MADRID: Brazil winger Vinicius Junior said his desire to play football was reducing as incidents of racial abuse aimed at him piled up in Spain, during a tearful media appearance Monday. The Real Madrid forward has suffered abuse from opposition fans on many occasions in recent years, with one incident in Valencia in May provoking … Read more
MELBOURNE: Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. surged to victory at the Australian Grand Prix Sunday to snap Red Bull’s winning start to the season after three-time world champion Max Verstappen sensationally failed to finish. The Spaniard, who had appendicitis surgery two weeks ago, took the chequered flag 2.3 seconds ahead of teammate Charles Leclerc, with McLaren’s Lando … Read more
DUBAI: “Shogun,” FX’s latest adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 bestselling novel set in 1600s feudal Japan, is a far cry from the popular 1980s mini-series, told predominantly from the point of view of its Western protagonist John Blackthorne (played then by Richard Chamberlain, and now by Cosmo Jarvis). While Jarvis’ Blackthorne gets ample screen time … Read more
DUBAI: Gulf Giants and the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders served up a nail-biting finish to their International League T20 match on Saturday, matching the late-night drama on Friday in the Dubai Capitals and Desert Vipers match. At the start of play, both the Giants and the Knight Riders sat on ten points. The result would determine … Read more
Duel of Titans: Messi vs Ronaldo tickets hit $11,000 for Riyadh Season Cup showdown Riyadh: Football aficionados can look forward to an epic showdown as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo clash once more, this time in the Riyadh Season Cup as Inter Miami faces off against Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia’s capital on Thursday. Dubbed “The … Read more
For Jordan, pure joy and a shot at history. For Iraq, dejection. For the rest of the continent, and indeed the world, the best game of the AFC Asian Cup 2023 so far came on Monday afternoon at the Khalifa International Stadium as Al-Nashama somehow came back from certain defeat to score two injury-time goals, … Read more