It must have been an interesting old start to the week in the Olympic citadel Lausanne, with one leading Swiss bank having abruptly been swallowed by another and Xi Jinping, all-powerful leader of the most recent Olympic Games host, China, touching down in Moscow to begin a three-day state visit.

Saturday March 18. The moon disappears for another day. The sun rises. Erling Haaland adds three more goals to his tally.

Cries of "Russia, Russia, Russia" were followed by chants of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi" inside the sparse K.D. Jadhav Indoor Hall here.

Whisper the name Magnús Ver Magnússon to British people of a certain age and it might cause them to think about Christmas.

In Dublin this weekend, Ireland, World Rugby’s number one ranked team, are on the threshold of a Grand Slam for only the fourth time in their history. 

Pictures this week of Russia's Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin visiting India and being feted by top officials, including the country's National Olympic Committee President PT Usha, will have set loud alarm bells ringing in Lausanne.

Guess what dominated the front pages of the British press, both tabloid and broadsheets, as well leading the TV and radio news bulletins these past few days.

This is a column about power and how social media has - and has not - disrupted the circles in which it resides.

Our photographer Jeff Pick - still don’t believe in nominative determinism? - drove me and fellow reporter Sarosh up for the big game.

We might just have a competitive battle to host the men's 2030 FIFA World Cup. Perhaps for the wrong reasons, it is difficult not to get excited about what could follow in the 12 months after the 211 Member Associations gather in Rwanda for the FIFA Congress this week. It is likely to provide an increasingly rare and fascinating window into the world of sports politics on a grandiose scale.

Financial peril has left little to be optimistic about in Ghana as it battles its worst economic crisis in a generation but there is light at the end of the tunnel in the form of the African Para Games.

This week, 25 years ago on a sunny spring morning in London, an ensemble of 10 Bunga Manggar bearers carrying floral decorations and 20 drummers beating Kompang drums made their way onto the courtyard at Buckingham Palace. 

As the increasingly bitter dispute between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf continues to provide plenty of work for the world's lawyers, there was an unexpected admission from one of its biggest critics this week that perhaps not everything about the controversial Saudi Arabia-backed series is bad.

These are increasingly bizarre times for boxing, a sport which has long courted controversy and is steeped in shocks, surprises, sensations - and a certain amount of scorn.