Taiwanese artistic gymnast Tang Chia-hung won silver in the men’s horizontal bar at this year’s Doha World Cup yesterday, his first medal of the season.Tang earned a total of 14.400 points in the final, with a 6.5 difficulty score and a 7.900 execution score — placing him just behind Kazakhstan’s Mi
global following: ‘Some of the local fans were quite surprised, probably wondering what 100 Spaniards were doing there,’ a Harborough Town fan from Madrid said
Soccer tourism is usually seen at English Premier League stadiums such as Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates, so fans of Harborough Town, who compete in the seventh tier of the English soccer pyramid, were stunned when 100 Spaniards arrived at Bowden Park to watch them take on St Ives Town.The S
The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani on Saturday announced that he and his wife, Mamiko, have welcomed their first child.“I am so grateful to my loving wife who gave birth to our healthy and beautiful daughter,” Ohtani wrote on Instagram. “To my daughter, thank you for making us very nerv
UC Sampdoria are fighting for Serie B survival as the 1991 Italian champions and former UEFA European Cup finalists flirt dangerously with dropping into Italy’s third tier for the first time.Sat in the relegation play-off zone ahead of today’s match at promotion chasers Juve Stabia, Sampdoria have a
Ivar and Erik of War Raiders react while attempting to pin Xavier Woods of New Day during their World Tag Team Championship match during WrestleMania 41 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday. The two-night wrestling spectacle drew more than 100,000 fans and is one of the biggest eve
SNOOKER: A record 10 Chinese players are at the Crucible this year, including Zhao Xintong, as a wide-open tournament signals a possible new era
It has been fairly common in recent years to discuss the winds of change blowing through the World Snooker Championship, but this year, with talk of the Crucible’s future being quieter than usual, it is on the baize where a significant shift might be poised to take place.The usual suspects, for the
The Los Angeles Lakers often attract large betting interest anyway, but the controversial midseason trade that landed Luka Doncic from Dallas has people emptying their bank accounts to put money on Los Angeles.And the money, mostly fueled by casual bettors, is still coming.BetMGM trading manager Hal
Arne Slot has denied that Darwin Nunez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff.The Liverpool head coach on Sunday last week said that Nunez was absent from the 2-1 victory at Anfield, having felt unwell during training th
The New York Yankees’ second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr was suspended for one game and fined by the MLB on Friday following his ejection during a game against the Tampa Bay Rays and breaching the MLB’s social media policy.MLB senior vice president of on-field operations Michael Hill announced the deci
Ruben Amorim would use younger players in Manchester United’s next three English Premier League fixtures as he prioritizes the UEFA Europa League semi-final against Athletic Bilbao.United play at Athletic on May 1 and host the return a week later. Matches against Wolves and Bournemouth precede the f
‘SLABHEAD’ SAVES UNITED: Harry Maguire’s header in stoppage-time of extra-time sparked delirium on the pitch and the stands at Old Trafford in Manchester
Harry “Slabhead” Maguire headed in the winner on Thursday as Manchester United produced an astonishing extra-time comeback to beat Olympique Lyonnais and set up a UEFA Europa League semi-final against Athletic Bilbao, while Tottenham Hotspur are also through to the last four after beating Eintracht
In-form teenager Mirra Andreeva on Thursday crashed out of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany, after going down in straight sets to fellow Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova in the last 16.World No. 7 Andreeva, who already has two titles under her belt this season, lost 6-3, 6-2 against
Carlos Alcaraz on Thursday overcame a second-set wobble to defeat Laslo Djere 6-2, 6-4 and reach the Barcelona Open quarter-finals.The world No. 2 stepped up a gear from his first-round win over Ethan Quinn to dispatch his 80th-ranked opponent on the Catalan clay as he prepares for his French Open t
Kumar Rocker, a first-round pick in both the 2021 and 2022 drafts, on Thursday won for the first time in the major leagues.Rocker struck out a career-best eight in a career-best seven innings as the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 to complete a three-game sweep.Rocker (1-2) threw a car
Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics, but now some observers are claiming “weather doping” was behind a slew of discus records at a meeting in the US on Sunday.Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna, the 2024 Olympic silver medalist, smashed his own world record when he became the
TREBLE: Herro scored 38 points as the Miami Heat cruised past Chicago 109-90 to eliminate the Bulls from the play-in tournament for the third consecutive season
Klay Thompson on Wednesday night scored 16 of his 23 points in Dallas’ dominant second quarter to earn redemption for his dud in Sacramento a year ago, helping the Mavericks beat the Kings 120-106 to advance in the play-in tournament.One year to the day when Thompson missed all 10 shots in his final
Taiwan’s Cheng Tsung-che this week finished his first stint in the MLB, playing three games over 10 days for the Pittsburgh Pirates.The Bucs on Wednesday announced in a post on social media that they had optioned the No. 17 prospect back to Pittsburgh’s Triple-A affiliate the Indianapolis Indians af
Ninth-dan go player Lin Chun-yen on Wednesday captured his first HaiFong Tournament title, 16 years into his professional career.Lin, who turned pro in January 2010, defeated sixth-dan Hsu Ching-en in the final match of a best-of-three series at Taipei’s HaiFong Go Association.It was Hsu’s third con
Robinson Cano spent 17 seasons playing in the MLB in front of all kinds of baseball fans, but he said there is something special about his stint with the Mexican Baseball League’s Diablos Rojos.He is not alone.The league last week opened its 100th season, aiming to keep an impressive growth in atten
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