Sat 29 Apr 2023: In a bidding war, Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, son of Qatar’s former prime minister and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe made their third and final bid to buy Manchester United Football Club on Friday. The deadline for submitting bids ended at 10 pm GMT on Friday for the Glazer […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: Qatar will host the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the governing body for international basketball confirmed on Friday. “The Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) has been awarded the hosting rights for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027, with all games at the prestigious tournament to be played in the city of Doha,” […]
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Sat 22 Apr 2023: A Saudi lawyer has demanded for Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrest and deportation after the football legend clutched his crotch in an apparent insult to rival supporters. Ronaldo’s teammates have stated that he is only recovering from an injury. Footage posted to social media showed the 38-year-old striker tugging his crotch upwards as […]
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Thu 13 Apr 2023: The Premier League clubs have agreed to remove gambling sponsorship from the front of match-day shirts, although the change will not take effect until the end of the 2025-26 season. Betting companies now sponsor the shirts of eight of the league’s twenty clubs. Premier League clubs will be permitted to negotiate […]
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Fri 07 Apr 2023: Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East until he said yes, Reuters reports. After mastering the basic moves, Besou quickly surprised everyone with his talent. “He started correcting us and telling […]
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Tue 04 Apr 2023: Amir Khan, the former light-welterweight world champion, has been banned from all sports for two years after testing positive for a prohibited substance. The 36-year-old retired boxer tested positive for the anabolic agent ostarine after losing to Kell Brook in Manchester in February 2022, according to UK Anti-Doping. Ostarine is a […]
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Tue 04 Apr 2023: Former Bizhub Lions cricket player, Jean Symes, has been found guilty of participating in match-fixing for the domestic Ram Slam T20 Cricket Challenge. This comes after the Anti-Corruption officer at Cricket SA received information from a whistle-blower about alleged match-fixing planned for the 2015/2016 domestic Ram Slam T20 Cricket Challenge. “The […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: In a 7-0 friendly victory over Curacao, Argentina captain Lionel Messi has passed the 100-goal mark for the reigning world champions. Seven-time Awarded the Ballon d’Or Messi scored the game’s first goal in 20 minutes against the Caribbean island Minnows in Santiago del Estero on Tuesday, bringing his career total to […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Olympic chiefs recommend returning Russian and Belarusian athletes to competition as individuals under a neutral flag with no links to the military. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the IOC had recommended to international federations and event organisers that “athletes with a Russian or a Belarusian passport must compete […]
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Sun 26 March 2023: A recent study has revealed that footballers are 50 per cent more likely to suffer from dementia compared to the rest of the population. Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute published the study in the Lancet Public Health journal which compared 6,000 elite footballers’ health records with more than 56,000 non-footballers between […]
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