We’ve generally steered clear of Liverpool in recent months given their painfully poor performances, but for the first time since their impressive 3-0 win over Tottenham on Match Day 3 we’re starting to see signs of life. A 3-1 win over...
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WGM’s tip for 28 December: New England Patriots
With a full round of NFL games being played today in the final week of the regular season, we’ve opted to steer clear of the handful of big clashes between sides still jostling for position in the playoffs and will revert to our old mates the...
WGM’s tip for 27 December: Chicago Bulls
The in again, out again nature of Derrick Rose’s return to the NBA this season has been frustrating for Bulls fans who have already had to endure two full seasons with their star point guard on the sidelines. There is no doubt they are a much...
WGM’s tip for 26 December: Chelsea v West Ham
Few would have predicted when the season kicked off that almost halfway in, West Ham United would find themselves sitting in fourth spot on the EPL ladder behind only Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United. It certainly makes tonight’s...
WGM’s tip for 24 December: Australia
There isn’t a whole lot happening in the sporting world over the next few days so we’re going to get in early for what promises to be a busy Boxing Day schedule on Friday. An Australian sporting tradition is the Boxing Day Test cricket...
For the love of cricket
This article first appeared in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of World Gaming magazine. Whether you know much about the sport or not, the upcoming cricket World Cup will be the biggest sporting event on the planet in 2015 when it comes to total viewing...
WGM’s tip for 23 December: Cleveland Cavaliers
Although Cleveland will still be looking for far greater consistency as the season wears on, they have already come a long way since their painfully slow start and currently find themselves sitting second in their division and fifth in the East...
Talking the talk
This article first appeared in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of World Gaming magazine. From highly successful player to globally renowned commentator, Mike Sexton has become known as the voice of poker since he first began with the World Poker Tour (WPT)...
WGM’s weekend wrap
China’s Chen Long has capped off a magnificent year by winning the World SuperSeries Finals in Dubai overnight, cruising past Denmark’s Hans-Kristian Vittinghus in just 47 minutes to claim his fourth major title of 2014. With both Lin...
WGM’s tip for 22 December: Denver Broncos
With Denver having already cemented their playoff spot and Cincinnati set to join them should they come away with the win tonight, this huge AFC clash looms as one of the games of the round in the NFL. Yet even at home we just can’t ignore the...
WGM’s tip for 21 December: Newcastle v Sunderland
The latest episode of the Tyne-Wear derby takes place tonight as Newcastle look to make amends for their 4-1 capitulation at Arsenal last week against old rivals Sunderland. We’re expecting a low scoring affair tonight with Sunderland having...
WGM’s tip for 20 December: Manchester City
After a slow start to the season, defending champions Manchester City have suddenly burst to life in recent weeks – coming from nowhere to progress to the knockout phase of the Champions league with wins over Bayern Munich and Roma and closing the...
WGM’s tip for 19 December: Oklahoma City
The LA Lakers have staged somewhat of a resurgence of late, with the return of key players including Kobe Bryant helping them improve to 8-17 after a shocking start to the season. However, the fact remains that they are a long way off matching the...
WGM’s weekend preview
Badminton’s prestigious season-ending Destination Dubai is finally underway as the world’s top eight men and top eight women do battle for their share of the record US$1 million prize pool. This year’s SuperSeries finale, being...
WGM’s tip for 18 December: Chicago Bulls
Despite a tough away loss in Atlanta last start, the Chicago Bulls have been playing some extremely consistent basketball of late thanks largely to more minutes from returning star Derrick Rose. The result of that has been an average 105 points...
WGM’s tip for 17 December: Australia
The second cricket Test match between Australia and India gets underway today with Australia looking to go 2-0 up in the four-match series. There have certainly been some setbacks for Australia – none more telling than the hamstring injury that...
WGM’s tip for 16 December: Chelsea
Championship high flyers Derby face an extremely difficult task if they are to progress to the semi-finals of this season’s Capital One Cup with EPL front-runners Chelsea making the trip north in their quest for even more silverware. Time will...
WGM’s weekend wrap
It’s hard to believe it was only nine months ago that Liverpool consigned old rivals Manchester United to an embarrassing 3-0 loss at Old Trafford as they embarked on an astonishing 11-game winning run. Fast forward to December 2014 and how...
PokerStars LIVE opens at City of Dreams Manila!
It’s closing in on two years since poker in Macau finally found a permanent home at City of Dreams – now players in the Philippines have received a similar boost with the new PokerStars LIVE Manila room launching at City of Dreams Manila...
WGM’s tip for 15 December: Everton v QPR
They may be sitting in the bottom half of the table but few sides have been as enjoyable to watch in recent weeks as Everton and QPR. There have certainly been goals galore — who can forget QPR’s 3-2 win over Leicester just a few weeks...
WGM’s tip for 14 December: Manchester United
Even the Liverpool fans in the WGM office aren’t feeling too good about this one. With United starting to find some form on the back of their big off-season spending spree, the Red devils are starting to look dangerous while their old rivals...
WGM’s tip for 13 December: Chelsea
The EPL favorites have had a tough time of it recently, losing to Newcastle last start and drawing with Stoke a week earlier. Nevertheless, Chelsea’s 3-1 win over Sporting CP in the Champions League midweek without Diego Costa proved...
WGM’s tip for 12 December: Clippers v Wizards
Points are the name of the game in this one. The Clippers head to Washington as the highest scoring side in the Western Conference and second highest overall with over 107 points per game, while the Wizards sit third in the East with almost 102...
WGM’s tip for 11 December: Cardinals v Rams
The NFC West wins our vote as the toughest division in the NFL this season with the last-placed St Louis Rams only just below .500 at 6-7 – and with two wins in a row that makes this a daunting trip for the 10-3 Arizona Cardinals. Defence is the...
World Gaming COO makes APT Final Table
World Gaming’s very own Michael Mariakis will shoot for glory today when the final table of the Asian Poker Tour’s Season Finale gets underway at Resorts World Manila. While the rest of us slave away in the WGM office, our Chief...
End of an era
Will the sport of badminton ever be the same? For the past 10 years, two men have dominated this exciting game with China’s Lin Dan and Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei enjoying one of the world’s great athletic rivalries. Their records...
WGM’s tip for 10 December: Barcelona
It’s a last round blockbuster as top of the table Paris St Germain face second-placed Barcelona with the winner cementing top spot in Group F of this year’s Champions League. This truly is a mouth-watering clash given the presence of two...
WGM’s tip for 9 December: Arsenal
It must be terribly frustrating being an Arsenal fan. At their best they are one of the most graceful sides in all of Europe to watch, yet too often they produce performance like last weekend’s 3-2 league loss to Stoke when they trailed 3-0 at...
WGM’s weekend wrap
The UK snooker championship came to an end overnight with Ronnie O’Sullivan claiming his fifth crown in an epic final against Judd Trump, however the big news to emerge from the event was Chinese star Ding Junhui’s rise to the top of the...
WGM’s tip for 8 December: Southampton
Successive defeats have plenty of people claiming Southampton’s bubble has finally burst after their stunning start to the season, but we’re not quite so sure. They fell 3-0 to a resurgent Manchester City last weekend and it took a late...