WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - Jose Altuve sat behind a table set up on the field at the Houston Astros' spring training complex on Monday, and his teammates looked on as the World Series champions announced the second baseman's seven-year, $163.5 million contract, the longest in team history.
NEW YORK - Major League Baseball is working on a plan to stage a two-game series between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at London's Olympic Stadium in 2019 as the sport's first regular-season showcase in Europe.
China's national team faces a stern test of its credentials when it faces Gareth Bale's Wales in Thursday's opening match of the China Cup International Football Championship in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
SHANGHAI - Brazil international Hulk offered warm praise after his Shanghai SIPG teammate Wu Lei topped the Chinese Super League scoring charts on Sunday by smashing four goals in one game - including a 12-minute hat-trick.
It's bad enough that soccer is already the only major sport that produces "highlight" reels showing what almost happened during 90 minutes of non-action.
INDIAN WELLS, California - Juan Martin del Potro keeps surprising himself.
LONDON - Tennis great Martina Navratilova on Monday accused the BBC of a "shocking" pay gap which saw her fellow Wimbledon pundit John McEnroe paid at least 10 times more than her.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - It's probably the slowest sport at the Winter Paralympics, but curling has proved an unlikely hit, with spectators flocking to watch wheelchair-bound athletes skilfully slide stones over a sheet of ice.
LONDON - Johnny Sexton waited eight long years to secure his first Six Nations Grand Slam - now he wants glory at next year's World Cup to erase the disappointment of the 2015 tournament.
ORLANDO, Florida - Tiger Woods put on a Sunday charge at Bay Hill that looked all too familiar until one swing changed everything at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Rory McIlroy has called for a limit on alcohol sales at US PGA Tour events to ease the effect of a growing number of hecklers at tournaments.
Jeffrey Kang of the US shot a sensational 8-under 64 on Sunday to secure a five-shot victory at the Chengdu Championship, the opening event on this season's PGA Tour Series-China.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
