Murder, pure and simple. For football coach Hugo Broos, no other word is fitting for the death of his player, Albert Ebosse. The deadly weapon was perhaps a...
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: Because it is turning out better than expected, the World Cup is doing more good than harm to brand Brazil. The opposite is true for...
BELO HORIZONTE: Once the elation of victory and the hangovers wear off, Brazil should feel the cold shiver of World Cup disaster narrowly averted. The...
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: How is it that footballers are among the few who’ve not had much to say about the bite seen around the world, now punished with...
Secret slush funds, junkets, gifts and payments to football officials. At first glance, the latest allegations that a Qatari official greased palms to help...
PARIS: As Earth’s atmosphere warms alarmingly and fills with heat-trapping gases, and the writing on the wall – “People, we’re in trouble!” – looms ever...
SOCHI, Russia: As Adelina Sotnikova finished her gold medal-winning skate, only the Olympic ice felt nothing, because it is cold and hard. Russian hearts...
COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil: If they wanted to look wasteful, extravagant and divorced from the gritty reality of Brazil’s millions of poor, World Cup organizers...
PARIS: Even though it comes around comet-like just once every four years, or perhaps precisely because of that, the World Cup’s grip on the...
Athletes come, athletes go. But Sachin Tendulkar will live on. Not on the cricket pitch. That part of his life, and ours, is ending. But in a billion-plus...
PARIS: Qatar-strophic. Qatar-clysm. The headlines will write themselves if FIFA turns the world of football on its head this week by deciding that the 2022...
Alessandro Della Valle was back in his office at a ceramics retailer Wednesday, his international football career a little less unsung.The night before, he’d...
PARIS: In some ways, the International Olympic Committee really can’t go wrong this weekend when it picks the host of the 2020 Summer Games. Tokyo,...
Way out of position for an attacking forward, throwing himself at a task one would more usually expect of a defender, Wayne Rooney hurtled after Ramires...
PARIS: One down for Tour de France winner Chris Froome, how many more to go? Having crushed the opposition at the 100th Tour, the British rider is looking...
PARIS: In the dark times in sports, when serial doping, cheating, greed, bad sportsmanship and corruption make you want to switch off for good, there has...
LORIENT, France: David Beckham is watching from the sidelines for Paris Saint-Germain's last match of the season.Having played for the last time as a...
PARIS: In football, is Germany a nation of chokers? The big surprise about the Champions League final Saturday isn’t the teams – Bayern Munich and...
PARIS: Kiss goodbye to football as we know it.In getting machines to help men spot when goals are scored, football is making a mistake. This pact with the...
Women's marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe voiced the question on many lips: "There are some very sick people out there, who would do...
PARIS: If they stopped employing invariably young and pretty women to parade around, often in short skirts or less, would motor racing, cycling and boxing...
JOHANNESBURG: In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of...
"A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma:" Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia could easily be applied to Mario Balotelli....
The Ballon d’Or went to the wrong guy. Lionel Messi most definitely is the world’s best footballer. He will, for many fans of football, become the...
PARIS: Lance Armstrong once said the extraordinary accusations that he doped needed to be backed by extraordinary evidence. Well, the evidence is more...