Erling Haaland's 86th-minute goal beat Ivory Coast 2-1, earning Norway its first World Cup knockout win and a Round of 16 date with Brazil.

A 92nd-minute strike from Stephen Eustáquio beat South Africa 1-0 and sent Canada into the World Cup Round of 16 for the first time in the country's history.

The Champions League abandoned its familiar group stage for a 36-team league phase. Here is exactly how qualification, the single table and the knockout rounds work.

A new NFL season brings rookie quarterbacks under pressure, coaching reunions with old rivals and at least three franchises whose entire direction hinges on the next five months.

Conference realignment has redrawn the map of college football, ending century-old rivalries and concentrating power. The consequences reach far beyond the schools changing leagues.

The Super Bowl is the most valuable single broadcast in television. Understanding how its media rights work explains much about where the entire sports industry is heading.

The 2026 NBA offseason opened with a bang: Giannis Antetokounmpo traded to Miami, LeBron James leaving the Lakers, and Kawhi Leonard heading back to Toronto.

Memphis sends the two-time All-Star to Portland for Jerami Grant and Kris Murray. What the blockbuster trade means for both teams.

The NBA's best players increasingly come from outside the United States. From Jokic and Giannis to Wembanyama and Gilgeous-Alexander, the league's centre of gravity has gone global.

Who votes on them, how a fighter earns a title shot, and why the line sometimes gets jumped. The UFC ranking system, explained.

The UFC has turned the week before a fight into a content engine of its own. Here is how press conferences, Embedded and weigh-ins build an event from nothing.

A fighting career is short and violent. The smartest fighters now treat their name as the real asset, building businesses and audiences that outlast the final bell.

Formula 1 enters 2026 with 24 races, a Madrid debut, Cadillac as an 11th team and a sweeping rules reset. Inside the fan economy powering the sport's growth.

Cheltenham, Royal Ascot, the Grand National and the Melbourne Cup still draw enormous crowds and television audiences. Why racing remains woven into British and Australian life.

Ground effect, hybrid power, the halo and the simulator each redefined racing. A verified history of motorsport's most transformative technologies, up to the 2026 rules.

Streaming platforms have moved from the fringes of sports broadcasting to its centre, reshaping rights deals, viewing habits and the economics of live sport.

The world's biggest teams are no longer just sports clubs. They are global media operations, built deliberately through content, tours and multilingual reach.

Why would a company pay hundreds of millions of dollars to put its name on a building? The economics of stadium naming rights are more rational than they look.

Six host nations have won the World Cup at home, but none since France in 1998. With three co-hosts in 2026, history offers a cautionary tale.

Only eight nations have ever lifted the trophy. Here is every FIFA World Cup champion from 1930 to 2022, plus the all-time ranking by titles.

Data analytics has moved from a back-office curiosity to the operating system of modern sport, transforming how teams recruit, train, compete and connect with fans.

The live game is no longer a single-screen experience. Social media has turned watching sport into a real-time conversation, a highlights economy and a creator-driven culture all at once.

Streaming documentaries have become one of the most powerful fan-acquisition tools in sport, turning casual viewers into season-long followers of leagues and rivalries they had never watched before.

Football's greatest rivalries are not really about football. From Glasgow to Buenos Aires, they are stories of identity, history and belonging played out in 90 minutes.