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The Gulf's Sporting Decade: What F1, Boxing and LIV Golf Actually Bought
Billions poured into golf, motorsport, boxing and tennis. As the numbers come due, the Gulf's sports strategy is quietly being rewritten.
Sep 10, 2025
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Saudi Arabia 2034: Inside the Gulf's Long Game in World Sport
A record-high bid score, five host cities and a 92,000-seat stadium. Saudi Arabia's World Cup win is one piece of a much bigger plan.
Mar 14, 2025
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The Asian Games Open in Nagoya on Saturday: 15,000 Athletes, 43 Sports, 469 Golds, and a Route to Los Angeles 2028
The second-largest multi-sport event on Earth returns to Japan for the first time since Hiroshima in 1994. The ceremony is at Paloma Mizuho Stadium at six on Saturday evening. What is new, where the swimming is, and why the Gulf's squads matter this time.
Sep 15, 2026
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New Rules Turned Formula One Upside Down: Antonelli Leads, Verstappen Is Sixth, and Two Gulf Races Are Gone
Twelve rounds into the most significant regulation change in a decade, the four time champion is more than a hundred points adrift and a driver in his second season leads by fifty. The war removed two races from the calendar as well.
Aug 24, 2026
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The Saudi Pro League Is Selling More Players Than It Buys
With the season opening on 13 August, outgoing transfers outnumber incoming ones by a wide margin and summer spending sits far below the headline years. That is a strategy shift, not a slowdown.
Aug 8, 2026
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Dubai Hosts Every Ball of the Women's Asia Cup This Month
Fifteen matches, eight teams, one ground. The Women's T20 Asia Cup runs at Dubai International Stadium from 28 August, and the single-venue format is a deliberate choice rather than a compromise.
Aug 16, 2026
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Bednarek Did the Sprint Double, Dos Santos Ran 45.98, and the First Ultimate Championship Ended With a US Sweep
Three nights in Budapest, no heats, prize money only. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the 100 and closed the meet with a world-leading 21.47, Kenny Bednarek beat Oblique Seville and won the 200, Duplantis cleared 6.20. Every winner, and what the format proved.
Sep 15, 2026
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The Saudi Pro League Spent About 230 Million Euros This Summer, and the Biggest Deal Was a Winger From West Ham
The seventieth season began on 13 August. Crysencio Summerville to Al Hilal at 64.5 million euros is the summer's largest move, and the shape of the spending says more about the league's direction than the total does.
Aug 24, 2026
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There Is a Three Week Bicycle Race Going On and This Desk Has Never Once Mentioned It
The Vuelta a Espana runs from 22 August to 13 September, 21 stages and 3,310 kilometres from Monaco to Granada. If you have never followed a grand tour, the thing to understand is that it is not really a race. It is twenty one of them.
Sep 2, 2026
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The World Number One Has Withdrawn and the Defending Champion Has Not Played in Four Months
Jannik Sinner is out of the US Open with a knee injury. Carlos Alcaraz arrives as defending champion with no warm up tournament behind him. The draw is made on 27 August and the men's title is genuinely hard to call.
Aug 24, 2026
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Expected Goals, Explained Without the Spreadsheet
The number on the broadcast graphic is simpler than it looks and more limited than its critics admit. What xG measures, what it cannot see, and how to read it over a season rather than a night.
Aug 9, 2026
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There Are So Many English Clubs in the Champions League That the Draw Needs a Special Rule
Thursday's draw in Monaco has a provision that exists for one reason: with Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City all in the top pot, every non-English club in that pot must be handed two English ties or the draw cannot be completed.
Aug 26, 2026
