SINGAPORE – Sport Singapore (SportSG) will continue to review its physical distancing procedures, which kicked in at ActiveSG venues on Monday last week. Rules such as lane segregation at tracks and swimming pools were enforced by the national agency to minimise gatherings but led to overcrowding in some lanes. This week, SportSG announced more physical distancing rules after the Ministry […]

The NBA MVP race should be peaking.  Before the NBA suspended its regular season to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the choice was going to come down to the Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James and the Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo.   Our NBA columnist Mark Medina wrote March 5 on the MVP race, positing the question of whether James could catch Antetokounmpo, the front-runner […]

JOHNNY NELSON thought he was s***… and the rest of the world thought he was a coward. The Sheffield cruiserweight only started his professional boxing career because his last amateur prize was so tragic and his lack of commitment was rewarded with three consecutive paid defeats. Rebuilding work under iconic boxing mentor Brendan Ingle landed him two world title shots, […]

THE action Stateside kicks up a notch on Saturday night with the Grade 1 Florida Derby. The Gulfstream Park feature is like at 10.34 on Sky Sports Racing this Saturday evening, and well have all bases covered with our big-race preview. This $750,000 contest has a rich history, with 15 horses, including Always Dreaming, Nyquist and Orb in recent years, […]

While the NBA, NHL and MLB were confronted with the coronavirus pandemic in March, Overwatch executives had been dealing with the outbreak for two months already. As COVID-19 spread in China, where the league has four teams, and South Korea, where another is located, the U.S.-based esports league drastically altered the beginning portion of the season.  Officials at Overwatch, which is backed […]

ARSENAL are reportedly in a transfer battle with Liverpool in the race to snare Ousmane Dembele away from Barcelona. The 22-year-old has flattered to deceive at the Nou Camp since joining from Borussia Dortmund for a fee believed to be in the region of £130million in 2017. And with the French winger currently rocked by his tenth major injury since […]

AJAX star Abdelhak 'Appie' Nouri is fully out of a coma and able to communicate with family after going home, his brother has revealed. The 22-year-old Dutch ace collapsed on the pitch in July 2017 after suffering a cardiac arrhythmia attack. He sustained severe and permanent brain damage as a result of the incident. But speaking in a special programme […]

THE Tokyo Olympics could take place next SPRING – which is generating even more confusion for athletes. The Games were postponed untill 2021 this week after the Japanese organisers bizarrely planned to plough on. Meanwhile Tyson Fury's trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder has been pushed back to October 3, Wimbledon's fate is expected to be revealed next week and the […]

Discretion — the act of being discreet — isn’t tough to grasp. In simple terms, it’s the art and act of looking around to weigh circumstances before you open your big mouth, lest you needlessly hurt someone’s feelings and/or get punched in your big mouth. Personally, I’ve long been in the habit of perusing the room for Estonians before telling […]

MANCHESTER UNITED have handed first professional contracts to new 17-year-old sterlets Dillon Hoogewerf and Johan Guadagno. Dutch striker Hoogewerf, from Ajax, and Milan-born Swedish keeper Guadagno, from IF Brommapojkarna are stand-out youth-teamers despite only arriving last summer. View this post on Instagram Really happy to sign my first professional contract, can't wait to get back to the training ground and […]