All posts tagged "Sports"

  • Leverkusen's Son Heung-min (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
    Liverpool FC eyeing Son Heung-min

    English Premier League’s Liverpool F.C. is looking to sign Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen’s South Korean forward Son Heung-min according to his agent. The 22-year-old has been with his current club since 2013 where he has recorded a respectable...

    • Posted May 6, 2015
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  • Rangers Mariners Baseball
    Choo Shin-soo’s April stats worst in Rangers history

    Texas Rangers outfielder Choo Shin-soo set a new franchise record for his club, but he’s probably not feeling very proud of achieving it. After going 5-for-52 in the first 16 games of the 2015 season, the South...

    • Posted May 1, 2015
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  • Uzbekistan’s Shavkatjon Mulladjanov kicks the ball as North Korea’s Pak Kwang Ryong attempts to block during the first round soccer match of the AFC Asia Cup between Uzbekistan and North Korea in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
    Seoul seeks to hold sports, cultural events with Pyongyang

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea said Tuesday it will seek to hold a variety of sports and cultural events with North Korea this year to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s colonial rule. South...

    • Posted April 21, 2015
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  • Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan of South Korea holds back tears during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea. Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan of South Korea offered a public apology Friday, four days after receiving an 18-month ban for failing a doping test. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Park Tae-hwan’s doc pleads not guilty to negligence

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Swimmer Park Tae-hwan’s doctor Tuesday pleaded not guilty to misleading him about an injection of a banned substance that stripped him of his Asian Games medals last year. Park tested positive for testosterone, a...

    • Posted April 21, 2015
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  • North Korea
    Kim Jong-un calls for N. Korea’s participation in more global sports events

    SEOUL, March 26 (Yonhap) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un encouraged the country’s athletes to join as many international sports events as possible, with the aim of becoming a sports power, according to Pyongyang’s media Thursday. The...

    • Posted March 26, 2015
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  • A sports facility in Pyongyang that has the country's first squash courts. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea incorporates sports into everyday life to boost productivity

    BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) — North Korea is in a “heated sporting zeal,” a Pyongyang official said, as it encourages its people to take up sports as a means of boosting industrial output and strengthening national defense....

    • Posted February 19, 2015
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  • Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James covers his face while sitting on the bench before an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
    Cleveland reaches 50 years of sports futility

    Browns, Indians and Cavaliers have gone a combined 141 seasons without winning it all. Cleveland’s title drought is the longest for any North American city with three pro franchises. San Diego has gone 51 years since the...

    • Posted December 28, 2014
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