RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN CORTINA D'APEZZO: Matt Weston's first thought upon stirring on Saturday morning was to check his bedside drawer in the athlete's village.
MATT BARLOW AND JACK GAUGHAN AT THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM: Thomas Frank's Tottenham came back from 2-0 down to earn a 2-2 draw against Manchester City.
To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent Cop30 summit in Belem, Brazil - or at Harvard and on CNN - but elsewhere it's dead.
In today's frantic property market, we're so tied up with the money, who really spares a thought for the house itself, and what may have happened there before us?
MATT GOODWIN: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce a suite of initiatives, which she will claim will drastically reduce illegal migration without requiring Britain to leave the ECHR
MATT BARLOW: Villarreal boss Marcelino insists Thomas Partey is in the right frame of mind to play against Tottenham before a court date hours later to answer charges of rape.
MATT BARLOW: News of Levy stepping down as executive chairman after nearly a quarter of a century would have had some sections of the fanbase reaching for champagne.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Bridget Phillipson proved that this week, when she admitted that white, working-class British students are in danger of being 'written off'.
MATT BARLOW: Isak has not travelled with Newcastle on their pre-season tour and, as revealed by Mail Sport on Thursday, he has informed the club's hierarchy he wants to explore a move.