English Premier League referee David Coote was on Monday suspended after a video was posted on social media appearing to show him making derogatory remarks about former Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp. It is unclear when the video was made or how it came into circulation and the British Press Associ
Donovan Mitchell scored 36 points as the unbeaten Cleveland Cavaliers came from behind once more to preserve their 100 percent start to the season with a 119-113 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Monday. The Cavaliers, who overcame a 14-point deficit to beat Brooklyn on Saturday, were again forced t
Manchester United’s new era started on Monday when Ruben Amorim jetted into town to start the daunting task of restoring the club to its former glories. The Portuguese coach bid farewell to Sporting Lisbon in style on Sunday, securing a thrilling 4-2 comeback win at his former club Braga — an 11th v
A top-flight soccer team in Argentina fielded a social media influencer in a league match on Monday, in a move that upset rival players. Ivan Buhajeruk, better known as “Spreen,” played less than a minute before he was substituted in Deportivo Riestra’s 1-1 draw with Argentine league leader Velez Sa
KIDDING AROUND: Jaylen Brown called Antetokounmpo a child after the Greek forward offered then immediately retracted his hand to help the three-time All-Star off the floor
Jayson Tatum on Sunday delivered 31 points and 12 rebounds to spark the reigning NBA champions Boston Celtics over Milwaukee 113-107 despite Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 43-point performance for the Bucks.The Celtics improved to 9-2, two games behind the unbeaten Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Confer
CeeDee Lamb was unhappy about losing a ball in the sun on an incompletion that helped keep the Dallas Cowboys from scoring a go-ahead touchdown in the first half of a 34-6 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones was perturbed that the sun was brought u
Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French lawmakers are despairing over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost its Olympic rings.Two months after the flame went out on the glittering Paris Olympics and Paralympics, the French capital is in the grip of a bout of post-Games bl
Jannik Sinner on Sunday started his bid for a first ATP Finals title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Alex de Minaur as former champion Daniil Medvedev lost his head during his defeat to Taylor Fritz.Italian Sinner delighted supporters in Turin with a comfortable win over Finals debutant De Minaur to move f
The Tennis Channel on Sunday took analyst Jon Wertheim off the air “indefinitely” after Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova called him out on social media for what she called “unprofessional” remarks about her appearance.The network said in a statement posted online that Wertheim made “an inapprop
CYCLINGCavendish wins final raceMark Cavendish on Sunday sprinted to victory in the Tour de France Singapore Criterium with a signature surge to the line in his final race. “I really wanted that so bad,” the 39-year-old British cycling great said after the 166th victory of his career. “I’m terribly
BACK ON TRACK: The WTA Final victory ends a bitterly disappointing summer marked by a series of frustrating defeats for Gauff, who said she finally ‘beat the bad season allegations’
Coco Gauff on Saturday became the youngest player to win the WTA Finals title in 20 years with a grueling 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) victory over Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in Riyadh.The 20-year-old Gauff rallied back from 3-6, 1-3 down, and erased a one-break deficit twice in the decider, to overcome t
Taiwan’s Liu Heng-yu on Saturday won a gold medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event on the opening day of the World University Shooting Championship in New Delhi.The 21-year-old, who represented Taiwan at the Paris Olympics earlier this year, shot her way to a first-place score of 239.4, finishing
North Korea’s FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup-winning team on Saturday received a heroes’ welcome back in the capital, Pyongyang, with hundreds of people on the streets to celebrate their success.They had defeated Spain on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the U17 World Cup final in the Dominican Republ
For King Faisal, a 20-year-old winger from Ghana, the invitation to move to Brazil to play soccer “was a dream.”“I believed when I came here, it would help me change the life of my family and many other people,” he said in Sao Paulo.For the past year and a half, he has been playing on the under-20s
England cricketing great Ian Botham was saved by his former Ashes rival Merv Hughes after a fall into crocodile-infested waters while on a fishing trip in northern Australia.Botham, along with Hughes and a group of friends, was on a boat when the accident happened, resulting in some heavy bruising t
TABLE TENNISTaiwan’s Lin eliminatedTaiwan’s top male paddler Lin Yun-ju on Saturday failed to defend his World Table Tennis Champions Frankfurt title, losing 4-0 to 19-year-old rising Chinese star Lin Shidong in the men’s singles semi-finals in Germany. The No. 2 seed defeated Lin Yun-ju 11-9, 13-11
Stella Forsyth of Australia dives off a 21m platform during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Sydney yesterday. Twelve male and twelve female competitors were aiming to win the King Kahekili trophy at the season-ending event.
FIRST-HALF BLITZ: Cleveland kept the Warriors offense in check early, opening the game on a 20-2 run on their way to a franchise record-tying 83 points in the half
The Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday continued their perfect start to the NBA season in sensational style, seizing a 41-point halftime lead on the way to a 136-117 rout of the Golden State Warriors.The Cavs improved to 10-0, ending the Warriors’ five-game winning streak and handing them their first roa
Taiwanese swimmer Cho Cheng-chi on Friday won gold in the men’s 10km race at the Asian Open Water Swimming Championship in Hong Kong.In a tight race, Cho finished in a time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 40.2 seconds, just 0.1 seconds faster than the silver medalist, Thailand’s Ratthawit Thammananthachote.C
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