Ukraine came from behind on Tuesday to beat Iceland in a playoff to qualify for UEFA Euro 2024, while Poland secured their place at the finals with a penalty shoot-out victory over Wales and Georgia qualified for a first-ever major tournament.The Ukrainians were aiming to qualify for their first tou
Adam Fox on Tuesday scored 36 seconds into overtime and the New York Rangers became the first NHL team to clinch a playoff spot this season, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 6-5 following a wild third period.Alexis Lafreniere had two goals and Igor Shesterkin made 36 saves for the Rangers, who lead t
Defending Miami Open champion Daniil Medvedev and top seed Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday marched into the quarter-finals of the tournament with convincing victories.Medvedev earned a 7-6 (7/5), 6-0 win over Germany’s Dominik Koepfer, while Alcaraz took care of Italian Lorenzo Musetti with a 6-3, 6-3 win
Australian Rules football yesterday said it was reviewing its illicit drugs policy after a whistle-blower aired claims of widespread cocaine use among players. Independent lawmaker Andrew Wilkie said the Australian Football League (AFL) was “secretly” manipulating drug tests.Wilkie said that players
Anthony Davis on Tuesday led a stunning late fightback as the Los Angeles Lakers overturned a 19-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 128-124 in double overtime.With LeBron James ruled out through injury, a banged-up Davis spent nearly 52 minutes on court to rally the Lakers to
Taiwan pose for a team photograph before their FIFA World Cup qualifier against Kyrgyzstan at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in Bishkek on Tuesday. Taiwan lost 5-1 and are at the bottom of Group D with zero points.
HSIEH MAKES QUARTERS: Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens of Belgium won in the women’s doubles and face Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin of the US
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff were knocked out of the women’s singles at the Miami Open on Monday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei advanced in the women’s doubles.Swiatek lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2, hours after third seed Gauff fell in three sets to No. 23 Caroline G
The Atlanta Hawks on Monday produced a comeback for the ages to overturn a 30-point deficit and defeat the Eastern Conference-leading Boston Celtics 120-118.Boston, who were confirmed as having clinched the Eastern Conference’s top seed earlier on Monday, appeared to be cruising toward a resounding
A former head of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) was yesterday sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption.Chinese courts handed down sentences of between eight years and life in prison to officials in the Chinese Communist Party-controlled sports programs,
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani on Monday said that he never bet on sports or knowingly paid any gambling debts accumulated by his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.Instead, he said that Mizuhara lied to him for years and stole millions.Ohtani gave his version of events during a news confe
BITTERSWEET: Although 24-year-old Lin topped Chou, 10 years his senior, for his third Super 300 title, it would not be enough to help him qualify for the Paris Olympics
Taiwanese shuttler Lin Chun-yi on Sunday defeated compatriot and badminton ace Chou Tien-chen by the thinnest of margins in a 75-minute, three-game thriller to win the men’s singles title at the Yonex Swiss Open in Basel.World No. 22 Lin fought back from an overwhelming 21-7 loss in the first game t
Taiwanese paddler Chuang Chih-yuan(莊智淵) yesterday won the men’s singles title at the WTT Feeder Beirut II. The 42-year-old Taiwanese outplayed 27-year-old Kazakhstani paddler Kirill Gerassimenko 14-12, 11-5, 6-11, 11-9 for his first title of the year in the lower-tier tournament in which most of the
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day.Takerufuji, whose injury had left
Usain Bolt’s sprint world records were never in danger. Then again, even the world’s fastest-ever human would likely not have been so quick while balancing a tray with a croissant, a coffee cup and a glass of water through the streets of Paris, and without spilling it everywhere.France’s capital on
Andy Murray on Sunday exited the Miami Open for the final time and in characteristic style he did so with a performance full of grit and skill, but also plenty of passion.The emotion of the game itself, a missed chance for a third straight win in a tournament for the first time in more than a year,
Gio Reyna and Tyler Adams on Sunday scored as the US beat Mexico 2-0 to win the CONCACAF Nations League final, giving the Americans all three titles in the event’s history.Adams scored a long-distance screamer in the 45th minute and Reyna fired home a loose ball from the edge of the box in the 63rd
MOTORSPORTFour killed in rally crashFour people were killed and several others including two children injured on Sunday when a driver competing in the Esztergom Nyerges Rally in Hungary skidded off the road and crashed into spectators, authorities said. It was not clear why the vehicle veered off th
OUT: Verstappen had a terrible day, retiring with smoke billowing from his car due to a brake issue that he said meant he was ‘basically driving with the handbrake on’
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz yesterday surged to victory at the Australian Grand Prix to snap Red Bull’s winning start to the season after three-time world champion Max Verstappen sensationally failed to finish.The Spaniard, who had appendicitis surgery two weeks ago, took the checkered flag 2.3 seconds a
New Brazil manager Dorival Junior began his bid to revive the five-time world champions with a 1-0 win against England as teenage sensation Endrick bagged his first international goal in Saturday’s friendly at Wembley.Coming off their worst period in more than 60 years, Brazil hope Dorival Junior co
Austria’s Christoph Baumgartner scored six seconds after kickoff in Saturday’s 2-0 friendly win over Slovakia, the fastest recorded goal in international soccer, just before Florian Wirtz scored the fastest Germany goal ever in their 2-0 defeat of France.The 24-year-old sprinted from the center circ