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Park becomes Man U ambassador

SoccerOct 6, 2014

Retired Korean football star Park Ji-sung has become the ambassador of his former club, Manchester United of the English Premier League, the club announced Sunday. Marking his appointment, the former midfielder stepped onto Old Trafford’s hallowed turf once again, before the kick-off at the team’s home fixture against Everton on Sunday. Joining him at the stadium was his former coach and another club ambassador, Alex Ferguson. Former Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung (left) shakes hands
Real Madrid rolls, Chelsea beats Arsenal

SoccerOct 6, 2014

Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates his third goal on Sunday. (AP-Yonhap)LONDON (AP) ― Cristiano Ronaldo can’t stop scoring in Spain. Paris Saint-Germain can’t hold a lead in France. And Arsene Wenger still can’t beat Jose Mourinho in England.Ronaldo scored yet another hat trick on Sunday in another big win for Real Madrid, which seems to have found its stride after a slow start to the season. Chelsea beat Arsenal in the Premier League in a game that will probably be best remembered for a shovin
Ryu, Lackey set to battle in big Game 3

BaseballOct 6, 2014

ST. LOUIS (AP) ― John Lackey stepped to the podium, minus the obvious status symbols: his two World Series rings. No reason to brag.“No, I don’t wear them very much,” he said Sunday. “Maybe to a wedding or stuff like that. They’re a little big and a little flashy, not exactly my style.” The St. Louis Cardinals acquired Lackey from World Series champion Boston at the trade deadline for occasions just like this, knowing NL Division Series Game 3 against the Los Angeles Dodgers won’t be too big for
Korean soccer team to open camp for friendlies

SoccerOct 6, 2014

The men’s national soccer team will open camp Tuesday for upcoming friendly matches at home as new head coach Uli Stielike makes his South Korea debut.South Korea is scheduled to host Paraguay on Friday in Cheonan, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul, and then play Costa Rica in Seoul on Oct. 14. Both matches will kick off at 8 p.m.Stielike, the former German international named South Korean boss last month, will open training camp Tuesday at the National Football Center in Paju, north of Seoul,
[Asian Games] North Korean athletes’ feats make headlines

More sportsOct 6, 2014

North Korea’s main newspaper on Monday carried intensive coverage of the country’s better-than-expected performance at the recent Asiad in South Korea, but it kept mum on Pyongyang’s dispatch of a high-powered delegation to the closing ceremony.North Korea won 11 gold, 11 silver and 14 bronze medals, placing seventh in the medal rankings at the Incheon Asian Games, which ended its 16-day run on Saturday in the port city of the same name west of Seoul.It was the communist country’s first finish i
[Asian Games] N.K. adds to Asian Games surprises

Olympic GamesOct 5, 2014

As the Asian Games ended their 15-day run in Incheon on Saturday night, it was not the dominance of China’s athletes but the surprise attention of a North Korean delegation that had everybody talking. During the Asiad’s closing ceremony, tens of thousands of people turned out to see off the athletes, among them a high-level North Korean delegation.North Korea’s de facto No. 2, Hwang Pyong-so, sat near South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won in an unusual scene for officials of two nations tha
[Asian Games] News Service wraps up successful coverage of Asian Games

Olympic GamesOct 5, 2014

The Korea Herald has provided the Asian Games News Service to over 7,000 members of the media reporting the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. The service provided by the AGNS team spanned from previews, reviews and results of every competition, to press conferences and key quotes from the athletes. The AGNS team typically traveled to more than one venue each day. In order to provide live coverage of each match, the reporters and sports experts were the first ones on site and the last to leave, making su
Giants beat Nats in 18 innings, lead NLDS 2-0

BaseballOct 5, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Brandon Belt homered off Tanner Roark in the 18th inning to lift the San Francisco Giants to their 10th consecutive postseason victory, edging Washington 2-1 on Saturday for a 2-0 lead in the National League Division Series.It equaled the mark for most innings in a postseason game and set a time record at 6 hours, 23 minutes.Later, Matt Kemp hit a go-ahead home run leading off the eighth inning, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-2 home win over the St. Louis Cardinals to l
Messi, Neymar score as big teams win

SoccerOct 5, 2014

Record-chasing Lionel Messi and Neymar scored as Spanish league leader Barcelona eased to a 2-0 win at nine-man Rayo Vallecano on Saturday.Messi chipped goalkeeper Antonio “Tono” Rodriguez in the 35th minute for his 249th league goal, leaving him two behind the all-time scoring record held by Telmo Zarra since 1955.A minute later Neymar added his seventh league goal in as many rounds.While Messi will have to wait for his own landmark, Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo broke a league record that
[Asian Games] N. Korea returns to Asiad top 10 after more than a decade

More sportsOct 5, 2014

Aided by world record-breaking performances by its weightlifters, North Korea made a comeback to the top 10 in the Asiad medal tally for the first time in 12 years at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.The communist country also drew spotlight for its proactive sports diplomacy by unprecedentedly sending high-ranking party officials as well as those from the sports circle to the South, boosting expectations that the continental event would serve as a breakthrough for icy inter-Korean ties.With 150 ath
[Asian Games] World records fall by wayside at Asian Games

More sportsOct 5, 2014

Watching athletes nail a gold medal is plenty exhilarating; watching them do so while breaking world records is even more so. And those who attended the Incheon Asian Games saw that happen many times.The 17th Asian Games saw 14 world records shattered by its participating athletes in Incheon. More than half of the new world records were set by weightlifters, who outlifted nine of the previous figures set in the sport. North Korean star weightlifter Kim Un-guk hoisted more than twice his own weig
[Asian Games] S. Korea shines in ball sports

More sportsOct 5, 2014

As the 17th Incheon Asian Games came to an end on Saturday after a 15-day run, South Koreans felt the games were far more successful than any other previous quadrennial sporting event.Ball games basking in huge popularity in South Korea achieved larger-than-expected final results, seeing a colorful collection of medals of seven gold, one silver and three bronze.Unlike its bright World Cup outcomes, such as the amazing semifinals finish in 2002, South Korean football in the Asiad ground had been
[Asian Games] North Korea returns to Asiad top 10 after more than a decade

Olympic GamesOct 5, 2014

Aided by world record-breaking performances by its weightlifters, North Korea made a comeback to the top 10 in the Asiad medal tally for the first time in 12 years at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. The communist country also drew spotlight for its proactive sports diplomacy by unprecedentedly sending high-ranking party officials as well as those from the sports circle to the South, boosting expectations that the continental event would serve as a breakthrough for icy inter-Korean ties. With 1
[Asian Games] Accidents, doping, controversies cloud 17th Asian Games

Olympic GamesOct 5, 2014

The 17th Asian Games may have had many golden moments -- 439 total to be exact -- but it also had its share of lows that suggested the largest sporting event on the continent is never an easy one to organize. For starters, the symbolic Asian Games cauldron, lit at the Sept. 19 opening ceremony, went out for 10 minutes the next day due to difficulties maintaining the complicated, fountain-shaped flame.The cauldron had already drawn plenty of criticisms, having been lit by a local celebrity wit
[Asian Games] South Korea finishes with no golds in athletics, aquatics at Incheon

Olympic GamesOct 5, 2014

South Korea, despite accomplishing its initial goal of clinching second place in the medal standings at the Incheon Asian Games, wrapped up aquatics and athletics events on home soil without any gold. With a total of 100 gold medals up for grabs in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo, and track and field events, the host country's biggest-ever delegation of 831 athletes failed to grab any Asiad gold, marking its first such drought since the 1978 Bangkok Asian Games. No South