Features

Death of the Game

Jordan's national basketball team has made it to the World Championships—the first time local athletes have ever reached that level. But it left the sport in tatters, with its future in doubt.

Bull Market

The Lamborghini bull has always informed its cars’ ultimate performance, nowhere more so than in the fearsomely compact Gallardo LP560-4

legendary win

Spanish rally driver Carlos Sainz, winner of last month’s Dakar Rally, believes in healthy competition. Or unhealthy, for that matter

Sam the man

The Jordanian basketball player who once managed to beat the NBA’s Most Valuable Player leads Jordan’s national team to the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Top 10

Sporting events of 2010

The miracle game

As Egypt hosted Algeria for a place in South Africa’s 2010 World Cup, it underlined why the Egyptians regard this game as the biggest on the planet

Zed's not dead

Zinedine Zidane is clearly the greatest footballer the Arab World has ever produced, but the next chapter of his life seems a little different

The answer’s yas

The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is less than a month away, and one NOX writer got his own ride around the Yas Island circuit. In a mini bus, sadly

Saif and sound

The rise of the football agent has been one of the by-products of the Premiership era. But there’s more to it than signing boot deals – as one Iraqi knows all too well

EPL preview: round 5

First in a weekly series where NOX readers predict the big Premiership games of the weekend