Football | Real Madrid, Man City ensure Champions League progress

GROUP A Nacho scored two minutes after coming on for Real Madrid against PSG, capitalizing on a mistake from goalkeeper Kevin Trapp to score from a tight angle after Toni Kroos’

Briefs | Rugby – All Blacks to celebrate World Cup title with parades

Already enduring the worst run of results in his Chelsea career, Jose Mourinho will be banned from the stadium for Saturday’s match at Stoke after being punished by the English

Horse racing | Female jockey makes history with 1st win at Melbourne Cup

Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup yesterday when she rode the 100-1 outsider Prince of Penzance to victory in Australia’s richest horse race. Payne pushed

F1 | Briton who intruded Singapore track jailed for 6 weeks

A British national who walked into the track while cars were hurtling toward him at about 280 kilometers per hour during Singapore’s Formula One night race was yesterday sentenced to

RUGBY | New Zealand beats Australia 34-17, retains RWC 

New Zealand capped one of the most dominant eras in rugby history by becoming the first team to retain the World Cup, repelling Australia’s second-half resurgence in a 34-17 win sealed

Rugby | All Blacks not just the best but also the most resilient

Sunday, 00:00 New Zealand v Australia H 1.4, D 29, A 3.5 When the great Victor Matfield was sent into the Rugby World Cup semifinal last weekend with South Africa down by five

Baseball | Royals’ Orlando becomes first Brazilian in World Series

Paulo Orlando had returned home to Brazil last offseason when he flipped on the television to catch the news, and saw this strange report about the first Brazilian to play

Football | Including Platini, FIFA accepts 7 in presidential race

Seven men are in the running to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, with Michel Platini’s candidature accepted but pending because of his suspension from soccer. FIFA published the list of

Cultural sharing trumps sports at World Indigenous Games

Supersized Maori from New Zealand, diminutive Aeta from the Philippines and native peoples of all shapes and sizes in between tested their mettle at the first World Indigenous Games, a

Sports | Disappointing results at National Youth Games

The Sports Development Board (ID) revealed some of the local athletes’ results in the first edition of the nationwide games. In taekwondo, Freeman Yiu was knocked down by Shenzhen’s Ren Ming

Sheikh Salman enters FIFA presidential race

Bahraini royal family member Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa is running for FIFA president, a move that will put his human rights record under renewed scrutiny. The Asian soccer

Hamilton wins US Grand Prix and F1 season championship

Lewis Hamilton took off his racing helmet and bent low in a moment of quiet reflection after winning a tight race and another Formula One championship. Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg sat nearby, slumped

Australia into Rugby World Cup final, posts 4 tries v Pumas

Adam Ashley-Cooper’s third try set up by a brilliant run from Drew Mitchell secured Australia’s 29-15 win over Argentina and its spot in the Rugby World Cup final against archrival New Zealand

Golf | Rose holds off Bjerregaard to win Hong Kong Open

Justin Rose won his first European Tour title in 15 months Sunday, warding off a stubborn challenge from Lucas Bjerregaard of Denmark to win the Hong Kong Open by one shot. The Englishman,

Hong Kong Legends 4, EPL All Stars 5 Santos’ Davids go down fighting to English Goaliaths

  It was always going to be a battle akin to that of David and Goliath, as Leslie Santos’ Hong Kong team met a host of ex-English Premier League and big

Golf | Pavan, Lu share 1st-round lead at HK Open

Andrea Pavan of Italy made four birdies on his last six holes to take a share of the lead after the first round of the Hong Kong Open with a 6-under

Innocence of Youth | Self-belief helps young S Koreans down Brazil in U-17 upset

When South Korea pulled off a 1-0 shock win over Brazil in the Under 17 Soccer World Cup on Saturday, it may have been as much a case of the

Golf | Royal Portrush to host British Open in 2019

The British Open is heading across the Irish Sea for the first time in nearly 70 years, with Royal Portrush announced yesterday as the 2019 venue for golf’s oldest major

Boxing | Golovkin looks for megafight after big win at Garden

Gennady Golovkin gave a slight bow and apologized to David Lemieux after hitting him while he was on the canvas in the fifth round of their middleweight title fight. Golovkin could

Football | Champions League preview | Chelsea looks to boost poor season with win in Kiev

Wednesday, 2:45am Dinamo Kiev v Chelsea H 3.15, D 3.42, A 2.63 Outside of the top 10 in the Premier League and outside of the qualifying spots in Champions League Group G. That’s

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