Can football stay the people’s game?
31 July 2026
Just days after the biggest FIFA World Cup in history came to a close, FIFA unveiled a proposal that threatens to alter football's future fundamentally.
31 July 2026
World Cup errors shake faith in VAR
28 July 2026
Technology is supposed to make life easier, not the other way around. Yet when it comes to football, it often seems to have made the game more complicated, raising more questions than it answers.
28 July 2026
Where it all came full circle
21 July 2026
At New York-New Jersey Stadium on Monday, several storylines came full circle in the World Cup final.
21 July 2026
Should Nico's goal have stood?: VAR, Argentina and the questions that won't go away
20 July 2026
The dust has settled. Spain lifted their second World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over an Argentina side that never truly showed up in the all-important final at New York-New Jersey Stadium today.
20 July 2026
All set for a blockbuster final
19 July 2026
The stakes could not be higher than they are at a World Cup final. And the grand finale at the New York-New Jersey Stadium on Monday (1:00am Bangladesh Time) could hardly have been scripted better, with Lionel Messi's Argentina taking on Lamine Yamal's Spain in a showdown set to bring the curtain down on the biggest edition in the competition's history.
19 July 2026
Golden Boot: The only prize left for Mbappe to chase
18 July 2026
The third-place decider is often described as the World Cup's most unwanted fixture. No player begins a tournament dreaming of featuring in it, yet one of the semifinal losers has to walk away with bronze while the other leaves empty-handed.
18 July 2026
Messi is inevitable
17 July 2026
Lionel Messi turned 39 during the course of this World Cup. Yet the things he has done, the numbers he has produced, and the sheer excellence he has displayed in North America continue to defy age and time.
17 July 2026
Resilient Argentina refuse to fall
16 July 2026
Most teams that go on to achieve ultimate glory have one thing in common: resilience.
16 July 2026
The Tiger brand: A penchant for unwanted surprises
Bangladesh batters have an abundance of tricks in their basket to surprise the audience.
8 November 2024
Cricket stuck in vicious cycle
Bangladesh cricket is unparalleled in terms of one thing -- creating its own mess and then bemoaning the untidiness.
2 November 2024
Rodri’s Ballon d’Or: Deserved or not?
Rodri becoming the first Manchester City player to win the Ballon d'Or award for the best player in the world on Monday did come as a surprise to many, and with ample reasons too as he pipped favourite Vinicius Junior of Real Madrid and Brazil to lift the most prestigious individual award in football.
30 October 2024
A lesson in how to extract Test wins
The Kanpur Test between hosts India and Bangladesh could be considered a reference point for teams in terms of how to force victories in the longest format of the game -- an aspect that teams lean towards more nowadays, especially since the introduction of the World Test Championship (WTC).
1 October 2024
The good and the bad omens for Bangladesh ahead of Kanpur Test
There are some positive signs and a few ill omens for Bangladesh ahead of their second and final Test against hosts India, beginning tomorrow in Kanpur.
26 September 2024
CR7: A GOAT whose hunger knows no bounds
If there is one thing that Cristiano Ronaldo could not master in his illustrious career, it is the concept of giving up.
7 September 2024
A tournament too far for Ronaldo!
Portugal will remember the Euro 2024 as another golden opportunity squandered to get silverware with arguably one of the most talented bunch of footballers, but for their captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, the tournament will remain as a case of whether the 39-year-old forward has stretched his international career one tournament too long.
7 July 2024
Will Bangladesh openers finally open up?
While batting as a whole has been a big concern for Bangladesh in white-ball cricket recently, it is the opening conundrum that has bugged the Tigers most in the ongoing T20 World Cup.
22 June 2024
Impactful Sakib needs to carry on
It was an easy presumption to put Bangladesh’s bowling as their main weapon ahead of the T20 World Cup, especially since the batters have provided very little to be excited about in recent times.
20 June 2024
A typical Pakistan conundrum
As it so often happens in major ICC events, Pakistan have very little in their hands regarding the prospect of advancing in the ongoing T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies. And, as always, it is mostly a making of their own.
11 June 2024
Why hasn't the World Cup fever taken over yet?
We are on to the fifth day of the ongoing T20 World Cup and it still does not seem like the ninth edition of the mega event, being held in the USA and the West Indies, is being able to hook cricket lovers.
6 June 2024
Real did what Real do best: Win
“When you don’t kill Real Madrid, Real Madrid kill you,” Xavi Hernandez, who had to come up against Real Madrid a number of times in his career both as a Barcelona player and manager, had said just last year.
2 June 2024
Real Madrid against the world!
Come June 1, when Real Madrid players line up for the UEFA Champions League’s grand finale at the iconic Wembley Stadium, they will not only be up against the yellow army of Borussia Dortmund but against the entire footballing world -- and there are ample reasons for that.
31 May 2024
Will this time be any different?
A peek at the recent form of most of the cricket-playing nations might just be enough to give you an idea as to how they could fare at a particular event.
28 May 2024
‘20 runs short’, or ‘momentum gained’: Which cliche will Tigers use today?
Journos who cover Bangladesh men’s cricket team matches have a pretty good idea as to what the Tigers may say following any particular game.
25 May 2024
Smug Shakib, clueless Bangladesh
Could the Tigers spiral down further? The omens would suggest a very bleak answer for fans of a cricket-crazy nation.
25 May 2024
A fan turns unlikely hero
Two years back, when Real Madrid had defied the odds almost in each of the knockout rounds to be in Paris for the Champions League final against Liverpool, Joselu was just another face amid the thousands cheering for Los Blancos and watching them win the most elite European competition for a record 14th time.
9 May 2024
The Mourinho case in changing landscape of football
“I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects,” Mourinho said it back in 2010 when he was announced as the manager of Real Madrid.
17 February 2024
Tossing away BPL’s charm
The combined uncertainty and the thrill of not knowing the outcome beforehand is what usually pulls and hooks spectators to a sporting event. But as far as the outcome is concerned, the ongoing 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is anything but irregular.
25 January 2024
Walks in and takes a wicket, did Mashrafe expose BPL’s true stature?
Durdanto Dhaka pacer Shoriful Islam's maiden T20 hattrick, teams comfortably posting and chasing totals over 150, and the crowd coming in numbers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur -- the opening day of the 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) had events aplenty to hook the cricket lovers.
20 January 2024