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April 25, 2018
Gambhir quits as Delhi skipper in IPL
NEW DELHI — Gautam Gambhir Wednesday stepped down as captain of Indian Premier League side Delhi Daredevils after they lost five of their first six matches in this year's Twenty20 tournament.Mumbai batsman Shreyas Iyer has been appointed the new captain of a side that lies bottom of the eight-team table in the cash-rich league.Gambhir, who led Kolkata Knight Riders to two IPL titles in 2012 and 2014, was bought by ...
April 25, 2018
Vandeweghe routs Stephens
STUTTGART — CoCo Vandeweghe put aside her career-long dislike of clay to crush US Open champion Sloane Stephens 6-1, 6-0 with a 56-minute rout in the first round of the Stuttgart Grand Prix Wednesday.There was a similar fate for last year's New York runner-up, with Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova eliminating American Madison Keys 7-6 (9/7), 5-7, 6-4.Vandeweghe and Stephens, who won the Miami title last month after a lackluster six months ...
April 25, 2018
Klizan dumps Djokovic, Nadal wins
BARCELONA — Former world No. 1 Novak Djokovic suffered a surprise second-round exit at the Barcelona Open when the Serb was beaten 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 by world number 140 Martin Klizan Wednesday.But favorite and 10-time champion Rafael Nadal eased past fellow Spaniard Roberto Carballes-Baena 6-4, 6-4 in his first appearance at this year's tournament to reach the third round and set a record by winning 38 consecutive sets on clay.Second ...
April 25, 2018
Liverpool dazzles at Anfield
LIVERPOOL — Liverpool, inspired by two-goal Egyptian Mohamed Salah, took a big step toward the Champions League final with a 5-2 win over AS Roma in their semifinal, first leg at Anfield Tuesday.Two late Roma goals, however, will give the Italians, who came back from 4-1 down to beat Barcelona in the previous round, some hope of an upset in the return game next Wednesday.A pair of superbly taken goals ...
April 25, 2018
Salah threatens Messi, Ronaldo for Ballon d’Or
LIVERPOOL — Mohamed Salah could be the man to finally break the Ronaldo-Messi duopoly at the top of world football after the Liverpool forward burnished his soaring reputation with a mesmerizing Champions League performance against Roma.Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi have locked down the Ballon d’Or award for a decade, winning five gongs apiece — for the past seven years they have occupied the top two slots.But ...
April 25, 2018
F1 goes back to Baku, hoping for another thriller
BAKU — The Azerbaijan Grand Prix has a lot to live up to this weekend and Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has plenty to think about as well.Baku dished up a crazy thriller of a race last season, with Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo winning after Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel famously succumbed to ‘road rage’ and clashed with Mercedes’ Hamilton.The Force India pair collided, Canadian Lance Stroll made it to the ...
April 25, 2018
Last chance for Wenger
LONDON — Arsenal has little time to digest Arsene Wenger’s long-awaited decision to end his 22-year reign as a Europa League semifinal with Atletico Madrid offers the outgoing manager a chance to salvage some of his lost credit with the club’s fans.Wenger admitted he stepped aside to unite a fan base fed up with years of mediocre results having been spoiled by success and silky football in the first decade ...
April 25, 2018
Tennis has “significant” integrity problems — report
LONDON — Tennis faces “very significant” integrity problems, particularly at the lower levels of the sport, caused by the sharp increase in internet betting, an independent report concluded in its interim finding Wednesday.The Interim Report of the Independent Review of Integrity said that its two-year investigation had not revealed widespread corruption at the highest levels of the professional game globally although “there is nonetheless evidence of some issues at these ...
April 25, 2018
Lahore Badshah thrashes Pak Shaheen
RIYADH — Lahore Badshah thrashed Pak Shaheen by 190 runs in Western Union T20Tournament, organized by Riyadh Cricket Association (RCA) and sponsored by Western Union at RCA Sports Complex.In Al-Kharj League, Lahore Badshah beat Riyadh Warriors Green by 5 wickets. Put into bat first, Riyadh Warriors Green managed 147. Saqib Saleem scored 53 and Amjad Ali 21. Awais, Fahad, Imran and Mudassar took 2 wickets each. Lahore Badshah got the ...
April 25, 2018
Cubs roll past Indians comfortably
CLEVELAND — Kyle Schwarber hit two solo home runs, Ian Happ homered and had three hits and Tyler Chatwood allowed a run and scattered four hits in six-plus innings as the Chicago Cubs rolled past the host Cleveland Indians 10-3 Tuesday in the teams’ first meeting in Cleveland since the epic 2016 World Series.Chatwood (1-3) struck out five and walked five. Josh Tomlin (0-3) took the loss after surrendering five ...
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