While fans were focused on the main intrigue of the Formula 1 season and calculating every scenario in the title fight, a very different, far less expected story unfolded almost beneath the radar. Carlos Sainz, who himself expected the Qatar round to be one of the toughest weekends of the year, sudd...
The Middle East stopped being just an oil supplier long ago – step by step the region is turning into a global financial hub and host of the biggest sporting shows. Formula 1 has become one of the key shop windows of this push: high-speed single-seaters are used to sell a vision of the future, inves...
Every NBA season there is always at least one rookie whose highlights hit your feed before your alarm even goes off. This year that unexpected hero has turned out to be Kon Knueppel – a fair-skinned guy with the face of a model accountant who can casually quote Scripture after games while breaking l...
The latest round in the top leagues produced a whole scattering of strange, at times almost anecdotal episodes, behind which very rational tactical decisions are hiding. Some coaches are using free weeks without European competition to turn set pieces into their main resource. Others leave their sup...
Arina Sabalenka's season has long gone beyond being just a sports story. A US Open title, finals at the Australian Open and Roland Garros, a spell as world No. 1 and more than 15 million dollars in prize money – all this speaks of a player who lives in a mode of constant maximum intensity. But in pa...
The fallout around the EuroLeague game between Partizan and Fenerbahce did not end with the score on the scoreboard. At the center of the scandal was a giant banner in the stands of the Belgrade arena depicting the moment of the death of Ottoman sultan Murad I at the hands of Serbian hero Milos Obil...
