CHICAGO: The Professional Fighters League on Friday returned for its third Global Season event of 2024 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, with Brendan Loughnane emerging the big winner of the night to top the featherweight standings. The 12-fight card, featuring combatants in the welterweight and featherweight divisions, was the final event of the first half … Read more
MONTE CARLO: Novak Djokovic avenged last year’s Monte Carlo Masters defeat by Lorenzo Musetti to reach the quarterfinals Thursday along with Jannik Sinner, while Daniil Medvedev launched into a furious tirade during his defeat. World No. 1 Djokovic made a poor start and endured a second-set wobble before coming through 7-5, 6-3 against the 24th-ranked … Read more
MADRID: Three goals in the first 14 minutes. Back-and-forth attacking. Stunning second-half strikes. It was an instant classic between the newest Champions League rivals, with Real Madrid and Manchester City drawing 3-3 in a frantic first leg of the quarterfinals on Tuesday. “I imagine the fans enjoyed a game like this, with six goals,” City … Read more
MIAMI: Danielle Collins and Ekaterina Alexandrova will meet in the semifinals of the WTA Miami Open after victories in the last eight on Wednesday. Collins powered into the last four with an emphatic 6-3, 6-2 win over France’s Caroline Garcia before Alexandrova emerged triumphant from a near two-hour three set battle with American fifth seed … Read more
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek, US Open champ Coco Gauff fall in upsets, Alacaraz advances at Miami Open MIAMI GARDENS, Florida: Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff have been knocked out of the Miami Open. Swiatek lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2 on Monday night, hours after the third-seeded Gauff fell in three sets … Read more
ISTANBUL: Violence broke out between supporters of Trabzonspor and players from Fenerbahce after a Turkish top-flight league match on Sunday. A crowd of home supporters invaded the pitch at Trabzonspor’s stadium after the final whistle of an encounter that Fenerbahce won 3-2. Images show a Trabzonspor fan enter the pitch and begin running toward the … Read more
LONDON: Mohamed Salah scored one goal and set up three to help Liverpool demolish Sparta Prague 6-1 and march into the Europa League quarterfinals on Thursday. After winning 5-1 the opening leg of their last 16 tie in Prague, Liverpool scored four in the opening 14 minutes at Anfield to advance on a massive 11-2 … Read more
PARIS: Kylian Mbappe returned to the starting lineup and took just 14 minutes to score as Paris Saint-Germain beat Nice 3-1 to reach the French Cup semifinals on Wednesday. He started the past two league games on the bench as part of coach Luis Enrique’s rotation policy, which most observers accept involves leaving out Mbappe … Read more
Al-Ittihad look to supporters to help them halt unstoppable Hilal in AFC Champions League JEDDAH: It goes without saying that any Classico between Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal is huge. When it is in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League then it becomes even bigger, with the Riyadh giants 2-0 ahead from the first leg and … Read more
PARIS: Liverpool and Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are the standout contenders to go all the way in this season’s Europa League with both teams this week heading east for last-16 ties they will be expected to win comfortably. Jurgen Klopp’s side are one of four British teams still alive in the competition and hoping to … Read more