While Manchester United is still trying to find stability on the pitch, the club is also undergoing restructuring off it. This time it is not about transfers or a change of head coach, but about how the management treats the people who keep this huge football machine running every single day. After...
The season has barely gotten going, and the Clippers already feel like the world is ending. Five straight losses, just two wins in their last fifteen games, next to last in the West, and a complete lack of even a clear idea of how to climb out of this hole. While Los Angeles is helplessly drowning i...
In today's sports world, betting brands are as much a part of the landscape as club logos and tournament crests. They are in news headlines, on players' shirts and in broadcast graphics. But the roots of this giant industry lie not in football or basketball, but in a world where the central figure i...
A piece of news has broken around the Los Angeles Clippers that caught both the fans and the team itself off guard: Chris Paul will no longer play for the club. The decision by the front office effectively puts a period at the end of a long and important chapter in the franchise’s history, in which...
On the calendar it is still winter in Catalonia, but in Barcelona's offices the transfer summer has already arrived. The club's management are calculating scenarios for rebooting the squad: they need a new centre-forward, a fresh winger and a left-footed central defender. At the same time the wage b...
The paradox of today's Real is striking. Kylian Mbappe is banging in goals at a pace reminiscent of Messi, Ronaldo and Lewandowski in their peak years, yet the team is bogged down in its play, dropping points and living in a state of constant anxiety. Talk about Xabi Alonso's future is already thick...
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...
