Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola hit out at Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards after it was suggested his team is growing complacent in success. City have won three Premier League titles in a row and five of the last six. They are pursuing a fourth consecutive triumph but have dropped points in three successive games …
LeBron James and French prodigy Victor Wembanyama could line up alongside each other at next year’s NBA All-Star game after the league announced the annual showpiece will return to a classic Eastern Conference versus Western Conference format on Wednesday. The showdown of elite NBA talent will be played on February 18 at Indianapolis at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the Indiana …
Madrid: Rafael Nadal has lowered expectations for when he returns to the tour in January after a year out. Nadal announced on Friday he will play at the Brisbane International in Australia in January. The 37-year-old Spaniard has not appeared on tour since last January, when he hurt his hip flexor during a loss in the second round of the …
The Bengal Warriors dominated most of the game, but the Bengaluru Bulls fought in the final minutes of the match to make it a close contest. However, the Warriors emerged victorious with the scoreline reading 32-30 at the EKA Arena by TransStadia on Monday. Maninder Singh’s 11 points in his first start for the season set the tone for …
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been nominated for the Pair of the Year award by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The Indian men’s doubles pairing won multiple titles in the year with a historic gold medal at the Asian Games in Hangzhou at the top of the charts. It was the latest triumph in Satwik and Chirag’s long list …
All that Tyrese Haliburton wanted before the season was to get his first taste of playoff basketball. Monday night’s NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinal seemed like the perfect dry run. So the 23-year-old All-Star guard registered the first triple-double of his career, completed a tiebreaking four-point play with 1:33 left and heard the large, raucous crowd chanting “M-V-P! M-V-P!” near the …
Novak Djokovic earned the year-end No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for the eighth time on Monday, adding to a record he already held. Djokovic won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments — the Australian Open in January, French Open in June and U.S. Open in September — to raise his career total to a men’s-record 24 and …
World number one Scottie Scheffler fired a bogey-free 68 on Sunday for a three-shot win in the Hero World Challenge, where 15-time major champion Tiger Woods said he’d “come a long way” in his first tournament since April. Scheffler had four birdies in his four-under par 68 on the Albany golf course in the Bahamas, his 20-under total of 268 …
Shai Hope’s 16th hundred and the rampaging support of all-rounder Romario Shepherd lifted the West Indies to a record-breaking four-wicket victory in a high-scoring opening duel of the three-match One-Day International series at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Sunday. Set a daunting target of 326 by the visitors, the home captain anchored the effort through an unsteady …
Ajit Agarkar celebrates his 46th birthday on 4 December, 2023. In a cricket career spanning well over a decade, Agarkar was quite the performer for India. From 1998 to 2007, he represented India in 191 ODIs, having scalped 288 wickets and scored 1269 runs. He featured in 26 matches Tests, taking 58 wickets. Agarkar was also part of India’s T20 …
