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A young Australian wheelchair basketball player has shown his class after a stunning extra-time winner sent the Wombats into a Commonwealth Games gold medal match and broke England’s heart. Locked at 10-all after regulation time, Australia fell behind early in the extra frame before Lachlin Dalton’s stunning double sealed a 12-11 win. Watch the amazing moment in the video above Stream coverage of the Commonwealth Games 2022 for free on 7plus >> England had the first gap in extra time but Charlie McIntyre’s pass was stolen by Dalton, who immediately returned the favor and had a pass that was intercepted by his rivals. McIntyre threw it in to help Lee Manning, putting the hosts 11-10 ahead, but England’s hopes were dashed by Dalton in the most dramatic of circumstances just seconds later. Seeing the gap as Abderrahim Taghrest darted into the two-point arc, Dalton threw in a Hail Mary – and it never looked like it was missing. That shot sent Australia through...

Bill Russell redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way the sport was viewed in a racially divided country. Key points: Bill Russell is a 12-time All-Star and was voted the greatest player in history in 1980 He won 11 championships as the core of the dominant Boston Celtics team MVP award for best player of the NBA finals series named after him The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr, endorsed Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The heart of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell won his last two NBA titles as a player-coach—the first black coach in a major US sport. Russell died on Sunday at the age of 88. His family posted the news on social media, saying his wife Jeannine was by his side. The statement did not provide a cause of death, but Russell was not well enough to present the NBA Finals MVP trophy in June due to a long illne...