Sport in brief: November 2, 2026

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Second-placed Newcastle eased past bottom-club Leicester 101-80 and edged to 99-92 success at Caledonia. 

Manchester are up to third after narrow wins in Bristol and Liverpool, who also lost out 108-117 at home to Cheshire Phoenix and lowly Surrey lost 76-81 to Sheffield.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Champions League action resumes on Wednesday evening with Aston Villa taking their 100 per cent record to Barcelona while struggling Manchester United host Roma. 

Winless Slovan Bratislava face LASK in Linz, Galatasary meet Stuttgart and Athletico Madrid face Bayern Munich. Champions PSG are at Villarreal, Feyenoord are up against Inter Milan, Bodo/Glimt play Lille and Shaktar Donetsk take on Sporting Lisbon.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Glasgow top the United Rugby Championship with the only unbeaten record after they edged out lowly Johannesburg 29-20 and Edinburgh slumped to a surprise 31-12 loss at Benetton. 

Pretoria thumped Scarlets 54-26 to move second ahead of Cape Town, who saw off struggling Ulster 33-7. 

Defending champions Leinster eased to a 50-5 win at Connacht while bottom club Zebre went down 35-14 at the Dragons.

ICE HOCKEY: Cardiff Devils joined Sheffield Steelers and Belfast Giants in the Challenge Cup semi-finals despite losing 4-3 after a shoot-out at Manchester Storm on Sunday night. 

Fife Flyers will meet Guildford Flames in the elimination game for the remaining last four place after they won 3-2 in Dundee and Cameron Hough scored two goals as they came from behind twice to beat Belfast 3-2 after a shoot-out.

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