Winter’s chill is reshaping international football, influencing everything from game strategies to the benefits of home advantage to the outcomes themselves. Consider a frigid March night in 2013. Commerce City, Colorado, was blanketed in snow. Players struggled to see the pitch boundaries, and the ball vanished into the…
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January 30 – Nine clubs will begin the new Chinese Super League (CSL) season with points deductions after the latest round of sanctions stemming from investigations into match-fixing, gambling and corruption. This is another major blow to the domestic game that has spent the better part of a…
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Peacock’s coverage of next weekend’s Super Bowl will provide advertisers with a key Big Game subplot. While creatives and CMOs watching at home will focus on the celebrities, needle drops and ad gags, media buyers will be keeping a close eye on the quality of Peacock’s stream and…
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The second season of the league phase of the UEFA Champions League comes to an end on Wednesday, January 28. There’s still lots to play for the vast majority of the 36 teams involved, as we discuss the many positives of the new UCL league phase format. The…
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January 26 – Somali women’s national football team are set to make their international debut, marking a significant milestone in Somalia’s footballing history where the women’s game has been suppressed by religious beliefs. The Ocean Queens U-17 squad will lay in the Arab U-17 tournament to be held…
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If you can’t beat ’em sometimes you have to hire ’em away. That’s the approach CourtAvenue took when coming up against Stagwell in some of the pitches it didn’t win. The independent multi-pronged agency run by ex-WPP execs Dan Khabie, Kenny Tomlin and Michael Stich, hired Robyn Freye…
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The fixture congestion crisis is no longer a future problem. It is a present reality. Submit Quiz Give Up & Show Answers Leaderboard Rank Name Score Time 1 Lanre 4/6 75s Across Europe’s top leagues, players are being pushed through schedules that leave no space for recovery, no…
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January 23 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has pledged FIFA’s full support to US president Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Infantino said: “FIFA gives its full support to President Trump and all members of the Board of Peace.…
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Hytale‘s journey to launch has been rocky, to say the least. The sandbox RPG was canceled by Riot Games in June 2025 after nearly a decade of development, seemingly dead in the water… until the original founders swooped in to repurchase the IP and revive the project, returning…
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This week’s Media Briefing examines how publishers are rethinking SEO in 2026, as AI reshapes search and a Google-reliant strategy grows riskier. If last year was the year AI threw a wrench in the search optimization landscape, this year is the year publishers will have to figure out…
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