Fifty years ago, Richard Nixon became the first American president to visit China in July 1972, making possible the normalisation of the relations between both countries after decades of rivalry. His visit may not have been possible without a chance encounter between two table tennis players. At the end of the Second World War, the […]
The Kansas City Chiefs won their second NFL Championship in four years last weekend, edging out the Philadelphia Eagles in an instant-classic thriller, 38-35. The Chiefs, led by head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes, trailed the Eagles by ten points at the halftime mark. Mahomes limped to the sideline, noticeably in pain after […]
It has been quite a year for women’s tennis. Sporting legend Serena Williams retired after a record-breaking career for the history books, US Open champion Emma Raducanu publicly struggled through her first full tour season, and Polish Iga Świątek had an incredible year, establishing herself as the one to watch – and to beat. 21-year-old […]
I have always been particularly prone to the impulse to root for the underdog. This was certainly not amiss during the men’s finals of the Australian Open Tennis Championship 2023, which was a highly anticipated match-up between Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece). Prior to his victory, Djokovic was a 21-time grand slam winner […]
On January 17, the Philadelphia Flyers celebrated their Flyers Pride Night. The event culminated in players taking the ice for warm-ups in custom jerseys, their numbers decorated with rainbow stripes, before changing into standard uniforms for the game itself. Yet one of the twenty-one members of the Flyers roster was mysteriously missing from warm-ups: defenseman […]
Last week Everton manager Frank Lampard became the sixth Premier League manager to get the sack this season. Lampard managed just 44 league games during his tenure at Everton which resulted in 24 losses, twelve victories, and eight draws. In their last ten games, Everton lost to relegation contenders such as Bournemouth, Wolves, Leicester, Southampton, […]
You certainly don’t have to be a football fan to love the World Cup. The national mood soars, the pub gardens are booked to the brim, and ‘Three Lions’ ends up stuck in the heads of even the most reluctant onlooker. I don’t claim to be a football enthusiast on any level, but I have […]
Scotland were tightly defeated by Australia at BT Murrayfield in their first game of the Autumn Nations Series. Last Saturday, Scotland’s Men’s National Rugby Team was back in front of the Murrayfield crowd for its first Autumn test match against Australia. After an underwhelming fourth place in the Six Nations, Gregor Townsend’s men wanted to […]