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The long goodbye: England taking their time to leave Rugby League World Cup

Some of Brian McDermott’s players will arrive home a week after their early exit from the tournament By No Helmets Required England players would have been well advised to ignore the advert outside their North Bay hotel in Wollongong over the weekend: “Everything that truly matters is possible,” it read. Not quite everything, it turns out. While England women packed their cases and headed out of Australia the morning after their World Cup campaign was ended by slick Samoa, England men are still stuck outside a party they’ve been told to leave. Having watched their fate sealed during the Tonga

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The Spin | ‘I wanted the ball to be hit at me’: life in cricket’s most dangerous fielding position

James Taylor recalls the ‘moments of pure elation’ and twisted intimacy of being under the batter’s nose at short leg Out in Arizona, just south of Tucson. Where tumbleweeds tumble in search of a home. There’s a town they call Tombstone where the brave never cry … On the outskirts of Tombstone stands Boothill Graveyard, the final resting place for the many cowboys who died “with their boots on” in the seconds-long but deadly shootouts of the wild west. Continue reading...

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