Pep Guardiola has brushed off his rivalry with José Mourinho by claiming that the Manchester United manager makes him a better coach.

It was promoted by a Premier League spokesman as a way to “help young, talented players progress physically and mentally on top of the technical aspect of their game”,

Justin Gatlin won a 200 metres showdown with LaShawn Merritt and 41-year-old Bernard Lagat made his fifth Olympic team by winning the 5,000m at the US athletics trials on Saturday.

Bernard Lagat rolled back the years to secure a remarkable fifth Olympic Games appearance on Saturday, sealing his ticket to Rio at the age of 41 with a rousing win in the 5,000 meters at the US trials.

Kenyan-born teenager Yasemin Can sealed a distance double when she won Saturday’s 5000m to continue Turkey’s astonishing European success built around naturalised foreign athletes from across the globe.

The IAAF yesterday cleared only long jumper Darya Klishina to compete at the Rio Olympics, meaning the last remaining hope for pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva and other Russian athletes now rests on an impending court decision.

The British Open returns to Royal Troon on Scotland’s west coast this week with Rory McIlroy back in the field having been unable to defend the Claret Jug a year ago due to injury.

World number one Lydia Ko, seeking to add a third major title to her resume, birdied the 18th to take a one-shot lead after three rounds of the US Women’s Open on Saturday.

In 55 summers of Mets baseball, every open wound has been greeted with a heaping handful of salt. Every dig of the knife comes with a twist. Such is the way of the world, at least in Flushing. So in that sense, the Daniel Murphy revenge tour seemed all too inevitable.

Brandon Jennings is approaching his new team and new role with the right attitude. Jennings plans to show he can still run a team and he wants to be in the conversation for Sixth Man of the Year.

Football tensions mounted and patriotic hopes rose ahead of the Euro 2016 final between hosts France and Portugal that will unleash a clash between Cristiano Ronaldo and Antoine Griezmann.

The fate of today’s intriguing European Championship final between France and Portugal weighs largely on two men wearing the number seven shirt, one already at the top of the game and the other one getting there fast.