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Cricket’s Longest Format Finds a Young Audience
Five-day matches were supposed to be dying. Attendance data from this season tells a stranger story.
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An Underdog’s Season: How a Provincial Club Rewrote the Championship Script
Promoted with the league’s second-smallest budget, they were everyone’s pick for relegation. On Sunday they finished third.
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Marathon Season Opens With a Field of Firsts
Record registrations, a rebalanced elite field, and a course redesigned around spectators: the city race returns renewed.
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Grassroots Football Gets a Funding Lifeline
A levy on transfer fees will send an estimated 140 million a year down the pyramid, to the clubs that grow the game.
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The Stadium as Town Square: Matchday Beyond the Ninety Minutes
Clubs are opening their grounds seven days a week — markets, clinics, classrooms — and discovering the business case for belonging.
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Altitude Camp: Where the Season Is Quietly Won
Three weeks on a mountain road, far from cameras: inside the pre-season ritual coaches refuse to skip.