The international break brought an unexpected twist for Erling Haaland: instead of a routine warm-up — an urgent visit to the doctors. The Norway and Manchester City striker suffered a facial cut by the team bus in Oslo. The scene looked alarming for a moment — blood, pain, medics rushing — but with...
The story of how hundreds of “Miami Heat” game relics quietly disappeared from the arena reads more like a thriller than a sports chronicle. Former Miami police officer Marcos Thomas Perez, who had worked in the security units of the Heat and even the NBA, allegedly removed more than four hundred ga...
His path reads like the script of a sports drama: a boy from a family without papers sells trinkets on the streets of Athens, hides from nationalist raids, accidentally catches a coach’s eye — and years later lifts the NBA trophy above his head, then carries the national flag at the Olympics. The st...
Andrey Arshavin once again found himself at the center of attention at the legendary Anfield. The former Arsenal and Russia forward attended the Premier League Matchweek 3 game between Liverpool and the Gunners, which ended in a narrow home win — 1–0. The evening, however, was remembered not only fo...
Just before the US Open kicked off, the feeds of top tennis players suddenly featured images with meticulous styling and a fashion mood. It looked as if Andrey Rublev, Holger Rune, Flavio Cobolli, Alex de Minaur, and Frances Tiafoe had shot for a fashion magazine and then gone about their day. Later...
At the current EuroBasket, Slovenia's captain Luka Doncic stands out not only for his stat lines but also for unprecedented security measures: a personal bodyguard stays with him at all times. According to BasketNews, this is the only such case at the tournament — and it instantly became a talking p...
American tennis player Sachia Vickery has found a way to capitalize on her personal brand beyond the court: the athlete opened a page on an adults-only platform and simultaneously set a “price” for in-person dates. According to her, posts with explicit content that don’t make it onto Instagram bring...
Every football season has its own patterns, and Neymar's is especially noticeable: for almost a decade, on the cusp of February and March, the Brazilian drops out of the squad — due to injuries, an accumulation of cautions, or short "windows" for flights home. This year the story gained a fresh chap...
In one episode of his own show, Wayne Rooney revisited an Olympic evening when he suddenly found himself amid the star-studded roster of Team USA Basketball. The English forward described the atmosphere as a rare chance to peek behind the scenes of an NBA All-Star–level squad — with LeBron James, Ko...
Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal has, to the surprise of the basketball world, agreed to a boxing match. His opponent is Charles "Charlie Mack" Alston, an influential figure on the Philadelphia music scene and former bodyguard to Will Smith. The 53-year-old former center, who ended his profes...
