The Eastern Conference standings right now look less like a table and more like a classic Mexican standoff: everyone is standing there with guns drawn, waiting to see who flinches first. Boston and Indiana have fallen out of the picture due to injuries, Cleveland and New York look shaky, and sitting...
Champions League nights are made for spectacles like this. In just one match Kylian Mbappe reminded everyone why he is called the leading centre-forward of his generation: a four-goal haul against Olympiakos, a chase of Salah's record and a 4–3 Real win in which every one of his goals proved vital....
The Turkish national team finished the 6th Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh in dazzling fashion, turning the tournament into a demonstration of strength and consistency. Over 18 days of competition, the team steadily increased its lead in the medal standings and ultimately crossed the finish line...
The 6th Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia became one of the key events of the season for the countries of the Muslim world, and the Uzbekistan national team made the most of this opportunity. The national side not only steadily collected medals throughout the tournament, but by the end of the...
For many years, Novak Djokovic was a living symbol of Serbia — an athlete who raised the national flag on courts all over the world and, in every interview, emphasized his bond with his homeland. He has often recalled how painfully he experienced the bombing of Belgrade in the 1990s and said that hi...
A story that only recently looked like a routine contract squabble has turned into a full-blown power crisis for Real Madrid. Vinicius Junior, one of the symbols of the current Madrid side and a team captain, is not just dragging out talks over a new deal – he is effectively tying his future at the...
Sometimes early-morning news wakes you up better than any coffee. On the night leading into Friday, Alexander Ovechkin delivered exactly that: at 40 years old he recorded a hat trick against Montreal, added an assist on top of it and, in one evening, burst into the top 10 scorers in NHL history, pus...
It is easier to describe the 2025 tennis season not with words, but with numbers. A three-month suspension, 5 hours 29 minutes in the Roland Garros final, 15 million dollars in prize money in a single year, Iga Swiatek's bagels, Valentin Vacherot's Shanghai miracle and Carlos Alcaraz's buzz cut that...
Norwegian super-grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has officially confirmed that he will play in the 2025 World Rapid and Blitz Championship, which will be held in Doha from 25 to 30 December. For the former world champion this is not just another start in rapid and blitz chess, but an attempt to close seve...
Sometimes the fate of a qualifying campaign is decided not by a spectacular striker's finish, but by an awkward movement from a defender who is not even looking at the opposition goal. That is exactly how Suriname, only recently seen as an outsider, literally snatched the chance to fight for a ticke...
