Barcelona’s Ferran Torres scored twice on Sunday to help secure a late 4-2 comeback win at Atletico Madrid in a pulsating La Liga clash that took the Catalan side back to the top of the table.Barca have 60 points and a game in hand after last week’s postponement of their home game with CA Osasuna. T
Paolo Banchero on Sunday scored 24 points as the Orlando Magic overturned a 13-point deficit to end the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 16-game unbeaten streak with a gutsy 108-103 road victory.Cleveland, the runaway Eastern Conference leaders, had looked poised to extend their franchise-record winning run aft
Britain’s Jack Draper on Sunday turned his childhood dreams into reality at Indian Wells, claiming his maiden Masters 1000 title and catapulting himself into the top 10 for the first time after a rapid ascent through the sport.The 23-year-old downed Denmark’s Holger Rune 6-2, 6-2 in a display of tot
Olympic champion An Se-young on Sunday came from behind to beat China’s Wang Zhiyi 13-21, 21-18, 21-18 in the women’s singles final at the All England Open in Birminghan.World No. 2 Wang won the first game convincingly and edged into a 13-10 lead during a captivating second game in Birmingham, but t
UNDERDOG STORY: Lee said that he did not expect to do this well, overcoming French favorite Alex Lanier to advance to his first BWF World Tour Super 1000 final
Taiwan’s Lee Chia-hao on Saturday continued his fairytale run at the All England Open, dispatching France’s Alex Lanier to set up a final against world No. 1 Shi Yuqi of China after press time last night.Lee, staged a comeback after losing the first game to overcome in-form Lanier, the last remainin
For two days in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers looked like the class of the MLB’s National League.In another sign that Japanese baseball has never been better, the Tigers capped a two-game sweep over MLB clubs with a 3-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers yesterday at the Tokyo Dome.Even more impressive, t
When Roki Sasaki makes his Los Angeles Dodgers debut this week, the pitcher would dedicate it to those who supported him after his father and grandparents were killed in Japan’s 2011 tsunami.Sasaki joined the World Series champion Dodgers in January and is set to play against the Chicago Cubs on Wed
Francesco Friedrich won every championship he could in bobsledding this season.The German great is now a world champion for the 16th time, capping off his seventh four-man world title on Saturday at Mount Van Hoevenberg on the final day of the international bobsled season.This is the sixth time — al
Lando Norris yesterday kept his cool in a rain-hit and incident-packed season-opening Australian Grand Prix to edge world champion Max Verstappen with Lewis Hamilton 10th on his Ferrari debut.The pole-sitting Briton took the checkered flag by less than a second from the Dutchman, with Mercedes’ Geor
A gender row involving Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics last year was the result of a Russian disinformation campaign and had little to do with reality, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Saturday.Bach, who is stepping down in Jun
RACING IMMORTALITY: Inothewayurthinkin, trained by Gavin Cromwell and owned by JP McManus, has emerged as a stronger contender for the Grand National in April
As one tilt at racing immortality came up short, another even more elusive achievement suddenly came into sharp focus as Inothewayurthinkin, in the famous green and gold colors of JP McManus, powered away from Galopin Des Champs, the defending two-time champion, to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup by six
Taiwanese shuttler Lee Chia-hao on Friday defeated Kenta Nishimoto of Japan to advance to the semi-finals of the All England Open Badminton Championships, his best performance in a BWF World Tour Super 1000 event.World No. 22 Lee bested Nishimoto 21-9, 21-18 in the quarterfinals at the Utilita Arena
India’s bid to host the 2036 Olympic Games is a massive opportunity to “turbo-charge” investment in its infrastructure, but it must ensure the benefits are shared across local communities, a sports governance expert said.The world’s most populous nation has never hosted the Olympics, although New De
Thomas Tuchel admits Jack Grealish must show “responsibility” off the pitch despite insisting he did not leave the Manchester City star out of his first England squad because of his behavior.Grealish was one of the more high-profile omissions on Friday when Tuchel named his group for the FIFA World
Pep Guardiola has responded sarcastically to Fabio Capello’s claim that he is arrogant, has “ruined” Italian soccer and made the sport boring. The former England coach offered his view of Guardiola to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo this week. Manchester City’s manager was asked yesterday whether he
Formula One chief executive officer Stefano Domenicali is to travel to Bangkok this week following the Australian Grand Prix for talks over a potential race in the Thai capital, he told Sky Sports.The Italian ex-Ferrari boss, who has just extended his contract to remain F1 president and chief execut
MILESTONE: Stephen Curry had the crowd roaring its appreciation and giving a standing ovation in the third quarter as he finally reached the 4,000 mark
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry on Thursday became the first NBA player ever to score 4,000 three-pointers, extending his runaway lead as the greatest long-range shooter in basketball history in a blowout victory over the Sacramento Kings.Curry went into Thursday’s game needing just two thr
Baseball mania reached fever pitch in Japan yesterday with public appearances of national hero Shohei Ohtani and other Japanese players set to take part in MLB season-opening games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs.Ohtani’s World Series champions the Dodgers and the Cubs are to ta
Bruno Fernandes on Thursday netted a hat-trick as Manchester United beat Real Sociedad 4-1 in their UEFA Europa League round-of-16 second leg, while Tottenham Hotspur bounced back to edge AZ 3-2 on aggregate and Rangers knocked out Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce 3-2 on penalties.Two spot-kicks and a lat
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