BERLIN, July 3 — Germany coach Joachim Loew will stay in his post to lead a national team overhaul after the current world champions crashed out in the group stage at the mansion88 World Cup in Russia, the German Football Federation (DFB) said today. Loew’s contract runs until 2022, having been exte...

ROME, May 14 — Novak Djokovic got off to a winning start in his bid for a fifth ATP Italian Open title today with a straight sets win over Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov. The w88 11th-seeded Serb, who has reached eight of the last ten finals in Rome and won four -- took 55 minutes to oust Dolgopolov 6-1, 6-3...

SOWETO, May 17 — Careless defending gifted European giants Barcelona two goals as they defeated South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns 3-1 yesterday in a friendly w88 bet game to honour the late Nelson Mandela.Ousmane Dembele, Luis Suarez and Andre Gomes scored for the Spanish league and cup winners before Sib...

SAMARA, June 28 — Colombia’s Yerry Mina thumped home a second-half header to secure a dramatic 1-0 victory over Senegal today that catapulted the South Americans into the World Cup last 16 and dumped their African opponents out of tournament. Senegal had only needed a point in their final Group H game to re...

MANCHESTER, April 16 ― Manchester City are English champions for a fifth time after Manchester United's shock 1-0 home defeat to West Brom handed their local rivals an unexpected early title party. City put themselves in position to win the league by bouncing back from a bitterly disappointing week to ease past To...

LONDON, July 12 ― American John Isner mansion88 reached his first Grand Slam semi-final as he beat Canadian Milos Raonic 6-7(5) 7-6(7) 6-4 6-3 in a clash of the giants at Wimbledon yesterday. The 33-year-old saved a set point in the second set tiebreak to avoid going two sets down and then took control of the match to ...

  VOLGOGRAD, June 18 — England open their World Cup campaign today seeking to banish memories of dismal performances in recent tournaments as Belgium’s “Golden Generation” kick off as dark-horse challengers. England, winners on football’s biggest stage more than half a century ago, m...

LONDON, July 13 — Jelena Ostapenko blamed a ‘slow’ Centre Court after her power game misfired against Germany’s Angelique Kerber yesterday. The 21-year-old had w88 not dropped a set on her way to becoming the first Latvian woman to reach the Wimbledon semis, but self-destructed against Kerber in...

ROME, May 9 — AC Milan manager Gennaro Gattuso compared today’s Italian Cup clash with holders Juventus to “the World Cup final”. Juventus — set to be crowned Serie A champions w88 for the seventh straight year — are bidding for a fourth consecutive domestic league and Cup double. Mi...

PARIS, May 29 — Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill believes France are quite capable of winning the World Cup after seeing them get the better of his team in a friendly yesterday w88 live evening. France won 2-0 on a wet night, with Olivier Giroud and Nabil Fekir scoring the goals in the first half,...

  SINGAPORE, May 23 — Olympic swimming champion Joseph Schooling loves his black chye tow kueh (fried carrot cake), and his favourite place for it is Bee Bee Carrot Cake at w88 Marine Terrace Market and Hawker Centre. So much so the hawker stall in the Marine Parade neighbourhood saw sales soar af...

MOSCOW, June 27 — The goals finally dried up at this thrilling World Cup yesterday when a flat France and dull Denmark played a mutually beneficial 0-0 draw at the Luzhniki mansion88 Stadium which allowed the French to finish top of Group C and the Danes to qualify in second spot. Thirty-six games in Russia had f...

MOSCOW, June 20 — Banned former Fifa president Sepp Blatter attended a World Cup match in Moscow today and said the football tournament was a bit like “my World Cup” because of the warm welcome he had received in Russia. Blatter, who led Fifa for 17 years, is serving a six-year ban from “all foo...

  PARIS, May 30 — There were an Open-era record eight lucky losers in the men’s singles first round w88 at Roland Garros, as a spate of players withdrew injured following changes to the rules regarding prize money. The eight have produced some of the stories of the early stages of the 2018 French Open...

MONTE CARLO, April 22 — Rafael Nadal romped to a record-extending 11th Monte Carlo Masters title by brushing aside an outclassed Kei Nishikori in today’s final to retain the world number one ranking. The 31-year-old saw off Nishikori 6-3, 6-2 to become the first man to win a single tournament 11 times ...

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  MADRID, May 11 ― Barcelona may have navigated their way past Real Madrid and Villarreal this week but their first ever unbeaten La Liga season is not quite over the line yet. Ernesto Valverde's side visit Levante on Sunday, whose lowly position of 16th betrays a late surge in form, which has included four ...

BAKU, April 29 — Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his first win of 2018 today and took over as leader of the title race when he triumphed in a dramatic, crash-strewn Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The 33-year-old Briton, who had struggled for outright pace, managed to steer his Mercedes w88 through a chaot...

  DOHA, April 24 ― Italian club and Champions League semi-finalists Roma w88 announced yesterday their new shirt sponsors will be Qatar Airways in a three-year deal, described as the largest the club has ever signed. The deal was made public just a day before one of Roma's biggest games for decades, the firs...

  LONDON, June 21 ― Winning athletes love to bite their medals and smile for the cameras as they hold their trophies aloft, but their teeth may actually be holding them back. Around half of Britain’s elite sports men and women have dental problems bad enough to affect their performance, according to a study...

MOSCOW, June 20 ― Senegal's discipline and faith in themselves as a new generation of African talent were key to their 2-1 win over Poland yesterday, said coach Aliou Cisse, refusing to accept the result was all down to errors by the Group H seeds. Neither side's goalkeeper was troubled for much of m88 the 90...

LYON, May 16 — Marseille star Dimitri Payet is determined to go down in history by beating Atletico Madrid in today's Europa League final as the club celebrates a w88 quarter of a century since their greatest moment. They became the first, and to date only, French club to win the Champions League by beating ...

  ROME, May 2 — Jurgen Klopp warned that Liverpool would not let off-field distractions take the focus off their dream of reaching the Champions League final when they face Roma today. Klopp's w88 side are on the brink of reaching the final for the first time since 2007 as they look to defend a three-g...

REPINO, June 14 — England full back Kieran Trippier is hoping his familiarity with Tottenham team mate Harry Kane — and his deadly crossing ability — can deliver World Cup success for England. The 27-year-old attacking right back is expected to start England’s opening Group G game against Tunisi...

MONTE CARLO, April 16 — Former world number one Novak Djokovic showed signs of a return to form with a 6-0, 6-1 thrashing of fellow Serb Dusan Lajovic in the Monte Carlo Masters first round today. It was an impressive performance from the 30-year-old in his first match since splitting w88 from coach Andre Agassi ...

  Danny Welbeck has learned to deflect criticism and is no longer overly influenced by those who wonder whether he really belongs at the highest level of club and international football. The Arsenal and England forward confounded the doubters by scoring twice w88 casino in his club’s 3-2 home win...

  CHELSEA, May 3 — Chelsea and Liverpool will meet for the 179th time in all competitions on Sunday. We look back at some notable clashes between the sides. Chelsea 4 Liverpool 4 (Champions League, April 2009) Chelsea reached the Champions League semi-finals for the fifth time in six link w88 seasons after ...

  LONDON, April 26 — Stoke City will hope that the Liverpool they w88 face on Saturday is the team that wobbled alarmingly in the final 10 minutes of their Champions League semi-final against AS Roma, not the one that dismantled the Italians over the previous 80.Nothing is ever clear with Jurgen Klopp'...

  LIVERPOOL, April 13 ― Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp hopes his side's Jekyll and Hyde nature is a thing of the past as they aim to avoid a European hangover at home to Bournemouth tomorrow. Victory will take Klopp's men another step closer to sealing a return to the Champions League next w88 season j...