To celebrate the start of the new Major League Soccer season, we’ve compiled a quiz to get fans fired up for the first kick-offs of 2022. There are only 10 questions, making it the ideal challenge for a coffee break or half-time interval when watching your favourite team!
The 94th Academy Awards are set to take place on March 28th and here are our Oscars 2022 predictions. We’ve looked back over the nominations and winners from the last decade to work out who could collect the most coveted gongs this year.
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, we have taken our annual look at which pairs of footballers form the best goalscoring partnerships on the pitch. We have measured this across a range of competitions by calculating the combined goalscoring rate of every pairing per 90 minutes spent together on the pitch since the start of last season.
The Winter Olympics 2022 are set to take place from February 4-20 in Beijing, China. The games will include a record number of events – a total of 109 across 15 disciplines in seven different sports – with each nation having its own strengths and weaknesses.
For the first time in three years there will be a Canadian Grand Prix, which is scheduled to take place on June 19 2022 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Both the 2020 and 2021 races were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but normality is now returning to the Formula One calendar.
We’re about halfway through the NHL season and the battle for the Stanley Cup is set to intensify in the second half of the campaign. Here we look at the format of the competition, its recent history and the chances of the Canadian teams.
With the 27th season of Major League Soccer scheduled to begin in late February, we have taken a look at the data to understand what might happen in the MLS season 2022. We have used the bwin MLS play-off odds to assess the difficulty of each team’s opening fixture schedule; specifically their first 10 games.
With the next MLB season due to start in the spring, we have taken a look at the prospects of every team using two different measures. Firstly we have analysed how well each team might start the new campaign using bwin’s MLB outright odds to assess the strength of their first 10 opponents, starting with the American League.
With the NFL post-season beginning in mid-January, we have analysed every previous one since the current format was established back in 2002 to understand what might happen this time around on the road to Super Bowl LVI.
Barcelona have gone from footballing superpower to international laughing stock in an alarmingly short space of time, but the seeds of their demise were sown by many years of poor management. The salary restriction imposed on them by La Liga has forced them to cut costs drastically, but they were a response to the enormous debts racked up by the club, which left them vulnerable when Covid-19 hit European football hard.
NASCAR stands for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. It was founded in 1948 in Daytona Beach, Florida, to capitalise on the growing popularity of racing ordinary, factory-produced (or “stock”) cars.
The NASCAR Cup Series – which began a year later – is the highest level of competition within the sport.
Novak Djokovic continues to dominate the ATP tour and has a chance to win his fourth successive Australian Open title in January. Melbourne was the scene of his first ever Grand Slam title back in 2008 and over his career he has won the tournament nine times out of a possible 14.
February will see the NBA season pause for All-Star Weekend, which takes place just after that season’s trade deadline. The highlight of the weekend is the NBA All-Star game: an exhibition match between the league’s best players that has been contested since 1951.
The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations kicks off on January 9 in Cameroon, with the final almost a month later on February 6. With African players fulfilling key roles at many top European clubs, whose domestic seasons will continue during the tournament, some absences will be keenly felt.