France Football unveiled a 30-man shortlist for the 2025 Ballon d’Or — and it has everything football loves: superclub dominance, teenage phenoms, comebacks, blockbuster transfers, and a “people’s candidate.” Side by side stand Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Scott McTomina...
Olympic champion Lazizbek Mullajonov, until recently a model of professional discipline both inside and outside the ring, has found himself at the center of a doping scandal. What began as an innocuous clinic visit has turned into a major headache for the Uzbekistan Boxing Federation and a hot topic...
After a two-year journey in the Championship, Leeds United is back among English football’s elite and is meeting the new challenge fully equipped — the club has entered into a partnership agreement with the international bookmaker Parimatch, which will serve as the team’s official sleeve sponsor for...
The NBA’s summer market is still open, and LeBron James’s name remains the main magnet for rumors and wagers. Formally, the forward enjoys immunity from a trade thanks to his no-trade clause, as his agent Rich Paul loudly reminded everyone. Yet betting lines have a life of their own: the money flowi...
Donetsk’s Shakhtar opened the new Ukrainian Premier League season with a victory—achieved under newly appointed head coach Arda Turan. The Turkish specialist marked his first official match on the Miners’ bench with a minimal yet crucial away win over top-flight newcomer Epitsentr Dunaivtsi. The M...
In the UFC lightweight division, long queues rarely form, but key figures sometimes face off head-to-head faster than a new episode of Embedded can drop. One of the division’s most formidable contenders, Arman Tsarukyan, is convinced that his next walk to the Octagon will almost certainly end in a...
The news that had been whispered throughout North London has finally become reality: Son Heung-Min is officially leaving Tottenham Hotspur. In recent years, the South Korean forward has been not only the club’s symbol but also the captain who united fans across the globe. Now, having spent exactly t...
In the closing days of the transfer window, Manchester City supporters finally received an answer to the key question—would the first Uzbek in Premier League history stay with the club? The board and Pep Guardiola made it crystal clear: the 21 -year-old centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov will remain wit...
