Stefanos Tsitsipas (24, Greece, World No. 5) and Andrei Rublev (25, Russia, World No. 7) won their first matches of the French Open. Karen Khachanov (27, Russia, World No. 11) breezed through her first round match in straight sets, while women’s singles player Maria Sakkari (27, Greece, World No. 8) suffered an early exit. Tsitsipas…
“Son of the Wind” Yang Yong-eun, 51, posted his best finish of the season with a fourth-place finish at the Senior PGA Championship ($3.5 million purse), a major on the United States Professional Golf (PGA) Champions Tour. Yang shot a 2-under-par 70 in the fourth round to finish at 11-under-par 277 on the final day…
Men’s professional volleyball OK Financial Group has appointed a Japanese coach, Ogino Massage (53), as its new head coach. On the 29th, OK Financial Group said, “In order to move closer to innovation in line with the 10th anniversary of the founding, we selected candidates with foreign coaches in mind.” ”he explained. Coach Ogino is…
Liverpool earned a dramatic draw. Liverpool drew 4-4 with Southampton in the final match of the 38th round of the 2022-23 English Premier League (EPL) season at St. Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, England, at 0:30 a.m. ET on Monday. The result sees Liverpool finish fifth in the table with 19 wins, 10 draws and nine…
Kim Eun-Joong heads into the Gambia with a rotation in place. Kim Eun-jung’s U-20 national team will take on Gambia at the Mendoza Stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, at 6 a.m. on Monday (June 29) in their third Group F match of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2023. With starting goalkeeper Kim Jun-hong missing the match…
“40-40? That’s a much rarer record.” Ronald Acuna Jr. (26, Atlanta Braves) is on a roll. Two months into the season, he’s the National League’s No. 1 MVP. In 52 games this season, he’s 205-for-66 with a .322 batting average, 11 home runs, 27 doubles, 46 RBI, 22 stolen bases, a .407 on-base percentage and…
The Korea Baseball Softball Association (KBSA) hosted the ‘2023 2nd Shido Daehang Baseball Tournament’ on Feb. 28, ending with Chungcheongnam-do winning the title. The tournament, which is in its second year after last year’s, is the highest-level competition in recreational baseball, open to any player who has not been registered as a professional athlete since…
Samsung Lions third base coach Kang Myung-koo makes a sensational catch in the rain. Samsung snapped a three-game losing streak with a 6-4 victory over the KT Wiz in the final game of the weekend at Lions Park in Daegu on Monday. A six-inning no-hitter by starter Won Tae-in and a three-run second inning in…
One day of rest was enough. The San Diego Padres’ Ha-Sung Kim returned from a knee contusion to excel on offense. Kim started in the No. 8 spot in the lineup against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on April 28 and went 1-for-3 with a walk and a hit. Kim went down after…
It was a hard-fought victory. But even though we won, we were worried about the aftermath. It’s unfortunate that this has been a recurring theme lately. The Lotte Giants won 6-5 and 1-0 against the Gochuk Kiwoom Heroes on the 27th. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Kiwoom hadn’t scored a run in 27…