Nick Kyrgios said a “lot of people will be upset” after he reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon with a thoroughly professional five-set win over Brandon Nakashima on Monday. The 27-year-old Australian’s fiery third-round win over Stefanos Tsitsipas led to his opponent branding him a bully with an evil side as again Kyrgios’s antics polarised opinion. […]
Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min has revealed he faced racism as a teenage footballer in Germany and was happy to get “revenge” when South Korea knocked Germany out of 2018 World Cup. Son, 29, became the first Asian footballer to win the Golden Boot for being top scorer in the English Premier League with 23 […]
June 9 – Four-times NBA champion LeBron James is ready to bet big on Las Vegas, with ambitions of installing a National Basketball Association franchise in Sin City. “I wanna own a team,” James said in a clip from his HBO television show “The Shop” that circulated on social media on Thursday. “I want a […]
The right knee has plagued Roger Federer for the past two seasons. After the semifinal reached at the Australian Open 2020, a real ordeal for the Swiss has begun on a sporting level. Suffice it to say that the former world number 1 played just 13 official matches last year, collecting nine wins and four […]
Toronto Raptors guard-forward Scottie Barnes, Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham and Cleveland Cavaliers forward-center Evan Mobley have been unanimously selected to the 2021-22 NBA All-Rookie First Team, the NBA announced today. The three players each received NBA All-Rookie First Team votes on all 100 ballots from a global panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Joining Barnes, […]
Liverpool defender Joel Matip has fired a warning to his teammates ahead of a nervy Premier League final day. The Reds still stand an outside chance of lifting the league title as they sit just one point off league leaders Manchester City with one match remaining. Jurgen Klopp’s side play host to Wolves on the […]
Tiffany Chin scanned the arena at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships last month and marveled at how things had changed. Chin won the national title in 1985. She was a happy-go-lucky teenager back then, but savvy enough to realize that the winners who had come before her had not looked like her, that few people […]
“Some people are idiots, especially when they drink. Nobody turns into a genius drinking, and that’s what they were doing last week. Especially if you were out in the afternoon matches, it was loud.” Shane Lowry has hit out at the “idiots” in the crowd at Whistling Straits that soured the experience of his Ryder […]
The number of spectators will be increased from the 22,500 currently permitted for the group matches despite the government delaying the removal of wider coronavirus restrictions in England. The capacity at Wembley Stadium will increase to at least 40,000 as the European Championship progresses after the British government decided to further ease coronavirus restrictions in […]
eSports gaming is an entirely 21st-century phenomenon. As young as the ‘sport’ may be, it has managed to attract a massive following. And, as all players of any game know, whenever there’s a lot of people interested in a competitive activity – money is soon to follow. eSports has become a significant point of interest […]
