It has been 56 years since Tan Howe Liang won Singapore's first Olympic medal. Yesterday, the 83-year-old was again honoured by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which conferred the IOC Diploma of Merit on the former weightlifter.Tan, along with...
Eternal rivals Manchester United travel to Liverpool in the Europa League last 16, first leg on Thursday in a battle of English football's two most successful sides.United have won the English title a record 20 times, twice more than...
Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer cut ties with tennis star Maria Sharapova on Tuesday, the latest sponsor after Nike and Porsche to distance itself from the world's highest-paid female athlete following her failed drug test.The swift response on the heels...
Madrid - Goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez left Roma ruing a host of missed chances as Real Madrid moved into the quarter-finals of the Champions League 4-0 on aggregate with a 2-0 win on Tuesday.Edin Dzeko and...
The likes of Park Ji Sung, Shinji Kagawa and Keisuke Honda have achieved the top standard for Asian footballers - to play at the highest level in Europe.But as Asia continues to cast its eye on Europe, a path...
It's Selangor versus Tampines Rovers tonight in the AFC Cup Group E; the most successful Malaysian club against the most star-studded Singapore side in the S.League today.The Red Giants sit pretty atop the Malaysian Super League (MSL), unbeaten after...
Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, the highest-paid woman in sports, said on Monday that she failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance she has been taking for 10 years for health issues.The 28-year-old Sharapova,...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Lakers posted one of the biggest upsets of the NBA season Sunday with an unlikely 112-95 victory over the reigning league champion Golden State Warriors.Pre-game hype Sunday was all about Kobe Bryant's final...
"We made history."Those were the words of Singapore Slingers coach Neo Beng Siang after his side's 68-60 triumph over Hi-Tech Bangkok City yesterday saw them reach their first ASEAN Basketball League finals since the tournament's inception in 2009.The Slingers...
Members of the football fraternity yesterday paid their last respects to ex-national coach Hussain Aljunied.Hussain, who was the national coach from 1984 to 1986, succumbed to pneumonia shortly before 3pm on Saturday at the Singapore General Hospital.He led the...
