Defending champion Liverpool launched the Premier League with a dramatic 4-2 win over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday in an emotionally charged match featuring tributes to Diogo Jota and a player reporting racial abuse.Federico Chiesa scored in the 88th minute and Mohamed Salah added another goal i
Marco Bezzecchi took pole position for the sprint and feature race at the Austrian MotoGP after topping a scrappy qualifying session at the Red Bull Ring yesterday. The Aprilia rider would start on the front row ahead of Alex Marquez (Ducati-Gresini) and his Italian compatriot Francesco Bagnaia (Duc
Taiwanese skater Liu Chiao-hsi claimed Taiwan’s second gold medal at the World Games in Chengdu, China, finishing first in the women’s inline freestyle slalom finals yesterday.The 21-year-old Liu, who showed great potential in the sport from a young age and represented the national team while still
South Korea’s Lee5 Jeong-eun fired six birdies in a five-under par 67 on Friday to grab a one-shot lead over Evian Championship winner Grace Kim and Gurleen Kaur in the second round of the LPGA Portland Classic.Lee5, a 36-year-old chasing her first LPGA Tour title, thrived again at Edgewater Country
The Marshall Islands finally got off the mark in international soccer on Thursday and promptly lost 4-0 to the US Virgin Islands on a high school pitch in Arkansas, but not before making history as the world’s newest national team.The remote Pacific nation with fewer than 40,000 people played their
Participants paddle in the 43rd International Bathtub Regatta on the Meuse River in Dinant in the south of Belgium on Friday. The regatta of bathtubs claims more than 228 participants in a flotilla of original vessels made from at least one bathtub.
RISING STAR: Atmane would enter the top 100 in the rankings for the first time after the win against world No. 9 Rune, but now faces Wimbledon champion Sinner
French qualifier Terence Atmane toppled another top-10 player in Holger Rune on Thursday to line up a semi-final showdown with world No. 1 Jannik Sinner at the Cincinnati Open.Atmane followed up his victory over fourth-ranked Taylor Fritz with a 6-2, 6-3 win over ninth-ranked Rune.The 23-year-old wo
Rising French talent Adela Cernousek conjured an eagle and six birdies in an eight-under-par 64 to break free atop a jammed leaderboard after the first round of the LPGA Portland Classic on Thursday.After teeing off on 10 and making two birdies in her first 10 holes, Cernousek roared up the leaderbo
British track cyclist Matt Richardson set the world record in the 200m flying start on Thursday by becoming the first person to break the 9-second mark.Richardson, who won three medals for Australia at the Paris Olympic Games before switching allegiance to the UK, recorded a time of 8.941 seconds at
China opened the three-day-long World Humanoid Robot Games yesterday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries.Robots competed in sports such as track and field, and table tennis, as well as tackled robot-specific challenges from sorti
The NFL is continuing its on-field social justice messaging for a sixth straight season.All 32 teams would feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: “End Racism,” “Stop Hate,” “Choose Love,” or “Inspire Change.” Once again, “It
Fresh off yet another world record mark and with a third straight world gold in his sights, pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis is ready to push the boundaries of his sport again.The gravity-defying Swede broke the world record for a 13th time on Tuesday, clearing 6.29m at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budap
Spain’s Francisco Jhoan Sebastian Guzman Bitar, right, reaches for the line in the men’s inline speed skating 1,000m sprint preliminary round heats at the World Games in Chengdu, China, yesterday.
DOUBLE COMEBACK: PSG manager Luis Enrique said ‘sometimes football is unfair’ after his side came back from 2-0 down in regulation time and the shoot-out
Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday produced a dramatic late rally before beating Tottenham Hotspur in a penalty shoot-out to win the UEFA Super Cup, securing a fifth trophy of the year for the French club.Nuno Mendes converted the clinching spot-kick in the shoot-out to complete a PSG comeback that lo
Taiwan’s national basketball team on Wednesday suffered a heartbreaking loss, ending their FIBA Asia Cup run after Iran staged a dramatic comeback to secure a 78-75 victory in the quarter-finals at King Abdullah Sports City in Saudi Arabia.Taiwan were in front for 38 minutes, 30 seconds of the 40-mi
Defending champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka on Wednesday led the way into the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals, with Carlos Alcaraz hot on their heels after a straight-sets victory of his own.Sinner shrugged off a mid-match weather delay lasting nearly three hours as he advanced 6-4, 7-6 (7/
Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) new team to play in Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) club competition needs a name, and the country’s rugby league-mad citizens have been asked to provide one — but will they opt for the Bees, Butterflies or Boars?“Rugby league is in our DNA,” PNG Prime Minister James
NETO CATCH: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ third consecutive loss dropped them to 68-52 and into a tie with the San Diego Padres atop the MLB’s National League West
Zach Neto had never seen a triple play in person before he made it happen himself on Tuesday in the sixth inning of the Los Angeles Angels’ 7-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.With ideal positioning and smooth technique, Neto got two putouts and an assist after Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani hit
It is not only that Michelle Alozie plays for the Houston Dash in the National Women’s Soccer League in the US, or that she recently won an African championship with Nigeria — the Yale grad also helps conduct pediatric cancer research at Texas Children’s Hospital.Alozie’s dual careers sprang from ne
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