Category: Sport

The BBC has apologized for using footage of LeBron James during a news piece paying tribute to the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant.

The broadcaster admitted "human error" was to blame for the footage of Bryant's fellow team member LeBron James being broadcast on BBC One's 10 o'clock news show on Sunday night.

While using footage of

Novak Djokovic, who won a record seventh Australian Open title in 2019, suggested that the organizers should consider postponing the start of the tournament if the Melbourne's air quality continues to deteriorate due to the ongoing bush fires.

Djokovic is also serving as an ATP Player Council President. As such, he expressed his concerns about potential

Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn popped the question to National Hockey League star P.K. Subban on Christmas Day, in what she called "a non-traditional move."

Although the athletes got engaged for the first time earlier in the summer, Vonn said she wanted to give Subban a ring as a display of "equality."

Everyone talks about equality these

Belgian four-time major winner Kim Clijsters, who retired for the second time in 2011, confirmed on Monday that she would officially return to tennis in March 2020.

In a video posted online, the 36-year-old Clijsters said that "the absence from the tennis court was long enough," adding that she will be ready to go in a

Naomi Osaka claimed her second US Open title on Saturday, defeating Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday. It is her third Grand Slam title after the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open. She defeated Azarenka after she retired from the previous WTA Master's Tournament, the Western and South Open.

After the game, the

Two-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka confirmed she would not play her seminals match Thursday at the Western and Southern Open to raise awareness about racial inequality after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.

Osaka, the world's highest-paid female athlete, said that there were much more important matters than watching her play tennis. In

Novak Djokovic, the Tennis Players Council president, is reportedly considering to lead players' boycott of the US Open if there are no guarantees on quarantine exemptions.

World number one and defending champion, Rafael Nadal, has already withdrawn from the race, citing coronavirus uncertainty as the main reason.

Many top athletes have provisionally committed, but the issue over

The men's world No 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic, revealed on Tuesday that he tested positive for Covid-19. The Serbian added that his wife, Jelena, is also positive, while their children are not.

They were tested immediately upon returning from Zadar in Croatia, where the final of the Adria Tour was canceled after Grigor Dimitrov's positive