Abbass Attara 2024-05-14 14:16 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Last weekend, the Lebanese Surfing Federation, in collaboration with the House of Creed, organized the first official Lebanese Surfing Championship on the beach of the Jiyeh Marina complex. This Saturday and Sunday, on the beach of Jiyeh, the summer was looking very promising. The season got off to a rhythmic start with the sound of waves ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-14 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Boston Celtics fought off short-handed Cleveland to take a 3-1 stranglehold in their NBA playoff series on Monday as Oklahoma City leveled their series with Dallas. Jayson Tatum scored 33 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Jaylen Brown added 27 points for the Celtics, who beat the Cavaliers 109-102 for a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven ...
2024-05-14 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese basketball fans eagerly await the final of the Lebanese Basketball Championship, which will pit Riyadi Beirut against La Sagesse in a fiery series that will crown the winner of four out of seven matches. The first will start at 9:45 PM on Tuesday, at the Saeb Salam Hall in Manara, the home court of Riyadi, which will benefit from ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-13 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The women's team of Al-Nadwa Koumatieh has won the Lebanese Table Tennis Championship for women's teams. In the final, Malak Khoury won her match against Talia Azar 3-0, and Marianna Sahakian defeated Laeticia Azar 3-0. In the doubles match, Sahakian and Khoury defeated the Azar sisters 3-1. Al-Nadwa Koumatieh Club had previously won the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-13 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kylian Mbappé scored on his final home appearance as a Paris Saint-Germain player on Sunday, but the French champions suffered a surprise 3-1 defeat against Toulouse on the night they picked up the Ligue 1 championship trophy. Mbappé confirmed in a video posted on social media on Friday that he would be leaving PSG when his contract expires at ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-13 10:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The defending champion Denver Nuggets outgunned the Minnesota Timberwolves 115-107 to level their NBA playoff series on Sunday as the Indiana Pacers pulled even with the New York Knicks. The Nuggets, fueled by 35 points from NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic, Aaron Gordon's 27 points on ruthlessly efficient 11-of-12 shooting, and Jamal ...
2024-05-12 22:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Arsenal kept their Premier League title dreams alive by ending an Old Trafford hoodoo to grind out a 1-0 win at Manchester United on Sunday, moving back top of the table and taking the championship battle down to the last weekend. Leandro Trossard scored the only goal in the 20th minute as Arsenal won for just the second time in 17 games away at ...
Makram Haddad 2024-05-12 20:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Alex Feghali won the 39th ATCL Spring Rally on his Mitsubishi. However, it was his father, Roger Feghali, a sixteen-time winner of the competition, who was the fastest on Sunday. The latter, "guilty" of a technical error, was demoted, thereby relinquishing the top spot to his son. Alex Feghali and his navigator Marc Haddad, in a Mitsubishi Lancer ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-12 15:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown combined to score 61 points to fire the Boston Celtics to a bounce-back NBA playoff win over Cleveland on Saturday, as Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic led Dallas over Oklahoma City. Tatum scored 33 points and Brown 28 as top seeds Boston, stunned by the Cavaliers on their home court in game two, beat the Cavs 106-93 in ...
Jad Ramadan 2024-05-12 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Al Riyadi and Homenetmen met on Saturday night in the third match of the semi-finals of the Lebanese Basketball Championship. While a win would secure Al-Riyadi a spot in the final, Homenetmen were looking to stay alive in the series, despite the other team’s clear advantage going into the game. The game ended 98-90 for Al-Riyadi, who now ...
2024-05-11 21:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Jad el Hajj has tendered his resignation as coach of the Lebanese national basketball team, citing personal reasons and commitments elsewhere. The decision came as a surprise to many fans and experts, especially in the run-up to qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The president of the National Basketball Teams Committee, Maroun Gebrael, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-11 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kylian Mbappe confirmed on Friday that he will leave French champions Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season, with Real Madrid widely expected to be his next destination. The announcement brings an end to a prolific association with his hometown team, which began when he signed from Monaco in 2017 a deal worth 180 million euros ($194 ...