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Shanghai SIPG's Oscar, right, clashes with Zhang Yuning of Beijing Guoan during their Chinese Super League (CSL) football match in Shanghai on Sunday. — AFP
Shanghai hands Beijing first CSL defeat of the season
HONG KONG — Beijing Guoan’s winning start to the Chinese Super League was brought to an end on Sunday by defending champions Shanghai SIPG, who reduced the gap at the top of the standings to two points with a 2-1 win over the leaders.Midfielder Cai Huikang headed home 12 minutes from time to earn Vitor Pereira's side victory as Beijing lost for the first time in the 11 games since the start of the season.Former Chelsea star Oscar had given SIPG the lead when he sidestepped the defense to score 28 minutes into the game, but Yu Dabao's header had pulled Beijing level just before the hour mark only for Cai to give his side the win."Everyone will be disappointed but we have to learn from this situation," said Beijing coach Roger Schmidt."We never thought we would go...
May 27, 2019

Shanghai hands Beijing first CSL defeat of the season

Austin Meadows #17 of the Tampa Bay Rays watches an RBI double to right during the ninth inning against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday. — Reuters
Meadows powers Rays past Indians
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Austin Meadows highlighted his four-hit, three-RBI performance with a lead-off homer as the visiting Tampa Bay Rays recorded a 6-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday afternoon.Meadows, who also collected four hits in Tampa Bay's 10-5 win at the Chicago White Sox on April 9, had an RBI double and RBI single and reached base five times on Sunday. The power display helped the Rays win three of four in the series and improve to 18-8 on the road this season.Cleveland rookie Oscar Mercado belted his first career homer by going deep to lead off the eighth inning. The homer was the 13,000th in team history.Francisco Lindor had an RBI single as the Indians scratched for a pair of runs in the ninth inning, but Jose Alvarado retired both batters he faced to secure...
May 27, 2019

Meadows powers Rays past Indians

Flamengo's Rodrigo Caio celebrates scoring their third goal against Athletico Paranaense at Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday. — Reuters
Late goals seal 3-2 win for Flamengo
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Flamengo scored two goals in the dying minutes to cancel out Marcelo Cirino’s second-half double for Athletico Paranaense and earn a barely deserved 3-2 win at the Maracana stadium on Sunday.Gabriel Barbosa was felled in the box after half an hour and put the home side ahead from the penalty spot.Yet Cirino leveled in the 63rd minute and put the visitors ahead also from the spot in the 71st.Athletico looked on course for victory until Bruno Henrique scored in the 89th minute before Rodrigo Caio sent the 50,000 home fans into raptures with a stoppage-time winner.The result leaves Flamengo fifth in the table on 10 points, three clear of Athletico in 10th after six matches.Current champions Palmeiras are top of the league with 16 points. — Reuters
May 27, 2019

Late goals seal 3-2 win for Flamengo

Inter Milan's players celebrate after winning the Italian Serie A football match between Inter Milan and Empoli at the San Siro stadium in Milan on Sunday. — AFP
Inter sneaks into Champions League after dramatic finale
MILAN — Inter Milan missed a penalty, conceded an equalizer, grabbed a late winner and survived a siege on their goal before beating Empoli 2-1 on Sunday to qualify for next season's Champions League while sending their luckless opponents into Serie B.Radja Nainggolan scored the decisive goal in the 81st minute as Inter pipped their neighbors AC Milan for the fourth and final Serie A place in next season's Champions League.Inter finished with 69 points, behind Atalanta on head-to-head record and one point in front of fifth-placed AC Milan, whose 3-2 win at SPAL was in vain. Empoli finished with 38 points, level with Genoa, but were condemned by their head-to-head record.Inter dominated the first half but were repeatedly foiled by Empoli goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski whose saves...
May 27, 2019

Inter sneaks into Champions League after dramatic finale

Kieth Pelley CEO European Tour and Flemming Astrup of Made in Denmark react as Bernd Wiesberger of Austria holds a trophy as he won Made in Denmark 2019 in Gatten, Denmark, on Sunday. — Reuters
Wiesberger wins Made in Denmark title by one shot
GATTEN, Denmark — Austria's Bernd Wiesberger ended on 14-under par to beat Scotland's Robert MacIntyre by a single stroke in a thrilling finale at the Made in Denmark Open to claim his fifth European Tour title on Sunday.Wiesberger, who started the final round with the same lead over MacIntyre, carded a five-under par 66 to win his first title since recovering from wrist surgery that sidelined him for seven months last year."I had a rough year last year," Wiesberger said at the Himmerland Golf and Spa Resort. "It's been a hard couple of months and it's lovely to see it pay off."France's Romain Langasque finished third, a further two strokes behind, while five golfers shared fourth spot.Wiesberger let his advantage slip with a double bogey at the...
May 27, 2019

Wiesberger wins Made in Denmark title by one shot

Finland's players celebrate with the trophy after the IIHF Men's Ice Hockey World Championships final between Canada and Finland in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Sunday. — AFP
Finland stuns Canada 3-1 to win third world title
BRATISLAVA — Finland completed a fairy-tale world championship after they came from behind to beat favorites Canada 3-1 and clinch their third gold medal in an absorbing final on Sunday.The Finns, who beat the Canadians by the same score in their opening group-stage match, were underdogs in all three knockout stage games but they defied the odds to shock 2018 champions Sweden, Russia and Canada en route to the title.It was a case of history repeating itself for the battling Finns, who won their previous title at the same venue in 2011.Canada, who were aiming for a record 27th title, dominated the opening period as Shea Theodor fired them ahead midway through with a brilliant solo effort.The Vegas Golden Knights defenseman weaved his way through three Finnish players and found the top...
May 27, 2019

Finland stuns Canada 3-1 to win third world title

Green Bay Packers legend Bart Starr, who is accepting the FedEx Air NFL Player of the Year award on behalf of Aaron Rodgers, speaks with the press at the Super Bowl XLV media center in Dallas, Texas, in this Feb. 2, 2011 file photo. — AFP
Legendary Packers QB Starr dies at 85
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Iconic former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr died on Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama.Starr, who was 85, suffered a major stroke in 2014 and his health had been failing in the years since.The family of Starr released a statement through the Packers."We are saddened to note the passing of our husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Bart Starr," it reads, in part. "He battled with courage and determination to transcend the serious stroke he suffered in September 2014, but his most recent illness was too much to overcome."While he may always be best known for his success as the Packers quarterback for 16 years, his true legacy will always be the respectful manner in which he treated every person he met, his humble demeanor, and his generous...
May 27, 2019

Legendary Packers QB Starr dies at 85

Simon Pagenaud of France, driver of the #22 Menards Team Penske Chevrolet celebrates after winning the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday. — AFP
France's Simon Pagenaud wins 103rd Indianapolis 500
INDIANAPOLIS — France's Simon Pagenaud won the 103rd Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, holding off Alexander Rossi in a fierce finishing duel to win America's fabled race for the first time.Penske driver Pagenaud started from pole position and led 116 laps of the 200-lap race on the 2.5-mile oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, finishing in front of two former winners in Andretti Autosport's Rossi and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing's Takuma Sato of Japan.Rossi, who won the 2017 Indy 500 as a rookie, held the lead after the final restart from caution of the race with 13 laps remaining.Pagenaud quickly regained the lead, and they would trade it again before Pagenaud swept by on turn three of the penultimate lap on the way to a victory by .2086sec."It's hard to...
May 26, 2019

France's Simon Pagenaud wins 103rd Indianapolis 500

Team Astana rider Italy's Dario Cataldo celebrates as he crosses the finish line in the stage fifteen of the 102nd Giro d'Italia — Tour of Italy — cycle race, 232 km from Ivrea to Como on Sunday. — AFP
Dario Cataldo wins 15th stage of Giro d'Italia
COMO, Italy — Astana's Dario Cataldo won the 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday outsprinting the other survivor of a long breakaway, fellow Italian, Mattia Cattaneo in Como.Richard Carapaz, the overall leader, finished 11 seconds behind with Simon Yates and Vincenzo Nibali, but Primoz Roglic, who came off his bike on the final descent, lost 40 seconds to the Ecuadorean.While Cataldo and Cattaneo of Androni played cat and mouse up the final straight for the stage victory, the heavyweight contenders were fighting a desperate battle for seconds behind them at the end of the 232-kilometre stage.Nibali of Bahrain Merida attacked throughout the closing stages and only Carapaz and two Britons, Yates, of Mitchelton Scott, and Hugh Carthy of Education First, managed to stay with...
May 26, 2019

Dario Cataldo wins 15th stage of Giro d'Italia

Patrick Bauer
Charlton snatches promotion to Championship at the death
LONDON — Charlton were promoted to the Championship in dramatic fashion on Sunday as Patrick Bauer's last-gasp winner sealed a 2-1 victory over Sunderland at Wembley.Charlton defender Bauer poked home from close-range to settle the League One play-off final in the dying seconds of stoppage time after Sunderland goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin had parried his initial header.Lee Bowyer's side, beaten in the play-off semi-finals last season, will return to English football's second tier for the first time in three years.The south London club recovered from a disastrous start when Naby Sarr's fifth minute backpass eluded dozing Charlton keeper Dillon Phillips for an embarrassing own goal.Ben Purrington tapped in Charlton's equalizer in the 35th minute to finish off a fine move...
May 26, 2019

Charlton snatches promotion to Championship at the death

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