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, ...
Roudi Abou Nader 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 ...
Hala Abdallah 20/02 22:24 - Reading : less than a minute
The Lebanese national basketball team won the BetArabia Beirut International Cup title on Tuesday, dominating every game with an undefeated record. The Cedars are now gearing up for the Asian Cup Qualifiers kicking off on Thursday.
Roudi Abou Nader 20/02 22:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese team won the Beirut Cup after winning their third and final game by a score of 94-83. The victory compounded the wounds of the Syrian team, which suffered its third consecutive defeat and finished the tournament without a win. Course of Play The Lebanese team dominated the match on the whole, with coach Jad Al Hajj's men showing ...
This Is Beirut 20/02 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese national swimming team delegation returned home from the 50-meter World Swimming Championships in the Qatari capital, Doha. The delegation included federation secretary Farid Abi Raad (head of delegation), coach Elie Boutros and players Munzer Kabbara, Ahmad Safiya, Rebecca Mezher and Lana Hijazi. During the event, two Lebanese ...
This Is Beirut 20/02 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
- A well-known club refused to allow its foreign player to play matches with an Arab team in a successful friendly competition, while allowing him to play the two official matches in the continental qualifiers. Interventions to persuade a senior club official to reverse their decision were unsuccessful. - The draw set Lebanon against South Africa ...
20/02 12:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
At the recent cross-country competition held on the Jnah golf course, Imad Jezzini took first place in the men's race and Joan Makary came first in the women's race. The event, organized in partnership between the Beirut Athletic Raiders Club and the Golf Club, attracted elite runners under the supervision of the Lebanese Athletics ...
This Is Beirut 20/02 11:34 - Reading : less than a minute
Andreas Brehme, who scored from the penalty spot to seal victory for West Germany against Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final, died overnight into Tuesday at the age of 63, his former club Bayern Munich said. "FC Bayern is deeply shocked by the sudden death of Andreas Brehme," the club said in a statement. "We will always keep Andreas Brehme ...