By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Struggling Bochum has defeated Bundesliga leader Union Berlin 2-1 to leave the bottom of the table and end the visitors’ five-game winning run across all competitions. Philipp Hofmann and Gerrit Holtmann scored and Bochum goalkeeper Manuel Riemann also saved a penalty. The home team claimed just
Continue Reading WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Leicester started the afternoon at the bottom of the Premier League and ended it four places higher in 16th after a 4-0 win against Wolverhampton gave a big boost to Foxes manager Brendan Rodgers. Manager-less Wolves dropped a spot to 19th after losing the Midlands derby. Clinical Leicester ran riot at
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Aston Villa responded to the firing of manager Steven Gerrard by scoring three goals in the opening 14 minutes in a 4-0 win over Brentford in the Premier League. Led by interim coach Aaron Danks Villa took the lead in the second minute through Leon Bailey before Danny Ings added two
Continue Reading SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Arsenal’s eight-match winning run in all competitions ended with a 1-1 draw at Southampton that left Mikel Arteta’s team with a two-point lead in the Premier League. Granit Xhaka’s fourth goal of the season put Arsenal ahead in the 11th minute. The Swiss international is reveling in his new attacking-midfield position
Continue Reading By The Associated Press American forward Ricardo Pepi scored for the sixth time in seven games, getting the opening goal in Groningen’s 4-2 win over visiting PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie. Pepi put the hosts ahead in the 39th minute after Cyril Ngogne stripped the ball from Armando Obispo in the center circle and
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Illinois running back Chase Brown is making good on his vow to make this a season to remember. Brown was the first Football Bowl Subdivision player to go over 1,000 yards rushing this season and only the third player in Illinois history to hit the milestone in back-to-back
Continue Reading UDINE, Italy (AP) — Udinese’s surprising start to the season has been interrupted with its first Serie A loss since the opening day. Goals from Ola Aina and Pietro Pellegri saw Torino upset Udinese 2-1 and earn its first league win in more than a month. Udinese remained sixth but could lose more ground on
Continue Reading By CAMERON SALERNO Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paul George scored 40 points to help the Los Angeles Clippers hold off the Sacramento Kings with a 111-109 victory. Sacramento went on an 11-4 run to cut the game to 109-106 before George missed a step-back three and Nicolas Batum secured an offensive rebound. Norman
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By Issy Ronald, CNN The Miami Heat’s 112-109 victory over the Toronto Raptors was almost the secondary story from a game that was stopped for several minutes after a scuffle between Miami’s Caleb Martin and Toronto’s Christian Koloko. After scrapping for a rebound midway through the third quarter, Martin was whistled for a foul and
Continue Reading UDINE, Italy (AP) — Udinese’s surprising start to the season has been interrupted with its first Serie A loss since the opening day. Goals from Ola Aina and Pietro Pellegri saw Torino upset Udinese 2-1 and earn its first league win in more than a month. Udinese remained sixth but could lose more ground on
Continue Reading By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press SÖLDEN, Austria (AP) — Olympic giant slalom champion Marco Odermatt has dominated the season-opening men’s World Cup race. He beat the field by more than seven-tenths of a second for his 12th career win. The Swiss skier had a near-flawless first run and overcame a few mistakes in his second
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN American teenager Ilia Malinin landed the second ever quadruple axel in competition on Saturday without so much as a wobble. Competing at Skate America, the 17-year-old’s historic free skate secured him the gold medal in his senior Grand Prix debut as he became the youngest men’s champion in the event’s history.
Continue Reading WONJU, South Korea (AP) — Lydia Ko has won her 18th career title in the country of her birth after completing a 7-under 65 final round at the BMW Ladies Championship. Ko finished the tournament with a 21-under 267, four strokes ahead of Andrea Lee, who had a final round of 3-under 69. Atthaya Thitikul,
Continue Reading By Hannah Brewitt, CNN Dallas Cowboys‘ quarterback Dak Prescott will be back in action this week after missing the last five games with an injury. The 29-year-old fractured his right thumb in the Cowboys‘ season-opening loss. He underwent surgery on September 12, was medically cleared earlier this week, and began practicing full-out on Wednesday. In
Continue Reading By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press SÖLDEN, Austria (AP) — Olympic giant slalom champion Marco Odermatt has dominated the first run of the season-opening men’s World Cup race. The Swiss skier had a near-flawless run on the steep glacier in the Austrian Alps to build a lead of more than four-tenths of a second over second-place
Continue Reading By Aimee Lewis, CNN Tributes have been paid to Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner and co-founder of the sports drink company Red Bull, who has died aged 78. As well as turning his energy drink into a market leader, the Austrian billionaire also founded one of the most successful Formula One teams in recent history. His
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN Japanese football club Tegevajaro Miyazaki has announced the death of striker Masato Kudo at age 32, the Japan Times reports. “From his achievements in the J1 to being selected for the Samurai Blue, Kudo was an incredibly accomplished player. But in spite of that he was never arrogant and cherished his
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Jake Dunniway threw two touchdown passes, Asher O’Hara ran for two TDs in the closing minutes of regulation and the first series of overtime — the second of which gave Sacramento State its first lead of the game and the Hornets beat Montana 31-24. Cameron Skattebo had 111 yards rushing on
Continue Reading AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Defending champion New Zealand, third-ranked Canada and top-ranked England all have finished with unbeaten records in the group stage of the Women’s Rugby World Cup to take the top three seedings in the knockout rounds. Host New Zealand is top seed after posting bonus point wins over Australia, Wales and
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Michael Penix Jr. threw a go-ahead 14-yard touchdown pass to Jalen McMillan early in the fourth quarter to lead Washington past California 28-21. Penix threw for 374 yards and two TDs for his eighth straight 300-yard passing game to help the Huskies win their first
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