A ruthless solo display from Austrian Sylven Landesberg with 49 points inflicted a damaging 96-82 defeat over Great Britain in their EuroBasket 2021 pre-qualifier on Thursday, making Monday’s away game with Cyprus a must win for GB if they have any hope of qualifying from the three-team group.

Eighty-four kids from Greater Manchester schools, who participate in the ‘EdStart’ program, were among the 85,870 Wembley crowd which shows that the future of the sport on these shores is in safe hands.

Greater Manchester primary school kids will make up nearly 100 of the 90,000 sold out NFL Wembley crowd this Sunday, courtesy of the partnership between the Jacksonville Jaguars and EdStart.

The Magic Gang and Manchester’s Albert Hall – could music fans ask for a better combination?

Manchester is known as a world renowned destination for football and so it proved once again – only this time it was of the American variety.