Category: Sports

Juventus shares soared by over 20 percent on the Milan stock exchange Wednesday, the morning after Cristiano Ronaldo’s incredible hat-trick rescued the Italian giants’ Champions League campaign. The Portuguese superstar added a late penalty to a pair of headers for a 3-0 win on the night and 3-2 on aggregate over Atletico Madrid to seal […]

DURBAN – Imran Tahir is known to serve up a variety of tricky deliveries, but his greatest delivery by far, say, teammates, is the smoothie. They come in a variety of flavours (Tahir sometimes uses avocado) and can easily arrive – like his googly – out of nowhere. “He makes the greatest fruit shakes of […]

Zinedine Zidane is returning to coach Real Madrid, the club he led to three straight Champions League titles. Madrid said Monday the former France great has accepted an offer to replace Santiago Solari, signing a contract until June 2022. The coaching change comes less than a week after two losses to Barcelona and another to […]

Ozil may feature against Burnley this weekend despite mounting speculation over his future Mesut Ozil will be recalled to Arsenal’s matchday squad for the visit of Burnley tomorrow. Ozil, Arsenal’s highest-paid player, was dropped from the squad for the 2-0 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur in Wednesday night’s Carabao Cup quarter-final. Unai Emery insisted the player had been dropped due to “tactical reasons” and not […]

Rrecord 3.572 billion people watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia on TV or on digital platforms, FIFA said on Friday. France’s 4-2 victory in the final, which gave them their second World Cup title following their triumph in 1998, was the most watched game of the competition. It was seen live by a […]

Boxer Amir Khan has taken a somewhat bizarre route on his latest barrage of insults to fellow Brit Kell Brook, telling the Sheffield native to open up about rumors of him being gay. It seems inevitable that Khan and Brook will meet inside the squared circle before long, and in advance of the match-up between […]

Alastair Cook has announced he will retire from international cricket following the completion of England’s Test series against India at the Oval next week.The 33-year-old departs as one of his country’s most decorated players. He is England’s all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket, and captained the side more times than any other player.Cook admitted […]

Sports Minister Tokozile Xasa was responding to a question in the National Assembly on Wednesday on what the government was doing for Semenya following the IAAF new female classification rule. CAPE TOWN – Sports Minister Tokozile Xasa has pledged government’s support for double Olympic champion Caster Semenya. Xasa was responding to a question in the National […]

Real Madrid midfielder wins ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah Luka Modric has been named UEFA Men’s Player of the Year ahead of former Real Madrid team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah. The midfielder picks up the award after guiding Real Madrid to a third straight Champions League title and inspiring Croatia […]