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Oct 14, 2026 - Sports

Ready or not, Dodge is racing toward a 2027 season that includes competing in NASCAR Cup. But is it too much, too soon?

Oct 14, 2026 - Sports

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor Bev Craig invited City representative on trade trip organised by business secretaryA club representative from Manchester City was invited on a government-backed trade delegation to India this week, despite the club being found guilty of 114 breaches of Premier League rules.Andy Burnham’s successor as Manchester mayor Bev Craig took a representative from the club to Delhi and Mumbai on a trip organised by business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, where she and other northern mayors have been promoting British trade and tourism. Continue reading...

Oct 14, 2026 - Sports

The protests around an anti-ICE T-shirt show that politics can never be separated from sports, especially nowOn 26 September, Daniela Silva was expelled from Austin FC’s match with San Diego FC for wearing a T-shirt reading “Abolish ICE”. She says she was banned from Q2 Stadium for a year (Austin FC said that the ban was issued by the Austin Police Department, not the club, and that they offered to rescind it but that Silva declined).This happened, really, truly, and you cannot make this up, during Austin FC’s Hispanic Heritage Night. It also happened six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot a Venezuelan delivery driver, 28-year-old Wilber Garcés Pérez, in the torso in Austin, sparking protests in the city.Leander Schaerlaeckens is the author of The Long Game: US Men’s Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts, which is out now. He teaches at Marist University.This article was amended on 14 October to reflect MLS’s clarification that, though the wordings of the league’s fan code of conduct and the Q2 Stadium fan code of conduct are identical, the league’s does not govern articles of clothing while a stadium’s may. Continue reading...

Oct 14, 2026 - Sports

The Los Angeles Dodgers are dropping star Shohei Ohtani to sixth in the lineup for Game 3 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Oct 14, 2026 - Sports

Shea Ralph finally has Vanderbilt right where the reigning AP women’s Coach of the Year is most comfortable