Occasionally you see his sports car parked in the almost legal parking space in front of the kiosk, license plate LP, then Lukas Podolski stops by his ice cream parlor on Brussels Street. When he opened the restaurant in the Belgian Quarter in Cologne eight years ago, the police had to redirect the cars; the … Read more
Who is the top scorer in Europe right now? Is it Erling Haaland, who scored 100 goals in 111 Premier League games for Manchester City, setting a new record in the English top flight? Is it Kylian Mbappé, who scored 31 goals for Real Madrid in his La Liga debut season? Or is it Harry … Read more
London in December: As every year, the focus is on Alexandra Palace in the north of the city. Every day, with the exception of a short break in play around Christmas, up to 15,000 darts fans will put on a spectacle – costumes and lots of alcohol included. Let’s start with that one PDC Darts … Read more
The German teams in the Europa League and the Conference League still have a good chance of qualifying directly for the round of 16. VfB Stuttgart confidently won 4:1 (2:0) against the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. In the late games, Freiburg won against RB Salzburg 1-0 (0-0), in the Conference League Mainz, being outnumbered … Read more
The Russian Biathlon Federation has filed a complaint with the International Sports Court CAS against the exclusion of its athletes from qualifying competitions for the Winter Olympics. According to the state news agency Tass, the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday. The world association IBU announced that it had been informed by Cas about the move … Read more
ANico Schlotterbeck didn’t have too much composure left. Rarely have you heard a BVB player so blatantly and in front of open microphones immediately after the final whistle about his own teammates, about a lack of quality, passes “always on the wrong foot”, and about the fact that “the substitutes lost every ball”. The cause … Read more
Julian Brandt blew hard and took a long sip from the water bottle in annoyance. The double packer and his team mates grumpily high-fived him. Because: His two goals were not enough for a mandatory win against FK Bodö/Glimt in the Champions League. With a surprising slip-up, Borussia Dortmund missed out on an anniversary victory … Read more
The German ski jumping national coach Stefan Horngacher is removing five-time world champion Karl Geiger from the World Cup squad a good two weeks before the Four Hills Tournament. The 32-year-old will be replaced by Luca Roth, as the German Ski Association (DSV) announced with a view to the competitions at the home game in … Read more
Dhe handball jack-of-all-trades Bob Hanning was once vice president of the German Handball Association. Even back then he was reluctant to mince his words. Hanning called the women’s national team’s performances “a mess” when he announced before the home World Cup in December 2017: “This is the last chance for German women’s handball – if … Read more
MWith springy steps and a lot of time, Lennart Karl walked towards the sideline, and you briefly wondered what grand gesture he would come up with this time: Rowing his arms to encourage the fans in the stadium to chant? After all, they had already stood up to say goodbye to the 17-year-old with a … Read more