Month: May 2022

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Marseille showed it can cope without injured playmaker Dimitri Payet to win 3-0 at Lorient in the French league and restore its three-point lead in second place. That’s an automatic Champions League spot. Payet is out for the rest of the campaign with a torn calf

By TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dmitry Bivol didn’t just beat Canelo Alvarez at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. He gave him a beating in a light heavyweight fight that wasn’t nearly as close as the identical 115-113 cards turned in by the three ringside judges. And now

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Local favorite Jannik Sinner is struggling entering the Italian Open. The 20-year-old Sinner surprisingly split with his longtime coach Riccardo Piatti in February. He’s now working with the more inexperienced Simone Vagnozzi but has been dealing with physical problems after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City moved on from the disappointment of its Champions League exit with a 5-0 rout of Newcastle that sent the defending Premier League champions three points clear of Liverpool at the top. Raheem Sterling struck twice while Aymeric Laporte, Rodri and Phil Foden were also on target at the Etihad

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz has capped another impressive week with a straight-set victory over Alexander Zverev to win the Madrid Open and become the second-youngest player to claim two Masters 1000 titles. The Spanish teenage sensation was coming off victories over his idol Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Raheem Sterling’s two goals started and ended Manchester City’s 5-0 rout of Newcastle that regained top spot in the Premier League for Pep Guardiola’s team. The defending champions moved three points ahead of Liverpool with three games remaining. In the push to secure the

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Jules Koundé has scored deep into stoppage time as Sevilla salvaged a 1-1 draw at Villarreal to move closer to securing one of the Champions League places in the Spanish league. The result keeps Sevilla in third place with three rounds to go. It is four

BOSTON (AP) — Home plate umpire Ron Kulpa had to leave Sunday’s White Sox-Red Sox game at Fenway Park in the fourth inning after taking a foul ball off the mask. Kupla got hit square in the mask by a foul ball off the bat of Chicago’s Jake Burger and dropped straight to the ground.

SUTTON COLDFIELD, England (AP) — Thorbjorn Olesen finished eagle-birdie for the second straight day to win the British Masters by one shot in a dramatic fashion. The Danish golfer earned his first European tour title in nearly four years and ignited his career after a damaging court case. Olesen shot 1-over 73 to finish a

By SYLVIA FOWLES For The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Lynx center Sylvia Fowles is checking in periodically during her 15th and final season in the WNBA. Fowles says she was close to retiring after last season, but decided to go for one more year. The four-time Olympic gold medalist talks about how she

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Jesús Ferreira scored his 25th career Major League Soccer goal, one more than father David, to help Dallas beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0. Ferreira put Dallas (5-1-4) ahead for good at 1-0 in the 65th minute, with an assist from Ema Twumasi. David Ferreira played for Dallas from 2008-13. Paul Arriola,

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy was scratched from Game 4 against the Carolina Hurricanes less than an hour before the opening faceoff and placed in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. Josh Brown was active instead. He appeared in six games for the Bruins after joining them from Ottawa at the trade deadline. McAvoy