This Is Beirut 03/03 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Saturday his side were "bothered" after midfielder Jude Bellingham was sent off after the controversial final whistle in the 2-2 La Liga draw at Valencia. England's Bellingham was shown a red card after protesting after referee Jesus Gil Manzano blew for time an instant before Bellingham hit what would ...
02/03 20:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Riyadi Beirut won the summit of the 14th day of the Lebanese basketball championship against Champville Maristes 89-83 in an intense and tactical match between coaches Ahmad Farran and Sabah Khoury. The Course of the Game The game got off to a slow start between the two teams, which was expected after a three-week absence from the tournament ...
This Is Beirut 02/03 19:51 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Three-time world champion Max Verstappen began his title defence in flawless fashion on Saturday when he guided his Red Bull team to a crushing one-two triumph, ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez, at the Bahrain Grand Prix. In a statement of emphatic superiority, the 26-year-old Dutchman came home 22.5 seconds clear of Perez, who started from fifth, ...
This Is Beirut 02/03 13:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Boston Celtics, fueled by 32 points from Jayson Tatum and 21 three-pointers, withstood a 37-point triple-double from Luka Doncic to beat the Dallas Mavericks 138-110 on Friday and push their NBA winning streak to 10 games. Tatum took awhile to warm up, missing all four of his shots in the first quarter, but the All-Star forward scored 16 in ...
This Is Beirut 02/03 10:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Max Verstappen delivered some much-needed relief for his Red Bull team on Friday when he resisted Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to claim pole position for Saturday's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The defending three-time world champion picked up where he left off last year by topping the times in a closely-contested qualifying session at the ...
Makram Haddad 01/03 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia has just organized a freestyle skiing event that is controversial on an ecological and humanitarian level. Not even Hergé, the father of Tintin, saw this coming. Hergé was a visionary in more ways than one. His lunar adventure foreshadowed the Apollo 11 mission, almost fifteen years before Neil Armstrong set foot on the ...
This Is Beirut 01/03 17:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami face an early season derby test when they host Florida rivals Orlando City in Major League Soccer on Saturday. Messi's stoppage time equalizer in Sunday's 1-1 draw at the Los Angeles Galaxy ensured that Miami remain unbeaten after opening their campaign with a 2-0 win at home to Real Salt Lake. Despite the results, ...
01/03 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Olympic Organizing Committee organized a "Relay Race" in the courtyard of the Palais des Pins in Beirut under the slogan "Land of Games," in collaboration with the Sports Academy. With 150 days to go before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris next summer, the organizers decided to stage a ...
This Is Beirut 01/03 10:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Los Angeles Lakers, fueled by 40 points from Anthony Davis and 31 from LeBron James, pulled off another NBA thriller on Thursday, beating the Washington Wizards 134-131 in overtime. One day after James reeled off 34 points -- 19 of them in the fourth quarter -- to key a come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers had to ...
This Is Beirut 29/02 16:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France star Paul Pogba has been given a four-year ban from football by Italy's anti-doping tribunal after testing positive for testosterone last August, his club Juventus said on Thursday. A spokesman for the club told AFP it had been notified of the decision against the 30-year-old World Cup winner, who had been provisionally suspended in ...
This Is Beirut 29/02 14:32 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon's Imad Nasri Lahoud has been appointed Chairman of the Rally Commission, one of the most important commissions within the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), following a proposal by the Federation's President, Mohammed bin Sulayem. The decision to appoint Lahoud was taken by the Federation's Council for a two-year term. It ...
This Is Beirut 29/02 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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LeBron James staged the biggest fourth quarter comeback of his two-decade career on Wednesday as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 21-point deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 116-112. The 39-year-old NBA icon reeled off 34 points -- 19 of them in the fourth quarter -- to help the Lakers claim a pulsating victory over their in-form ...