Kevin Durant on Tuesday scored 24 points against his former team to help inspire the Houston Rockets to a come-from-behind 119-105 victory over the Phoenix Suns. Durant, who was traded from Phoenix to Houston last year, received a mixed reception upon his return to Arizona, with sections of the Suns
Hans Niemann declares he would become a “stone cold killer” in a Netflix documentary released on Tuesday about his feud with five-time classical world champion Magnus Carlsen, a pledge that injects new edge into the lingering fallout from the cheating scandal that shook elite chess. “I’m gonna be a
Kristyna Janku answered the phone to a police officer, not sure what she was going to hear. She had heard the rumors, the gossip, and was not sure what was true and what was not. The defender’s former coach, Petr Vlachovsky, who coached women and girls at FC Slovacko for almost 15 years and was once
EUROPEAN AMBITION: Juventus moved to within a point of the Champions League places with a win over Genoa, as the Serie A top-four battle heats up
SSC Napoli are still in the hunt to retain their Serie A title after the champions on Monday beat scudetto rivals AC Milan 1-0.Matteo Politano came off the bench and lashed home the only goal of the game with 11 minutes remaining in front of delighted fans in Naples as the hosts racked up a fifth st
The Orlando Magic on Monday kept up their bid for an automatic playoff berth with an 123-107 upset over the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons.Paolo Banchero scored 31 points and Desmond Bane added 25 as six Orlando players finished in double figures to overpower a Detroit side still missing
Dalton Rushing on Monday hit two solo home runs for his first career multi-homer game as the Los Angeles Dodgers went deep five times to rout the Toronto Blue Jays 14-2 in a rematch of last season’s World Series.Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman each hit a two-run homer, while Shohei Ohtani adde
Stan Wawrinka on Monday bid farewell to the Monte Carlo Masters as the 2014 champion fell 7-5, 7-5 to Sebastian Baez in the first round.The 41-year-old three-time Grand Slam winner is to retire from tennis at the end of the season and entered the main draw in Monaco as a wild card 20 years on from h
Australian former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis yesterday said that he loved his wife and never wanted to hurt her in his first public comments since receiving a suspended prison sentence over her death.Dennis, an Olympic medalist in 2012 and 2021, avoided jail last year for driving in a way “
BACK WITH A BANG: Inter had collected eight points from five league matches since Lautaro Martinez suffered an injury in the UEFA Champions League
Inter on Sunday took a big step toward winning the Serie A title by thrashing sorry AS Roma 5-2, ending a late-season wobble and moving nine points clear at the top of the table.Closest challengers AC Milan were to travel to champions SSC Napoli yesterday with both bidding to see who might stop Inte
Lin Yu-ting, Taiwan’s first Olympic boxing gold medalist, yesterday claimed bronze in the women’s 60kg division at the Asian Boxing Elite Championships in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, after a semi-final loss.Competing in her first international tournament since the 2024 Paris Olympics, Lin lost 4-1 to Nort
Leeds United on Sunday reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time in 39 years as they survived a dramatic penalty shoot-out after squandering a two-goal lead in a thrilling clash with West Ham United.Daniel Farke’s side were moments away from victory at the London Stadium after Ao Tanaka’s fi
The Houston Rockets on Sunday spoiled Golden State star Stephen Curry’s sparkling return from a 27-game injury absence, thwarting a late Warriors rally for a 117-116 victory.Curry came off the bench in his first game since Jan. 30 and scored 29 points in 26 minutes on the floor.He connected on 11 of
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE: The Detroit Pistons clinched the Eastern Conference top seed for the first time since 2007 with a 116-93 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers
Nikola Jokic on Saturday scored 40 points to propel the Denver Nuggets to a 136-134 overtime victory over Victor Wembanyama and San Antonio, halting the Spurs’ 11-game NBA winning streak. Three-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Jokic added eight rebounds, 13 assists and three blocked shots for Den
Swap the Azzurri kit and slip into something maple-flavored: The Canadian Soccer Association spent Saturday tempting Toronto’s Italian diaspora to trade blue for red and rally behind the home team at the FIFA World Cup. Italy suffered the agony of missing out on a third straight World Cup last week
Cambridge on Saturday made it four wins in a row as they comprehensively defeated Oxford in the 171st University Boat Race on London’s River Thames. It was Cambridge’s seventh win in the past eight years of a rowing race between England’s two oldest universities first staged in 1829. A world-class C
“I don’t remember the moment, but ever since I was a kid, that’s the first thing I loved,” two-time NBA All-Star Isaiah Thomas said of his lifelong romance with basketball. However, that journey unfolded against the limitations of his size in a game where height often dictates opportunity — a realit
Dakar and Rabat have longstanding ties, but relations have been strained since the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final, which Senegal won in mid-January before being stripped of the title, which was transferred to Morocco. Now, the AFCON trophy is something of a thorn in the two countries’ sides. On
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR? The Magic withstood a 51-point performance from Cooper Flagg, who got 24 points in the fourth quarter, in their victory over the Mavericks
Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, while Jayson Tatum added 23 on Friday as the Boston Celtics thrashed the Milwaukee Bucks 133-101 to maintain their grip on third place in the NBA Eastern Conference.Tatum added 11 rebounds, nine assists and three steals before he and Brown sat out the fourth quarter wi
Top seeded Jessica Pegula on Friday once again fought back from a set down to reach the WTA Charleston Open semi-finals with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win against Russia’s Diana Shnaider.Defending champion Pegula has lost the first set in all three of her matches at the tournament so far, but again dug deep t
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