Double Without Compromise In a single season, Fenerbahçe Beko achieved what only a handful of clubs manage: winning both the premier European cup and every major domestic tournament in one campaign. Sarunas Jasikevicius’s men successively dispatched Beşiktaş Fibabanka—first in the Turkish Cup fi...
Stormy Start and Red Card Already in the 7th minute, Madrid defender Raúl Asensio halted a promising Pachuca attack and was shown a straight red card. Real had to play almost the entire match a man down, yet the game plan did not collapse: the defensive structure was reshaped, the midfield close...
Bayern Munich made a perfect start to the FIFA Club World Cup, annihilating New Zealand’s Auckland City 10–0 and establishing a new tournament record for the biggest winning margin. The Group C clash was held at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, USA. Kingsley Coman opened the scoring in the 6th minute, a...
An Expensive Mistake: How €77 Million Produced No Trophies In January, Al-Nassr hit the headlines with another blockbuster move: 21-year-old Colombian Jon Duran cost the Saudis €77 million plus another €13 million in add-ons. In Riyadh they believed the rapid forward would create a dream duo wit...
Fenerbahçe are accelerating their work on the transfer market ahead of the new season. The Yellow-Navy Blues have already made Al Hilal striker Aleksandar Mitrović their priority target and have begun initial talks with his entourage. The 30-year-old forward, who also plays for the Serbian nationa...
Second Meeting—Another Pick-and-Roll Toward a Contract The Knicks front office has already held a second full-scale interview with the specialist, which in the “coaches’ market” almost always signals the final stage of ironing out the details. According to reputable ESPN insider Shams Charania,...
Resignation Decision at Fenerbahçe In the camp of the Istanbul giant, explosive news broke — Fenerbahçe’s Corporate Communications Director Mustafa Sapmaz stepped down. The story spread rapidly through Turkish sports media, and soon after, Sapmaz himself confirmed it on his social-media pages....
P4P – An Abstract League of Champions The pound-for-pound (P4P) rating is a kind of “weight utopia” in combat sports. Experts mentally equalize every fighter’s weight and try to figure out who would be the strongest under such a hypothetical parity. There is no official set of criteria, so som...
Unexpected Echo of a Legend Manny Pacquiao, a multi-time champion and one of the ring’s leading icons of the 21st century, returns to the boxing stage after a significant hiatus. On 19 July, the Filipino great will face interim WBC welterweight titleholder Mario Barrios. The very fact that the v...
On 25 June at New York’s Barclays Center, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Duke forward Cooper Flagg had been selected first overall in the 2025 Draft by the Dallas Mavericks. Fans received the outcome they had awaited all year: the 18-year-old wing, already laden with accolades, is offic...
