Author: Salid Martik
Author: Salid Martik
Author: Nevin Lasanis
Fenerbahçe Beko head coach Šarūnas Jasikevičius, summing up the second game of the Türkiye Sigorta Basketball Super League play-off final series against Beşiktaş Fibabanka, in which his team won 84–76, warned that no easy games lie ahead. — We took the lead, but Beşiktaş managed to come back and m...
Having failed to navigate the Süper Lig season as they had hoped, the management of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş has already begun shaping the squad for the upcoming campaign. The club’s goal is to strengthen the team with two top-class players as quickly as possible and reignite the fans’ former excitement....
A Star-Crossed Story Ending in a “Double Life” When Manchester City defender Kyle Walker fell in love with model and reality-show personality Lauryn Goodman, their romance looked like yet another glossy tale of a footballer and a beauty. In 2020 she gave birth to their son Cairo, and in 2022 to...
Galatasaray, set to feature in next season’s Champions League once again, has already launched an active campaign in the transfer market. The Yellow-Reds have been especially persistent about reinforcing their forward line, and in the midst of it one of the side’s key players unexpectedly asked for...
Paris Prologue: A Lesson on Red Clay Just two weeks ago it seemed that Jannik Sinner’s season might remain almost flawless. At Roland Garros the Italian stormed into the semifinals, surrendering only one taxing set — against Alexander Bublik, who traditionally struggles on clay: the long rallies a...
A Reluctant Peacemaker: The First Hours of War and Secret Flights For fourteen years the owner of Chelsea lived a familiar football routine—signing players, lifting trophies, visiting Stamford Bridge. Everything changed on the morning of 24 February 2022. Within half a day of the outbreak of hos...
Doubt and Pain: When a Leader Has No Time to Heal Ahead of Game 6, it seemed the Thunder needed only to step onto the floor and collect the trophy. The Pacers had dropped two straight, and their maestro Tyrese Haliburton was battling a sharp calf pain—during the regular season he would have sat at...
Praise From a Defensive Legend Monterrey’s “bronze wall” centre-back Sergio Ramos, who for years made the back line of Real Madrid and the Spanish national team impenetrable, shared his admiration for Barcelona’s young winger Lamine Yamal. At a pre-match press conference the 38-year-old captain of...
Historic Debut of the Innovation On the pitch in Jeddah, it was not only the showdown between South Korea’s Ulsan HD and South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns that went into the history books; French referee Clément Turpin did as well. It was in this match that the official first applied the new...
Diplomacy Before the Opening Whistle A few hours before the Club World Cup semi-final, in which the Turin side routed Emirati club Al Ain 5–0, part of the Juventus delegation found itself not on the training ground but in the White House. The guests were accompanied by FIFA president Gianni Infant...
