Taiwan’s Cheng Tsung-che on Wednesday made his MLB debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates, just two days after being called up from Triple-A.In a home game at PNC Park against the St Louis Cardinals, Cheng wore a Taiwanese flag on his belt as he started at shortstop and batted ninth.“The journey has offi
Luka Doncic always knew it was going to be an emotional return to Dallas when wearing his No. 77 Los Angeles Lakers jersey in the place he called home the first five-and-a-half seasons of his NBA career.Then the Mavericks showed a more than two-minute video tribute before he had even been introduced
A potential European league could be a gold mine for the NBA as the top-flight North American league looks to muscle its way into a deep pool of talent across the Atlantic Ocean.The NBA is exploring the launch of a European league with world basketball governing body FIBA as a partner, NBA commissio
EJECTED: Elsewhere, Doncic was tossed from the Lakers’ game against the Thunder after an official said he had verbally abused a player, a move LeBron James criticized
The Denver Nuggets on Tuesday fired NBA championship-winning head coach Michael Malone in a shock move that comes just three games away from the start of the playoffs.Malone led the Nuggets to the franchise’s first-ever NBA title in 2023, but despite the exploits of three-time Most Valuable Player N
Taiwan’s men’s national basketball team are to play against New Zealand, Iraq and the Philippines in Group D of the FIBA Asia Cup this summer as the groups for the 31st edition of the event were confirmed in Tuesday’s draw in Doha.This year’s Asia Cup is to be played in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Au
Octavio Dotel, who pitched for 13 major league teams in a 15-year career and won a World Series with the St Louis Cardinals, was among the dead after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in his native Dominican Republic where he was attending a merengue concert. He was 51.Officials initially said Dotel w
Japanese badminton star Chiharu Shida on Tuesday told Chinese fans to “stop stalking” her, adding that she was “very scared” by the unwanted attention.Shida, who won women’s doubles bronze at the Paris Olympics last year, has a strong following in China partly because of her engagement with the loca
Formula 1 has done it, and so has professional golf, the NHL and the elite tennis tour. Now it is time for ball boys and ball girls to take center court in a reality-style documentary.Tennis Australia this week said Ballkids, a 65-minute film, is set to “lift the lid on the unsung heroes of the Aust
Hans Niemann, the chess grand master at the heart of an alleged cheating scandal, has yet to provide an explanation on his late withdrawal from the Freestyle Grand Slam in Paris.Niemann, who was accused of cheating by world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in 2023 before the matter was settled outside court, re
READY TO GO: After a series of injuries cut the Bucs’ depth in the infield, Cheng was called up to become just the 18th Taiwanese to make an appearance in the big leagues
Taiwan’s Cheng Tsung-che on Monday was called up by the Pittsburgh Pirates for his first MLB appearance, becoming the first Taiwanese player to reach the majors this year.Cheng, who signed as an international free agent in 2019, was returning from the first series for Triple-A affiliate the Indianap
Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran said in an upcoming documentary series that two years before his All-Star season last year, the pressure of the sport led him to intense bouts of depression and an attempted suicide.“I remember when I was going through it and you start losing a couple of games and you
Taiwanese rising star Kevin Yu is tomorrow to make his Masters Tournament debut at Augustus National Golf Club in Georgia.The 26-year-old in October last year beat out Californian Beau Hossler at the Sanderson Farms Championship to win his first PGA Tour title and earn his spot among the 95 players
New Taipei Kings star Jeremy Lin and Daron Russell, a new addition to the New Taipei CTBC DEA, have been named the Taiwan Professional Basketball League’s (TPBL) Players of the Month for March, the league announced yesterday.The league awards two players every month, one for Taiwanese (called “non-i
Former Australia opening batsman Will Pucovski yesterday retired from cricket at the age of 27 after a string of concussions, saying he would not risk “any more damage to my brain.”Free-scoring batsman Pucovski was earmarked for greatness after he made his Australia debut as a 22-year-old in 2021, s
Bryne FK are back in the Norwegian top flight after 22 years and they are gaining even more popularity for sticking to their agricultural roots — be it tractors acting as stands or awarding milk and eggs to the player of the match.Best known as the home of Manchester City striker Erling Haaland’s fi
The Pittsburgh Pirates announced today that it had promoted 23-year-old baseball player Cheng Tsung-che (鄭宗哲) to its Major League Baseball (MLB) squad, making Cheng the 18th Taiwanese player to play in the MLB league.Hailing from southern Pingtung Country, Cheng is 173cm tall, very fast and has majo
TIGHT COMPETITION: Six teams are battling for four playoff spots in the West, from the third-placed Los Angeles Lakers down to the eighth-placed Memphis Grizzlies
Luka Doncic on Sunday scored 30 points as the Los Angeles Lakers produced a devastating display of long-range shooting to score a surprising 126-99 blowout over the No.1 ranked Oklahoma City Thunder. A heavyweight showdown between the Western Conference leaders and the third-placed Lakers was effect
Alex Ovechkin on Sunday broke a record once seen as untouchable with his 895th career NHL goal, completing a journey from a childhood marred by tragedy to the greatest heights of his sport. Russian Ovechkin scored from the left face-off circle in the second period of the Washington Capitals’ 4-1 def
Tadej Pogacar on Sunday won an epic see-saw showdown at the Tour of Flanders, soloing home from 15km, with Mads Pedersen edging Mathieu van der Poel to second at the line a minute later with Wout van Aert fourth. The duel between the Slovenian and defending champion Van der Poel played out across th
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