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Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday won the NBA’s 2022-23 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award for the third time in four seasons on Thursday. Holiday received 57 first-place votes and 1,359 total points to finish ahead of Brooklyn Nets forward Mikal Bridges and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry. Holiday, 32, won the award with the Bucks last season and …

Rohit Sharma-led India leapfrogged over Australia to become the number one Test team in the latest rankings released by the International Cricket Council on Tuesday. Australia’s reign at the top of the men’s Test rankings comes to an end after 15 months with India going past the Aussies ahead of next month’s ICC World Test Championship final. The annual rankings …

Sergio Perez topped the times for Red Bull ahead of Fernando Alonso, debuting for Aston Martin, as the defending champion team set the pace in Friday’s opening practice session at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Alonso confirmed his promising pace from testing with a lap in 1:33.196 to split the two Red Bulls and push two-time defending world champion Max …

AC Milan clinched its first Italian Serie A title in 11 years after earning a 3-0 final-day victory at Sassuolo on Sunday, with a double from Olivier Giroud and one from Franck Kessie sealing the Scudetto in style. Stefano Pioli's side came into the final round of fixtures knowing a point would be enough for it to finish top ahead …

Goals from Pablo Fornals and Ferran Torres earned Spain a 2-0 victory away to Kosovo in World Cup qualifying Group B on Wednesday and dragged it back into automatic qualification contention. Luis Enrique's side moved clear at the top of the group on 13 points from six games, four ahead of Sweden who has played two matches fewer. The midfielder’s …

Valtteri Bottas knocked Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen off the top of the timesheets to set the pace ahead of Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton on the opening day of practice at the Hungarian Grand Prix. READ | Red Bull's criticism of Hamilton below the belt, says Wolff The Dutchman, who leads Hamilton by eight points in the overall …

Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen put on a blinding display in Saturday’s qualifying to seize pole position for the French Grand Prix ahead of title rival Lewis Hamilton. The 23-year-old lapped the 5.8-kilometer long Paul Ricard circuit in one minute 29.990 seconds in his Red Bull, 0.258 seconds clear of Mercedes’ Hamilton, who trails Verstappen by four points in …

New Delhi: India’s Yashaswini Singh Deswal personified consistency and calmness on her way to winning the gold medal in the women’s 10m air pistol ahead of the more celebrated Manu Bhaker in the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi on Saturday. Deswal shot 238.8 to comfortably finish on top of the podium in the eight-women final while Bhaker managed 236.7 …

Chinese handset maker Xiaomi reclaimed the top spot with a 26% share of India’s smartphone market in the December quarter, after anti-China sentiments helped South Korea’s Samsung push ahead with a 24% market share in the previous quarter compared to Xiaomi’s 23%, as per Counterpoint Research. Though smartphone shipments grew 19% from the year earlier in the December quarter, shipments …

Daruvala crossed the line 0.894 seconds ahead of Schumacher to earn a well deserved third place at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday Bahrain: Rising Indian racer Jehan Daruvala earned his maiden Formula 2 podium after pipping championship leader Mick Schumacher in a gripping battle for the third place at the Bahrain Grand Prix support race. 🇮🇳🏆#BahrainGP 🇧🇭 #F2 pic.twitter.com/JP8RtCeoJQ …