early lead atop LaLiga — Xabi Alonso’s side still look a work-in-progress, but results are good right now.
• Medvedev splits with coach after US Open meltdown: Daniil Medvedev announced on Saturday he had split up with his longtime coach Gilles Cervara, days after a spectacular meltdown during a first-round loss at the US Open. Order of Play.
• Liverpool agree British record £125m fee for Isak: Liverpool have agreed a British transfer record fee of £125m to sign striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United. Sources close to the deal have told BBC Sport that an agreement for the Sweden international to move to Anfield is now in place.
• The US Open is the strangest Grand Slam. Can Jannik Sinner tame it? Denis Shapovalov, the firecracker Canadian, had Sinner down 0-3 in the third set with a point for 0-4. But Sinner, as he so often does, recognized that there was a lot of tennis to play and asked Shapovalov if he could play it, too. Sinner prevailed, 5-7.
• Szoboszlai is the new Trent in two ways! The Sky Sports football writers analyse Sunday’s Premier League action as Dominik Szoboszlai makes the difference for Liverpool against an Arsenal side that let the big moment pass them by.
• Football – Liverpool broke the British transfer record to sign Alexander Isak for £125m from Newcastle on deadline day but were foiled in an attempt to end a stunning window with a deal for Marc Guéhi. Transfer roundup
• Golf – Europe will defend the Ryder Cup later this month with 11 of the 12 players who saw off the United States in Rome two years ago after captain Luke Donald unsurprisingly opted for experience with his wildcard picks.
• Tennis – The All England Club is not looking to change the format of the Wimbledon mixed doubles competition for future editions of the Championships despite the success of the “reimagined” tournament at the US Open.
• McLaren Racing, the owner of the Formula One team currently leading the championship, will be valued at more than £3 billion (R61 billion) in a stake sale, according to two people familiar with the matter, underscoring continued investor bullishness about the sport.
• 6 – The number of times Australia’s top-ranked tennis player, Alex de Minaur, has made it to a grand slam quarter-final. The Demon defeated Switzerland’s Leandro Riedi in straight sets (6-3, 6-2, 6-1) in the fourth round overnight to set up a quarter-final against Canadian 25th seed Félix Auger-Aliassime. The victor will progress to a semi-final against the winner of the all-Italian quarter-final between 10th seed Lorenzo Musetti and top seed Jannik Sinner.
• ‘Broomgate’ is a controversial chapter in the history of the sport of curling. In 2015, new sweeping brooms with special fabric were introduced. The brooms, called the ‘icePad’, gave players an unprecedented level of control over the stone’s direction. The World Curling Federation later banned the brooms to protect the integrity of the sport.
• Australia’s Molly Picklum has won her first world surfing title, defeating 2023 world champion Caroline Marks in the final at Cloudbreak in Fiji. After losing the opening heat of the three-heat final, the 22-year-old surged back with total scores of 15.83 and 16.93 (out of 20) in the next two rounds to claim the WSL championship. Brazil’s Yago Dora was crowned the men’s world champion after he beat American Griffin Colapinto in the final. The World Surf League Finals is a one-day, winner-takes-all shootout featuring the top five men’s and women’s surfers from the season.
• Former heavyweight boxer Joe Bugner has died aged 75 in Brisbane. Born in Hungary and raised in the UK, Bugner was a British, European and Commonwealth champion who fought the likes of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier across a career spanning more than three decades. He later moved to Australia, where he lived after retiring from the sport.
• A CEO has apologised after taking a hat signed by Polish tennis star Kamil Majchrzak from a young boy at the U.S. Open. Piotr Szczerek was widely criticised after a clip of the incident went viral and he was identified as the man who stole the cap. Szczerek said he made a mistake in thinking the cap was intended for his sons and has since returned it. He wrote: “I take full responsibility for my extremely poor judgement and hurtful actions.”
• The new World Athletics rule requiring female athletes to undergo a one-time genetic test comes into effect this week. The enforcement of the rule has been timed so that all athletes wishing to compete in women’s events at the World Championships, which begin in Tokyo on 13 September, must have already taken the test. Officials say the measure is designed to ensure fairness in elite women’s competition.
• Dozens of Australia’s top athletes have signed an open letter to the Government urging it to set a new target of reducing carbon emissions to 75% below 2005 levels by 2035.
• AFL boss Andrew Dillon has defended the decision to book Snoop Dogg as the Grand Final’s headline act despite the negative press the AFL has been receiving.
• Novak Djokovic advances to US Open quarterfinals, extending his record of reaching 64 Grand Slam quarters.
• No. 23 Naomi Osaka upsets No. 3 Coco Gauff to advance to the quarterfinals.
• Lee Roy Jordan, five-time NFL Pro Bowler, dies at age 84.
• College football week one wraps, highlighted by No. 3 Ohio State topping No. 1 Texas and No. 8 Alabama falling to unranked Florida State.
• Women’s World Cup creates legacy in rugby league’s backyard.
• Women’s World Cup: England, Scotland and Ireland have secured their places in the Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter-finals.
• Matthew Stafford will start at quarterback and the plan is for Alaric Jackson to start at left tackle on Sunday in the season opener against the Houston Texans at SoFi Stadium, Rams coach Sean McVay said Monday.
• Running back Najee Harris addressed reporters for the first time since being involved in a Fourth of July fireworks accident — his eyes hidden by Chargers-colored sunglasses.
• Jose Altuve hit a two-run homer and an RBI single and Ramón Urías also went deep to back up a strong start from Luis Garcia and lead the Houston Astros to an 8-3 win over the Angels on Monday.
• Maiara Niehues scored the go-ahead goal on a header in the 77th minute to give Angel City a 2-1 victory over Bay FC at BMO Stadium on Monday.
• Grimsby fielded ineligible player against Man Utd as EFL respond.
• Wrexham’s deadline day signing with CL experience leaves Lampard annoyed.
• Jamie Vardy’s new club confirmed as Leicester legend flies south.

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY:

1901 — Seven-year-old Ogden wins two races in a single day at Sheepshead Bay race track in Coney Island, New York. Ogden edges Cameron by a head in the second race on the card, a six furlong sprint on the main track. In the sixth race, a 1 1-16 mile distance on the turf, Ogden beats Monarka by a length.

1908 — Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Lang in the sixth round in Melbourne for his last successful defense of his heavyweight title.

1924 — Bill Tilden wins his fifth straight U.S. men’s singles title with a 6-1, 9-7, 6-2 victory over Bill Johnston.

1940 — Byron Nelson wins the PGA by beating Sam Snead 1-up at the Hershey Country Club in Pennsylvania.

1945 — Frank Parker wins the men’s singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships by beating Bill Talbert. Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats Pauline Betz for the women’s title.

1970 — The tie-break debuts in Grand Slam tennis at the U.S. Open. A total of 26 tie-breaks (the nine-point sudden death tie-break) are played on the first day of the tournament. Bob McKinley and Ray Ruffels both win matches in fifth-set tie-breaks.

1971 — Sixteen-year-old Chris Evert wins the first of her record 101 U.S. Open matches, defeating Edda Buding, 6-1, 6-0, in 42 minutes. Jimmy Connors, playing on 19th birthday, comes back from a two-set deficit to beat Alex Olmedo for his first U.S. Open victory.

1984 — In his first NFL start, Atlanta’s Gerald Riggs rushes for 202 yards and scores two touchdowns as the Falcons beat New Orleans 36-28.

1991 — Jimmy Connors turns 39 years old and rallies from a 2-5 fifth-set deficit to defeat 24-year-old Aaron Krickstein, 3-6, 7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6. The fourth-round Labor Day match lasts 4 hours and 41 minutes.

1995 — Frank Bruno wins a heavyweight championship in his fourth attempt registering a unanimous decision over Oliver McCall to take his WBC title in Wembley, England.

2001 — Michael Schumacher becomes the winningest driver in Formula One history, winning the Belgian Grand Prix for his 52nd career victory. Schumacher breaks the mark shared with Alain Prost and clinches his fourth world championship.

2004 — In a second-round match, Sargis Sargsian defeats Nicolas Massu, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4, in five hours and nine minutes. It’s the second-longest match on record at the U.S. Open and falls 18 minutes shy of breaking the record for longest match, set in 1992 when Stefan Edberg defeated Michael Chang in 5:26 in the semifinals.

TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY:

1929 — Joe Cronin of the Washington Senators hit for the cycle in a 10-7 win against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.

1937 — For the second time this season, two batters opened a game with home runs. Boze Berger and Mike Kreevich of the Chicago White Sox connected off Boston’s Johnny Marcum, en route to a 4-2 win over the Red Sox.

1944 — Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit for the cycle and drove in four runs in an 8-4 win over the New York Giants at Ebbets Field.

1952 — Mike Fornieles of the Washington Senators, in his major league debut, pitched a one-hitter for a 5-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics in the second game of a doubleheader.

1957 — The Milwaukee Braves swept the Chicago Cubs, 23-10 and 4-0. Bob Hazle of the Braves got four hits in the first game and teammate Frank Torre scored six runs to tie the major league record.

1963 — Cincinnati’s Pete Rose hit a leadoff homer of Jay Hook to give the Reds a 1-0 win over the New York Mets in the second game of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds.

1965 — Ernie Banks hit his 400th home run as the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 at Wrigley Field. The blow came off Curt Simmons in the third inning.

1971 — Cesar Cedeno’s 200-foot fly ball in the fifth inning fell for an inside-the-park grand slam home run as second baseman Jim Lefebvre and right fielder Bill Buckner of the Dodgers collided. The hit helped the Houston Astros win, 9-3.

1972 — Milt Pappas of the Chicago Cubs retired 26 consecutive San Diego Padres before walking pinch-hitter Larry Stahl on a 3-2 pitch. Pappas then retired Gary Jestadt to finish his 8-0 no-hitter.

1987 — Houston’s Kevin Bass went 4-for-4, including home runs from both sides of plate, and drove in three runs as the Astros posted a 10-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

1990 — Dave Stieb, who had lost three no-hit bids with one out to go in the previous two seasons, finally pitched one as the Toronto Blue Jays beat Cleveland 3-0. It was the record ninth no-hitter of the season.

1996 — Mike Greenwell set a major league record by driving in all nine Boston runs, the final one on a 10th-inning single to give the Red Sox a 9-8 victory over Seattle.

2001 — New York’s Mike Mussina came within one strike of pitching the first perfect game in the 89-year history of Fenway Park in a 1-0 win over Boston. Mussina’s bid was broken up by pinch-hitter Carl Everett’s clean single.

2002 — Miguel Tejada had his second straight game-ending hit as he singled home Terrence Long with the bases loaded in the ninth inning as Oakland tied the longest winning streak in AL history with a 7-6 victory over Kansas City. Oakland, which overcame a 5-0 deficit, equaled the 19 straight wins by the 1906 Chicago White Sox and the 1947 New York Yankees.

2003 — Eric Gagne set a major league record with his 55th consecutive save in the Dodgers’ 4-1 victory over Houston.

2009 — Alex Rodriguez picks up the 2,500th hit of his career as his Yankees defeat Baltimore, 10-2, to complete a sweep at Camden Yards. Eric Hinske‘s home run is the Bronx Bombers’ 20th at the park this season, the most by a visiting team since the ballpark opened in 1992. CC Sabathia earns his American League-leading 16th win.

2012 — Jurickson Profar made quite a debut at age 19, homering in his first major league at-bat and doubling his next time up in the Texas Rangers’ 8-3 win over Cleveland.

2015 — Clayton Kershaw strikes out 15 batters tying a career best and setting a new personal record of 251 for the season.

2022 — Yu Darvish reaches a rare milestone with a strikeout of Cody Bellinger in the 5th inning of the Padres’ 7-1 win over the Dodgers: this gives him 1,750 Ks in ten major league seasons, and this gives him 3,000 when the 1,250 he amassed in seven seasons in Japan are added. Among all pitchers who have struck out 1,000 or more batters on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, only Hideo Nomo has preceded Darvish in reaching the mark.