Melbourne's Chris Goulding has ensured United continued their NBL stranglehold over Sydney with a 75-70 away win in front of the biggest standalone home crowd in Kings' history. In a low-scoring slugfest on Sunday afternoon, 12,050 fans watched on at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena. Melbourne trailed 60-49 late in the third quarter, but kept Sydney to just 25 points in […]

On the back of a Gareth Bale hat-trick in the semi-final crushing of Kashima Antlers, Los Blancos were going for a famous hat-trick of title wins. And Modric got Real off to an absolute flyer after just 14 minutes of the final in Abu Dhabi. The 2018 Ballon d'Or winner broke clear with the ball before rifling a precise strike […]

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice – but it was Sead Kolasinac and Mesut Ozil that stole the show at the Emirates. Bernd Leno Relatively quiet day at the office for the German shot-stopper. But his clean sheet was ruined when Ashley Barnes converted from close range. Ainsley Maitland-Niles Continuously tested Burnley's defence in the first 20 minutes, but he went off […]

If Mariano Rivera is the first unanimously elected member of the baseball Hall of Fame, he can thank Bill Ballou of the Worcester, Mass., Telegram. And Ballou doesn’t even want the legendary Yankees closer in the hall. Ballou posted a lengthy piece on the Telegram website Saturday evening explaining why Rivera does not belong in the Hall of Fame. The […]

The history of cricket is replete with players who have astonished statisticians and followers alike, but the special category of ‘entertainer’ seems to be reserved for a select few, with Shahid Afridi’s name topping the list. Known to his millions of adoring fans as ‘Lala’ or ‘Boom Boom’, Afridi shot to fame at an early age in 37 deliveries when […]

Ellyse Perry's incredible rich vein of form has continued, firing the Sydney Sixers to an 11-run WBBL win over the Brisbane Heat with an unbeaten century. Perry has notched her second century from six matches with a 64-ball 103 not out for the Sixers to to reach 3-166. The superstar allrounder has hit 419 runs during WBBL04 for an average […]

AJ stepped into the ring with a microphone after Dillian Whyte's brutal knockout of Dereck Chisora. Whyte called out the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO world heavyweight champion for a rematch next year with the Brixton-born fighter desperate for a shot at the big time again. But Watford's Joshua – who was ringside for the fight with Sky Sports Box […]

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NAPLES, Italy — Up and down this cramped pedestrian street there are little clay statues of Cristiano Ronaldo, unmistakable in their form: legs spread shoulder-width apart, arms shooting at the ground, hair gelled into a luscious wave. There are also fat Ronaldos; weirdly skinny Ronaldos; Ronaldos with faces that resemble “The Scream,” by Edvard Munch; and many, many other Ronaldos […]

CLEMSON – Clemson’s football players won’t be home for Christmas, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be immersed in a festive atmosphere for at least part of the day  Tuesday. “You never know with Coach (Dabo) Swinney,” offensive tackle Sean Pollard said. “He’s liable to pull something out of the hat. I bet you he’ll come out in a Santa […]