LAS VEGAS — Sebastian Fundora kept his pursuit of an undisputed championship on track with a second to spare. Fundora stopped Ermal Hadribeaj with a left hand at 2:59 of the 12th round Saturday night at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to retain his WBC super welterweight title. Fundora (25-1-1, 17 KOs)

MANILA, Philippines–Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the Ningbo Open a day before her scheduled round-of-16 match against Czech Marie Bouzkova on Wednesday. Swiatek pulled out of the WTA 500 event due to a left thigh injury that’s been an issue since the second round of the Wuhan Open. “After careful consideration, I’ve decided to withdraw

Stars from the top U.S. and domestic women's golf tours will converge for an LPGA Tour event in South Korea this week, with a hometown favorite looking to defend her title. The LPGA Tour will bring its annual Asian swing to Haenam, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul in Jeonnam-Gwangju, for the BMW Ladies Championship at Pine Beach Golf Links. The 72-hole stroke-play tournament goes from Thursday to Sunday, with a total purse of $2.35 million. This will be the second straight edition of the tournament played in Haenam. Kim Sei-young, who is from the nearby town of Yeongam, won last year's tournament in front of dozens of friends and relatives to end a five-year LPGA title drought. At No. 9 with 13 career LPGA wins, Kim has had a strong 2026 season with seven top-10 finishes in 17 starts -- a run that will surely improve with a second straight BMW title on home soil this week. No player has won consecutive BMW tournaments since its launch in 2019. Kim is the third-highest ranked South Korean player in the field. World No. 3 Ryu Hae-ran leads all South Korean players in the rankings and will

FC Seoul’s 10-year wait for the K League title is almost over. The capital club was last champion of Korea in 2016, then a third triumph in six years. At the time, Seoul was a powerhouse of soccer in the Land of the Morning Calm and had the mighty goal machine Dejan Damjanovic in attack. The team was unlucky to lose the final of the Asian Champions League in 2013. The last decade has, however, been one to forget. Victory over Gangwon FC on Saturday will start the celebrations in front of the home fans at Seoul World Cup Stadium. It would be the perfect way to do it, for coach Kim Gi-dong to get the party started up by the banks of the Han River. Fans have been waiting for some time but this season looked different from the start. Seoul has been at the top of the standings from the get-go. At the moment, the club is 16 points clear with six games remaining. Only Ulsan HD can theoretically catch the leader but the Tigers will have to win all six (highly unlikely as the team has won just 15 of the 32 so far) and hope that Seoul does not manage a single victory. In short, it is 99.99 per

KT Wiz outfielder Sam Hilliard was named Korean baseball's top player for the final month of the regular season Tuesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said Hilliard won the voting for the Player of the Month honor for the September-October period. The regular season ended Oct. 12. In 32 games during that period, Hilliard led the KBO with 14 home runs and 40 RBIs, while ranking second with 33 runs scored and a .697 slugging percentage. He had the third-most hits with 43. For the season, Hilliard won the RBI title with 139 and finished second with 44 home runs. Hilliard earned 11 out of 35 votes from the media, and 271,145 out of 460,484 votes cast by fans online, for total voting points of 45.16. SSG Landers starting pitcher Pedro Avila finished second with 24.88 points. With Hilliard leading the offense down the stretch, the Wiz cruised to the best record in the regular season at 90-49-5 (wins-losses-ties), and won their final 10 games. Hilliard was also the Player of the Month for July. The American slugger is the first foreign player to win the top monthly award twice in the same

A longtime member of the national tennis team, Niño has represented the country in numerous international competitions. But I would soon discover that there was much more to his story.

MANILA, Philippines -- Akari scored its first win in the PVL All-Filipino Conference Siklab Series after sweeping PLDT, 25-18, 25-19, 25-22, at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City Tuesday. Fending off the High Speed Hitters' fightback in the third set, the Chargers rose to 1-2 in the team standings. Justine Jarazeno logged 15 excellent digs to lead Akari on the defensive end. PLDT stayed winless at 0-2.

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Akari finally put an end to its woes after turning back PLDT in its Set 3 fightback and securing its maiden win, 25-18, 25-19, 25-22, in the 2026 PVL Open Conference Siklab Series on Tuesday at the Mall of Asia Arena.

San Antonio star Victor Wembanyama isn't the only reason why French fans will be watching the NBA this season. Far from it. The opening night rosters in the NBA have been turned in — and there are 17 French players on those lists, the most of any international land. Canada, which has had more player representation than any other country outside of the U.S. over the last several years, has 16 players on opening night rosters. In all, there are 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries on rosters to open this season. Of those, 70 are European. Australia has nine players on opening night rosters, followed by Germany (seven), and Nigeria and Serbia (six each). Every NBA roster has at least one international player, with Dallas, Miami and Washington leading the way with seven each. International players have taken the NBA's Most Valuable Player award in each of the last eight seasons, with Miami's Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greek, of Nigerian descent) winning for Milwaukee in 2019 and 2020; Denver's Nikola Jokic (Serbia) winning in 2021, 2022 and 2024; Philadelphia's Joel Embiid (Cameroon-born, now an American citizen) in 2023; and Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Canada) in 2025 and 2026. Homecoming games There was a ton of superstar-level player movement this offseason, with LeBron James going to Philadelphia, Giannis Antetokounmpo to Miami, Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto and more. Here's a look at some notable return games by players headed back to former homes this season: — Oct. 21, Utah's Jaren Jackson Jr. returns to Memphis. — Nov. 10, Boston's Paul George returns to Philadelphia. — Nov. 18, Milwaukee's Tyler Herro returns to Miami (for the first Antetokounmpo vs. Bucks game, too.) — Nov. 19, Portland's Damian Lillard returns to Milwaukee. — Nov. 23, Brooklyn's Julius Randle returns to Minnesota. — Dec. 25, Philadelphia's LeBron James returns to Los Angeles to face the Lakers. — Jan. 21, Philadelphia's Jaylen Brown returns to Boston. — Jan. 28, Miami's Antetokounmpo returns to Milwaukee. — Feb. 6, Portland's Ja Morant returns to Memphis. — Feb. 15, Minnesota's LaMelo Ball returns to Charlotte. Player stat targets of note — Cleveland's James Harden is 661 points from becoming the ninth player in NBA history with 30,000. He'll also likely become the 11th player with 9,000 assists; he's 127 away there. — Houston's Kevin Durant (32,597) is 1,046 points away from matching the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant for No. 4 on the NBA's career scoring list. — Denver's DeMar DeRozan (26,711) enters this season 16th on the scoring list and Golden State's Stephen Curry (26,528) is 19th. It's well within the realm of possibility that they're near No. 10 Shaquille O'Neal (28,596) by season's end. — Miami's Klay Thompson is 74 3-pointers from tying Ray Allen (2,973) for third on the all-time list, behind only Curry and Harden. Jokic chasing history If Denver's Nikola Jokic finishes in the top two of the MVP balloting — something he's done in each of the last six years — he'd set a record. Nobody has done that seven years in a row. Jokic won the award in 2021, 2023 and 2024, plus was second in 2022, 2025 and 2026. He's the third player with six consecutive top-two finishes. Boston's Bill Russell won in 1958, 1961, 1962 and 1963, while finishing second in 1959 and 1960. Another Celtics legend, Larry Bird, was second in 1981, 1982 and 1983 before winning in 1984, 1985 and 1986. Many Indy milestones await Indiana's first win this season will be a cause for celebration — it'll be the Pacers' milestone 2,000th victory in regular-season play since joining the NBA. The Pacers also had 427 regular-season wins in their ABA era. The Pacers' Rick Carlisle is scheduled to coach his 2,000th regular-season game on March 8 against Charlotte. He needs 65 games to hit 2,000; that game is the 63rd on Indiana's current schedule, which doesn't account for two that will be added as the NBA Cup tournament plays out. Carlisle is 30 wins from tying Rick Adelman (1,042) for 10th-most in NBA history. Coaching, team milestones to watch A few other milestones that could be reached this season: — Miami's Erik Spoelstra is two wins shy of tying Cotton Fitzsimmons (832) for 16th on the NBA's all-time list for coaches. Spoelstra is also 34 wins shy of matching one of his idols, Jack Ramsay, for 15th; Ramsay won 864 games in his career. — Golden State’s Steve Kerr will likely climb into the top 25 on the coaching wins list. Kerr enters the season 28th with 603 regular-season victories, 10 behind No. 27 Mike Dunleavy, 25 behind No. 26 Doug Moe and 35 behind No. 25 Chuck Daly. — All of Kerr’s wins have come with the Warriors; only Gregg Popovich (1,390 with San Antonio), Jerry Sloan (1,127 with Utah), Spoelstra (830 with Miami), Red Auerbach (795 with Boston), Red Holzman (613 with New York) and Phil Jackson (610 with the Lakers) won more with one team. Kerr is obviously well within reach of Holzman and Jackson on that list. — Orlando's 33rd game of the season, which would be Dec. 31 at Indiana, will be the 3,000th regular-season contest in Magic history. New Orleans' 68th game, currently set for March 12 at home against Toronto, will be No. 2,000 in Pelicans history. — The Los Angeles Lakers' 34th game this season (Dec. 31 at New Orleans) will be their 7,000th in franchise history, including playoffs.

Allan Laurenaria saved Jose Rizal University from a big loss after preserving a 72-70 overtime win in the NCAA Season 102 men's basketball on Tuesday at the FilOil EcoOil Centre.

Chinese table tennis star Sun Yingsha has warned fans against organising any birthday celebrations ahead of her turning 26 years old, calling on supporters to redirect their attention to the court. In recent years, supporters of prominent Chinese athletes have increasingly mirrored the entertainment industry’s so-called “fan circles” by organising lavish tributes, including commercial LED billboard campaigns in city centres, charity drives, offline promotional displays and drone light...