MEN’S BASKETBALL: Matthew Ragsdale netted 21 points as Caledonia Gladiators, the Super League’s bottom team, ended their six-match losing run with an 87-79 win in Newcastle on Sunday evening. 

Second-bottom Surrey grabbed a surprise 87-86 over-time win at Bristol and Patrick Robinson top-scored with 27 points as Cheshire stuffed Manchester 116-90. 

London Lions top the table by four points after edging past Leicester 83-75.

WOMEN’S CYCLING: Dutch racer Lucinda Brand continued her dominance of the cyclo-cross season with a seventh consecutive World Cup win on Sunday afternoon in Dendermonde, east Flanders. 

Compatriot Puck Pieterse finished 11 seconds behind defending champion Brand with France’s Amandine Fouquenet third. 

Zoe Backstedt was the highest placed Briton in 27th place. Brand tops the standings, 72 points ahead of Aniek van Alphen.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Celtic can move level with Scottish Premiership front-runners Hearts if they take three points from tomorrow night’s game in hand at fourth-placed Motherwell. A win by more than four goals will put them top. 

Rangers, nine points off the pace in third, meet form-team St Mirren, bottom of the table Livingston take on Dundee United, Hibs face Aberdeen and Kilmarnock travel to Dundee looking to end their 12-match winless run. 

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: The newly formed Salford club have sealed a two-year deal with their local council to continue playing at the Salford Community Stadium, which is shared with Premiership rugby union team Sale Sharks. 

Thirty-three-year-old former captain Ryan Brierley, who left Salford during last season’s mass player exodus, has announced his retirement at Oldham to return to the club as its new chief executive.