The outcome of Sunday’s game still hung in the balance when Clint Frazier’s adventures in fielding re-emerged. The Yankees trailed their rivals, the Boston Red Sox, by one run in the seventh inning. And given the way the Yankees’ offense has performed, a comeback was quite possible. Frazier, though, has made some seemingly routine plays more difficult this season. While […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — After rolling past Oklahoma in record fashion, the Bruins now have to forget about it. Rachel Garcia hit a two-run homer and gave up one run in five innings, and UCLA routed Oklahoma 16-3 on Monday night to take a 1-0 lead in the Women’s College World Series’ best-of-three championship series. The Bruins matched the WCWS single-game […]

James Holzhauer's run on "Jeopardy!" is over as he lost to Emma Boettcher, a 27-year-old librarian from Chicago, on Monday's episode. It all came down to the Final Jeopardy question, which Holzhauer got right but only wagered $1,399 and fell just short of Boettcher, who also got it right. That small figure led many to wonder if Holzhauer threw the […]

SINGAPORE – A slow start may have cost the Singapore men’s rugby team the Asia Rugby Championship Division 1 title on Saturday (June 1), but Singapore head coach Mark Lee believes the fighting spirit his charges showed bodes well for the future of the team. Though he rued the missed opportunities in Singapore’s 29-21 defeat by the Philippines at the […]

VERONA (AFP) – Richard Carapaz has emerged from the shadows of cycling’s big guns after winning the Giro d’Italia on Sunday (June 2), riding into Verona’s ancient Roman Arena to seal his first Grand Tour victory in the final-day time trial. The Movistar rider’s 36th-place finish in Sunday’s final stage, won by American Chad Haga, was enough for the 26-year-old […]

Neymar, the soccer star who is one of the world’s best-paid and well-known athletes, has been accused of rape by a woman in São Paulo, Brazil. The woman filed a complaint with the Brazilian police over the incident, which she said happened in a Paris hotel room. The details of the accusation are contained in a police report seen by […]

ANTHONY JOSHUA has been forced by doctors to stay at home for TWO DAYS after his beating from Andy Ruiz Jr that could delay his sheepish return to England. The 29-year-old was dropped four times at Madison Square Garden on his way to a first professional defeat – and one of boxing's biggest-ever shocks. The Brit lost the WBA, IBA and […]

BEVERLY HILLS — Roberto Duran was drinking coffee inside the swanky SLS Hotel one morning last month when a man who approached the table held up an index finger. “One more fight,’’ Sugar Ray Leonard said. “Mucho dinero,’’ Duran replied with a laugh. But then Leonard waved his hands in the air like a boxing referee stopping a fight. “No more […]

ZINEDINE ZIDANE was lured back to Real Madrid on the promise that he would have the money to spend this summer to relaunch a new era of Galacticos. Current stars Gareth Bale, Keylor Navas and Isco are among those up for sale with the La Liga giants linked with replacing them with everyone from Eden Hazard to Mohamed Salah. Zidane […]

UNIBET are offering punters are number of great offers ahead of Royal Ascot. Along with a money back sign-up offer if you lose, getting cash for signing up your mates, you will also get the best odds on a horse even if it's price drifts since your bet. 1 Up to £40 back as bonus if your first bet loses […]