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Former world champion Shaun Murphy moved into the last 16 of the 2024 event with an impressive performance to beat China’s Lyu Haotian 10-5 on Monday at the Crucible. Murphy, the 2005 winner, was 6-3 ahead after Sunday’s first session and won four of the next seven frames to set up a tie with Scotland’s Stephen Maguire. Another former Crucible ...

Nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis is looking forward to “tremendous” sprint competition at the Paris Olympics, where he expects organizers to pull out all the stops. “I think Paris is going to be fabulous, incredible,” Lewis said Saturday at the Mt. SAC Relays east of Los Angeles. “It’s a wonderful country. It’s a beautiful city. And I know they’re ...

Lionel Messi scored twice and created another for Sergio Busquets as Inter Miami beat Nashville 3-1 on Saturday to maintain top spot in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference. Miami suffered an early setback when their defender Franco Negri deflected a corner from Daniel Lovitz into his own net in just the second minute of the game at Chase Stadium. Gerardo ...

Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma came up with devastating hits around the ground as Sunrisers Hyderabad recorded the highest 125 runs in the powerpaly in a T20 match history against Delhi Capitals in Indian Premier League (IPL) at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday. Being asked to bat, they surpassed 105-0 by Kolkata Knight Riders who held the record ...

Liverpool crashed out of the Europa League after a 1-0 win against Atalanta that wasn’t enough to overturn their quarter-final deficit, while Bayer Leverkusen’s 1-1 draw at West Ham took the German champions into the last four on Thursday. In Jurgen Klopp’s last season as Liverpool boss, the Reds were hoping to give the German a memorable farewell in the ...

Barcelona must dust themselves down after Champions League defeat to try and slow Real Madrid’s steady march towards the La Liga title in Sunday’s Clasico. The Spanish champions can make a last stand by reeling Madrid’s lead in to five points at the Santiago Bernabeu, even if overhauling their arch-rivals with seven matches remaining to defend the trophy is a ...

Cricketer Najmul Hossain Shanto has been shortlisted for best sportsperson of the year 2023 for the prestigious Kool-BSPA Sports Award alongside footballer Rakib Hossain and country’s fastest sprinter Imranur Rahman. Shanto and Imranur were also shortlisted in the popular choice award 2023 alongside footballer Morsalin Ahmed and woman cricketer Fargana Hoque Pinky. The names of the winners of these two ...

Antonio Rudiger put Real Madrid into the Champions League semi-finals, not only by scoring the winning penalty against Manchester City on Wednesday but also by keeping Erling Haaland quiet across the tie. The German defender’s two strong displays against City’s Norwegian hitman helped Madrid hold their own across 210 minutes of thrilling quarter-final action, ending in a 4-4 aggregate draw ...

Atalanta have a chance to make history on Thursday as they welcome Liverpool to Bergamo with one foot in the Europa League semi-finals thanks to a stunning first-leg win at Anfield. Atalanta once again punched way above their weight last week by dishing out a 3-0 hammering to Liverpool and are on the verge of reaching the last four of ...

Real Madrid visit Manchester City on Wednesday bidding to reach the Champions League semi-finals and forward Rodrygo Goes may hold their key to success. Rodrygo struck twice in a late blitz against Manchester City in 2022 to help Madrid knock the English side out and was on target again in the 3-3 quarter-final first leg draw last week. While his ...