Welterweight boxing champ Spence hospitalized after car crash
DALLAS: Undefeated welterweight boxing world champion Errol Spence is expected to make a full recovery after sustaining facial lacerations in a one-car crash in...
FIFA bans former Afghan general secretary in sexual abuse inquiry
KABUL: Sayed Aghazada, the former general secretary of the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF), has been banned for five years and fined after FIFA’s ethics...
Aussie scheme lets cricketers bat on after having kids
SYDNEY: Cricket Australia unveiled a "game-changing" parental leave scheme Thursday designed to let players in its history-making women's team remain in the game while...
Iran women freely attend football match for first time in decades
TEHRAN: Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after...
Formula One team boss fined for calling steward ‘stupid’
MOSCOW: Outspoken Haas Formula One team principal Guenther Steiner was on Friday fined 7,500 euros ($8,250) and warned about his future behaviour for calling...
Bottas, Hamilton fastest before Japan GP hunkers down for typhoon
TOKYO: Valtteri Bottas was quickest Friday in practice before the Japanese Grand Prix locked down ahead of an approaching super typhoon, finishing a tenth...
King Kohli overhauls Bradman’s Test runs tally with double ton
DEHLI: India skipper Virat Kohli struck a double century and surpassed batting great Don Bradman's Test tally of 6,996 runs in the second Test...
Nike shuts down Oregon Project after coach Salazar banned
PORTLAND: Nike said on Friday it plans to shut down its Oregon Project training group after top athletics coach Alberto Salazar was banned for...
Tsitsipas says he ‘scares’ Big Three after beating Djokovic
NEW YORK: Stefanos Tsitsipas said that he scares the "Big Three" after the young Greek stunned world number one Novak Djokovic to reach the...
Naomi Osaka picks Japanese citizenship with eye on Olympics: NHK
TOKYO: Tennis star Naomi Osaka has decided to choose Japanese over American nationality with an eye on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, public broadcaster NHK...
Doubts taken out now: SL coach Ratnayake on touring Pakistan
LAHORE: Sri Lanka coach Rumesh Ratnayake lavished praise on Pakistan upon the conclusion of his side's tour, calling the hospitality Sri Lanka had received "a privilege...
Mayank Agarwal hits 108 as India run rampant
Day 1, stumps India 273 for 3 (Agarwal 108, Kohli 63*, Rahane 18*, Rabada 3-48) v South Africa
PUNE: Mayank Agarwal came back to the site of his first-class resurgence to score...
First football match held under floodlights in Chitral
CHITRAL: In the first development of its type, a football match was held under floodlights between the Imran Khan Foundation School and Centennial Model High...
Sri Lanka whitewash Pakistan 3-0 in T20 series
Sri Lanka's crazy 2019 got even weirder on Wednesday, when they made five changes to the team that had won the first two T20Is against Pakistan,...
Iran women allowed into football stadium for first time in decades
TEHRAN: Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the...
Smith, Warner make T20 return as Australia eye World Cup
SYDNEY: Steve Smith and David Warner completed their return from the wilderness Tuesday when Australia recalled them to a 14-man Twenty20 squad to play...
Holding backs full return of international cricket to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: West Indies fast-bowling legend Michael Holding has endorsed the full return of international cricket to Pakistan saying the security here was fantastic.
The 65-year-old...
