Erling Haaland scored twice on Tuesday to settle Manchester City’s nerves as the English Premier League champions beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 to take a giant step toward a historic fourth straight English title.The Norwegian forward tapped home a pinpoint Kevin de Bruyne cross early in the second hal
Andre de Grasse, the reigning Olympic champion in the men’s 200m, and many other top-class international athletes are to showcase their talent in Taipei at the Taiwan Athletics Open early next month, according to the event’s official Web site.The Canadian sprinter, who clocked 19.62 seconds to top t
Daniil Medvedev’s Internazionali BNL d’Italia title defense came to an early end on Tuesday after the world No. 4 was knocked out at the last-16 stage by Tommy Paul, while Iga Swiatek cruised into the women’s semi-finals in Rome.Second seed Medvedev has never successfully defended an ATP Tour crown
Women’s basketball sensation Caitlin Clark scored 20 points, but gave up 10 turnovers on a tough WNBA debut as her Indiana Fever team fell to a 92-71 loss to the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday.Clark, NCAA Division I basketball’s all-time leading scorer, has brought unprecedented attention to women’s bas
Canada on Tuesday squandered a five-goal lead in the third period before captain John Tavares scored 15 seconds into overtime to give the defending champions a 7-6 win over Austria at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.The Canadians led 6-1, but Austria produced an unprecedented five-goal final
LUCKY: Duran might not have played if Zaniolo had not been hurt, but he scored a solid first goal, although the second came from a pass that ricocheted in off his thigh
Jhon Duran struck twice in the final five minutes to salvage a 3-3 draw for Aston Villa against Liverpool, but they fell short of guaranteeing a place in next season’s Champions League on Monday.Villa looked set for a fourth consecutive defeat in all competitions as an Emiliano Martinez own-goal and
The Boston Celtics on Monday fought off the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers to take a 3-1 stranglehold in their NBA playoff series as the Oklahoma City Thunder leveled their series with the Dallas Mavericks.Jayson Tatum scored 33 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Jaylen Brown added 27 points for t
Daniil Medvedev on Monday continued his Internazionali BNL d’Italia title defense with a hard-fought 7-6 (7/5), 2-6, 7-5 win over qualifier Hamad Medjedovic as the men’s tournament was left wide open by big-name exits, the latest being fourth seed Andrey Rublev.The second seed has a great opportunit
Helen Ryvar goes through the same routine every night. She checks the weather forecast, lays out her running clothes, puts her running shoes by the front door, charges her cellphone and flashlight, and sets the alarm for 4am.By 4:15am, she is out the door — rain or shine.“I’m just an ordinary person
Tyson Fury’s father, John Fury, on Monday had blood gushing from his forehead after a video appeared to show him headbutting a member of Oleksandr Usyk’s camp in the buildup to Saturday’s undisputed world heavyweight clash in Riyadh.The incident took place at the hotel hosting the prefight media day
SICK MOVES: Murray launched a half-court buzzer-beater to give the Nuggets a 15-point lead at halftime, which he followed with 12 more points in the third quarter
Defending champions the Denver Nuggets on Sunday outgunned the Minnesota Timberwolves 115-107 to level their NBA playoff series as the Indiana Pacers pulled even with the New York Knicks.The Nuggets, fueled by 35 points from NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic, Aaron Gordon’s 27 points on ruthless
Arsenal on Sunday kept their Premier League title dreams alive by ending an Old Trafford hoodoo to grind out a 1-0 win at Manchester United, moving back top of the table and taking the championship battle down to the final weekend.Leandro Trossard scored the only goal on 20 minutes as Arsenal won fo
Despite the threat of dislocated fingers and strained muscles, more than 150 Bavarian men came together on Sunday to compete in Germany’s unique national championship of Fingerhakeln, or finger wrestling.The “finger wrestlers” met in a big beer tent in the small southern village of Bernbeuren. About
One game after Sam Bennett punched Brad Marchand out of the playoffs, the Florida Panthers forward sent the rest of the Boston Bruins to the brink of elimination with an equally controversial shove to Charlie Coyle’s back.Already drawing boos in TD Garden because of a hit on Marchand that the Bruins
Novak Djokovic on Sunday described his shock third-round elimination from the Internazionali BNL d’Italia by Alejandro Tabilo as “concerning,” two days after he was hit on the head by a bottle, which he said has caused nausea and dizzy spells.Djokovic’s bid for a record-extending 41st Masters 1000 t
GOLFTaiwan’s Chien finishes 4thTaiwan’s Chien Pei-yun on Sunday finished with an eight-under-par 280 to tie for fourth at the LPGA Founders Cup in Clifton, New Jersey, her best performance so far this year. The 33-year-old narrowly missed a third-place finish with two birdies in the fourth round, bu
The CPBL All-Star Games are to be held at the Taipei Dome on July 20 and 21, setting an expectation for record-high attendance.“This year, there’s no need to worry about rain,” CPBL commissioner Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌) told a news conference announcing the plans in Taipei.The first day of last year’s e
NO NONSENSE: Josko Gvardiol could have been the first defender in English Premier League history to score a hat-trick, but he passed the chance by not taking a penalty
Manchester City on Saturday closed in on a fourth consecutive English Premier League title by thrashing Fulham 4-0, while Burnley were relegated from the top flight after a 2-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur.Luton Town are also virtually down. A 3-1 defeat at West Ham United left them three points adri
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown on Saturday combined to score 61 points to fire the Boston Celtics to a bounce-back NBA playoff win over Cleveland Cavaliers as Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic led the Dallas Mavericks over the Oklahoma City Thunder.Tatum scored 33 points and Brown 28 as top seeds Boston,
Yokohama F. Marinos manager Harry Kewell remains wary of the threat posed by Hernan Crespo’s Al-Ain side despite guiding his Marinos to a 2-1 first leg lead on home soil in the final of the AFC Champions League on Saturday.Marinos fought back from going behind to Mohammed Abbas’ 12th-minute strike t