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Battle of the Sexes: Can women beat men in tennis? Aryna Sabalenka, Nick Kyrgios reignite a decades-old debate

December 27, 2025 10:48 am

With women’s tennis being the most famous, fully commercialised women’s sport, can women really beat men in a professional match?

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is just 5 feet tall. Here’s how she became an all-time sprinting great

December 27, 2025 7:39 am

Long legs don't equal greater speeds. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce proved this is in a dominant reign marked by lightning-quick starts, energy-efficient strides, core strength — and raw talent.

The delicate art of deception: A badminton trick shot and its unlikely inspiration

December 13, 2025 12:21 pm

How Danish legend Peter Gade found inspiration for his ‘double action’ shot from football icon Michael Laudrup

Could Total Football influence a sleight of hand in a split second of badminton?

December 06, 2025 2:36 pm

The Indian Express speaks to Danish badminton legend Peter Gade about how he took inspiration from football icon Michael Laudrup

Why Steve Smith is wearing eye blacks in nets ahead of pink-ball Ashes Test at Brisbane

December 02, 2025 10:41 am

Before Steve Smith, West Indian batting great Shivnarine Chanderpaul was known for batting with eye blacks. What are eye blacks, why can they be useful in pink-ball matches, and what do studies say?

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First India versus SA test, ‘tricky’ Kolkata pitch and the complications of an ‘imperfect’ science

November 20, 2025 2:03 pm

India’s defeat in the first Test at Kolkata against South Africa led India head coach to blame the surface. Here’s why making a spin track is a complex affair.

How Curacao, an island with a population of 1.5 lakh, are headed to the FIFA World Cup

November 19, 2025 6:12 pm

The expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams gave some of the unfancied nations a better chance to qualify, giving rise to fairytale stories of teams from Caribbean islands and Asia

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Why are long throw-ins giving football defenders and lawmakers a headache?

November 04, 2025 5:27 am

Most elite defenders are endowed with aerial prowess; so why is a long throw, that's slower and loopier than a corner kick, dangerous?

How widespread is cheating in modern chess?

October 23, 2025 7:17 pm

After the untimely death of American GM Daniel Naroditsky, the chess world once again reckons with the question: how common is cheating in chess?

(Left) Cape Verde's Stopira (bottom) celebrates with his teammate after defeating Eswatini in a World Cup qualifying match; India plays Singapore.

Heroic Cape Verde and hopeless India: Why there is no correlation between population and success in football

October 16, 2025 3:00 pm

India’s inability to feature even in an expanded, 24-team Asian Cup — despite a far bigger population, more players, better grounds and a lucrative league — points to a hopeless situation and an alarming slide in football.