ROME – Game week seven in Serie A saw things grow tight at the top of the table after AS Roma and Napoli both lost important matches, allowing the two Milanese teams to claim the top two spots.

  ROME – Scores of basketball hooligans are under investigation after they killed a bus driver, who was one month away from retirement, while ambushing a rival basketball team’s bus with bricks and stones following a match on Sunday, police said.

  Real Sebastiani Rieti had played Pistoia on Sunday, losing 73-88, as part of the second division Serie A2 basketball league. The bus, which was carrying around fifty visiting Pistoia fans was ambushed by Rieti fans on the Rieti-Terni motorway, around ten minutes after leaving the Rieti stadium.

  ROME – Jannik Sinner won the final of the Six Kings Slam in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, beating world number one Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets (6-2, 6-4) to defend his title.

  This marks the duo’s sixth final this year, after they became the first male duo in tennis history to contest three major finals in the same calendar year. Alcaraz had won all but one of their head to heads in finals in 2025, in a move which saw the Spaniard take the number one spot in the world rankings from the Italian.

 ROME – Juventus is under investigation by UEFA for allegedly violating financial fair play regulations, Juventus confirmed on Thursday.

 The Turin team, in a statement on social media, confirmed that they had been notified Sept. 18 by UEFA that they were being placed under investigation for allegedly breaching the financial fair play rules introduced in 2011. The rules were introduced to ensure football clubs operate within their means and stay financially stable and sustainable – essentially preventing clubs spending more than they earn over a period of several years.