He is the all-time top scorer for Manchester United and the England national team, a 'bad boy' and a model grafter, a one-man forward orchestra ready to cover any position on the pitch. Wayne Rooney is both immense and contradictory: the kind of figure whose career consists not only of goals and tro...
The summer basketball cycle in Europe had barely begun when social-media feeds already ignited—all because of a post by Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vucevic addressed to his former teammate Evan Fournier. With trademark sarcasm the Montenegrin felt sorry for Olympiacos supporters, claiming they wou...
The Argentine singer Nicki Nicole found herself at the center of the football news cycle by showing up at Barcelona’s game against Como for the Joan Gamper Trophy at Estadi Johan Cruyff. She wore a Blaugrana jersey with Lamine Yamal’s name and number — the 18-year-old winger whose possible relations...
There are losses you can chalk up to “just didn’t have it.” And then there are the kind where you just sit there blinking: is this really that same Oklahoma City? The defending champions, the top seed in the regular season, the team with the best net rating and an iron defense—and then suddenly it’s...
Sometimes basketball serves up stories that rewrite the usual hierarchy in an instant. A game where a kid without a draft number from a small town in Arkansas takes the ball — and paints the box score with 50+ — is exactly one of those. We spoke with Lakers head coach JJ Redick about Austin Reaves's...
Key Changes to the Regulations From next season the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is radically revising the way home and away fixtures are allocated in knockout ties. The draw that previously determined the order of matches is being consigned to history for the Champions League,...
On the eve of their Champions League trip to “PSG,” “Bayern” publicly opposed the last-minute restrictions imposed on supporters in Paris and said it had already appealed to UEFA. The catalyst was an order from the Paris police prefecture, published on Monday afternoon: at the last moment the docume...
While supporters argue about how serious his recent health issues really were, Lamine Yamal is already answering on the training pitch. The teenage winger, absent from official matches since early October, has rejoined full sessions and is playing with no concessions to past niggles: attacking defen...
In every league night there’s a moment that makes you hit replay again and again. This time the show was once again staged by Victor Wembanyama — the phenomenon of "San Antonio" who makes you doubt the usual limits of the human body. His latest highlight is not just beautiful — it erases the lines b...
“A Rabbit to Hunt”: How One Phrase Sparked a New Intrigue Only two weeks remain until the megafight between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois at London’s Wembley Stadium for the undisputed heavyweight crown. The news cycle seemed to belong solely to them—until Tyson Fury burst onto the scene as i...
