Stephan Shemilt No wicketkeeper in the history of women’s international cricket has more than Sarah Taylor’s 232 dismissalsAmong the myriad of restrictions brought to everyday life, lockdown is preventing Sarah Taylor from returning to the nets.Perhaps the finest female wicketkeeper to have played the game, Taylor retired from international cricket because of a battle with […]
Read MoreThe rivalry between elite football clubs is already fierce, but it’s just been shot into new territory.As global fanbases shelter from the pandemic at home, a collaboration between Epic Games – the creator of the video game Fortnite – and the world of football has opened another sphere of competition online. “Fortnite has been around […]
Read MoreEight hundred consecutive weeks. That’s how long Rafael Nadal has been living inside the Top 10 of the FedEx ATP Rankings. His run has spanned more than 15 years and counting: 5,600 days. 134,400 hours. The Mallorcan’s streak has already lasted longer than the Napoleonic Wars or World War I, World War II, and the […]
Read MorePakistan’s bowling coach Waqar Younis has said that his meeting with the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Cricket Committee happened in a welcoming atmosphere.The former pacer appeared before the committee for his performance evaluation this week. The board, in its press release, mentioned that the committee was disgruntled with the side’s outings under their leadership.The Burewala […]
Read MoreIt is estimated that Marcus Rashford is priced at a value of 165 million euros , which places him ahead of other soccer players.In second place we can find the Norwegian Erling Haaland , who works as a forward for Borussia Dortmund – in the German Bundesliga – and for the Norwegian national team. It […]
Read MoreJaclyn Hendricks This week, Serena Williams shared an adorable Instagram photo of daughter Alexis Olympia, 3, practicing her swing on the tennis court.“Turn, back, reach, head, follow through,” the 39-year-old tennis pro captioned the shot.In the photo, Olympia is seen holding her own racket as she keeps her eye on the ball as Williams looks […]
Read MoreA tennis boss said Serena Williams should retire ‘because of her age and weight,’ prompting the tennis champion’s husband to call him racist and sexistMeredith Cash Jan 5, 2021, 11:53 AMIon Tiriac — the billionaire director of the Madrid Open — called on Serena Williams to retire because “at this age and the weight she […]
Read MoreCricket is a gentleman’s game and it’s heartwarming to see players show respect time and again for each other both on and off the field.Kane Williamson was the pick of the batsmen for New Zealand during the second Test match at Christchurch, scoring a near-flawless 238-run innings before he was dismissed. As the Kiwi skipper […]
Read MoreCharlie Roumeliotis After being out for almost 14 months because of a concussion, Andrew Shaw is back with the Blackhawks to open training camp ahead of the 2020-21 season. And he’s as excited as ever to get going.But it was a long journey to reach a point where he felt 100 percent again.On Wednesday, Shaw […]
Read MoreShane Warne’s men’s Test Team of the Decade is in and it features one massive difference compared to that of the ICC’s.The ICC this week released its Teams of the Decade with two Australians, David Warner and Steve Smith, getting the nod in the men’s Test XI alongside two Englishmen.Both Australians made their way into […]
Read MoreBrandon Kochkodin Two of the most talked about boxing matches in 2020 — the return of a 54-year-old Mike Tyson to the ring and an exhibition fight between social media personality Jake Paul and former NBA player Nate Robinson — left boxing purists wincing. But for former world champion and current mega-promoter Oscar De La […]
Read MoreArtemis Moshtaghian, CNN Professional wrestler Jon Huber, known in the ring as both Luke Harper and Mr. Brodie Lee, died this week at the age of 41, according to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Huber wrestled for WWE and more recently for All-Elite Wrestling (AEW). His wife, Amanda Huber, said on Instagram that her husband “passed […]
Read MoreTumaini Carayol The pandemic forced the 33-year-old German to step away from the treadmill of being a top-20 player and announce an unexpected retirement “I can feel it now on my body,” says Julia Görges. “It’s less tension, less pain because the mental stress which affects your body and affects your mind a lot, this […]
Read MoreAndrew Reid Mexican boxer Julian Fernandez has been given a painful lesson in what can go wrong when your confidence doesn’t match your ability. Fernandez (14-3) was destroyed in his fight with Frank Sanchez 17-0 (13 KO’s) over the weekend, with his Cuban opponent punching him out of the ring in a devastating seventh round […]
Read MoreThe Badminton World Federation announced details of the sport’s calendar for the first half of 2021 season, including the reopening of world rankings and qualification plans for the postponed Olympic Games in Tokyo.The qualification period will be extended until the Indian Open 2021, which will be the last tournament to earn points that count toward […]
Read MorePete Thamel The shotgun football kicking career of Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller appears to have come to a close, as the Commodores’ game at Georgia on Saturday has been canceled. Vanderbilt has been dealing with COVID-19 issues, and the game is the last one on its schedule. The Commodores will finish the season 0-9. For Fuller, […]
Read MoreWest Indies are expected to tour Bangladesh from January to February, with the teams set to play three ODIs and two Tests as part of the Cricket World Cup Super League and World Test Championship respectively.Cricket West Indies (CWI) have approved in principle the tour of Bangladesh, subject to the finalisation of medical and logistical […]
Read MoreCathy Kushner On National Signing Day last month, JMU’s women’s tennis program signed four-star recruit Hope Moulin. Hope — who’s ranked No. 1 in her division in Florida — is the sister of Kylie Moulin, a redshirt sophomore on the team.“[JMU] has a great tennis team,” Hope said. “I love all the girls on the […]
Read MoreMike Tyson could be set for a rematch with Evander Holyfield after the 54-year-old former heavyweight champion’s contest with the 51-year-old Roy Jones Jr generated $80m. According to the fight’s distributer, Triller, more than 1.6m pay-per-view purchases were made for the Tyson-Jones fight, making it one of the biggest PPV events of all time. Tyson […]
Read MoreAfter practising for the first time since having hip surgery a year ago, former British number one Laura Robson says she feared she would never “make it back on court”. Robson, 26, first had hip surgery in June 2018 and then again last December. The 2008 Wimbledon junior champion has not played since retiring from […]
Read MoreThe ICC is looking for an experienced sport-focused partner who can provide both the platform and the services required to build, enhance, and support the ICC’s suite of digital products. The ICC would like to invite interested and qualified applicants to express their interest in developing the ICC’s digital publishing platform comprising a content management […]
Read MoreWest Indies legend Brian Lara is currently a part of the official broadcasters panel for the IPL 2020. Lara has seen the career of plenty of a youngsters unfold in front of his eyes. And who better than the legend himself to share a piece of advice for the young cricketers, with some, making a […]
Read MoreMike Tyson has totally opposed Floyd Mayweather’s view on there being too many belts in boxing.Mayweather went on a tirade about the number of belts in the sport in October, saying: “There’s too many champions in the sport of boxing right now… This s**t, this doesn’t look good.” However when asked about Floyd’s comments following […]
Read MoreA few weeks removed from announcing she parted ways with coach Dani Vallverdu, Karolina Pliskova has added Sascha Bajin to her team for 2021.Pliskova unveiled the news earlier this week on social media with a socially distanced photo that included Bajin and her fitness coach Azuz Simcich. Bajin was the WTA Coach of the Year […]
Read MoreBen Church Argentina soccer legend Diego Maradona has died of a heart attack at the age of 60, his lawyer Matias Morla said.The Argentine Football Association confirmed the news and posted a short message on its social media platforms. “The Argentine Football Association, through its President Claudio Tapia, expresses its deepest sorrow for the death […]
Read MoreNic Savage England cricket great Graham Thorpe has revealed the brutal sledge from former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy which thwarted him during the 1993 Ashes series.During the fifth Test at Edgbaston, England was reeling on day four at 8-229, with Aussie tweakers Shane Warne and Tim May rattling the depleted batting attack. As the only […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Christian Turner has said his goal since arriving in Pakistan had been to welcome the England Cricket Team back.“16 years of waiting is over, and I am delighted that England will play here in 2021,” he said in a video message.He added: “A lot of hard work […]
Read MoreToshifumi Kitamura Tokyo: Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, organizers said, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear. The retired ex-champ had already dropped hints about the fight, which follows a widely ridiculed 2018 “exhibition” match against a Japanese […]
Read MoreLausanne: Australian swimmer Shayna Jack was banned for two years on Monday for accidental doping, with her sanction expiring days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judge decided “Jack did not intentionally ingest ligandrol and considered that she had discharged her onus of proving that the […]
Read MoreLahore: Pakistan cricket team’s bowling coach, commentator, former pacer Waqar Younis celebrated his 49th birthday on November 16 and received love and prayers from friends and fans on social media.Younis began his cricketing career in 1987/88 by playing for several first-class cricket clubs. His international career kicked off in 1989 till 2003. Being a talented […]
Read MorePurav Joshi New York: Everybody knows about the American tennis sensation Serena Williams, but not many know about her business off the court. Apart from being the former World No. 1 tennis player, the 39 years old American is a genius investor. With her diversified portfolio of businesses, she has gained the reputation of being […]
Read MoreLahore: Pakistan has named Babar Azam as their new Test captain, putting him in charge of teams across all formats.Babar’s tenure as Pakistan’s captain in the longest format will start against New Zealand in December.World No. 5 Babar Azam has been appointed Pakistan’s Test captain, confirmed PCB on Tuesday, adding that Azhar Ali has stepped […]
Read MoreLahore: Alia Zafar has been named as one of the independent directors on the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), becoming the first female to have been appointed to the post in the cricket-crazy South Asian nation.Zafar, a human resources executive, was included among four new PCB directors. The others are finance executive Javed Kurieshi, economist Asim […]
Read MoreJohn Gunning It’s been a rough 14 months for Kakuryu since the passing of his former stablemaster resulted in the closure of Izutsu Beya and the yokozuna’s relocation to Michinoku stable. The Mongolian veteran went into the September 2019 tournament as defending champion, with his 14-1 title winning performance in the previous meet seemingly the […]
Read MoreShane Watson has announced his retirement from all cricket, bringing an end to a nearly 20-year career during which he was of the world’s premier white-ball allrounders. Watson had already retired from international cricket in March 2016, and had only been playing in overseas T20 leagues since his retirement from the Big Bash League (BBL) […]
Read MoreMoscow: The International Ski Federation (FIS) has introduced the so-called ‘COVID-19 FIS Passport,’ which is aimed to help with the issuance of accreditations for international ski tournaments, Natalia Podorovskaya, a vice president of the Russian Snowboard Federation, said. “We have scheduled to organize in Russia two Snowboard World Cup events, which will be held in […]
Read MoreColombo: A popular actor has withdrawn from starring as Sri Lanka’s legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in a biopic after the cricketer himself warned him off, saying he could face a backlash from India’s Tamils.Vijay Sethupathi, 42, had been under pressure in his southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to drop the role in the film […]
Read MoreSochi: Russia’s rising figure skating star Anna Shcherbakova said that qualifying for the 2021 ISU (the International Skating Union) World Figure Skating Championships was her main goal for the upcoming season.Shcherbakova, 16, won two stages of the Russian Figure Skating Cup this year and qualified for the Russian Figure Skating Championship, which will be hosted […]
Read MoreThe Plunket Shield in New Zealand became the first tournament to feature a ‘COVID replacement’, in keeping with the new interim playing regulations in world cricket.Ben Lister turned out for Auckland in their match against Otago, starting Tuesday, 20 October, in place of Mark Chapman. Chapman reported feeling ill on Monday, and as per the […]
Read MoreNathan O’Hagan After presumably discussing the matter in boardrooms thick with cigar smoke, last week Liverpool and Manchester United put forward plans for a proposed restructuring of English football. Going under the appropriately grandiose moniker of Project Big Picture, the fairly radical plans included reducing the Premier League from twenty to eighteen clubs and scrapping […]
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