Mon 04 January 2021: Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed Pele with his 758th goal to become the second-highest goal scorer ever as Juventus defeat Udinese 4-1 on Sunday. Ronaldo has now scored 758 goals for club and country with majority of them coming during a trophy-laden career with Real Madrid. He has scored 656 club goals with […]
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Thu 31 December 2020: The Football Association has suspended Manchester United’s Edinson Cavani for three games and fined the Uruguay striker £100,000 for his use of the word “negrito” in a social media post. The FA said the comment was “insulting, abusive, improper and brought the game into disrepute” and also was an “aggravated breach” because it […]
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Thu 31 December 2020: Russian sumo wrestler Dzhambulat Khatokhov, who entered the Guinness World Records as the world’s heaviest child in 2003, has died at the age of 21, sports officials in his native region said. Betal Gubzhev, head of the body governing sumo wrestling in the southern Kabardino-Balkaria region, announced Khatokhov’s death on Instagram […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Argentine football star Diego Maradona did not consume alcohol or illicit narcotics in the days before his death, an autopsy released on Wednesday said. Maradona, who died in November aged 60, had taken seven different medicines to treat depression, anxiety and other ailments but “there was no presence of [illegal] drugs,” […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: Qatar inaugurated the fourth of eight 2022 World Cup venues, the Al Rayyan Stadium, when the country hosted the Amir Cup final between Al-Sadd and Al-Arabi on Friday, Reuters reports. Al-Sadd, coached by former Barcelona and Spain midfielder Xavi Hernandez, beat Al-Arabi 2-1 to lift their 17th Amir Cup title after Algeria forward […]
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Thu 17 December 2020: A long-forgotten container with hundreds of items of memorabilia from the career of late Argentine football star Diego Maradona could provide a treasure trove for collectors – and open a new front in the contest over his estate. Shirts signed by Sergio Aguero, Ronaldo Nazario, Harry Kane and Hristo Stoichkov are […]
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Wed 02 December 2020: Professional wrestler Dilip Singh Rana aka The Great Khali has become the latest star from the entertainment world to have supported thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana, who have been camping in and around Delhi to press for their demand of repealing the Centre’s farm laws. In a video statement […]
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Tue 01 December 2020: British driver Lewis Hamilton will miss this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain after testing positive for coronavirus, his team announced Tuesday. “The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team regrets to announce that Lewis Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be unable to take part in this weekend’s Sakhir GP,” the […]
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Mon 30 November 2020: Diego Maradona’s doctor is under investigation for involuntary manslaughter four days after the Argentine legend suffered a fatal heart attack, state news agency Telam has reported. Maradona died of a heart attack Wednesday at his home on the outskirts of the capital, Buenos Aires. Police raided the home and clinic of […]
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Sun 29 November 2020: An exhibition match between legendary heavyweight Mike Tyson and aging pugilist Roy Jones was ruled a draw by the Word Boxing Council. Tyson, 54, returned to the ring late Saturday for the first time in 15 years at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the bout of eight two-minute rounds. […]
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