Midfielder ​Alexia Putellas scored a brace to lead Barcelona to a 4-2 win over Bayern Munich in the second leg of their Women’s Champions League semifinal tie on Sunday. It completed a 5-3 aggregate victory to set up a final against OL Lyonnes. The French side had finished off holders Arsenal in the other semifinal on Saturday.

“I’m really happy for the team, they’ve had a great season and now we just need to put the cherry on top,” three-time Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmati told streaming service Disney+.

“(Lyon) are a historic club in the Champions League, they’ve got an amazing team, for me they’ve always been the side to beat, added the playmaker, who got one of the biggest cheers of the match when she was substituted on in the 68th minute — marking her return to action after having broken her leg in December.

Sunday’s defeat in front of more than 60,000 spectators at the Camp Nou came after Bayern had held Barca to a 1-1 draw at home a week ago and with the visitors looking to pack their defense and hit the hosts on the break. However, the Catalans needed only 13 minutes to open the scoring, with Salma Paralluelo finishing off a Caroline Graham Hansen cross.

Bayern leveled the score just four minutes later when Pernille Harder seized the ball at the halfway line before delivering a pass to an on-running Linda Dallmann at the top of the box, who left the Barca keeper without a chance on her well-placed finish. 

However, the home side appeared unimpressed as Putellas put Barca back in front with a deflected effort in the 22nd minute. Poland striker Ewa Pajor struck in the 54th minute, ​and Putellas hooked home her second of the match four minutes later to seemingly kill the game off.

Late Bayern push unrewarded

Harder, though, had other ideas, ⁠drilling ​the ball into the far corner to reduce ​the deficit to two in the 71st minute as Bayern pushed hard for a comeback. The visitors twice hit the woodwork in the dying minutes before Harder again found the back of the net in the 90th, only to have it called back by the video assistant referee (VAR).

“Right now it’s too painful,” Bayern defender and Germany captain Giulia Gwinn told German public TV broadcaster ZDF.

“There’s plenty of frustration as we had the feeling we were still in it,” she stressed.

“I know we can be proud, but that feeling will come a bit further down the line. We had chances, hit the woodwork twice. I’m not able to explain why the goal was chalked off.

Barcelona move on to face OL Lyonnes in the final in Oslo, Norway, on May 23. This will be the sixth final in a row for the Spanish giants, who won the Champions League in 2021, 2023 and 2024.

Bayern, having failed to make a first Champions League final, are still on course for the double. Having clinched their fourth consecutive Bundesliga title last month, they face Wolfsburg in the German Cup final in Cologne on May 14.

Edited by: Matt Pearson

The upcoming season is always the most important one for fans, players, and coaches, but scheduling, planning, and recruiting for future seasons never stop.

Below, we have assembled the future nonconference schedules for the next three to four years (2027-2030), where available.

In the cases of two programs, games for 2030 are not yet known, while another currently only runs through 2028.

It should be noted that all future schedules are tentative and subject to change.

Here are the future schedules for the region’s top teams, listed alphabetically.

Air Force

2027
9/04—Lafayette
09/18—Baylor
10/02—at Navy
11/06—Army

2028
09/30—at UTSA
10/07—Navy
TBA—at Army

2029
09/15—at Arizona
TBA—Army
TBA—at Navy

2030
TBA—Navy
TBA—at Army

Arizona

2027
09/04—at Colorado St
09/18—Northern Arizona
09/25—WSU

2028
09/02—Colorado St
09/09—Prairie View A&M
09/16—at Nebraska

2029
08/25—at Hawai’i
09/08—Virginia Tech
09/15—Air Force

2030
08/30—at Virginia Tech
09/07—Northern Arizona
09/14—Wyoming

Arizona State

2027
09/04—Cal Poly (or Sept. 2)
09/11—Texas A&M
09/18—at UNLV

2028
09/02—Northern Arizona
09/09—at San Diego St

2029
09/01—Northern Arizona
09/08—at LSU
09/15—San Diego St

2030
09/14—LSU

Boise State

2027
09/04—at Appalachian St
09/11—USF
09/18—at Marshall

2028
09/02—at Cincinnati
09/16—Georgia Southern

2029
09/01—Cincinnati
09/15—at Washington
09/22—Western Michigan

2030
08/31—at Memphis
09/07—Idaho St
09/14—Houston

BYU

2027
09/04—Weber St
09/25—Oregon St
TBA—at Notre Dame

2028
09/02—vs Oregon St (Las Vegas)
TBA—Boston College

2029
09/01—Idaho St
09/08—Colorado St
TBA—at Boston College

2030
08/31—Weber St
09/14—Virginia Tech
09/21—at Northern Illinois

Cal

2027
09/04—at UCLA

2028
09/02—UCLA
09/09—San Jose St
09/16—at Minnesota

2029
09/01—Wisconsin
09/08—at Wyoming
09/15—at UCLA

2030
08/31—at Wisconsin

Colorado

2027
09/04—Colgate
09/11—Northwestern
09/18—Northern Illinois

2028
09/02—UMass
09/09—at Florida
09/16—Northern Colorado

2029
09/08—Florida
09/15—at Colorado St

2030
08/31—SMU
09/07—at Missouri
09/14—Colorado St

Colorado State

2027
09/04—Arizona
09/11—at Sam Houston
09/18—at Wisconsin
09/25—HCU

2028
09/02—at Arizona
09/09—Sam Houston
09/23—Wyoming
09/30—at Oklahoma

2029
09/08—at BYU
09/15—Colorado
09/22—at Wyoming

2030
09/07—Wyoming
09/14—at Colorado

Fresno State

2027
08/28—Utah Tech
09/04—at Washington
09/11—at Rice
09/25—San Jose St

2028
09/02—Stanford
09/09—at USC
09/16—Cal Poly
09/23—at Georgia Southern

2029
09/01—at Stanford
09/29—San Jose St

2030
09/07—at Texas Tech
09/14—Kansas

Hawai’i

2027
09/04—Northwestern St
09/11—at New Mexico St
09/18—UCLA

2028
08/26—Kansas
09/02—Fordham
09/09—at UCLA
09/23—at San Diego St

2029
08/25—Arizona
09/22—San Diego St

2030
08/31—at Stanford
09/14—at Washington

Nevada

2027
08/28—Troy
09/04—Idaho St
09/11—at USC
09/25—at Utah St

2028
09/09—at Utah
TBA—at SMU

2029
09/01—at Nebraska
09/08—Utah St
09/15—at Kansas

2030
09/07—at Ohio St

New Mexico

2027
09/04—Northern Colorado
09/11—at Oregon St
09/18—at Texas A&M
09/25—New Mexico St

2028
09/16—at New Mexico St
09/23—Oregon St

2029
09/08—at Central Michigan
09/15—New Mexico St

Oregon

2027
09/04—Eastern Washington
09/11—at Baylor
09/18—WKU

2028
09/02—North Dakota St
09/09—Baylor

2029
09/01—Portland St
09/15—Utah St

Oregon State

2027
09/04—Portland St
09/11—New Mexico
09/18—at Ole Miss
09/25—at BYU

2028
09/02—BYU (Las Vegas)
09/09—Idaho
09/23—at New Mexico

2029
09/01—Sacramento St
09/08—San Jose St
09/29—at Wake Forest

2030
08/31—Ole Miss
09/07—at San Jose St
09/14—at Kansas St

San Diego State

2027
09/03—at Eastern Michigan
09/11—Missouri
09/18—at Oklahoma

2028
09/02—at Missouri
09/09—Arizona St
09/23—Hawai’i

2029
09/01—Oklahoma
09/15—at ASU
09/22—at Hawai’i

2030
09/21—Central Michigan

San Jose State

2027
09/02—at Minnesota
09/18—Portland St
09/25—at Fresno St
10/02—North Texas

2028
09/02—Mercyhurst
09/09—at Cal
09/16—Toledo
11/25—at Stanford

2029
09/01—Eastern Michigan
09/08—at Oregon St
09/15—Utah Tech
09/29—at Fresno St

2030
08/31—at UTSA
09/07—Oregon St
09/14—at Rice
09/21—Cal Poly

Stanford

2027
09/11—Vanderbilt

2028
09/02—at Fresno St
09/16—Portland St
11/25—San Jose St

2029
09/01—Fresno St

2030
08/31—Hawai’i
10/05—William & Mary

UCLA

2027
08/28—UC Davis
09/04—Cal
09/18—at Hawai’i

2028
09/02—at Cal
09/09—Hawai’i

2029
09/01—UC Davis
09/15—Cal

2030
09/07—at Utah

UNLV

2027
09/04—at USC
09/11—Akron
09/18—ASU
09/25—at James Madison

2028
09/09—Houston
09/16—at Washington

2029
09/15—at Memphis
09/22—UTSA

2030
08/31—James Madison
09/14—at Iowa St

USC

2027
09/04—UNLV
09/11—Nevada

2028
09/09—Fresno St

Utah

2027
09/04—Miami (Las Vegas)
09/11—Wyoming
09/25—Southern Utah

2028
08/31—Utah Tech
09/09—Nevada
09/16—at Wisconsin

2029
08/30—Weber St
09/15—at Arkansas

2030
08/29—Utah Tech
09/07—UCLA
09/14—Utah St

Utah State

2027
09/04—at Oklahoma
09/18—Toledo
09/25—Nevada

2028
09/09—at UTEP
09/23—Temple

2029
09/08—at Nevada
09/15—at Oregon

2030
09/14—at Utah

Washington

2027
09/04—Fresno St
09/18—at WSU

2028
09/02—Eastern Washington
09/16—UNLV
TBA—WSU

2029
09/01—at Tennessee
09/15—Boise St

2030
09/07—Tennessee
09/14—Hawai’i

Washington State

2027
09/04—Idaho
09/11—Kansas
09/18—Washington
09/25—at Arizona

2028
09/02—UC Davis
09/09—at Kansas
TBA—at Washington

2029
09/08—Kansas St
09/15—Idaho

2030
09/07—North Texas
09/14—Eastern Washington

Wyoming

2027
09/04—Southern Utah
09/11—at Utah
09/18—at North Texas
09/25—Central Michigan

2028
09/02—Idaho St
09/09—Akron
09/16—at Texas Tech
09/23—at Colorado St

2029
09/01—Western Illinois
09/08—Cal
09/15—at UConn
09/22—Colorado St

2030
08/31—Northern Colorado
09/07—at Colorado St
09/14—at Arizona
09/21—North Texas

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Indian cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues spoke about the motivation driving the team as they gear up for the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, following their historic triumph in the 50-over tournament at home last year. Speaking at the IISM Degree Distribution Ceremony 2026, Jemimah, alongside head coach Amol Muzumdar, expressed the team’s desire to build on their recent success. “I think it’s a bit of motivation now. Since we’ve won one, we want to win two,” Jemimah said as quoted by ICC.

The team’s preparation for the next World Cup, according to Jemimah, has been long and steady.

“Our preparation has been strong. It didn’t just begin after the squad announcement. Right after the 2025 World Cup, during our first series against Sri Lanka, coach Amol Muzumdar told us, ‘This is where we start for the next World Cup.’ So we’ve been preparing from day one,” Jemimah shared, highlighting the importance of early and consistent training.

Jemimah also lauded Nandani, a player who has emerged as a key figure for the team. “Nandani has been fantastic for us,” Jemimah remarked. “She proved herself not just in one game, but consistently across matches. With the experience in this squad, we’re confident she’ll flourish on the big stage.”

As the Indian team continues their preparations, the confidence in their squad’s ability, leadership under Muzumdar, and the presence of rising stars like Nandani suggest they are more focused than ever on achieving even greater success at the global level.

Amanjot has been a key figure in India’s white-ball setup and played a crucial role in their 2025 triumph, making her absence in the UK a big blow, particularly given her value as a seam-bowling all-rounder.

“She is injured, and it is very difficult to replace somebody like Amanjot. She has been doing consistently well for India,” Muzumdar said, a sentiment that was also echoed by India captain Harmanpreet Kaur in the press conference after the squad announcement.

“We will miss her for sure, but injuries are part of the game, and she has had a bad one, and she will be out of cricket for at least 4-5 months. I hope she recovers well and comes back stronger. She is difficult to replace, but that is the way it goes,” he added.

Placed in Group A alongside Australia, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, India will begin their T20 World Cup campaign against Pakistan on 14 June.

India squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026:

Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Bharti Fulmali, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Shree Charani, Yastika Bhatia, Nandani Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh, Kranti Gaud, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav.

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England fast bowler Mark Wood has shared a remarkable and humorous story from his time in the Indian Premier League, revealing how a franchise owner once offered to fly him on a private jet just to ensure he played a match — despite being seriously unwell.Speaking on BBC’s Strategic Timeout podcast, Wood recalled falling ill midway through a season after featuring in a handful of matches. What followed, he said, was an extraordinary level of attention from the franchise, including constant medical monitoring.“I wasn’t very well after about five games, and the (next) game was in about three days’ time. Every half an hour, the doctor would stay back, come to my room, check on my vitals,” Wood said.The situation soon took an unusual turn when the team owner personally reached out to check on his availability.“I remember one day the owner ringing me, ‘How’re you feeling? Ready to go?’ and I said, ‘Honestly, I’ve eaten and drunk nothing, I still can’t get out of bed’. He went, ‘We’ll get you another doctor, we’ll do this and that’,” he revealed.‘I’ll send a private plane’Despite Wood’s condition, the owner remained determined to have him feature in the game — so much so that he offered an eye-popping solution.“Next day, it’s the owner again, ‘How are you feeling?’ and I said, ‘Honestly, I’m still not good’. He then said, ‘I’ll send a private plane, you get in the plane, play the game. Then I’ll get the plane straight back out and get you back to your bedside’,” Wood said, laughing at the memory.The England pacer admitted he was briefly tempted by the surreal offer and even sought advice from his father.“So I rang my dad and I was like, ‘Dad, they’re going to send a private plane.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, but how do you feel?’ I said, ‘Honestly, if I stand up, I feel not well… I could faint’. He said, ‘You’re not right’. But I was like, ‘Dad, it’s a private plane’ (laughs),” Wood added.Ultimately, he decided against playing, but not before appreciating the sheer novelty of the situation.“For that split second, I was like, ‘This is the coolest thing that’s probably ever happened to me in my life. This is unbelievable’,” he said.Wood has had a brief IPL career, featuring for Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants, taking 11 wickets in five games.

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In Italy, Inter Milan won the 2026 Serie A title. In rugby, Union Bordeaux-Bègles will defend their European title against Leinster. In tennis, Jannik Sinner won the Madrid Masters 1000. In F1, Kimi Antonelli secured a hat-trick of wins. In the NBA, the Pistons knocked the Magic out of the competition.

Teenage super-talent Paul Seixas will make his Tour de France debut this July, his team confirmed on Monday.

Speculation has swirled for months over whether the 19-year-old Frenchman would line up in Barcelona this summer after a series of hugely impressive results, or whether his Decathlon CMA CGM squad would protect him from the weight of expectation – particularly from the French press as the home favourite – and the gruelling physical challenge of riding the Tour, the most demanding of the three Grand Tours, at such a young age.

Seixas is only in his first full season as a professional rider and has never ridden a Grand Tour. But he has made waves with some remarkable performances, winning the Itzulia Basque Country stage race in April and La Fleche Wallonne, as well as finishing second – only behind Tadej Pogacar – at Strade Bianche and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

His Basque Country triumph, when he claimed all four jerseys and won three stages, made him the first Frenchman to win a WorldTour-level stage race since Christophe Moreau won the 2007 Criterium du Dauphine.

Those results, coupled with the maturity of his performances – particularly his ability and willingness to compete with Pogacar – mean he is already being hyped as the successor to Bernard Hinault, the last Frenchman to win the Tour de France, in 1985.

Decathlon had previously indicated his summer programme would be re-assessed after the Ardennes Classics, with his excellent run of results there making a Tour start all the more likely.

The team released a video of Seixas sharing the news of his plan to ride the Tour with his grandparents, with the caption, “J’ai quelque chose à vous annoncer… I have something to tell you.”

The teenager from Lyon has previously said his biggest dream is to win the Tour de France. The race starts in Barcelona on 4 July and finishes in Paris on 26 July this year.

Defending champion Pogacar lines up as the undisputed favourite after another stellar spring campaign, with his main rival Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel expected to challenge.

After Seixas’ fine start to the season Decathlon will have reason to hope for a podium finish and stage wins for the teenager, while from a more commercial perspective his participation will drive publicity for the French-based team.

Italian Andrea Pavan said he is “optimistic” about a return to playing after he fell down an open lift shaft in February.

The incident occurred before the South African Open at Pavan’s private accommodation near Stellenbosch Golf Club when the lift doors opened but there was no lift car in the shaft, causing him to drop three storeys down.

The 36-year-old was taken to a local hospital with severe shoulder damage and fractures to several vertebrae in his back, and had major surgery.

“It’s hard to say a precise goal, there’s more like steps,” said Pavan.

“Around three months we’ll see how well the bone has healed. Around six months it’s about where complete bone healing happens and we’ll see how the joint is moving by then.

“It depends on if there are other tissues that were damaged if I need a second surgery. And there’s the possibility of necrosis when the blood flow is not sufficient for the bones. There is that risk, but so far it seems like things are positive enough.

“The shoulder is a very demanding joint. Hopefully it’s a little less than a year that I can play with a full swing but it’s just so new and such a big injury there are just a lot of unknowns. But I’m hopeful and the only thing I can do is to try and improve and take it day by day.”

On the day of the incident, Pavan had been preparing to drive to the Stellenbosch course for breakfast and an afternoon pro-am tee, when he returned to his apartment to retrieve a locker key that had been left there.

Speaking to the Naga Munchetty programme on BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: “I walked back towards the elevator, I opened the door – one of those doors that get into the apartment straight away – and by the time I realised the lift wasn’t there I’d already taken a step.

“The next thing I know I’m just at the bottom of the elevator, luckily not unconscious but in a lot of pain and screaming for help.

“Somebody heard and I was somehow able to get my phone out and call my caddie, who was in the car. From then on it was just trying to survive the pain and waiting for the ambulance and all the firefighters who got me out.”

The two-time DP World Tour winner spent seven days in hospital in South Africa, having surgery on a complete fracture of his shoulder, and has now returned to his home in Texas.

Pavan paid tribute to the “amazing” support from the golfing world during his time in hospital.

“The amount of people who came to the hospital to visit me when the tournament was happening was truly overwhelming,” he said.

“There were a lot of players – friends of mine – who actually stayed up to 2am and waited for me to get out of surgery and they were playing in the tournament the next day, Matteo Manassero, Manuel Oliveira and others.

“I was just truly surprised and it was comforting and overwhelming to feel you were not alone going through this.”

Jose Benavidez Sr, the father and trainer of David Benavidez, has insisted there is only one fighter who would offer his son a considerable challenge.

The 29-year-old became a three-division world champion against Gilberto Ramirez, dethroning his former sparring partner with a sixth-round stoppage at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena.

Beforehand, many felt their encounter was likely to go the distance, especially with Benavidez moving up from 175lbs and Ramirez having never previously been dropped.

As it happened, though, Ramirez was forced to suffer two knockdowns – and a nasty swelling on his right eye – before being relieved of his WBO and WBA titles.

Benavidez, meanwhile, is now the unified cruiserweight champion and has the option to move back down to light-heavyweight, where he holds the WBC world title.

In that division, he would likely be targeting an undisputed showdown with Dmitry Bivol, but ‘The Mexican Monster’ could alternatively make an audacious move up to heavyweight.

Benavidez has previously discussed a potential fight in the land of the giants, which his father and coach believes is the only way he will be properly tested.

Speaking with Fight Hub TV, Jose named unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk as perhaps the only man who could present his son with some semblance of a challenge.

“Right now, I’m going to be honest with you: I don’t see any danger for David Benavidez at 175[lbs] and at cruiserweight.

“Nobody can beat David, this is ‘The Monster’ era. At the end of the day, he’s beating everybody in every division, so [he] might as well go to f***ing heavyweight.

“I think the biggest challenge would be Usyk. That’s something like out of this world. That’s the only guy that I think could [challenge him], that would be crazy, that would be another big challenge because he [Usyk] is the pound-for-pound best in my opinion.”

While a clash between Usyk and Benavidez would, indeed, be quite extraordinary, it is difficult to imagine the Ukrainian including Benavidez in his three-fight plan.