MADRID - World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo has turned down the chance to leave Real Madrid for an unnamed Chinese club for a transfer fee of 300 million euros (S$458 million), his agent said on Thursday. Speaking to Sky Italia...
More than four million people call Liberia home. It holds the distinction of being the only African country to gain its independence without a revolt. The name literally translates to “Land of the Free” in Latin. While liberty and...
WASHINGTON - Tennis superstar Serena Williams announced Thursday (Dec 29) she is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, breaking the news with a poem on her verified Reddit account. Williams, 35, and Ohanian, 33, did not reveal a wedding date...
The boo-boys have turned into Adam Lallana converts. The shackles around his £25 million (S$44.4m) price tag have been removed and replaced with a German label. Lallana, initially deemed an expensive flop when he arrived from Southampton in 2014, is arguably...
Vaughn “The Spawn” Donayre is grinning from ear to ear.Nearly two months removed from his last fight, the Dubai-based mixed martial artist will make his return to the ONE Championship cage on Saturday Night, 14 January, when he meets...
Vincent Latoel takes satisfaction in providing entertainment to the masses, but inside of him burns the desire to win. He is driven by it.The warrior nicknamed “Magnivincent” will attempt to fulfill that desire when he battles Vaughn “The Spawn”...
Russian anti-doping officials have for the first time acknowledged a massive doping conspiracy in their country that has rocked world sport, the New York Times reported Tuesday. "It was an institutional conspiracy," Anna Antseliovich, the acting director general of Russia's...
Sports and politics should not mix. However, in some instances, they have influenced one another, either directly or indirectly. We read and heard about the "Ping-Pong diplomacy" of the 1970s during the Cold War, which saw American and Chinese players squaring...
Despite the completely unpredictable nature of MMA, more often than not, one combatant is picked over the other as the favorite to win a bout. However, no matter how many perceived advantages one athlete has over the other, or how...
Extreme sports have gained a footing in Singapore, but they also carry an inherent high risk of danger and serious injuries. Some of the more common activities include gliding sports such as wakeboarding, snowboarding and kite surfing; rolling sports like...
