Real Madrid will be up against it when they face Manchester City in their Champions League last-16 second leg on Friday, and Zinedine Zidane’s team will likely need a fully-firing Eden Hazard to stand any chance of progressing. Though Zidane managed to win La Liga, taking advantage of Barcelona’s abundance […]
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Conor McGregor has goaded UFC rival Khabib Nurmagomedov by claiming the Russian will be “sh*tting his pants” against Justin Gaethje in the pair’s lightweight title unification fight and trying to “get a whiff of his jockstrap.” UFC lightweight champ Khabib meets interim title holder Gaethje on October 24, as the […]
Bellator MMA flyweight Valerie Loureda has said any rivals who see her penchant for posting bikini pictures on social media as a sign of weakness are in for a rude awakening as she prepares to make her cage comeback. Loureda, 22, steps back into the Bellator cage this Friday at […]
American superstar The Rock says he has returned to his roots as a budding NFL pro by leading a bid to buy troubled American football league the XFL, which suspended operations with more than $50 million of debt earlier this year. Wrestling overlord Vince McMahon’s Xtreme Football League had planned […]
A man who was successfully sued by the UFC in a $32 million lawsuit has ended his silence in damning style, calling the multibillion-dollar promotion’s chiefs ‘old ass bozos’ and distancing himself from his own public apology. New Yorker Steven Messina was prosecuted by the UFC over the distribution of […]
Fans and analysts have turned on Orlando Magic star Jonathan Isaac and each other after he shunned the Black Lives Matter T-shirts worn by his teammates, stood during the anthem and left in a wheelchair with a painful knee injury. Forward and ordained minister Isaac was the first NBA star not to […]
As Serie A winners Juventus ended their season with a whimper by slumping to their third defeat in four, Cristiano Ronaldo’s warning to fans that silverware doesn’t come easily might have more to do with him than he imagines. “It seems easy but it isn’t,” came the platitudinal post on […]
Footage has emerged of the exchange when cops questioned baseball catcher Reese McGuire after he was allegedly caught pleasuring himself in a public parking lot, with the Toronto Blue Jays player admitting he had been an “idiot”. Baseball World Championship gold medalist McGuire was charged with exposing his sexual organs […]
Golfer Bryson DeChambeau, who has hit the headlines recently for bulking up during quarantine and raging at a cameraman, has stunned fans again by asking tournament officials for help after his ball appeared to land on fire ants. Viewers and experts offered sympathy and ridicule to DeChambeau when he aroused […]
Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reacted strongly to the news that criminal proceedings have been brought against his successor, Gianni Infantino, saying FIFA’s ethics commission has no option but to suspend him. Swiss authorities revealed on Thursday that proceedings had been launched against Infantino by a special prosecutor, with the […]
A new report has detailed the hefty earnings of the first-team squad at Serie A champions Juventus, revealing that star striker Cristiano Ronaldo’s $31 million salary is more than the next four top earners at the club combined. Even with five Ballon d’Orm awards to his name, the discrepancy between […]
Dynamo Kiev ultras have let off flares, marched outside a match and promised to make new boss Mircea Lucescu’s working life a misery, reacting with fury to the appointment of the former manager of fierce rivals Shakhtar Donetsk. New manager Mircea Lucescu resigned just days into his reign as Dynamo […]
Famed Russian figure skater-turned-coach Evgeni Plushenko has said that quad-jumping prodigy Alexandra Trusova has become a driving force in his academy, inspiring her younger teammates to conquer new heights. According to the two-time Olympic gold medalist, Trusova’s desire to work has no limits. He praised the athlete for her passion […]
A TV station run by the owners of Inter Milan has shown an image of Lionel Messi on the largest church in Italy, with the club’s former president claiming that the striker’s father would walk to seal a transfer there for his son. Italian giants Inter have been widely named […]
Nearly half of the teams in the Premier League wrote to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to request that Manchester City’s appeal against a ban from European competition be dismissed, according to a report released Tuesday. Pep Guardiola’s team was hit with a two-year ban from European football and […]
Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr says he understands the concern of people who fear he could be seriously injured when he steps into the ring with fellow icon Mike Tyson in September. It was announced in recent days that 54-year-old Tyson’s long built-up comeback to the ring is indeed happening […]
Former Formula One ace Adrian Sutil has reportedly been involved in a car accident in Monaco, crashing a luxury McLaren Senna LM supercar estimated to be worth $1.175 million. Full details of the accident are yet to emerge and it remains unknown how the collision occurred on the streets of […]
Former Moscow anti-doping laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov has called for a blanket ban on Russia from next year’s Tokyo Olympics as the doctor re-emerged to speak to the Western media ahead of the publication of a new book. The fugitive doctor fled Russia six years ago before leveling accusations against […]
Reigning world and Olympic champion figure skater Alina Zagitova tried a new sport on Sunday as she had a golf training session under the guidance of Russian national coach Igor Ivashin. The 18-year-old was attending the golfing festival ‘Strong figures’ in Tver Region, where she had an opportunity to test […]
Cristiano Ronaldo got on the scoresheet but also missed a penalty as Juventus beat Sampdoria 2-0 in Turin to pick up the three points they needed to seal a ninth straight Serie A title. Maurizio Sarri’s men had won just once in their past five games heading into the clash […]
Roman Abramovich could be poised for an historic summer of spending after his Chelsea team secured Champions League qualifications on a breathless and long-delayed final day of the 2019-20 Premier League campaign. A brace late in first-half stoppage time from Mason Mount and Oliver Giroud sealed a crucial three points […]
Russian Premier League champions Zenit sealed the domestic double with a late win over underdogs Khimki in the Russian Cup Final on Saturday, only to drop the trophy within minutes of receiving it at the Ekaterinburg Arena. Three weeks after wildly celebrating by dousing each other in champagne in their […]
World Cup winner and in-form Premier League striker Olivier Giroud’s decision to stay at Chelsea was reportedly down to his wife’s close relationship with Marina Granovskaia, the director who is leading the charge for Kai Havertz. Giroud was on the brink of leaving Stamford Bridge after a first half of the […]
Frank Lampard continued the spat that saw him tell a member of Jurgen Klopp’s staff to “f*ck off” during Chelsea’s loss at Liverpool, the Reds boss has said – and Klopp has claimed that he unfairly accused his team of “arrogance”. Lampard’s clean-cut image was damaged when the Chelsea coach […]