Tennis: Top seed Muguruza sails into Pan Pacific Open semis
TOKYO (Reuters) – World number one Garbine Muguruza put on a clinical display to power past Caroline Garcia 6-2 6-4 in the Pan Pacific Open quarter-finals in Tokyo on Friday.
Tensions with North Korea, China hurt ticket sales for South Korean Olympics: organizer
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s political tensions with North Korea and China are depressing ticket sales for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang, leaving hundreds of thousands of tickets unsold, the organiser said on Frida…
Highlights of Thursday’s MLB games
(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Thursday’s Major League Baseball games:
Goff, Gurley shine as Rams hold off 49ers in wild encounter
(The Sports Xchange) – Jared Goff passed for 292 yards and a career-high-tying three touchdowns, and Todd Gurley scored three TDs as the Los Angeles Rams held on for a wild 41-39 victory against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium on Thursday.
France to skip 2018 Winter Games if security not assured
PARIS/SEOUL (Reuters) – France’s Winter Olympics team will not travel to the 2018 Games in South Korea if its security cannot be guaranteed, France’s sports minister said on Thursday, the first major doubts by a participating nation about growing North…
Olympics-France to skip 2018 Winter Games if security not assured
PARIS/SEOUL (Reuters) – France’s Winter Olympics team will not travel to the 2018 Games in South Korea if its security cannot be guaranteed, France’s sports minister said on Thursday, the first major doubts by a participating nation about growing North…
Baseball: Major League Baseball roundup
(The Sports Xchange) – The New York Mets expect manager Terry Collins to retire after this season, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
NFL: National Football League roundup
(The Sports Xchange) – Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide in jail while serving a life sentence for murder, had an advanced stage of degenerative brain disease.
Golf: Stanley upstages big names to take Tour Championship lead
(Reuters) – Kyle Stanley marked his first appearance at East Lake by upstaging the big names to take the first-round lead with a six-under-par 64 at the Tour Championship in Georgia on Thursday.
NHL: Kings top Canucks in first NHL game in China
(The Sports Xchange) – Tanner Pearson scored two goals in an exhibition game, which would typically be no gigantic feat.
