Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany on Saturday said he was not nervous ahead of his Bundesliga debut in the dugout for Sunday’s match at Wolfsburg. The 38-year-old Belgian was the surprise choice tasked with restoring Bayern Munich as the dominant force in German football, given he had just overseen Burnley being relegated from the Premier…
Catch Sportstar’s highlights of Day 4 of the first Test between England and Sri Lanka being played at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Greater Manchester. Playing XIs England playing XI: Dan Lawrence, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (captain), Joe Root, Harry Brook (vice-captain), Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts, Mark Wood, Shoaib…
Aston Villa must learn from Newcastle United’s past struggles after its Champions League qualification and focus on closing the gap at the top of the Premier League standings, manager Unai Emery said ahead of Saturday’s home game against Arsenal. Villa started its league season with a 2-1 victory at West Ham United last weekend. It…
PREVIEW As season resumptions go, pairing the two best teams in the East is a good way to go about it. Such is the case for Major League Soccer Saturday night, when Inter Miami hosts Cincinnati FC in a power-packed matchup in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. While Miami (16-4-5, 53 points) won’t have superstar Lionel Messi on the pitch because of…
Four days before the Paris Paralympic Games begins, the Paralympic flame will on Saturday be lit next to the English hospital where the idea for the competition was born. The Paralympic movement dates back to 1948, when German neurologist Ludwig Guttmann organised sporting events for injured veterans at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, northwest of London. The…
Adam Scott fired off a 9-under-par 63 Friday and leapt into the lead after two rounds at the BMW Championship in Castle Rock, Colo. The 44-year-old Australian, who hasn’t won on tour since February 2020, is an unlikely leader of the FedEx Cup playoffs’ second leg. Scott made the field by ranking 41st in points…
Balanced aggression and unmatched precision. These are the most glaring characteristics of teenage table tennis sensation Ankur Bhattacharjee. It was these two attributes that stood out in Ankur’s demolition job of Lilian Bardet at the fifth season of Ultimate Table Tennis on Friday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai. Puneri Paltan was up against…
A stoppage-time goal by Florian Wirtz secured a 3-2 win for champion Bayer Leverkusen at Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday, extending its unbeaten league run into the new campaign. Leverkusen was awarded a penalty deep into stoppage time for Ko Itakura’s foul on substitute Amine Adli and Wirtz scored on a…
England was closing in on victory over a gritty Sri Lanka in the first test with the visitor on 204-6 in its second innings at the end of the third day at Old Trafford on Friday-a slender lead of 82. Angelo Mathews (65) and Kamindu Mendis (56 not out) led a stubborn rearguard action as…
Four of Bangladesh’s top seven batters hit defiant fifties in a spirited fightback to help the visitors to 316-5 in reply to Pakistan’s 448-6 declared in the opening test in Rawalpindi on Friday. After Shadman Islam (93) and Mominul Haque (50) steadied the innings, Mushfiqur Rahim and Litton Das forged an unbroken 98-run stand for…
