Josh Ball

6 days ago | scmp.com | Josh Ball

Women’s golf has moved another step closer to its own version of LIV, with the revamped Aramco Team Series getting a new name, more money and a global schedule that takes in the UK, United States and China. Gone are the amateurs, with teams of professionals also competing for an individual prize over three rounds.

1 week ago | scmp.com | Josh Ball

Hong Kong could hand debuts to as many as five players in the Asia Rugby Women’s Championship this month, something head coach Lewis Wilson said highlighted the “really exciting” potential for the game in the city. With several senior squad members, including Natasha Olson-Thorne, either injured or resting after an intense sevens season, Wilson said some fringe players had made “absolutely amazing progress” over the past several months.

1 week ago | scmp.com | Josh Ball

World Rugby said the changes to its sevens competition were designed to secure the sport’s financial future and grow its global reach ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Confirming it was slashing the number of teams in the World Series from 12 to eight, and installing a six-team second division, the sport’s governing body also said regular tournaments would be cut from three days to just two.

1 week ago | scmp.com | Josh Ball

World Rugby plans to slash the number of teams in the sevens World Series to just eight, all but ending Hong Kong’s slim hopes of ever joining the elite of the game. In a radical overhaul of the sport, rugby bosses are also understood to have created a second division of six teams, playing three tournaments, starting in the 2025-26 season and reportedly staying in place until the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Josh Ball

The city would be “a perfect venue for Formula One” and should campaign to stage a race or risk being left behind by its neighbours, a Hongkonger who worked on the successful bid to bring the elite motorsport to Thailand has said. Bangkok is expected to be part of the F1 schedule from 2028, joining Japan, Singapore and Shanghai as Asian stops on an increasingly congested calendar that now has 24 events on it.