Sports - Saturday, June 6, 2026

England have one more game to prepare for their World Cup campaign - and they must use it wisely, writes Phil McNulty.

The Grammy Award-winning artist and her soon-to-be-husband Travis Kelce attended Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Graham Arnold’s team have overcome adversity on and off the pitch, but may benefit from the pressure being off them in a tough group This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network , a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June Continue reading...

Scotland thrash Bolivia and are in decent fettle one week out from the biggest game of their international lives.

When it came to prepping the basketballs being used in Spurs-Knicks -- it took a village.

“I think a medal of some sort will come. I pray and hope that it is the gold one.” Ally MacLeod was never to live down his hubris of 1978 . A Scotland loss to Peru and draw with Iran saw to that. Unlike MacLeod, Steve Clarke has never been prone to bold or rash predictions. Excitement will be left to everyone else. Who can reasonably deny them that? In a last outing before a first World Cup appearance in 28 years, Scotland dismantled Bolivia. Suddenly, worries over a potentially tournament-defining joust with Haiti next weekend evaporated. If Clarke’s men are this ruthless and efficient when the proper stuff starts, they have a serious chance of emerging from the group phase for the first time in Scotland’s international history. This friendly, in theory an exercise in box-ticking, instead gave reasons for huge Scottish confidence. Scotland will remember their first ever game against Bolivia with great fondness. Continue reading...

The third round of the Memorial Tournament is suspended because of thunderstorms withJT Poston and Ryan Gerard in a share of the lead.

Watch the goals as Scotland score four in the first half to beat Bolivia in their final World Cup warm-up.

It was a glorified training game, mainly about acclimatisation for Thomas Tuchel’s England players; unsexy stuff like the right amount of loading, re-connecting with the manager’s principles. But the win was good, too, and it was welcome after the stodge of the March internationals, which had seen the draw against Uruguay and the loss to Japan . With the temperature peaking at 33C and the humidity at about 40%, Tuchel played different teams in each half and both were too good for New Zealand, who will be the lowest-ranked team at the World Cup. Continue reading...

On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva became the youngest French Open winner since 1992. And she did it in dominant fashion, knowing the pressure was on.