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Remember when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear off? We all do. It was 26 years ago and we still remember it. Tyson was…
American soccer star Megan Rapinoe has announced that this year’s World Cup will be her last. She plans to retire at the end of…
In 2009, writer Simon Kuper and economist Stefan Szymanski published a book called ‘Soccernomics: Why France and Germany win, why England Is starting to…
Emma Grant, who debuted with the Collingwood Magpies in 2017 and retired from AFL in 2020, is now suing Collingwood Football Club for negligence.…
Jelena Dokic spent the first eight years of her life in Croatia when it was part of the former Yugoslavia, not Serbia. That she…
A 14-month investigation into the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the US has led to the discovery of misconduct dating back to 2013.…
Naomi Osaka announced today that she is pregnant. The 25-year-old broke the news on social media early this morning, revealing a sonogram with the…
Earlier this year, Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was accused of doping. After winning gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, tests conducted…
These pages are normally reserved for sports fans. People read them for the shared experience of being moved by the power of sport, not…
Women are not allowed to compete in the Tour de France. However you choose to re-read that sentence, the fact remains: the most famous…
Last week The New Yorker brought out the article “The Rise of Celebrity Vulnerability”, citing the recent Netflix documentaries around the mental health struggles…
As 2022 draws to a close, sports writers everywhere are scrambling to sum up the year’s highlights. One of them, unequivocally, was the Black…
The year is 2011. Dana White, president of the UFC, steps out of an LA restaurant and as he is about to enter a…
Liz Cambage is 2.06m tall. Her height may seem secondary to the person she is, but her story in fact centres around the fact…
As a female athlete in her 40's, being branded this year’s second most marketable athlete speaks volumes about sports audiences and the current climate.
