World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto and rookie Nolan McLean on Tuesday dueled through seven innings, with Kyle Tucker singling in the go-ahead run in the eighth for the Los Angeles Dodgers to edge the Mets 2-1, sending New York to their seventh straight loss.The Mets have been outsc
Denmark’s double Olympic badminton champion Viktor Axelsen, long a rival of Taiwan’s former world No. 2 Chou Tien-chen, yesterday announced his retirement at age 32, saying back problems meant he could no longer “compete and train at the highest level.”Axelsen, who won gold at the Tokyo Games in 202
Uzbek grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov on Tuesday clinched victory in the Candidates Tournament with a round to spare, drawing with Dutchman Anish Giri to set up a World Championship match against India’s Gukesh Dommaraju.The 20-year-old stormed through the event in Cyprus, winning six of his 13 games
On a street in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, a dozen teenagers using stones for goalposts were immersed in a Sunday game of soccer as traffic wound around them.Haiti has many problems, including political instability, poverty and crime, but through it all, the heart of the nation beats for soccer.Hait
Super Rugby side Moana Pasifika yesterday said that it would fold at the end of the season, becoming the second team in three years to go under because of financial problems.Moana Pasifika, founded in 2020 to provide a top-level pathway for players of Pacific heritage, blamed “financial, operational
BITTER RIVALS: Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez was shown a straight red card early in the second half after pulling Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s hair
Leeds United’s Noah Okafor on Monday scored twice as his side grabbed a morale-boosting 2-1 English Premier League away win over bitter rivals Manchester United, who had Lisandro Martinez sent off in the 56th minute for pulling the hair of Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Manchester United remain third in the
Quinton Byfield scored twice, Anton Forsberg made 28 saves and the Los Angeles Kings secured a playoff spot with Monday night’s 5-3 win over the Seattle Kraken. Trevor Moore, Adrian Kempe and Alex Laferriere also scored for the Kings, who won their fifth straight and are playoff-bound for the fifth
Diego Maradona would be happy, his fans say. The childhood home of the late Argentine soccer legend has been transformed into a soup kitchen for people squeezed by Argentine President Javier Milei’s austerity policies.The needy can also ask for clothing at 523 Amazor street in the Buenos Aires subur
A new trial over the death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona is to begin today, with seven members of his medical team charged with negligent homicide about a year after a previous case collapsed in a mistrial. An enduring presence in Argentina — from towering murals to tattoos — Maradona di
Swimming has agreed to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete without restrictions under their own flag and anthem for the first time since 2022, prompting joy in Russia and outrage in Ukraine. The decision by World Aquatics, which also oversees diving and water polo, adds further momentum
Union Berlin have condemned sexist online abuse directed at Marie-Louise Eta after she became the first woman to take charge of a German Bundesliga team. Eta was appointed interim head coach on Saturday for the remainder of the season following the dismissal of Steffen Baumgart. She would oversee th
Olympic champion Imane Khelif injured her left shoulder while training over the weekend and was forced to postpone a professional fight scheduled for later this month in Paris. Organizers on Monday said that her fight on Thursday next week at the iconic Salle Wagram in the French capital against Ger
SEASON ENDING: The Nuggets took the third seed in the Western Conference and are to face the sixth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round
The Denver Nuggets, fueled by 23 first-half points from Nikola Jokic, on Sunday beat the San Antonio Spurs 128-118, notching their 12th straight victory to clinch the Western Conference third seed on the last day of the NBA regular season. On a day when coaches rested dozens of players in preparatio
Rory McIlroy on Sunday overcame early stumbles and a late scare to win the US Masters, capturing his sixth major title to become only the fourth back-to-back champion at Augusta National. The world No. 2 from Northern Ireland made a double bogey at the fourth and a bogey at the sixth, but responded
An 11-year-old Taiwanese on Sunday won a silver medal in the junior category at the Asian Skateboarding Championships in Sichuan, China. Yeh Tzu-yang scored 128.34 points in the street competition final, landing his final run after two failed attempts to secure a podium finish. Team coach Lin Ta-wei
Houston Astros pitcher Teng Kai-wei, the only active Taiwanese player in MLB, is expected to take on a larger role as the team struggles with an injury-plagued pitching staff, its general manager said. During a radio show before Sunday’s away game against the Seattle Mariners, Dana Brown, who took o
This year’s Taiwan Athletics Open, which offers Taiwanese athletes an opportunity to compete against their international peers, would be held under a new name after its organizers had earlier announced the event’s cancelation. In a statement issued yesterday, the Chinese Taipei Athletics Association
Taiwan’s Olympic silver medalist Tang Chih-chun on Sunday finished second in the men’s recurve event at the Archery World Cup Stage 1 in Mexico in a tight competition against the US’ Brady Ellison. After four sets, Tang and Ellison were tied 4-4, but the American edged ahead in the fifth set, outsco
Taiwanese gymnast Tang Chia-hung on Sunday topped the men’s horizontal bar event at the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, scoring 15.233 to take his third title this season. Tang delivered an outstanding performance in the final, earning a difficulty score of 6.
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