The World Darts Championship was briefly halted on Monday night after a power cut interrupted the action at the Alexandra Palace.

Fallon Sherrock will look to continue her pulsating World Darts Championship run at Alexandra Palace, having spent four hours of her Christmas Day practising.

After the fesitivies of Christmas Day, Boxing Day is made for one thing and one thing only - sport. We have you covered, with your definitive watching brief to ensure you can cram in every bit of action.

The former rugby player did not find the scintillating form which saw him whitewash John Henderson in the previous round with an average of 105 and afterwards hit out at Whitlock's pace of play.

Gerwyn Price has slammed Peter Wright for employing dirty tactics and described his behaviour as 'out of order' following his defeat in their heated World Darts Championship semi-final.

Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a World Championship match when she beat Ted Evetts last month, and Barry And Hearn believes it has put darts back on the global map.

Fallon Sherrock has been confirmed as one of the nine 'challengers' who will feature in the 2020 Premier League. She shot to fame at the World Darts Championship.

JORDAN SEWARD: Peter Wright has been a long, hard road to the top. He finally accomplished his dream by beating van Gerwen 7-3 to win the World Darts Championship

Parents of young sports men and women have been warned about predatory coaches who may use their position to take advantage of children and how to spot the warning signs.

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Joel Embiid's left ring finger looked like the top of a used bendy drinking straw, grotesquely overlapping his pinkie to the point that it seemed he had his fingers crossed.

It's HOT OR NOT time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.

MIKE KEEGAN - SPORTS AGENDA: Given their obsession with young audiences, It should come as no surprise that the BBC's press office have apparently begun to act like Pinocchio.

JEFF POWELL: My long-range admiration for Courtney Lawes as a man has been cemented by his principled stand against the fake allegations that criticism of Meghan Markle is racist.

Great Britain's hopes of reaching the next Winter Olympics were dashed on Sunday when they were defeated 4-1 by their old rivals Hungary in a winner takes all clash.

The elephant in the room remains, running laps at improbable speed. It has been two weeks since Jemma Reekie came to wider attention with an astonishing performance - now she must talk.

Jemma Reekie's coach Andy Young believes the breakthrough star of British athletics packs enough of a kick to be an Olympic contender this summer after her victory in Glasgow on Saturday.

The world's fastest sailboat is set to complete its record-breaking journey around the world this week, making its arrival through the Thames. The IDEC Sport's crew are led by Francis Joyon.

The four-man, 4km event is one of Team GB's most successful in any Olympic sport - they won gold at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Veteran Ed Clancy was the only ever-present in those teams. 

It was left to Jason Kenny to add to the family's cycling silver after wife Laura defied doctor's orders but could not defy the odds.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: New levels of bemusement were attained with this week's revelations of how he changed his story about an L-carnitine infusion to USADA investigators.

GEORGE BOND: The longest championship drought in the history of North American professional sport met its end deep in the webbing of Anthony Rizzo's right glove.

The coronavirus has rocked the sporting world this week with most taking measures to ensure that fans nor players are affected by the global pandemic that is spreading across the world.

The Premier League Darts season has already thrown up plenty of surprises as it nears the half-way mark of the 2020 campaign. Here, Sportsmail takes a closer look at what we've learned.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Race walker Tom Bosworth stands to miss out on as much as £20,000 this spring due to events that have been called off because of coronavirus.

*'Footy is resilient and footy will find a way,' said not Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park but AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan this week. Here are the sporting fixtures proving him right.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Sir Steve Redgrave has told Sportsmail that delaying the Olympic Games until the summer of 2021 'makes a lot of sense'.

Raymond van Barneveld triumphed over Phil Taylor in a stay-at-home darts match which raised £15,000 for the battle against coronavirus.

The Tour de France's organisers are focusing on a postponement of this year's race rather than a cancellation due to the coronavirus pandemic. 'Le Tour' was set to roll out of Nice on June 27th.

The legendary road race is scheduled to start in Nice on June 27 but it will now either be postponed or scrapped altogether, with a decision expected later this week.

The Scot, a two-time winner of the World Championships at Ally Pally, was scheduled to take part in the event from the comfort of his own home in Somerset, but is now unable to.

Gary Anderson had to pull out of the PDC Home Tour due to poor Wi-Fi connection. The event sees darts players compete from home over the next 32 nights in a competition.

O'Sullivan is a five-time world champion and his dad was spreading the word from when he was just a small child, including to one of the country's greatest ever footballers.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Then known as Ann Packer, she took gold in the 800m as Sportsmail caught up with one of Britain's sporting heroes at her lovely home in Congleton, Cheshire.

A wide-ranging review of UK Athletics has heard that the under-fire organisation 'couldn't get any worse' - and has raised specific concerns about its ethics.

Kanye West announced plans in November that he was setting up a new Adidas Yeezys HQ in Cody, Wyoming, vowing to bring jobs back to the United States.

Mark Wahlberg revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that his children misinterpreted his hint about getting a new puppy and thought he invited Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to dinner.

They are the two oldest children of their power couple parents Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. And it seems 6-year-old North and 4-year-old Saint West are finally getting a long.

Ever since Diddy's 50th birthday party in mid December, 42-year-old Kanye West and 50-year-old Jay-Z have bonded again and now they are on good terms. Now their kids play together.

McDonald's debuted a new commercial called 'Famous Orders.' It includes Kim's order at the chain: a burger, fries, a six-piece nugget with honey, apple pie, and a vanilla shake.

Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark greeted reporters wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with an image of Donald Trump's 2016 meeting with rapper Kanye West at Trump Tower.

Kim Kardashian, 39, and Kanye West, 42, were in the middle of interviewing each other about their house when North bounded into the scene, throwing herself onto her mother's arms.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have opened the doors to their futuristic Los Angeles mansion, giving fans the first proper look inside the incredible concept home.

She is mom to four kids with husband Kanye West: daughters North, six, and Chicago, two, and sons Saint, four, and Psalm, nine months.

The star rang up customers buying her shapewear collection on the day of it's Nordstrom launch. Kim held a scanner as she completed the purchase, before handing off the bag.

Amber Rose has paid homage to both her children by getting their names tattooed on her forehead, in images first seen on social media on Friday.

'North has a private TikTok account, so we do lots of TikToks together, and she puts them in drafts. She's not allowed to post them, but we have a lot of TikToks. I might post one soon.'

The reality star/entrepreneur admitted that while the idea of a bigger family is nice, she's not sure she has the time or energy for another child, during attorney Laura Wasser's podcast.

Kim Kardashian shared some throwback photos from her younger sister Kylie Jenner's StormiWorld party. She played it cool, but her husband Kanye West looked as if he was delighted.

Kim Kardashian treated her 160 million Instagram followers to an eye-popping tour of her children's playroom on Wednesday. She and Kanye West share North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.

Kanye West dropped another lavish Valentine's Day surprise trip on wife Kim Kardashian as the couple enjoy a sweethearts getaway poolside with an ocean view.