• The Canadian Press

    Jimenez homers to back Crochet as White Sox beat Cardinals 5-1

    ST. LOUIS (AP) — Eloy Jimenez homered and Garrett Crochet tossed six effective innings to help the Chicago White Sox to a 5-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Chicago had lost 14 of its first 16 road games this season, Paul DeJong added a run-scoring double for the White Sox, who won their first road series of the season. DeJong spent seven seasons in St. Louis from 2017-2023. Willson Contreras homered for St. Louis, which has lost four of five. Jimenez hit his fourth of the season of

  • The Canadian Press

    Bayer Leverkusen's Lukáš Hrádecký sets record for foreign goalkeeper with 292 Bundesliga appearances

    FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Bayer Leverkusen’s Lukáš Hrádecký set a record for a foreign goalkeeper in the Bundesliga on Sunday by making his 292nd appearance. The 34-year-old Finnish keeper played in Leverkusen’s 5-1 win at his former club Eintracht Frankfurt, breaking the record previously held by Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich goalkeeper Yann Sommer of Switzerland. “I like to read the newspapers or matchday papers before the game and I saw it there today,” Hrádecký told broadcaster

  • The Canadian Press

    Leverkusen extends unbeaten record to 48 games in 5-1 rout of Frankfurt without suspended Alonso

    BERLIN (AP) — No Xabi, no problem. Even without coach Xabi Alonso on the touchline, Bayer Leverkusen remained unbeaten Sunday with a 5-1 Bundesliga win over Eintracht Frankfurt that stretched its record run without defeat to 48 games in all competitions. Alonso was suspended for an accumulation of yellow cards, but he watched from the stands as his Bundesliga champions showed no tiredness from Thursday’s 2-0 win at Roma in the first leg of the Europa League semifinals. “It was another perspectiv

  • The Canadian Press

    Rublev wins Madrid Open for the 1st time after rallying to beat Montreal's Auger-Aliassime

    MADRID (AP) — Andrey Rublev rallied to beat Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets on Sunday and win the Madrid Open for the first time. Rublev won 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 after Auger-Aliassime double-faulted on the last point of the final at the clay-court tournament in the Spanish capital. It was the second Masters 1000 title for the eighth-ranked Rublev. The 26-year-old Russian also won at Monte Carlo last year. Auger-Aliassime was playing in his first final at this level. Rublev entered Madrid