The 2026/27 Premier League season begins with Arsenal defending their title and three promoted clubs returning. The Premier League returns for the 2026/27 season with Arsenal beginning their title defence, three clubs returning to the top flight and another campaign bringing together some of the world’s best players, managers and clubs.After a dramatic 2025/26 season,…
A Messi shirt gifted to former Manchester United masseur Rod Thornley has sold for more than six times the price of a Ronaldo jersey from the same collection/Credits: MatchWornShirt A Lionel Messi shirt from his Barcelona days has sold for £48,608 ($66,107) at auction, comfortably exceeding the price paid for a Cristiano Ronaldo shirt sold…
England’s Joe Root celebrates hitting a half century. (AP Photo) Joe Root added another landmark to his extraordinary Test career on Thursday, equalling Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar’s record for the most half-centuries in Test cricket during England’s first Test against Pakistan at Headingley.Root brought up his 68th Test fifty on the second day before…
Terry Dyson, Spurs legend who won 1960-61 Double and remains only Spurs player to hit Arsenal hat-trick, dies aged 91 Tottenham Hotspur are mourning the death of Terry Dyson, the former winger who became part of one of the greatest sides in the club’s history and remains the only Spurs player to score a hat-trick…
Former soccer Brazilian player Ronaldinho answers to reporters ahead the 2026 Ravenna Serie C soccer team presentation joining the club as a technical coach and playing in one match in Ravenna, Italy, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) Ronaldinho is set to return to professional football with Italian third-tier club Ravenna, 11 years after…
India’s PV Sindhu, left, shakes hands with China’s Wang Zhi Yi after their match. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: PV Sindhu’s quest for an unprecedented sixth World Championships medal ended in a gruelling pre-quarterfinal defeat to China’s Wang Zhi Yi on Thursday, with the Indian admitting the loss “hurts a lot more” on home soil while…
NEW DELHI: Former Asian silver medallist and Tokyo Olympian Shivpal Singh has been handed a 10-year suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) Disciplinary Panel after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid methandienone in what has been deemed his second doping offence.The 31-year-old javelin thrower’s career now faces a major setback, with the length…
PV Sindhu’s World Championships campaign ended in controversy as Wang Zhi Yi overcame cramps, a hostile Delhi crowd and the five-time medallist to snap her unbeaten record against Chinese shuttlers at the Worlds. Ayush Shetty also bowed out, while Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand and Satwik-Chirag marched into the quarter-finals. Source link
The US Open is set to offer the biggest prize in Grand Slam tennis history, with the 2026 singles champions taking home $5.5 million each as the total player compensation for the tournament rises to a record $108 million.The United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced the prize-money structure on Thursday, ahead of the tournament’s start…
Swapna Barman (AFP Photo) Former Asian Games champion Swapna Barman has been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after testing positive for a banned substance.The 29-year-old athlete tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic-androgenic steroid, according to NADA’s latest list of provisionally suspended athletes.Barman made history at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games by becoming…