CHELSEA coach Enzo Maresca said Sunday he is confident new signing Liam Delap will become England’s number nine after Harry Kane. Bayern Munich striker Kane, 31, has led the line for England for most of the last decade, but Delap is showing great potential, which led Chelsea to snap him up for £30 million ($41…
THE newly appointed president of Malaysia Athletics (MA), Datuk Karim Ibrahim, has pledged to end the country’s almost 50-year drought for a field and track athlete to reach the Olympic semi-finals. Karim said that several initiatives are already in the pipeline, with a focus on strengthening grassroots development and reviving the national talent identification programme…
J.J. Spaun achieved his dream of winning his first major golf title by capturing the US Open. Doing it with a 65-foot birdie putt on the last hole was pure magic. Spaun birdied four of the last seven holes to win at Oakmont on Sunday, firing a two-over 72 to defeat Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre by…
THE United States ended their four-match losing run with a resounding 5-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in their opening game of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Sunday in San Jose. Mauricio Pochettino and his team, which is missing several Europe-based regulars, had faced plenty of criticism after recent friendly defeats to Turkey and Switzerland….
FORMER Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris ranked Los Angeles FC’s chances of beating Chelsea in their Club World Cup opener on Monday as “thin” but said his team have nothing to lose. The MLS side are underdogs against the Premier League giants, who secured their return to the Champions League this season and won the…
SPAIN’s Carlota Ciganda ended her eight-and-a-half year title drought with a one-shot victory at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan on Sunday. The veteran Spaniard, who had been part of a six-way tie for the lead after Saturday’s third round, closed with a five-under-par 67 to clinch her first win since winning in Mexico in…
AMERICAN Sam Burns clung to a one-stroke lead over Australia’s Adam Scott as Sunday’s final round of the 125th US Open resumed following a storm delay at Oakmont. Burns, seeking his first major title, was on two-under par and Scott, the 2013 Masters winner, was on one-under par for the tournament through seven holes when…
LEWIS Hamilton said he felt devastated after learning that he had hit and killed a groundhog, damaging his Ferrari car, on his way to finishing sixth in the Canadian Grand Prix. Hamilton, who owns a French bulldog called Roscoe that is often seen with him at Grands Prix, said he did not see the groundhog…
CHAMPIONSHIP leader Oscar Piastri accepted McLaren team-mate Lando Norris’s apologies on Sunday after the Briton misjudged a passing move and crashed into him in the closing laps of the Canadian Grand Prix. The collision on lap 67 of the 70-lap race came when Norris attempted to overtake his Australian team-mate and title rival on the…
RORY McIlroy is looking forward to getting home to Northern Ireland and next month’s British Open at Portrush after finishing a disappointing US Open run on Sunday. Second-ranked McIlroy, who completed a career Grand Slam by winning the Masters in April, struggled at last month’s PGA Championship and ended on seven-over par 287 at Oakmont…
