DUCATI’S polesitter Marc Marquez overcame a botched start to win the Italian Grand Prix sprint ahead of his brother Alex and team mate Francesco Bagnaia on Saturday to maintain his dominance in the shorter format this season. It was Marc’s eighth sprint victory in nine rounds this season as he extended his lead in the…
NATIONAL squash player Rachel Arnold’s struggle to end Malaysia’s decade-long drought as the women’s champion of the Asian Individual Squash Championship, once again failed when she lost to Hong Kong’s Ho Tze Lok in the final of the 23rd edition at the Sarawak Squash Centre in Petra Jaya today. The world 19th-ranked player had to…
MALAYSIA finished in sixth place in the 2025 FIH Hockey Nations Cup after losing 1-2 to Wales at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil today. In the fifth-sixth classification match, both teams displayed a balanced style of play before the Speedy Tigers took the lead in the 20th minute through a penalty corner conversion…
BAYERN MUNICH are once again fretting over star playmaker Jamal Musiala, who limped off in the 2-1 Club World Cup win over Boca Juniors on Friday, German Press Agency (dpa) reported. Bayern’s progression to the last 16 was marred by the Germany international, who had only just returned from a hamstring problem, going off with…
MALAYSIAN NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY (Bernama) journalists Ahmad Syabil Sultan Noordin and Ahmad Aidil Syukri Hamzah emerged champions of the inaugural DRB-HICOM Media Pickleball Challenge 2025 held at Pickle Nation, Glenmarie, today. Competing under the name Bernama Aces, the pair outplayed 27 other teams from various media organisations to make history as the tournament’s first-ever winners….
KUALA LUMPUR: Sri Pahang FC’s decision to skip the 2025/2026 Malaysia League (M-League) season is a big loss to Malaysian football, said former Pahang coach Datuk Zainal Abidin Hassan. Zainal, who was also a legend of The Elephants squad, admitted to being affected by the development, as the team not only have a long history…
THE golden boy of German football is set to become the new prince of the Premier League after Florian Wirtz joined Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen for a club-record fee. Fresh from winning a 20th English top-flight title, Arne Slot’s Reds have broken the bank to land a rising star already labelled as one of the…
AS the gender furore that engulfed boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics rumbles on, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is weighing reintroducing testing, while several sports have already embraced testing for male chromosomes. Such testing has its critics and the Olympics have already tried it once only to abandon it in 1996. Incoming president Kirsty…
BAYERN MUNICH’S England striker Harry Kane said Friday he is relishing the Club World Cup’s “special” atmosphere and is confident the German team can now go all the way. Kane scored the opener for Bayern in a 2-1 win over Argentina’s Boca Juniors at Hard Rock Stadium that took his side through to the last…
A GIANT balloon that became a popular landmark over the skies of Paris during the 2024 Olympics is set to rise again, with organisers hoping it will once again attract crowds of tourists. During the Games, the Olympic cauldron tethered to a balloon flew above the Tuileries garden at sunset every day, with thousands flocking…
