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On December 30, LeBron James will be 33 years old. But in the NBA years, you may be 61 years old and get down to Geritol every day. Still, James is in his 15th season of professional basketball. He has never played in less than 84% of his team's regular season games. He has led the NBA twice in the minutes that have been played, and leads the league in total minutes this season. And while many of his colleagues rest on a golf course or in a hammock in May and June, James is making big playoffs. His teams have played seven games in a row in the NBA Finals. Did you mention the three summer vacations you left to play in the Olympics? The bald forehead and everything, LeBron gets up there. Your body should break. James has already played more combined minutes in the regular season and the playoffs (51,558) than Michael Jordan (48,485) - and Jordan took two sabbatical years of basketball, totaling about four and a half seasons, before retiring to 40 years after 2002. -2003 sea

By  AYOADE JAMIU The Dutch international signs a five and a half year agreement under a strong transfer strategy for Merseysiders Towards the end of the 2016-17 year as Liverpool pushed the finish in the top four to crystallize their lead when Jürgen Klopp, the draft of his recruitment strategy for the new campaign became apparent. His first season of blinking and blinding highlighted the team's electrifying potential, but his stumble extended earlier this year solidified the idea that reinforcements were demanded. There were four main objectives: to reduce the addiction of Sadio Mane by adding another rapid advance that could terrify the defenses and make a difference in the last third; elevate the dynamism in the center of the field; to make sure there was more competition in the team; and bring a consummate and dominant central center. Mohamed Salah, Naby Keita, who joined Merseysiders last summer, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain reviewed the three top priorities.

By  AYOADE JAMIU • The captain of Leicester admits that the English players showed signs of fatigue • "The mental tension is enormous and it gets bigger and bigger" Leicester captain Tom Youngs admitted that the English players at the club showed signs of fatigue after the international matches in autumn after the slowdown of the European Premier League team last weekend. Five of the seven clubs in the English Premiership, including the Tigers, lost in the fourth round and all cleared the week before facing their worst performance in Europe in six seasons. In fact, Leicester, Saracens, Northampton, Harlequins and Exeter suffered consecutive defeats, contributing collectively with 23 players to England during the fall. Currently, only Bath, who beat Toulon on Saturday, will qualify for the knockout round, the last time the Premier League has had a single club in the last eight years 2011-12, while Wasps has revived their hopes with an impressive victory against

By  AYOADE JAMIU   • Professor Jiri Dvorak says he has not received any explanation after 22 years of work • Other senior FIFA officials have been expelled when examining issues related to Russia The former chief medical officer of Fifa was investigating the supposed doping of Russian state soccer players when his work was abruptly interrupted under the presidency of Gianni Infantino last November. Professor Jiri Dvorak, a leading physician and consultant neurologist who worked in the medical, anti-doping and injury prevention programs of Fifa for 22 years, complained that he had not received any notification or explanation when the governing body of the World Game of He suddenly finished his job. The end of Dvorak and his work, which he combined with the chairmanship of the department of neurology at the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich, were some of the many games of FIFA staff after the election of Infantino last February to succeed Sepp. Blatter This expulsion of people ha

By  AYOADE JAMIU • Team England nominates 75 men and field teams for the 2018 event in Australia • Adam Gemili and Katarina Johnson-Thompson among the contenders for the medal Greg Rutherford, Olympic long jump champion in London in 2012, and British sprint holder Dina Asher-Smith were named in an English men's 75-man athletics team for next year's Commonwealth Games in Australia. The athletic team will be the largest group of 650 members of the Gold Coast English team, which will include 400 athletes and 250 support staff in 18 sports, making it the largest team to represent the world. England at an international sporting event. Most of them will start flying to Brisbane training camp in mid-March to give them more than 15 days of acclimatization before the Games start on April 4. England will try to defend their position against Australia at the top of the medal table. A spokesman for the England team would not be attracted by the cost of the trip, but