RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: There are some nice angles to FIFA's Club World Cup . Here's one: Auckland City. Here's another: their goalkeeper. That would be a guy named Conor Tracey.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: An incidental detail about that statement is there was no name attached to it. It wasn't signed by Levy, nor was he quoted, but his fingerprints were on each of the 368 words.
EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia's general entertainment authority, has spearheaded the huge Saudi investment in boxing in the last two years.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT QUAIL HOLLOW: For the third time in Scottie Scheffler's short career, he is a major champion. But do not mistake familiar for boring.
RIATH AL -SAMARRAI AT QUALI HOLLOW: It didn't belong in the same postcode as a mugshot but it would seem the PGA Championship has fostered a habit of bringing the unexpected from him.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Manchester United and Tottenham. By virtue of their wins on successive Thursdays, we will have ourselves a proper donkey derby in Bilbao later this month.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Little can match the thrill of seeing the next big thing but even less ranks above the sight of a 14-year-old smashing a century in the Indian Premier League.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Primarily, it can be noted that as dance partners, Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jnr delivered an excellent spectacle. And neither man made a spectacle of himself.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: I've always viewed Real as all trophies and no soul, a club that can elevate a player to untold heights just as easily as it can chew them up for no good reason.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN AUGUSTA: Rory McIlroy stepped up to a level of greatness we assumed might never come. And never have we assumed it more than we did on this marvellous Sunday