English Premier League

Chelsea axes “The Special One”

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Chelsea axes “The Special One”

Chelsea axes “The Special One”

Chelsea will part ways with Jose Mourinho barely a year after the Portuguese manager had led them to a Premier League title.

Having also won the League Cup trophy last season, Chelsea curiously slumped this season and lost nine league games in sixteen matches.

His latest match was a 2-1 defeat by Leicester City, which dropped the London Club down to sixteenth place, with only one point away from relegation placing.

Initially it appeared that despite all the failures, the Special One had the support of club owner Roman Abramovich.

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League of Legends

Tencent takes over LOL developer

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Tencent takes over LOL developer

Chinese firm Tencent has taken sole control of League of Legend developer Riot Games.

The news was announced in Riot Games’s website, citing a change in compensation for their staff.

It elaborates on how they will be moving from a “Riot equity program” to a “cash-based incentive program” that would allow employees to get their cut out of Riot’s successes.

Prior to the sale, Tencent was already the majority owner of Riot and was in control of almost 93% of the stock in the game maker. No figure was given for the sale of the remaining 7%.

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Italian Serie A

Serie A: There has been an awakening

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Juventus players celebrate as they beat Fiorentina by 3-1.

Juventus players celebrate as they beat Fiorentina by 3-1.

Arguably the greatest club in Italy, Juventus ended last summer with a galore of trophies such as the Serie A title, the Italian Cup and Italian Super cup.

They were stopped short of winning the Champions League, being unable to defend typical Barcelona masterclass performance 3-1 in the final.

However, their start their 2015-16 season trailing in the Italian league and could only watch as Inter, Fiorentina and Napoli went ahead.

Fortunately, as 2015 draws to a close, Juventus celebrates a remarkable 3-1 league win over second-place Fiorentina.

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Tennis

Federer have no plans for retirement

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Roger Federer had won the gold for men singles during the 2008 Olympics and silver for 2012.

Roger Federer had won the gold for men singles during the 2008 Olympics and silver for 2012.

Roger Federer had insisted that he will not retire, even after he had played in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

The 34-year-old Swiss will be celebrating his 35th birthday around the time of the event, but he believes that he has what it takes to make a haul of Olympic medals.

He will be playing in the singles and mixed doubles, but he has not made up his mind on men’s doubles.

“No plans to retire yet. I don’t have a definite date even though that would help to make things easier to plan,” Federer said.

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Dota 2 News

Huge changes is coming with latest Dota 2 patch

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Doom, Riki, Faceless Void, Death Prophet and Lone Druid will be reworked in the latest patch.

Doom, Riki, Faceless Void, Death Prophet and Lone Druid will be reworked in the latest patch.

Dota 2 had released patch notes for 6.86, and the contents appear to substantiate earlier claims that it would “change the history” of Dota 2.

As with other patches, heroes are the main focus of rework since it is already named as a “Balance of Power” update.

Doom, Riki, Faceless Void, Death Prophet and Lone Druid will be removed from Captain’s Mode due to their ability reworks. However, Earth Spirit, Oracle and Terrorblade has been added to Captain’s Mode.

A new Dota hero will be introduced – Zet the Arc Warden, able to use slow, evasion and doubles. And Zeus will get a new item called Arcana along with a chariot.

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