FORMER WBA heavyweight belt-holder Gerrie Coetzee died last Thursday, aged 67, a week after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The ‘Boksburg Bomber’ was many things: a ‘world’ champion who said he threw his final serious fight, an anti-racist who claimed to adore the black boxers he promoted but also threatened them, a sly wheeler-dealer adept … Read more
The GCU Esports Arena is often filled with students and is an attractive recruiting tool. (Photo by Susan Wong/Cronkite News) PHOENIX – Collegiate sports are going digital. In 2014, when Robert Morris University Illinois became the first school to offer Esports scholarships, it was perceived as an anomaly. It wasn’t. In 2016, UC Irvine became … Read more
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke and Today Show host Karl Stefanovic have reportedly been filmed in a stunning confrontation that saw the former accused of cheating. As reported by The Daily Telegraph, the ugly incident occurred on January 10 in Noosa where Clarke and Stefanovic were holidaying with partners Jade and Jasmine Yarbrough. The publication … Read more
Barcelona will be back in La Liga action for the first time after winning the Super Cup this weekend. They will be looking to stretch their advantage at the top of the standings against a Getafe side that has lost their previous two Spanish top-flight fixtures. La Liga Preview This could yet be a … Read more
WHILE most of the country was likely sat in their warm offices or at home cursing the stupefying cost of central heating, Peak District-born and bred cruiserweight Jack Massey was battling scaffolding on a freezing building site. Helping his brother out on a job by doing some labouring, he braved the biting minus five, pre-Christmas … Read more
The Williams FW44 is blasting along the pitstraight at the Red Bull Ring. After sweeping through the rapid final double right-hand sequence that ends the lap, it picks up even more speed powering past the pits and grandstands and heading up the hill to the Turn 1 right. But here, it swings wildly left and … Read more
Wales men’s and women’s players will be paid equally for the first time after a landmark agreement was reached with the Football Association of Wales. The new deal covers the period up to and including the 2026 men’s World Cup and the 2027 Women’s World Cup. The men’s and women’s teams released a joint statement … Read more
Six of this weekend’s English Premier League fixtures will be played on Saturday. The curtain goes up at Anfield where two recent winners of the title in Liverpool and Chelsea find themselves languishing in midtable. The Blues and Reds have been poor this season, lacking the kind of consistency and scoring form we have come … Read more
THERE was just a black door on the ground floor of a dull building somewhere near Park Royal in a nondescript part of North London. It was not the only mystery of the day. Inside was a boxing gym and the rest, as they say, is history. There was a topless man in denim dungarees … Read more
When Google announced its plans to kill the cookie last year, it was a moment of reckoning for advertisers given that they would no longer be able to depend on third-party data and vendors collecting the same in order to gain customer insights and target the most likely cohorts. With data privacy expected to dominate … Read more
