Former Manchester United great David Beckham says he is certain the club can go back to challenging for top honors under new manager Jose Mourinho. Since the retirement in 2013 of Alex Ferguson, who won more than 30 trophies during his 26-year spell in charge, United has landed just one piece of silverware — the […]
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South Korean prosecutors have indicted two baseball players for allegedly manipulating games for gambling purposes in what could be another blow to the reputation of the country’s professional sports leagues. Prosecutors in Changwon city on Thursday said they believe pitcher Lee Tae-yang, a starter for NC Dinos in the Korea Baseball Organization, deliberately allowed first-inning […]
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FC Gifu on Friday fired manager and Brazilian-born former Japan midfielder Ruy Ramos after a string of poor results, the J. League second-division team announced. The 59-year-old Ramos, who was in the final year of his three-year contract, will be replaced by Megumu Yoshida, who joined the Gifu coaching staff this season. “I want to […]
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Mongolian yokozuna Harumafuji on Friday took a major step toward his eighth career title by seizing sole possession of the lead with two days remaining at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. Harumafuji overpowered promotion-chasing ozeki and overnight co-leader Kisenosato in the day’s finale at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium to score his 11th win at the 15-day […]
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Liverpool has signed veteran goalkeeper Alex Manninger on a short-term contract, the Premier League club said on Friday. The 39-year-old Austrian, who spent five years with Arsenal from 1997-2002, signed on a free transfer after leaving German side Augsburg at the end of last season. Manninger is likely to be Liverpool’s third-choice ‘keeper behind Simon […]
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Forty-five athletes have failed doping tests after their samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games were reanalyzed, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday. The results are from a second wave of retests and take the total number of athletes who tested positive for prohibited substances to 98, the IOC added in […]
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Sagan Tosu have agreed a deal in principle to sign Moroccan forward Moestafa El Kabir, the J. League first-division club announced Friday. The 27-year-old, who holds a Dutch passport and began his career at NEC Nijmegen in 2008, had stints at Italian side Cagliari and Al Ahli in Saudi Arabia before spending the last year […]
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Yoshitomo Tsutsugo might not have gotten a chance to win the game in the 10th, but he wasn’t going to be denied in the 12th. The red-hot Yokohama BayStars slugger hit a sayonara home run in the bottom of the 12th to lift his team to a 3-2 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Friday […]
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Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli put together 105 runs for the third wicket in India’s innings on day 1 of the first Test in Antigua. (Source: AP)
Shikhar Dhawan has always had
Virat Kohli became the third Indian captain to score a century on the Caribbean soil.
Virat Kohli seems to be unstoppable now. His formidable grip on all formats of the game has bee
