I am so stoked to be here in El Salvador for the start of the 2021 Surf City El Salvador International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games (WSG) and I can’t wait to watch the world’s best surfers chasing Olympic dreams and competing for coveted gold medals.

The last time Manchester City faced Chelsea in European competition, Pep Guardiola was only three months old and Thomas Tuchel wasn't even born.

May 31 2021 will mark the historic moment when the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) returns to the field after a long pause in our competition calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. 

COVID-19 has changed the world; I am not so sure it has changed the world's thinking.

Back in the day, April 140 BC to be precise, a young warlord named Joshua led his army of Israelites blowing their trumpets loud and long enough to bring down the walls of the great Dead Sea city of Jericho, which they were attacking. Or so we are led to believe in Biblical lore.

On May 11 this year - incidentally the day after he received his first COVID-19 vaccine immunisation - Phil Mickelson tweeted the following;

Details were revealed earlier this week about the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) new Track Champions League series, with the governing body seeking to enhance the profile of the track discipline.

Reading my colleague Mike Rowbottom’s recent blog post on sporting crossovers, my mind could not help but wander to Shohei Ohtani.

Twenty-five years ago this week, they opened the stadium for the Centennial Olympics in Atlanta with a star-studded Athletics Grand Prix meeting.

"It’s Alisson Wonderland" screeched the Sky Sports commentator as Liverpool's tall, dark and handsome goalkeeper raced into the West Bromwich Albion penalty area for a last-ditch corner kick in the dying seconds of added time, as Trent Alexander-Arnold floated the ball into the goalmouth.

A recent interview with Brian Chesky, co-founder of International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Airbnb, used this quotation as its headline: “The trick is to be optimistic”.

In a compelling scene from the 2014 film Fury, First Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier (acted by Brad Pitt) enters a room in a German village with the newly deployed soldier Norman Ellison (acted by Logan Lerman), who seems intent on decency and properness in the midst of the brutal conflict, and surveys the bodies of German aristocrats who had together committed suicide.

As Manchester United's legendary former manager Alex Ferguson might say on the subject: "Goalkeepers. Bloody hell."

A new winner of the UEFA Women’s Champions League will be crowned later today with Barcelona and Chelsea going head-to-head to win the tournament for the first time.