In the last game of his match against Taylor Fritz, Stan Wawrinka, 40, barely returned a serve from the powerful American, 28. Fritz drove him to Wawrinka’s forehand, and then persisted with the Swiss’s backhand. There are five one-handed reversals from Wawrinka, one after the other. You have to look for and watch that video … Read more
Real Madrid, Valencia and Barça will enter the Copa del Rey draw as seeds with fourth place still pending to be decided. Baskonia did its homework at home against Joventut with an 87-77 victory and the defeat of UCAM Murcia at the Martín Carpena against Unicaja – after a great game that was decided in … Read more
Liverpool went to Marseille to wait. Against the tradition that Jürgen Klopp instilled in them, the team settled in their field to let the Olympique de Marseille would control the ball. So it was that OM started the plays and withstood the counterattacks until in a foul, after the break, Szoboszlai put a free kick … Read more
Real Madrid’s victory this Tuesday against Monaco (6-1) in the Champions League served to greatly reduce the tension between the Bernabéu crowd and the players who had received whistles last Saturday. The atmosphere calmed down a lot with Vinicius, the most notable, and also with Jude Bellingham, the second biggest target of the crowd’s anger. … Read more
The European basketball war continues to add players. And not just any ones. The last to enter the scene once again shake the board on which the Euroleague and the NBA elucidate the future of basketball on the continent. On Monday night, three major Real Madrid clubs (Berserkers, Ojos del Tigre and La Gran Familia) … Read more
“I grew up watching soccer when it almost didn’t exist in the United States.” That of Pellegrino Matarazzo (Wayne, New Jersey, 48 years old), the new coach of Real Sociedad, is an unusual story, marked by emigration, identity and a passion for football that was born very early. He became truly fond of the beautiful … Read more
After two decades of ostracism, the Chicago Bears, one of the oldest franchises in the NFL, have once again put on the winning outfit. One of the great capitals of American sports has been excited for weeks about a team that has not won the title since 1985 and has not won a playoff game … Read more
The eight quarterbacks who have reached the end of the NFL season on their feet will seek to occupy Patrick Mahomes’ vacant throne and succeed the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that slammed the door in his face in the last Superbowl, eliminated at the first opportunity. Without the omnipresent player of the last decade – … Read more
The choice of a country to host the football World Cup is not a politically neutral decision. Although sports institutions insist on presenting these events as spaces unrelated to politics, to maintain the supposed autonomy of sport, the truth is that their organization involves a form of symbolic legitimation of the host State. He is … Read more
Although his game is cerebral, it is shocking to see the contrast of his accelerations and touches of genius on the field with the parsimony with which Nico Laprovittola (Morón, Argentina; 35 years old) moves and speaks in the bowels of the Palau after a training session prior to facing Real Madrid in the Euroleague. … Read more