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...
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...
Not so long ago, Phoenix was trying on championship rings, trading its future for a loud “right now” and pushing the payroll to the cap and beyond. After the trades for Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, the question seemed to boil down to just one thing: when, not whether, they would win a title. The r...
Love in the lives of top footballers often follows the script of a derby: there is tension, mistakes, screaming headlines and, of course, attempts at a comeback. The story of Vinicius Junior and influencer Virginia Fonseca is exactly one of those. After a public breakup and a loud scandal, the coupl...
Juventus' trip to Norway turned out to be not just an important Champions League match, but a full-fledged expedition beyond the Arctic Circle for the Turin side. The team finally picked up their first points of the 2025/26 group stage by beating Bodo-Glimt 3–2 in an entertaining shoot-out, but the...
At first glance, a story about virtual gifts in a messenger looks like a harmless way to monetize popularity. But once you add Khabib Nurmagomedov's name, Pavel Durov's involvement, and Conor McGregor's long-standing hatred into the mix, an ordinary auction turns into another round of their years-lo...
Every time Alexander Ovechkin steps onto the ice, Washington fans can already feel that something special is coming. It is impossible to divide his career into ordinary and remarkable games — almost every night he is rewriting NHL history. Before the matchup with Winnipeg, the club organized a large...
