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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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

Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas and Wyndham Clark each helped secure a point in Thursday's four-ball matches, and debutant Jackson Koivun won on his first appearance, but Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim denied the Americans a clean sweep.
Sep 25, 2026

A nodule half the size of a golf ball, picked up in Montana in 2016, holds feathers, gar scales and the leg bones of a diving bird eaten 66 million years ago. Two of the feathers have a structure otherwise unknown until ten million years after the extinction.
Sep 12, 2026

Mohamed Alabbar told the AIM Congress the Iran war is an extraordinary situation and the market will adjust. Emaar's cancellations rose from 700 to 1,000 a month in the conflict and fell to 550 after the ceasefire. The Abu Dhabi train arrives on 30 September.
Sep 10, 2026

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

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

A dark lens without ultraviolet filtering is worse than no lens, because the pupil opens behind it. The protection is a coating that costs pennies, the tint is a comfort choice, and polarisation solves glare while causing problems with screens.
Apr 22, 2026
