Footballers of Karim Benzema's calibre know how to make headlines even when the ball plays no part in the moment. The Al-Ittihad striker, used to deciding matches with a single touch in the penalty area, has now made a move away from the pitch — and did it with real swagger. Benzema has added a Pabl...
Christmas stories in football often look like a polished PR stunt, but sometimes they have real personality — smiles, unexpected encounters, and those signature jabs that anyone who has lived through a derby will recognize instantly. This time the main character was Manchester City's striker Erling...
If you open the latest WTA rankings and compare them with Uzbekistan’s national pecking order, one detail jumps out immediately: the country’s top-ranked tennis players haven’t been in that role for long. In just a few months, the federation assembled the backbone of the women’s squad through switch...
In the UFC, Conor McGregor is used to making loud statements, turning press conferences into a show, and converting any talking point into a headline. But the longest distance in his life wasn’t covered in the Octagon or at the negotiating table over fight purses; it was walked in his relationship w...
Sometimes the road to the UFC doesn’t start with a polished amateur résumé and perfect conditioning, but with a personal pit you have to climb out of centimeter by centimeter. Steven Asplund’s story is exactly that: a guy who not long ago weighed around 240 kg managed to reinvent himself, reach the...
The recent Fenerbahce — Anadolu Efes derby perfectly showed why you can’t watch basketball in Turkey “half-awake”: the hosts squeezed it out in overtime, 97:94, after regulation ended deadlocked (83:83). It was a tense, loud night full of momentum swings, Pablo Laso’s debut on Efes’ bench, and a yel...
Sometimes even the most recognizable footballers in the world need a simple human pleasure — a walk through the city without camera flashes and autograph lines. In New York, Neymar tried to do exactly that: hide his name, status, and the familiar noise around him for at least a couple of hours, turn...
A move to the Premier League is not only a new stadium, a different match tempo, and the pressure of the stands, but also the everyday process of settling in. Newcastle forward Nick Woltemade, who completed a summer transfer from Stuttgart, unexpectedly found himself in the spotlight not for a scori...
Spanish UFC champion Ilia Topuria has long since gone beyond just fighting in the Octagon. In parallel with his career in the world's premier promotion, he has been systematically investing in the development of mixed martial arts at home in Spain. In 2024, Topuria became a co-owner of the WOW FC pr...
Some players associate the off season with silence, training camps, and rare posts on social media. For Aryna Sabalenka it is the opposite. The world No. 1 spends the break between seasons in such a way that you have to follow it almost as closely as a deciding tie-break at a Grand Slam tournament:...
