Once Masahiro Tanaka and Yu Darvish got done dominating, the hitters finally had a chance. And after midnight, Ronald Torreyes lined an RBI single with two outs in the 10th inning that sent the New York Yankees over the Texas Rangers 2-1 on Friday ...
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown won the men’s 100-meter final in 10.05 seconds at the National Athletics Championships on Saturday, tying the meet record and punching his ticket to this summer’s IAAF World Championships in London. Despite rain-slick conditions at Yanmar Stadium, the 18-year-old convincingly ...
Ireland beat Japan 35-13 on Saturday to sweep their two-game series despite a rousing second-half performance by the 2019 Rugby World Cup hosts. Ireland thrashed Japan 50-22 in the opening game in Shizuoka the previous weekend and the visitors wasted little time in establishing ...
Gaku Shibasaki contributed an assist to help Tenerife move within a win of promotion through a 1-0 victory over Spanish rival Getafe at home in the first leg of the La Liga promotion playoff final on Wednesday. At the Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez, Jorge Saenz ...
Jose Lopez and Toshiro Miyazaki both went deep behind six shutout innings from starter Kenta Ishida as the Yokohama BayStars defeated the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5-1 on Saturday. Ishida (2-3) allowed five hits and no walks in his 108-pitch effort, striking out seven for ...
Chris Paul has been re-elected president of the National Basketball Players Association. Paul’s new four-year term begins immediately. He will be assisted by the union’s newly elected vice president, Garrett Temple of the Sacramento Kings. In his first term as president, Paul most notably ...
When yokozuna Hakuho was interviewed ringside on Sunday, after wrapping up his first title in a year, he congratulated the people of the Philippines on the imminent promotion of Takayasu to ozeki. It was a nice nod to the Taganoura stable man’s mother, who ...
Moa Iwano, one of Japan’s top novice skaters the past two seasons, has been selected to participate in the upcoming Junior Grand Prix series, The Japan Times has learned. A skating source confirmed that the 13-year-old Iwano was chosen from among a group of ...
Park Sung-hyun rolled in six straight birdies as she rode a hot putter to an eight-under 63 and a two-shot lead after the first round of the LPGA Tour’s NW Arkansas Championship on Friday. The Tour rookie ended her birdie run with her only ...
The International Olympic Committee on Friday approved the Tokyo 2020 Olympic event program in a move that will increase female participation while reducing the total number of competitors. The decision by the IOC’s executive board will see 15 more events than were competed in ...
