Hockey

A junior hockey match in Russia descended into a mass dust-up on the ice as youngsters traded blows during a regional tournament.

Photoshoot-loving sports host Ulyana Trigubchak has branched out to create her debut calendar and invited her almost entirely male audience to "admire me all year round", praising them while offering a preview of the risque snaps.

An amateur ice hockey player has described the "incomprehensible" moment when a prone teammate was beaten with a stick during a game in Sochi, speaking after footage emerged of the bloody aftermath of the gruesome alleged attack.

Evgeniya Tikhonova, who is married to ex-NHL player Viktor Tikhonov, has revealed a photograph showing a series of scars on her face which she says came about as a result of being caught up in attack by her household cat.

Former TV hockey host Ulyana Trigubchak has said footballers can masturbate on the pitch as long as they win, holding forth on Russia captain Artem Dzyuba's sex scandal and a wide range of other issues on her new Instagram show.

Hockey punch-ups can often be drawn-out affairs ending inconclusively but that was far from the case when Canada's Mark Louis threw down with rival Patrik Maier in the Slovak Tipos Extraliga.

Russian hockey veteran Andrei Rychagov has warned that UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov's furious outburst against Emmanuel Macron could lead to violence, calling his response to the French leader's remarks about terrorism "wild".

Former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque has said he is working on arranging a fight with boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, noting that the possible bout is “75 percent done.”

Russian world champion gymnast Daria Dmitrieva has admitted that she was driven "crazy" by ex-husband Alexander Radulov's messages to other women during their two-year marriage, adding that she loved spending his hefty NHL wages.