After Shohei Ohtani on Tuesday pitched five hitless innings for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Philadelphia Phillies’ Rafael Marchon hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer off Blake Treinen with two outs in the ninth inning for a 9-6 win.Brandon Marsh had a two-run homer and Max Kepler added a solo shot i
New Zealand yesterday basked in “amazing” athletics glory after winning two gold medals in as many days at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.Geordie Beamish on Monday claimed New Zealand’s first track gold in history with a shock victory in the 3,000m steeplechase, while high jumper Hamish
From “the couch” to a world champion. That is how American Cordell Tinch summed up his victory on Tuesday in the 110m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.The “champion” part was easy to grasp, in plain view at Japan National Stadium. The “couch” part — that was the three years Tinc
American tennis player Taylor Townsend yesterday apologized after calling turtle and bullfrog served at a dinner buffet “crazy” while at the Billie Jean King Cup in China.“This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen ... and people eating this,” she said in videos posted on social media on Tuesday nigh
SOCCERGroups demand Israel boycottA coalition of advocacy organizations and fan groups called on European soccer federations to boycott Israel in a New York’s Times Square billboard that went live on Tuesday, launching the #GameOverIsrael campaign months ahead of the FIFA World Cup. New York is to h
NEW HEIGHTS: ‘I felt the only way to leave Japan was to set the world record... I don’t know what is next for me at this moment, I don’t care,’ Armand Duplantis said
The World Athletics Championships were, not for the first time, the Armand Duplantis show on Monday although New Zealand’s Geordie Beamish did his best to share the spotlight after a shock win in the 3,000m steeplechase. Duplantis kept the drama going to the end in Tokyo — after the Swede retained h
San Francisco Giants pitcher Teng Kai-wei impressed against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday despite an 8-1 loss in the opener of the team’s nine-game road trip. Teng, the only Taiwanese pitcher active in MLB, struck out five while allowing two hits and one walk over four innings at Chase Field to
Ticket sales from Norway’s FIFA World Cup qualifier against Israel would go to medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help it alleviate “humanitarian suffering” in Gaza, the Norwegian Football Association said on Monday. The Oct. 11 match in Oslo “will be played against the backdrop of gra
Soccer players are lining up for a fiery kick — not on the pitch, but in the form of a searing shot of olive oil from Cyprus. The peppery, throat-burning liquid is part of a performance revolution driven by a small plant in Cyprus that produces early harvest olive oil packed with inflammation-bustin
Cycling was licking its wounds on Monday and wondering “where next?” after a chaotic final day of the Vuelta a Espana which saw the concluding stage called off 50km shy of the Spanish capital and the winner crowned in a hotel car park. The three-week stage race, one of the three Grand Tours at the p
PHOTO FINISH: The finish was closer than at the 2001 championships in Canada, when Ethiopian Gezahegne Abera edged Kenyan Simon Biwott by a single second
Alphonce Felix Simbu yesterday snatched gold in the first photo finish at a major championship marathon, edging out German Amanal Petros in a dramatic race to the line to give Tanzania its maiden world title. The photo finish showed the 42.195km race was decided by three hundredths of a second as Si
Boxer Huang Hsiao-wen has struggled this year, but her gold medal at the World Boxing Championships on Sunday should put to rest any doubts that she might be past her prime, her coach Liu Tsung-tai said. Huang defeated Yoseline Perez of the US in Liverpool, England, winning 4-1 in the women’s 54kg d
Taiwanese gymnast Tseng Wei-sheng won a silver medal and Tang Chia-hung took bronze at the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) World Challenge Cup in Paris on Sunday. Tseng, 26, won silver for the pommel horse with an average score of 13.916. In his first attempt, he obtained a total score of
Spain’s political class clashed over chaotic pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid that brought the Vuelta to a premature end on Sunday, with the opposition accusing the leftist government of permitting an “international embarrassment.” Comments from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez brought an angr
India on Sunday beat Pakistan by seven wickets in the Asia Cup as the neighbors met for the first time since a military conflict between them in May, but tensions simmered after the match as India’s players left the field without shaking hands. India captain Suryakumar Yadav defended the snub in his
MAJOR SURPRISE: Julia Paternain of Uruguay said that she had no idea that she had finished third when she crossed the line, as she was ‘too scared to look’ back
Peres Jepchirchir yesterday edged Tigst Assefa in a thrilling sprint finish at Tokyo’s National Stadium to win the women’s marathon on a steamy second morning of the World Athletics Championships. The 31-year-old Kenyan, who won Olympic gold on the streets of Sapporo in 2021, broke the tape at 2 hou
Taiwan’s men’s baseball team yesterday took home a bronze medal in the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s U-18 Baseball World Cup, after clinching a nail-biting 3-2 victory over South Korea following an overturned call in the tournament held in Okinawa, Japan. With the score tied 2-2 in the top
Captain Vijay Kumar led the way yesterday as the Hsinchu Titans claimed the Taiwan Premier League title at the Yingfeng Cricket Ground in Taipei’s Songshan District (松山), beating PCCT by 27 runs. The weather was a topic again, but not the rain that played a role in previous matches in the often-dela
Terence Crawford on Saturday clinched a unanimous victory over Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico to become the undisputed super middleweight champion in a thrilling contest at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Crawford set the pace from the start with a measured display that showcased his incredible han
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