Belgian Pieter Devos returned to the winner’s circle in the Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) — for the world’s top show jumpers — for the first time since 2014 with a narrow victory in Miami Beach. Devos and his 11-year-old Belgian-bred horse Claire Z triumphed in an eight-rider jump-off, producing a clear round that was…… MORE
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Juventus crowned Serie A champions as Cristiano Ronaldo makes history
Juventus came from behind to beat Fiorentina and create Serie A history, while Cristiano Ronaldo made some history of his own. The Turin club became the team first in Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 or the Premier League to win eight consecutive league titles. Ronaldo, meanwhile, became the first player to win the…… MORE
Rafael Nadal suffers shock defeat to Fabio Fognini
Rafael Nadal suffered a shock defeat on clay in the Monte-Carlo Masters semifinals, going down 6-4 6-2 to Italian Fabio Fognini. The defeat, in particular the second set which saw Nadal save five match points to avoid a bagel, will raise questions about the Spaniard’s health heading into next month’s French Open. A knee problem…… MORE
Man City return to top of Premier League with victory over Tottenham
Pep Guardiola must have been sick of the sight of Mauricio Pochettino. This was the third time in the last 11 days that Manchester City and Tottenham have gone toe to toe, with the north London side coming out on top on the previous two occasions. True, City may have won 4-3 in Wednesday’s pulsating…… MORE
Boxing ‘shooting itself in the foot’, says Dana White
Dana White is a man of many passions. From a love of grocery shopping and Tom Brady, to his hope of a thawing in relations between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was an open book as he spoke to CNN’s Patrick Snell. But White was at his…… MORE
Valentino Dixon: How art and golf freed innocent man from life sentence
Caged for a murder he didn’t commit, Valentino Dixon sought solace in art. He loved to draw as a child, and took up sketching again to escape the harsh realities of prison after being handed 39 years to life for the fatal shooting of a man in downtown Buffalo in 1991. Art became Dixon’s salvation,…… MORE
‘Enough is enough’: Footballers boycott social media in protest at racist abuse
‘Enough.’ That is the strapline being championed on Friday by professional footballers in England and Wales as they stage a 24-hour boycott of social media platforms, in protest against the lack of action being taken in response to racism. Multiple players have been subjected to abuse this season both from the stands during matches, as…… MORE
Li Na: Tennis player wants the movie about her life to inspire women
Li Na may be one of China’s most influential sports stars but at home she is just like most parents, regularly being brought back down to earth by one of her children. The now 37-year-old Li has devoted most of her time to her family and her business career since chronic knee injuries forced Asia’s…… MORE
Manchester City v Spurs: Where does Champions League “classic” rank in competition’s great games?
Five goals in the first half. Seven by full-time. And another, potentially decisive strike, dramatically ruled out by the video assistant referee (VAR) in injury time. Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final second leg between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur had absolutely everything. With Spurs holding a slender 1-0 advantage from the first leg, the lead and…… MORE
The artist using NBA star James Harden’s beard as inspiration
It’s a feat that hasn’t been achieved since the days of NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain: James Harden scored at least 30 points in 32 straight games this season, the second-longest streak in history. But it wasn’t the shooting guard’s incredible play that inspired Filip Peraic to make Harden the subject of a series of portraits…… MORE
