This Is Beirut 2024-02-29 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 2024-02-29 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 2024-02-29 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 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-29 10:22 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Manchester United to Host Liverpool in FA Cup Quarter-Final Showdown Manchester United will host Liverpool in an FA Cup quarter-final blockbuster after the bitter rivals took contrasting routes to their fifth round victories on Wednesday. United eased the pressure on beleaguered boss Erik ten Hag as they scraped through with a 1-0 win at ...
Jalal Beaino 2024-02-29 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Lebanese Table Tennis Federation has launched its busy calendar of activities for the year 2024. This Is Beirut met the President of the Federation (also a member of the International Federation), Georges Kopaly, who was elected to head the Federation in autumn 2020 and is successfully steering the sport's ship. A Busy Schedule Lebanese ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-28 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Max Strus drained an astonishing 58-foot buzzer-beater as the Cleveland Cavaliers conjured a stunning late fightback to sink the Dallas Mavericks 121-119 on Tuesday. In a remarkable finale in Cleveland, Strus unleashed a mammoth heave from inside his own half to snatch victory from Dallas, who had grabbed a 119-118 lead with just over two seconds ...
2024-02-28 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese national soccer team lost their semi-final match against Nepal in the West Asian Championship by a score of 1-2, following a fatal goal by the in the last minute of second-half stoppage time. Yet, everything had started well for the team. The Lebanese players opened the scoring in the thirty-seventh minute when a Nepalese ...
Ici Beyrouth 2024-02-28 09:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland scored five times as the FA Cup holders ran riot in a 6-2 rout of Luton in the fifth round on Tuesday. Aided by Kevin De Bruyne's trio of assists, Haaland completed his treble inside the first 40 minutes at Kenilworth Road. Jordan Clark struck twice to briefly reduce Luton's deficit to just 3-2. But any Luton ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-27 17:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Detroit coach Monty Williams slammed NBA refs for making the "worst call of the season" after the Pistons slumped to an agonising last-gasp 113-111 defeat to the New York Knicks on Monday. A thrilling clash at Madison Square Garden swung decisively in favor of the Knicks in the closing seconds, when officials failed to penalise New York's Donte ...
Hala Abdallah 2024-02-27 13:26 - Reading : less than a minute
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Lebanon defeated Bahrain with a 94-63 score on Monday, completing a clean sweep of their assignments in the opening window of the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers. The second window is scheduled for November 2024.
Abbass Attara 2024-02-27 11:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
With a strong, aggressive tempo and a defense as stoic as the roots of a cedar tree, Lebanon outclassed the Kingdom of Bahrain (94-63) in an electric atmosphere at the Nouhad Nawfal Sports Complex gymnasium (Zouk Mikael) in the second round of qualifying for the 2025 Asian Cup. The match kicked off with an intense physical rhythm from both sides ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-27 09:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Paulo Dybala scored his first hat-trick in a Roma jersey in a 3-2 win over Torino in Serie A on Monday to keep the capital city side's Champions League ambitions alive. But Lazio stuttered in Tuscany, missing a chance to close the gap on their city rivals with a 2-1 defeat at Fiorentina. Roma are sixth with 44 points, four points off Bologna who ...