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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Klay Thompson scored 27 points as the Golden State Warriors recovered from an early mauling to score a 112-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. A stormy encounter between the two Western Conference big guns saw Warriors coach Steve Kerr lose his cool on the sidelines before Spurs counterpart Gregg Popovich was ejected late in the game. Popovich was tossed in the fourth quarter after picking up a second […]
VANCOUVER, Canada (Eagle News) — Coming off a thrilling 2-1 overtime loss to the Dallas Stars, the Vancouver Canucks lost their second straight game at Rogers Arena to the New Jersey Devils 2-0, extending the Devils’ winning streak to three games. Both teams were scoreless at the end of the first period with solid goaltending from the Devils’ Cory Schneider and the Canucks’ Jacob Markstrom. The Devils got on the board when Jimmy Hayes […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Deontay Wilder will have one eye on a future super-fight with Anthony Joshua on Saturday when he defends his World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Canadian challenger Bermane Stiverne in New York. Wilder (38-0, with 37 KOs) faces Stiverne for the second time, two years after winning the title from the 39-year-old in a one-sided unanimous victory in Las Vegas in January 2015. The Canadian earned another crack at […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson will miss the rest of the season after tearing knee ligaments during practice, reports said Thursday. Watson, 22, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament during a non-contact drill as the Texans prepared to face the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. An MRI scan confirmed the injury to the rising rookie star, reports said. The news is a cruel blow for Watson, who has lit up […]
By: Anthony Sevilla, EBC Sports International, Canada Bureau VANCOUVER, CANADA (Eagle News) — The New Jersey Devils arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia to take on the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena. The Vancouver Canucks were coming off a thrilling 2-1 Overtime loss at home to the Dallas Stars after winning four straight games while the New Jersey Devils were trying to extend their winning streak to three games. A win here would put the New […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A Cleveland Cavaliers lineup struggling to come together and sustain effort for a full game suffered its fourth consecutive NBA loss on Wednesday, falling 124-107 to visiting Indiana. Every Pacers starter scored in double figures, with Thaddeus Young netting 26 points, Darren Collison adding 25 and Victor Oladipo pouring in 23 as Cleveland (3-5) suffered a fifth loss in six games, the past three by a combined 58 points. “The other […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Houston Astros won the World Series for the first time on Wednesday, pouncing early in a 5-1 game seven triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers. George Springer homered again as the Astros roughed up Dodgers starting pitcher Yu Darvish, who endured his second nightmare start of the Series. He surrendered five runs in 1 2/3 innings as the Dodgers fell into a hole the wouldn’t climb out of. A day […]
by Jed Court © Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Rafael Nadal secured the year-end world number one ranking with a 7-5, 6-3 second-round victory over South Korean Hyeon Chung at the Paris Masters on Wednesday. The 16-time Grand Slam champion is the oldest man to finish a season at the top of the rankings at the age of 31, after a year that saw him win the French and US Opens. It is the fourth time the Spaniard, […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Skipper Steve Smith says Australia plan to reopen old English Ashes scars starting with a morale-shattering blow in the series opener at the Gabba this month. Smith has indelible memories of the shattering effect of the opening Brisbane Test from the last 2013-14 Ashes battle in Australia on the remainder of that series. England were battered by the hostility of paceman Mitchell Johnson, backed up by Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle and the […]
By Tennie Sumague EBC New York Bureau NEW YORK (Eagle News) — Another stellar performance by New York Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis as fans chanted “M-V-P” in the final 50 seconds of the Knicks 116-110 win over the Denver Nuggets at Madison Square Garden Monday night. Porzingis became the first player in Knicks franchise history to score at least 30 points in five of the first six games of the season and the youngest player […]
Reuters — Wednesday (November 1) marks 100 days until the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea. On Tuesday (October 31), the flame that will burn during the Games was handed over to organizers in Athens. Following Tuesday’s handover, the flame is due to arrive in South Korea on November 1 for a 2,018-kilometer relay before reaching Pyeongchang for the opening ceremony on February 9. The Games will take place from February 9-25 in the […]
By Michael Hudson EBC Seattle bureau SEATTLE, WA (Eagle News) – This past Sunday showcased one of the greatest games of the 2017 season thus far as the experienced, battled-tested quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson, was pitted against the up-and-coming and immensely talented quarterback, Deshaun Watson, of the Houston Texans (3-4). This match-up was on full display as each of the respective quarterbacks led their offenses down the field on each possession, seeming […]
