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:...
Erling Haaland has long proved that he lives football not only on the pitch but far beyond it. For the Manchester City striker, a ball and a TV showing live games are just as essential to everyday life as dinner or downtime. A small story from his personal life, which he shared on the podcast The Re...
In the Formula 1 World Championship, drivers fight not only for pole positions and podiums but also for a place at the top of the pay table. Forbes's annual ranking shows exactly who turns outright speed on track into record-breaking paychecks. At the end of the 2025 season, the cash race is once ag...
In basketball we are used to decisive moments happening on the court: you miss a free throw, turn the ball over, commit a foul in the closing seconds. But for former NBA champion Matt Barnes, the fateful miss happened far away from the floor. In his case the opponent was not another team or even tox...
