A round packed with goals brought us a smiling Ousmane Dembélé, a frustrated Bukayo Saka and match-winning performance from a goalkeeperIf Tuesday night’s Champions League second legs tipped one way and then the other with attacking flair, then Wednesday was a night for grit to win the day – and English football to be the loser. It also brought a restoration of the old order, with Bayern and Real Madrid to meet in the semi-finals.Goalkeeper: Andriy Lunin, Real Madrid Continue reading
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to play chess nonstop for 58 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the global record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa. He is playing against Shawn Martinez, an American chess […]
Barcelona’s exit from the Champions League on Tuesday sent Atletico Madrid to the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup in the United States next year. Europe will have 12 teams at the lucrative monthlong tournament — title winners of the Champions League in the four seasons through this one plus high-ranked teams based on overall results in the competition in this period. Barcelona began play Tuesday trailing Atletico in the rankings to take the second Club World Cup entry from Spain and lost 4-1...
Barcelona’s exit from the Champions League quarterfinals against Paris Saint-Germain has sent Atletico Madrid to the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup in the United States next year. Atletico advances to the FIFA tournament despite being eliminated from the Champions League by Borussia Dortmund. Europe will have 12 teams at the lucrative monthlong tournament in the U.S. They are title winners of the Champions League in the four seasons through this one plus high-ranked teams based on overall...
Arsenal were knocked out the Champions League after defeat to Bayern Munich. As a result, they failed to qualify for the inaugural expanded Club World Cup. 'He doesn't have any excuse to dive!' Will Bukayo Saka learn from his Bayern tumble? Listen to the
Eleven of UEFA's 12 spots for the 2025 Club World Cup have been filled. Chelsea and Manchester City have already qualified for the tournament. Arsenal must recover in Munich - they can't carry the fear from Villa loss into Champions League showdown - Listen to the
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
Led by the popular broadcast team of Kate Abdo, Jamie Carragher , Thierry Henry and Micah Richards, Real Madrid's win over Man City was the most-watched quarter-final of all time on the network.
All FA Cup rounds will return to weekend slots but replays will be scrapped. It follows UEFA's expansion of their competitions from next season. Liverpool have been 'hungover' since Man United dumped them out of the FA Cup - where has their energy gone? Listen to the
The European Cup used to be so hard to qualify for, a tournament for champions. Now the entry door is left swinging open and next season will have 36 teams. Exhausted Man City?! We're all tired, but it's dangerous to spread that message. Big games are what it's all about: Listen to the
Hall had a go on the PowerKube, a device that measures striking power. His punch set a new record high beating UFC lightweight champion Pereira. Pereira smashed Francis Ngannou's old record on the machine two weeks ago
Atalanta kept up their bid for Champions League football with a hard-fought 2-1 win at Monza on Sunday, fresh from knocking Liverpool out of Europe.