LOS ANGELES: Retired ring great Floyd Mayweather will pay for the funeral services for George Floyd, Mayweather Promotions chief executive Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN on Monday (Jun 1). George Floyd died last week after a Minneapolis policeman knelt on the 46-year-old man’s neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd, who was […]
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LONDON: Global sport is facing the “mother of all wake-up calls” as it emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, with uncertainty over what the landscape for participants and sponsors will look like. Former head of Olympic marketing Michael Payne believes that although “it will be very painful pulling through it”, sport […]
LOS ANGELES: San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has called out President Donald Trump for a lack of leadership in the face of nationwide unrest set off by the killing of unarmed African American George Floyd last week. Popovich, a longtime critic of Trump, spoke Sunday to weekly magazine The […]
LONDON: Formula One drivers followed Lewis Hamilton’s lead on Monday after the six-times world champion criticised his sport’s silence over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white U.S. police officer knelt on his neck. The death in Minneapolis triggered a wave of outrage […]
The Japanese race is a long-standing fixture on the MotoGP circuit TOKYO: The Japanese MotoGP was cancelled over the coronavirus on Monday (Jun 1) as organisers said they would concentrate on holding as many races as possible in Europe this year. The scrapping of the Oct 16-18 race in […]
In the 2006 Faisalabad Test, Pakistan’s 588 runs in their first innings was matched by India with their 603 runs, which had a 210-run sixth-wicket stand between MS Dhoni (148) and Irfan Pathan (90). The 2006 Faisalabad Test between India and Pakistan is best remembered by MS Dhoni’s first-ever Test […]
Ever since mid-May, football has been introduced to several health protocols — empty stadiums, virtual crowds, and elbow celebrations — which has marked a distinct change in the sport. Lionel Messi believes that life and football will never be the same again once the La Liga returns on June 11 […]
A 50% pay-cut could see more WI players turning freelancers and preferring cash-rich T20 leagues Back in the day, when franchise-based T20 leagues were just sprouting around the world, Dwayne Bravo, the Trinidadian all-rounder who everyone wanted in their dugout, had quipped: “The most uncertain job is that of a […]
BFI, which had earlier taken care of all his medical expenses, apart from airlifting Dingko Singh from Imphal, are in touch with the family. Days after returning to Manipur from Delhi, where he had to be airlifted for cancer treatment, 1998 Asian Games gold medallist boxer Dingko Singh has tested […]
The players have been nominated as per the guidelines mentioned by the sports ministry, who had sought invitations for the respective awards with the period of consideration beginning January 1, 2016 till December 31, 2019. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday nominated India opener Rohit […]