Liverpool defender Joe Gomez on Friday called their 4-2 Premier League defeat against Aston Villa “frustrating” and urged his side to respond by beating Brentford in their final game of the season to secure qualification for the UEFA Champions League.Friday’s loss dropped Liverpool to fifth place on
Dangling above field level at the biggest stadium to be used at the FIFA World Cup, 18 giant metal arms flood a newly laid grass pitch in an eerie pink glow.The mission: Make sure the turf at the AT&T Stadium is match-ready — and controversy free — by the time the tournament begins.The 94,000-capaci
Morocco have won the international tug-of-war for highly rated Lille OSC midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi, who was born in France to Moroccan parents, after FIFA approved his switch of allegiance, handing the Atlas Lions a significant boost just weeks before the FIFA World Cup in North America.The Royal Mo
Taiwanese weightlifter Chen Wen-huei on Friday won three silver medals and broke two national records in the women’s 69kg division at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Gandhinagar, India.Chen’s silvers were from a 104kg snatch, a 135kg clean and jerk, and a 239kg total, trailing only Song Kuk
DUCKS DEPART: Mitch Marner played a role in all three of Vegas’ first-period goals, with the win handing them a vastly greater challenge against the Avalanche
Mitch Marner on Thursday scored a tremendous goal 62 seconds after the opening faceoff, while Pavel Dorofeyev scored twice in the third period as the Vegas Golden Knights cruised into the NHL Western Conference finals with a 5-1 victory over Anaheim Ducks in Game 6 of their second round series.Brett
Will Smith on Thursday hit his first career leadoff home run, while pinch-hitter Alex Call had a tiebreaking two-run single in the sixth inning, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 5-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants night in their series finale.Smith was in the leadoff spot that usually belongs
The penultimate round of the Serie A campaign promises an intriguing fight for places in next season’s UEFA Champions League, but a fixture scheduling stand-off between the league and local authorities left clubs and supporters in limbo until an agreement was reached.Serie A rules require teams comp
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund on Thursday became an “official tournament supporter” of the FIFA World Cup and reaffirmed its commitment to invest heavily in sports, despite notable retreats from other ventures in the past few months.In announcing the partnership, the kingdom’s public investme
SOCCERMbappe down on returnFrance captain Kylian Mbappe on Thursday said that he is now the fourth-choice forward at Real Madrid after manager Alvaro Arbeloa left him out of the starting line-up for their 2-0 win over Real Oviedo in La Liga. The Frenchman, who missed Sunday’s 2-0 defeat to Barcelona
UNWELCOME LANDMARK: The Brothers set a franchise record in a game that was just the fourth time in league history a team has given up at least 13 runs in a frame
CTBC Brothers starter Cheng Hao-chun on Wednesday night endured another early meltdown, exiting after recording just one out in a 17-2 home loss to the Fubon Guardians that echoed his rough outing against Japan at the World Baseball Classic in March.At Tokyo Dome on March 6, the right-hander allowed
One in four games at this year’s FIFA World Cup could take place in dangerous heat, researchers said yesterday.Concerns about heat have already prompted FIFA to mandate a cooling break during each half of the World Cup matches that are to take place between June 11 and July 19 in 16 stadiums across
Iran on Wednesday night hosted a FIFA World Cup departure rally attended by thousands of fans in Tehran’s Enqelab Square amid concerns about the team getting into the US and competing at the tournament.The players, who will continue their preparations at a training camp in Turkey next week, were che
Shohei Ohtani on Wednesday night allowed just four hits over seven shutout innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers backed the four-time Most Valuable Player with his most run support of the season in a 4-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants.The Dodgers snapped their season-high skid at four games on a
A fan on Wednesday night fell into the visiting bullpen at Rate Field, causing a delay during the Kansas City Royals-Chicago White Sox game.The White Sox said that the fan was taken to hospital for treatment.“Did we do the right thing continuing to play?” Kansas City first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino
James Harden on Wednesday night scored a playoff-best 30 points and Donovan Mitchell had 21, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers come back from a nine-point deficit late in regulation and beat the Detroit Pistons 117-113 in overtime to take a 3-2 lead in their NBA Eastern Conference semi-final series.Th
Portugal’s Afonso Eulalio on Wednesday grabbed the overall lead in the Giro d’Italia despite having victory snatched away by Spaniard Igor Arrieta who recovered from going the wrong way to win a rain-drenched and chaotic stage five.The Bahrain Victorious rider joined solo leader Arrieta (UAE Team Em
POWERLESS: Minnesota struggled to counter the French superstar, with Anthony Edwards saying he just kind of hoped that Wembanyama would miss
Victor Wembanyama on Tuesday had at least one teammate who hoped the San Antonio Spurs superstar would return angry, while his coach expected a mature approach from Wembanyama after his first career ejection a game earlier.The Spurs got both, much to the dismay of the Minnesota Timberwolves.“They ai
Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke, 29, has died, the NBA team said in a statement on Tuesday, while the family of Jason Collins, the first openly gay man to play in a major US pro sports league, announced the former Grizzlies and Brooklyn Nets player had died after a battle with brain cancer.
Paul Skenes on Tuesday night slowly sauntered back to the Pittsburgh Pirates dugout at the end of the top of the eighth inning, his loping and deliberate strides giving the PNC Park crowd plenty of time to rise for the kind of standing ovation that is becoming commonplace at the end of his starts.Th
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