FOOTBALL
Bills trample Jaguars
Josh Allen on Monday produced a monster performance as the Buffalo Bills trampled over the Jacksonville Jaguars 47-10 to maintain their perfect start to the NFL season. Bills quarterback Allen was in superb form as Buffalo buried the Jags in an avalanche of first-half scoring that saw them power into a 34-3 lead at the break. Allen threw four touchdowns and finished with 263 passing yards, while Buffalo’s defense gave Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence a torrid time at the Bills’ Highmark Stadium. In Monday’s other game, the Cincinnati Bengals were left still looking for their first win of the season after suffering a 38-33 home defeat to the Washington Commanders.
SOCCER
Injury shocks Germany coach
Germany head coach Julian Nagelsmann on Monday said that news of Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s serious knee injury came as a major shock after the Barcelona goalkeeper underwent an operation that is expected to sideline him for at least eight months. Ter Stegen sustained a rupture of the patella tendon in his right knee, Barcelona said on Monday. The 32-year-old fell badly after jumping for a ball during Barcelona’s 5-1 La Liga win over Villarreal on Sunday and was visibly in pain as he was carried off the pitch on a stretcher. His weight fell on the right knee on which he had two operations in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons. “The news of Marc’s injury was a big shock for us,” said Nagelsmann, who has now lost two experienced goalkeepers in a month following Manuel Neuer’s international retirement last month. “We wish Marc all the best ... we will always be there for him on his way back, Nagelsmann told the German Football Association Web site.
SOCCER
Fans attack Partizan coach
Partizan Belgrade fans on Monday vandalized their team’s dressing room and left their head coach Aleksandar Stanojevic with a head injury after a 4-0 loss to rivals Red Star Belgrade in Serbia. Red Star have won the past three editions of the Belgrade derby and Monday’s victory was the biggest since 1998 when they won by the same score. “Disgruntled fans broke the glass, it’s unpleasant. I came with Band-Aids to the press conference, but there’s no reason to make a theater,” Stanojevic told reporters. “There was nothing more, no fight, no physical conflict. It’s no drama.” Stanojevic said the loss was the worst of his career.
CHESS
Moscow criticizes FIDE ruling
The Kremlin on Monday said that a decision by the general assembly of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to uphold a ban on Russian and Belarusian players was the result of Western and Ukrainian pressure. FIDE’s general assembly on Sunday upheld the ban, which was imposed after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. “The West and Ukraine are putting open and undisguised pressure on countries within FIDE. This is no secret, everyone knows about it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about the ban being rolled over. The Ukrainian government, the US Department of State and players including former world champion Magnus Carlsen had urged chess federations to reject an initial motion by Russian ally Kyrgyzstan to fully reinstate the two nations.
Former world No. 2 Paula Badosa has withdrawn from this week’s Wuhan Open, organizers said on Tuesday, amid a racism row over an online photograph. Tournament organizers said the Spaniard had pulled out of the WTA 1000 tournament, citing a gastrointestinal illness, hours before her first-round match against Australian Ajla Tomljanovic. News outlets including Britain’s the Telegraph earlier reported that Badosa had posted a photo on Instagram in which she appeared to imitate a Chinese face by placing chopsticks on the corners of her eyes. The photo was taken last week in a restaurant in Beijing, where she reached the semi-finals of the
Shin Oebori coaches the Fukagawa Hawks youth baseball team in Tokyo, and he is very aware how Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani touches his players. “With Ohtani, the kids think everything is possible,” Oebori said, wrapping up practice yesterday on an all-dirt field set alongside a local Buddhist temple, below an elevated highway, and in the shadow of tall apartment blocks in central Tokyo. “Nothing is impossible with him. A dream is not a dream,” Oebori said, stepping out of the fenced practice field that keeps balls from landing on the temple grounds. None of the players hitting sponge-soft baseball has reached
Italian defender Marco Curto has been banned for 10 matches for racially abusing South Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan while playing for Como 1907 against Wolverhampton Wanderers in a pre-season friendly in July. Curto, who is on loan from Como to Serie B club Cesena, would serve half of the punishment immediately with the other half suspended for two years. “The player Marco Curto was found responsible for discriminatory behavior and sanctioned with a 10-match suspension,” a FIFA spokesperson said. “The player is ordered to render community services and undergo training and education with an organization approved by FIFA.” Wolves said the club would
CRICKET Azhar’s 59 leads Stallions Aashir Azhar’s blazing half-century guided the Taipei Stallions to victory over Taipei Super 11 in the Taiwan Premier League’s Group A at the Yingfeng Cricket Ground in Taipei yesterday. The Stallions were 102-3 and into the 12th over of 20 when Azhar came to the crease. He hit seven sixes and two fours in the 25 deliveries he faced to push his side to 171-5. Gokul Kumar was the star with the ball for Super 11, taking 3-17. In the reply, Deepak Vishnu outscored Azhar with 77 from 50 balls, but nobody else got past 20 as
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