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Basketball 76ers Centre Hukporti Ruptures Achilles in Pre-season Game Philadelphia 76ers centre Ariel Hukporti ruptured his right Achilles tendon just six minutes after coming on in a pre-season game against the New York Knicks. The 24-year-old went down off the ball an
F1 Mclaren Take Responsibility for Norris's Missing Top Speed Lando Norris finished 0.308 seconds behind McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in qualifying in Baku, his heaviest defeat to his team-mate this season. The main problem with his MCL40 is straight-line spe
Basketball Raptors Force 25 Turnovers but Fall to Heat in Pre-season Opener The Miami Heat beat the Toronto Raptors 129-105 at the Videotron Centre in the first NBA game ever played in Quebec City, a pre-season fixture watched by 18,474 fans. Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovi
Basketball Spoelstra Compares Antetokounmpo to Magic Johnson After Heat Debut After 13 seasons and 895 regular-season games with the Milwaukee Bucks, Giannis Antetokounmpo has made his first appearance in a Miami Heat jersey. The Heat beat the Toronto Raptors 129-105 in a pre-s
Basketball Doncic Excited by Thiero Progress After Knee Surgery Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Doncic is thrilled by the progress of Adou Thiero, a second-round pick in the 2025 NBA draft. Fully recovered from left knee surgery, the young forward is pushing for
Tennis Sabalenka and Rybakina Both Out of China Open Nikola Bartunkova, a 20-year-old from the Czech Republic, needed just one hour and 35 minutes to beat former world number one Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-3 in the third round of the China Open, producing a
F1 Verstappen Takes First 2026 Win After Long Rain Delay at Sepang Torrential rain and a software fault in the cars delayed the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix, staged this year at Malaysia's Sepang International Circuit, by an hour and 40 minutes, before Max Verstap
Basketball Rankings War Erupts in the NBA
Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets centre, has topped the list of the NBA's 100 best players for 2026 with 694 points. He edged out San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama (693 points) by the slimmes
F1 Emergency Briefing from Maranello — Ferrari Speak Out on Fred Vasseur's Future
Ferrari hastily convened an emergency media briefing to formally confirm that Fred Vasseur's position as team principal is secure. With the Italian team's form fading in 2026, reports had swept the p
F1 F1 Confirms Season Will End in Qatar and Abu Dhabi With 99 per cent of tickets for Abu Dhabi already sold and conflict hanging over the region, Formula 1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali has confirmed that the season's final races in Qatar and Abu D
Basketball Bam Adebayo: Miami Heat Are No Play-in Team with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Klay Thompson After four straight seasons in the play-in tournament, the NBA's qualifying round for the last two playoff places in each conference, Bam Adebayo has flatly dismissed the critics' predictions. The Mia
F1 Verstappen on Pole as Ford Ends 27-year Wait Ford has claimed its first Formula 1 pole position since 1999, courtesy of its engine partnership with Red Bull. Max Verstappen set the pace in qualifying at Malaysia's Sepang International Circuit, t
Basketball Lakers' Knecht at Risk of Being Waived Ahead of Roster Deadline With 16 players on standard contracts, the Los Angeles Lakers must trim their roster to the NBA limit of 15. Dalton Knecht, the 17th overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, is the prime candidate to miss
Basketball Jalen Duren: Detroit Pistons All-star Agrees $200m Deal with 90 Minutes to Spare With around 90 minutes left before the official 11:59pm ET deadline, Detroit Pistons centre Jalen Duren agreed a five-year, $200m contract to stay with the club. The 22-year-old All-Star brought month
Basketball Wembanyama Rejects Betting Deals After James Signs with Polymarket LeBron James is reportedly earning $15 million a year from promoting Polymarket, the prediction-market platform, in the same season he is playing on a two-year, $8 million veteran's minimum deal with
Basketball NBA Media Day: the Five Biggest Storylines — Mybc.news Exclusive
A year ago, Cooper Flagg and V.J. Edgecombe were rookies feeling their way into the league. They now begin their second seasons in very different worlds. Flagg, the reigning Rookie of the Year, aver
Basketball Wizards' Anthony Davis Could Be in Play If Pistons Shop Jalen Duren
The Washington Wizards would seriously consider trading Anthony Davis to the Detroit Pistons should the Pistons decide to put young star Jalen Duren on the trade market. Detroit have already offered
Tennis “This Is My Last Moment” — Kei Nishikori, 36, Bids Farewell to Top-level Tennis on Home Soil in Tokyo
Japan's Kei Nishikori, 36, has confirmed that he will officially bring the curtain down on his professional career on home soil, at the ATP 500 tournament in Tokyo. The 2014 US Open finalist, who bec
F1 Is Hamilton Undermining Vasseur 'Just a Little Bit'? - David Croft Sky Sports' lead Formula 1 commentator David Croft has questioned whether Lewis Hamilton is undermining Fred Vasseur's authority as Ferrari team principal. The seven-time world champion trails champio
Basketball "I'm Gonna Sign Next Year, If They Want Me" — Nikola Jokic Reassures Denver Nuggets
Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets' three-time NBA Most Valuable Player, used media day to confirm that he will sign a historic new contract with the club next summer. The Serbian centre turned down a
