Sports Correspondent, Lonic
Tomás covers football and high-altitude mountaineering, and spent six years analysing match data for a European club before turning to journalism.
The 2026 tournament’s expanded format changes the rhythm of the competition as much as its size. Here is how the World Cup 2026 schedule is structured and what it means for how fans should plan to follow it.
With the 2026 NFL season yet to run its course, firm predictions for Super Bowl 2027 are premature. The structural storylines already forming, however, are worth tracking now.
Ticket demand for the first 48-team World Cup has broken every previous record. Here is how the sales phases actually work, what seats really cost, and where the resale traps are.
Five additions to the Los Angeles programme were chosen with an American television audience in mind. The selection says as much about the Games' finances as about the sports themselves.
UEFA has sent a formal legal letter challenging FIFA’s latest World Cup expansion and format plan, reopening a long-running governance dispute over who ultimately controls the international football calendar.
Lionel Messi’s return to club football after an extended post-World Cup break puts a familiar question back in focus: how clubs manage workload for ageing stars while still extracting commercial and competitive value.
A plan to hand outside investors, reportedly including the Kushner family, a stake in running the World Cup has collapsed after UEFA declared it had lost confidence in Gianni Infantino.
With the 2026 World Cup's first knockout round under way, coaches are managing rotation, fitness and suspension risk across a longer tournament than any before it. The maths of survival has changed.
One of the most recognisable figures in high-altitude mountaineering is unaccounted for after an avalanche. A factual account of the incident and the conditions facing rescuers.
Argentina beat Australia 4-1 and Brazil overcame Mexico 2-1. Beyond the scorelines, the 48-team tournament is already revealing what the new structure rewards.
Betting sponsorship has become one of sport's largest revenue sources and one of its most contested. A wave of new restrictions is forcing leagues to rethink deals they had come to depend on.
Talk of privatising parts of world football's governing structure has moved from fringe to boardroom. The arguments on both sides are stronger than the shouting suggests.
Rights fees for major women's football competitions have risen sharply in recent cycles. The gap with the men's game remains large, but the commercial logic behind it is shifting.
An expanded Club World Cup, a bigger international tournament, and unchanged domestic schedules have combined to push elite footballers' workloads to levels their unions say are unsustainable.