Manchester City leap to second spot thanks to two more goals from Haaland
LONDON: Borussia Dortmund do not need warning about Erling Haaand. He scored 89 goals for them and had since added 141 for Manchester City. Yet the Norwegian is hungrier than ever. He proved the point with two first-half goals in City’s 3-1 defeat of Bournemouth. […]
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Barcelona pull back on track behind Madrid with 3-1 defeat of Elche
BARCELONA: Goals from Lamine Yamal, Ferran Torres and Marcus Rashford guided Barcelona to a 3-1 victory over Elche, propelling the defending LaLiga champions to second place in the standings with 25 points, five adrift of leaders Real Madrid. Looking to bounce back after their 2-1 […]
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Milan step up the four-way pursuit of Serie A leaders Napoli
MILAN: AC Milan claimed a crucial 1-0 home win over Roma with Strahinja Pavlovic’s goal and Mike Maignan’s late penalty save tightening the battle at the top of Serie A. One point now separates the top four teams in the table with Napoli at the […]
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Pereira sacked as Wolves stare into the Premier relegation abyss already
KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: Wolves, the Premier League’s bottom club, have sacked manager after an abysmal start to the and only two months after he was handed a new long-term contract as reward for keeping them up last term. Wolves have gone 10 league games without […]
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Michael Payne: Can technology improve sport without stealing its soul?
AIPS / LAUSANNE: Michael Payne, former marketing director of the International Olympic Committee, used a platform at the SportAccord IF Forum to paint an unsettling picture of how “the relentless change in technology, marketing, and society will strike at the core of what sport is […]
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Champions League format squabble could see UEFA end up in court
NYON/SANTIAGO: UEFA faces going back to the courts in response to a claim by Chilean sports consultancy MatchVision which is reportedly demanding €20m in damages over the provenance of the new Champions League format. MatchVision claims that the format adopted from the 2024-25 season had […]
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FINAL COUNTDOWN . . . Tuesday deadline for AIPS Sport Media Awards
LAUSANNE; The eighth edition of the AIPS Sport Media Awards is entering its final countdown. Three days to deadline. Tuesday 4 November at 10pm Central European Time, the platform will close. More than 110 nationalities are already participating in the the most prestigious celebration of […]
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World Athletics in crisis after audit exposes $4m corporate fraud
KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS World Athletics, the global governing body for track and field, has been thrust into crisis after the revelation of a large-scale corporate theft operation that may have siphoned off millions of dollars over several years. An internal audit, launched earlier this year […]
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IOC pulls back from esports project as Saudi deal collapses
KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS The International Olympic Committee has taken a notable step back from its ambitions for full-fledged Olympic-style esports, signalling a shift in strategy and casting doubt on the near-term prospects for what had been described as the “Olympic Esports Games”. Once enthusiastic about […]
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Words, words and yet more official words on integrity in sport . . .
LAUSANNE: Anyone in the world of sport expecting meaningful guidance on how to respond to the highly-charged political issues of the day or, for example, sportswashing, in-house corruption and ‘state capture’ would have learned next-to-nothing from the grandly-titled International Forum for Sports Integrity. The event, […]
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