The Minnesota Twins placed outfielder Max Kepler on the 10-day injured list Saturday due to patellar tendinitis in his right knee. The move is retroactive to Wednesday. Kepler has not played since getting hurt while running out an infield single in the fourth inning of Monday's 11-1 win at Miami. Kepler, 30, is batting .125 (2-for-16) with one homer and one RBI through four games this season. He is a career .232 hitter
Manchester [UK], April 8 (ANI): Manchester United continued to push for qualification to UEFA Champions League as they beat Everton dominantly by 2-0 at Old Trafford on Saturday, pushing them to the third spot in the Premier League table. But now, after the results of other matches, Man U sits in fourth position in the points table with 56 points, with 17 wins in 29 matches, five draws and seven losses. They are tied with
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 8 (ANI): Batter Ajinkya Rahane turned back the clock with an impeccable half-century mixing class and explosiveness, helping Chennai Super Kings (CSK) secure a seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians (MI) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Wankhede Stadium on Saturday. With this win, CSK has jumped to fourth position in the points table with two wins and a loss and four points.
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After record World Cup crowds, a payment structure and increase in participation, growing the game is next target There can be no doubting womens rugby league has made immeasurable strides in recent years. It is barely seven years since the best players were competing on fields littered with broken glass and in front of the odd dog walker. Yet on Sunday, when the seventh instalment of the Womens Super League begins, for t
Ange Postecoglou hailed his striker Kyogo Furuhashi after his brace helped Celtic to a thrilling 3-2 win over Rangers. The Japan forward had the ball in the net early in the clash only to be ruled offside before he opened the scoring in the 26th minute with a close-range drive. Rangers captain, James Tavernier, levelled just before half-time with a stunning free-kick but Furuhashi took advantage of a Ben Davies mistake in
Arizona [USA], April 8 (ANI): Tejaswin Shankar, India's current national record holder in men's high jump, achieved a personal best of 7,648 points to finish second in a decathlon competition at the Jim Click Shootout and Multis 2023 athletics meet in Arizona, USA on Saturday, helping him breach Asian Games 2023 qualifying standard for the decathlon, set at 7,500 points by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI). The Indi
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 8 (ANI): Korea made a clean sweep of all four titles in the ITF Asia-14 and Under Development Championships 2023, Finals (Week 1) here at the Kalinga Stadium Tennis Complex in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Indian girls made the country proud, finishing both singles and doubles runners-up.Korea's Wonmin Kim and Jiyun Oh clinched a double crown each, emerging as both singles and doubles champi
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], April 8 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said that the atmosphere of fear that was being created regarding Joshimath in the initial days of the disaster is normal today. CM Dhami inaugurated a marathon competition from Joshimath Narsingh and Nava Durga temple premises here. The national-level two-day marathon competition has been organized under the joint aeg
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 8 (ANI): Bengaluru FC, on Friday, announced to donate their 'Champions 2023' t-shirts, which remained unused after their loss in the 2023 Indian Super League final, to underprivileged communities in the city. In a video posted across social media, club captain Sunil Chhetri was seen joined by goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Suresh Wangjam, who donated the t-shirts to children at a
Astana [Kazakhstan], April 8 (ANI): The Asian Wrestling Championships will kick off in Astana, Kazakhstan from April 9 onwards and will go on till April 14, the event will see India fielding a contingent featuring plenty of firepower despite the absence of names like Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik. While Ravi is out of the event due to an injury, the other aforementioned wrestlers have op
Locked into the No. 4 seed of the Eastern Conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers will host the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday in the regular-season finale for both teams. Cleveland (51-30) has one last tune-up before meeting the New York Knicks in the first round of the playoffs, and the Cavaliers have their best regular-season record since the 2016-17 season. A win over Charlotte (26-55) would seal Cleveland's best regular-se
Viewed in a vacuum, there is very little to take from the Houston Rockets winning a pair of meaningless games down the stretch of a season in which they have the worst record in the Western Conference. However, for a franchise that has fielded one of the youngest rosters in the league, one that has tried desperately to establish a foundation for the future with those youngsters, every victory is welcome. With their 112-
The San Francisco Giants re-signed first baseman/outfielder Darin Ruf to a minor league contract on Saturday. The Giants traded Ruf to the Mets last August; New York released him on April 2. Ruf, 36, batted a combined .204 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs in 118 games last season with the Mets and Giants. Ruf is a career .239/.329/.432 hitter with 67 home runs and 202 RBIs in 561 games with the Philadelphia Phillies (2012-16
Cody Ware will not compete in Sunday night's NASCAR Cup Series dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway due to a personal matter, his team announced. Matt Crafton will replace Ware behind the wheel of the No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang for the Food City Dirt Race. Ware, 27, is currently 31st in the Cup Series standings. His best finish this season was 14th at the Daytona 500 on Feb. 19. Crafton, 46, is a three-time NA
The New Jersey Devils signed defenseman Luke Hughes to a three-year entry-level contract on Saturday. Hughes, 19, was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft. His sophomore season at Michigan ended Thursday with a loss to Quinnipiac in the Frozen Four semifinals. Hughes registered 48 points (10 goals, 38 assists) in 39 games this season for the Wolverines. He is the younger brother of Devils center Jack Hughes, 21
FILE - Professional wrestler Rey Mysterio poses at the premiere of the HBO documentary film "Andre the Giant" at the ArcLight Hollywood on Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Los Angeles. Mysterio was revealed Thursday, Jan 20, 2022, as the cover star of the WWE 2K22 video game. (Photo by Chris Pizzello-Invision-AP)
The NBA schedule has the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets getting together to end the regular season ... or at least it will be some version of the Atlantic Division teams, at least. It won't exactly be a preview of the first-round playoff matchup between the teams that will start next weekend in Philadelphia. Instead, the game will see most of each team's main players watching the action from the bench Sunday in Bro
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 8 (ANI): Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a mini stadium at Bholaram Maskara Inter College in Sahjanwa. "Laying the foundation stone of a mini rural stadium equipped with a multi-sports complex, an athletics track, the audience gallery and the ground to be built at the cost of Rs 10.43 crore at Bholaram Maskara Inter College at Sahjanwa, Gorak
Dhaka [Bangladesh], April 8 (ANI): Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib al Hasan expressed hope on Saturday that a positive change in the mentality of players would help his side do well during the year, with big tournaments like Asia Cup and ICC Cricket World Cup set to take place. Last year, Bangladesh started their home season with a 2-1 series win over India, followed by a 3-0 win against World T20 Champions England in the T
Everything is going according to plan for New York Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, whose squad faces the visiting Indiana Pacers on Sunday in the regular-season finale for both teams. New York (47-34) has clinched the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference and will begin a first-round playoff matchup against the No. 4-seed Cleveland Cavaliers. The Knicks' preparation for the series has involved resting several regulars. The p
The Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics may very well go through the motions on Sunday afternoon when the teams play their respective regular-season finales at Boston. The Hawks (41-40) are locked in as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference when the postseason begins. They will tangle with the Miami Heat in the play-in tournament on Tuesday, and a win in that contest would propel them into the playoffs against the secon
The San Francisco Giants are bringing back first baseman/outfielder Darin Ruf on a minor league contract, The Athletic reported Saturday. The Giants traded Ruf to the New York Mets last August. The Mets released him on April 2. Ruf, 36, batted a combined .204 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs in 118 games last season with the Mets and Giants. Ruf is a career .239/.329/.432 hitter with 67 home runs and 202 RBIs in 561 games wi
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The number of advertisers on the opening day telecast of the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year was 40 per cent less than the number of advertisers on an opening day last year with the usual big spenders giving TV a miss this time around. While there were 52 advertisers on board for IPL's opening fixture on TV last year, this year that number for the opening fixture was 31 for live mat
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 8 (ANI): A fantastic show put up by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) spinners, led from the front by all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, helped the visitors restrict Mumbai Indians (MI) to a modest 157/8 in their 20 overs of their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Wankhede Stadium on Saturday. Put to bat first by CSK, MI was off to a solid start. Openers Ishan Kishan and skipper Rohit Sharma playe