Sports Personality of the Year: Ellie Kildunne runner-up - BBC

Emma Sing comes in at full-back in Kildunne's place for Saturday's rematch (00:00 BST) against Canada in Ottawa, while Tatyana Heard and Claudia Moloney-MacDonald - backline starters in the defeat - drop out of the matchday squad entirely. Helena Rowland and Mia Venner replace Heard and Moloney-MacDonald at inside centre and wing respectively. In the fourth change to the starting line-up, Sadia Kabeya, who appeared off the bench last week on her comeback from a leg injury, starts with Alex Matthews, two-time Rugby World Cup winner, dropping to the bench. Exeter's Flo Robinson and Sale's Hollie Aitchison are included on the bench as a new-look set of half-back replacements. Sing, a rangy runner who can also kick goals, started two matches at full-back during England's Six Nations campaign, with Kildunne switching to a different position on the wing on each occasion. Sing's Gloucester-Hartpury team-mate Venner made her England debut in 2020 aged just 17. Venner has won only another four caps since but was putting pressure on England's more established back three at the start of this year, appearing in wins over Scotland and Italy.

Charles Leclerc kept Ferrari on top in second practice for Formula 1's 2026 United States Grand Prix, narrowly beating Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes and Max Verstappen's Red Bull to the fastest time. Leclerc topped FP1 around Austin's Circuit of the Americas, but only because Verstappen had a quicker lap deleted for track limits, and it was Verstappen who set the pace early on in FP2 on the medium Pirelli tyres, after finally doing a lap below 1m36s that was legal. George Russell managed a 1m36.0s for Mercedes early on in FP2, while the Ferraris and Lando Norris's McLaren ran the hard compound tyre and Antonelli spent time in the garage fixing a loose seat that he described as "moving like crazy". When F1's likely 2026 champion did finally take to the track in anger, out of sequence with the rest, he was two tenths off his Mercedes team-mate. Leclerc's hard-tyre running was compromised by traffic in the high-speed Esses and getting forced off the circuit by Russell (who was shown a warning flag for his trouble), but on the soft-tyre qualifying simulations the Ferrari came alive and Leclerc went fastest with a 1m35.291s lap.

Blunt. To the point. And when it comes to things hockey related, usually right. That's what they told us we'd be getting when the Oilers brought in Mike Babcock, and so far, the advanced billing has been spot on.