2024-03-04 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
NBA overall leader Boston delivered a devastating and historic performance in routing the Golden State Warriors 140-88 on Sunday, stretching the Celtics' win streak to 11 games. It was the third-largest blowout victory in Celtics history, a legacy dating to 1946. Boston's Jaylen Brown scored 25 of his 29 points in a record-shattering first half ...
2024-03-04 08:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Presented with a chance to gain ground on Liga leaders Real Madrid, both Girona and then Barcelona tamely surrendered points on Sunday. After Real Madrid drew in Valencia the night before, surprising title challengers Girona had a chance to reverse their recent slump and regain some ground. But they continued to subside as they lost 1-0 at ...
2024-03-03 22:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pep Guardiola said Phil Foden has become a "world class" talent capable of deciding big games after the 23-year-old scored twice in Manchester City's 3-1 win over Manchester United on Sunday. Marcus Rashford's wonder strike had fired United into a shock lead at the Etihad. Erling Haaland was then guilty of a miss that will go down in Premier ...
Jad Ramadan 2024-03-03 19:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
After beating Beirut twice (73-65, 67-49) in the Women’s D1 finals, Riyadi met with the same team in the third and potential last game of the season on the 3rd of March. After a great defensive display by Beirut in their stadium, Chiyah Forum, the game ended 62-56 in their favor, making it 2-1 for Riyadi in the series. The starting players for ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-03 18:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Dominican Thea LaFond won the women's triple jump at the world indoors championships in Glasgow on Sunday, the third and final day of competition. LaFond managed a best of 15.01 metres in her second effort, the sole competitor to go over the 15m mark. She then passed on her four remaining chances to jump as the field failed to come close to her ...
Makram Haddad 2024-03-03 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The first edition of the international "Rolling Half Marathon" (21.1 km), organized jointly by the Beirut Marathon Association (BMA) and the Lebanese Athletics Federation, took place this Sunday in the North Lebanon region, in rather grumpy and rainy weather. No fewer than 800 male and female runners, of around ten different nationalities and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-03 12:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
LeBron James became the first NBA player to reach 40,000 career regular-season points on Saturday, the 39-year-old superstar scoring nine against defending champion Denver to achieve the milestone. But James called the historic effort "bittersweet" because it came in a losing cause as Nikola Jokic scored 35 points to rally the Nuggets late for a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-03 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 ...
2024-03-02 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 2024-03-02 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 2024-03-02 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 2024-03-02 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 ...