Sports

Cincinnati, Aug 17 (AFP/APP): Results from ATP/WTA Cincinnati Open on Tuesday (x denotes seed): Men 1st rd Tommy Paul (USA) bt Jenson Brooksby (USA) 6-3, 6-2 Taylor Fritz (USA x11) bt Sebastian Baez (ARG) 6-1, 6-1 Nick Kyrgios (AUS) bt Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) 7-5, […]

Rome, Aug 15 (AFP/APP): Romania’s David Popovici swam the third quickest time in history to claim the men’s 200m freestyle gold at the European Championships on Monday in Rome. Popovici, who only turns 18 next month, cruised to victory in 1min 42.97sec with Switzerland’s Antonio […]

Munich, Germany, Aug 14 (AFP/APP): Two years after a near fatal cycling crash Fabio Jakobsen continued to make up for lost time on Sunday when he won a hotly-contested sprint for the line at the European road race championships. Winner of a stage at the […]

Glasgow, Aug 14 (AFP/APP):Celtic edged back ahead of Rangers on goal difference at the top of the Scottish Premiership with a 5-0 thrashing of Kilmarnock on Sunday as both Moritz Jenz and Giorgos Giakoumakis scored overhead kicks. Kyogo Furuhashi, Jota and Carl Starfelt were also […]

Rome, Aug 14 (AFP/APP): Italian artistic swimmer Giorgio Minisini won his second solo gold medal on Sunday at the European Championship, the first major competition to allow men-only events. Minisini added the free solo gold to the technical solo title he won on Friday. He […]

Munich, Germany, Aug 14 (AFP/APP):World and Olympic pole vault champion Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis will headline the European Athletics Championships that also features the top Norwegian duo of Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Italy’s Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs. Track and field will headline the […]

LIVERPOOL – August 12 (ONLINE) Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was left frustrated in his pre-Crystal Palace press conference after being asked how to combat his team’s “slow start” against Fulham. A far from ideal opening day performance from Liverpool left Klopp frustrated at full-time, leading […]

Belfast, Aug 12 (AFP/APP): Brief scores from the third Twenty20 international between Ireland and Afghanistan on Friday: At Belfast Afghanistan 189-5, 20 overs (Rahmanullah Gurbaz 53, Najibullah Zadran 42; J Little 2-29) v Ireland 167-9, 20 overs (G Dockrell 58 no, F Hand 36; Naveen-ul-Haq […]