The Sports World Reacts to LeBron James Breaking the NBA All-Time Scoring Record “I would never in a million years dreamt this any better,” James told a roaring Lakers crowd, after passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s impossible mark. When LeBron James walked onto the basketball court in Los Angeles for the pregame shoot-around Tuesday night, he donned custom headphones with the number 38,388 written across the headband. It was the number of career points he would have to reach to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record—and the same number that he would surpass that evening. The moment had been a long time coming. Many in attendance…
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Arsenal star Jesus returns to club to step up recovery from knee surgery Gabriel Jesus has returned to Arsenal to step up his recovery following surgery on a knee issue in December. WHAT HAPPENED? The Brazilian striker has not featured for the Gunners since before the World Cup due to the injury he sustained while representing his country in Qatar. He underwent surgery in London before Christmas and has been slowly working his way back to fitness ever since, with the forward now walking without the need for crutches or a knee brace. THE BIGGER PICTURE:Jesus spent time in England last month…
Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe has impressed this season, and one Arsenal star is replicating the France international’s form in one key statistic Arsenal already have their own Kylian Mbappe. Bukayo Saka was magnificent for Arsenal during the start of the 2022/2023 campaign as the youngster played a major part in Arsenal’s early title charge. His impact on the team was epitomised by the fact that he was called up and used as a starter for England at the 2022 World Cup. Towards the end of last season, the Englishman was viewed as one of the club’s most valuable assets and…
Man United boss Erik ten Hag guided his side to the cusp of Wembley on Wednesday and might have made an intriguing discovery. (Image: Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images) When Cristiano Ronaldo spat his dummy out and made his stay at Manchester United untenable, there was some justifiable concern to go alongside the relief. While there was no doubt – even without the benefit of hindsight – that losing a toxic presence and a player no longer suited to elite-level football would be a net benefit, there was the issue of United’s depleted attacking force. Ten Hag was already desperately short on centre-forward…
In Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez, Man United have their best defensive partnership since Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic. Varane gives Martinez a lift Louis van Gaal would doubtless disagree and he has compelling evidence, but Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez are the best centre-back partnership Manchester United have had since Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic. Van Gaal stumbled upon Chris Smalling and Daley Blind as an unlikely yet miserly duo in the 2015-16 season, having prepared for it with Phil Jones alongside Blind during pre-season. Then Jones succumbed to injury. United sieved only 35 goals in their 38 Premier League games. Blind, dubbed Van Gaal’s “footballing son”…
Chelsea transfer news: Lionel Messi could become available on a free transfer in the summer as Paris Saint-German continue to ponder the World Cup winner’s contract. Lionel Messi’s future continues to be uncertain despite his prestigious record in football. The World Cup winner sees his contract at Paris Saint-Germain expire at the end of the season and there’s set to be a list of suitors for one of the game’s greatest. The Argentine joined the French giants in 2021 after ending his long spell at FC Barcelona. Messi scored 672 goals in 778 games for the Spanish side and has continued his…
Meet Buddy, a sweet 13-year-old golden retriever who has shared her life with Hannah, her human, and her best friend. When Hannah turned 21, she enlisted in the army and left Buddy for the first time in her life for a long period of time to complete training. Both Hannah and Buddy’s hearts ached at their distance from each other, three months later when it came to Hannah’s Christmas break, she was understandably ecstatic to get back home. And we didn’t expect Buddy to react like this! She has clearly waiting for the day they would be reunited and couldn’t…
The captain of the Argentine team leads a list in Europe, where the PSG striker does not even appear. Lionel Messi confirmed that he is the best player in history, when he won the World Cup in Qatar with the Argentine team. However, from France they insist that Kylian Mbappé is already better than the ‘Flea’, who at 35 continues to demonstrate his hierarchy. Now, the top winner of the Ballon d’Or (7) gave ‘Donatello’ a lesson. Although there is no rivalry between Leo and Mbappé, the French press tries to install the idea that ‘Donatello’ has already surpassed the…
Featured Image Credit: Chinese University of Hong Kong If you’ve ever seen the 1991 classic Terminator 2: Judgement Day, you will know all about the terrifying psycho-bot the T-1000. While for many of us it was just a terrifying fantasy, scientists have been hard at work making it a reality. And it looks like they’ve succeeded. Gulp: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have been working on a new material that can reform itself, moving quickly between a solid and a liquid. Dubbed Magnetoactive phase transitional matter (MPTM), the material was created by merging magnetic neodymium-iron-boron microparticles with gallium,…
Featured Image Credit: Facebook New Earth Discoveries From time to time we get a stern reminder of just how cool and powerful mother nature is, and the Al Naslaa rock formation in Saudi Arabia is a perfect example. If you saw the rock itself you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a man-made sculpture of two giant boulders resting on small pedestals, separated from one another by nothing more than a single, smooth crack. It looks like the sort of thing human hands would be required to design, but this incredible rock formation in the Saudi Arabian desert was made by time and…
SMITHFIELD – While the words “ghost town” may conjure images of an old-time Wild West, eerily swinging saloon doors, or apparitions of cowboys passing by, Merriam-Webster defines the term as “a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource.” Tucked within the woods of Smithfield (far from anything remotely Wild Western) lies a place that fits the ghost town description quite nicely. Known mainly as Hanton City, as well as Haunted City, Island Woods, Rumbly, Ghost City and a few other monikers, the area holds the remains of a colonial-era village,…
Featured Image Credit: Nevit Dilmen / Christian Kober 1 / Alamy Stock Photo A man once found an enormous underground city in his basement while searching for the reason his chickens kept disappearing. In the town of Derinkuyu, Turkey a man was renovating his house in 1963 when he noticed that a lot of his chickens were going missing. During the remodel he noticed that a small crevasse had formed in his basement and his chickens were disappearing through it, never to return. Deciding to figure out where they were going he did a bit of digging and unearthed an entrance to a huge…