Islam Makhachev hasn’t lost a fight in over a decade ahead of UFC 322. On November 15, Makhachev will look to break a 21-year run by becoming the welterweight champion after vacating his lightweight belt to move up. The Russian has been incredibly dominant at 155 pounds for a long time before taking on this new challenge. While it looks like Makhachev has put on some additional size, it remains to be seen how he will deal with the size and power of defending champion Jack Della Maddalena. The challenger may be one of the best fighters in the world today but that doesn’t mean he’s been perfect ...

Brandel Chamblee is well known as one of the most controversial golf analysts in the game, while Brooks Koepka is a real no-nonsense character. So perhaps it should have been no surprise when Chamblee and Koepka butted heads six years ago. And interestingly, it all began when Chamblee made a big claim about the man who many regard as the greatest of all time – Tiger Woods. Back in 2019 just a few weeks after Woods had won The Masters for a fifth time, Chamblee suggested that only two players in the game could compete with the 15-time major champion – Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy. Chamblee h...

Carlos Alcaraz won another two major titles this year, but has yet to complete the Career Grand Slam… The Spaniard won the French Open and US Open in 2025 to take his major tally to six, and has now won multiple titles at three of the four Grand Slams. Australian Open glory still evades Alcaraz, however, as the 22-year-old has never been past the quarterfinal stage in Melbourne. That’s clearly the target for 2026, but how much focus is Alcaraz placing on winning the Australian Open? During an interview at the ATP Finals, Alcaraz shared his goals for the new year. Carlos Alcaraz would rather wi...

Toprak Razgatlioglu is months away from making his debut in the premier class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing with Pramac, but the three-time World Superbike champion has revealed why it doesn’t completely fill him with joy. After securing his third world title in the category following a close battle with Nicolo Bulega, Toprak Razgatlioglu is swapping production motorcycles for prototypes ahead of the 2026 MotoGP season. Through Pramac’s full factory support from Yamaha, the 29-year-old will be riding atop their new V4-powered bike during his maiden campaign. Razgatlioglu recently completed h...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Email chatter between current US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack and Jeffrey Epstein, the late disgraced financier thought to have run an extensive international trafficking ring that secured minors for sex abuse, is included in a trove of correspondence released this week by the US Congress. Epstein told Lebanese-American Barrack to “make me smile” with pictures of him and a “child”, one email, written in March 2016, shows. “Send photos of you and child.. – make me smile,” Epstein, the disgraced late financier, wrote to Barrack on March 9, 2016. Epstein then respond...