Korean sports stars have pledged to support victims of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, joining the nationwide effort to assist the country’s closest neighbor. Former Major Leaguer Park Chan-ho, who now plays with the Orix Buffaloes of the Japanese Pacific League, donated 10 million yen ($124,000) to aid Japan.The 37-year-old veteran pitcher noted on the team’s website that he was deeply

LONDON (AP) _ London is preparing to mark the 500-day countdown to the 2012 Olympics with the launch of ticket sales for the first home games since 1948.With Tuesday marking exactly 500 days to go until the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012, organizers will open applications for the 6.6 million tickets on offer.The 2012 London Olympic Games logo (AP-Yonhap News)Demand is expected to be high for th

KBL CROWN -- Players and officials from the Busan KT Sonicboom celebrate after securing the top spot in the Korean Basketball League with a 87-67 victory over the Wonju Dongbu Promy, in Wonju, Gangwon Province, Sunday. (Photo by Busan KT Sonicboom)

The 2011 World Figure Skating Championships, scheduled for March 21-27 in Tokyo, will be postponed following the massive earthquake in Japan last week, a news report claimed Monday. Kim Yu-naOrganized by the International Skating Union (ISU), the world championships were to be held at Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo. But citing an anonymous source, Kyodo News in Japan reported that the event will be put o

Jeju United, FC Seoul open actionThe season is just getting into stride but that doesn’t mean there are not already some must-win, or at least, don’t-lose games this week. That doesn’t apply to the K-League yet ― that season is just two games old. Four Korean teams are about to play their second match of the Asian Champions League and with just six games in total in the group stage, there is not m

WASHINGTON (AP) ― All along, the NFL said it was certain the union would dissolve itself and players would head to court for antitrust lawsuits.All along, the union insisted the league’s owners were planning to lock out the players.And that’s exactly what happened.Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country’s most popular sport in limbo by breaking of

Boston pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka tried to get in touch with his grandmother. Oakland slugger Hideki Matsui prayed for the victims. Mets reliever Ryota Igarashi stayed up all night to see the devastation.All across spring training, Japanese ballplayers worried Friday about those at home. Hundreds of people were killed or missing after Japan was struck by its biggest recorded earthquake and a massiv

INDIAN WELLS, California (AFP) ― Roger Federer says his priority in the coming months is to reclaim the No. 1 ranking, but before he can achieve that the Swiss star knows he has to start winning Grand Slam titles again.“I have really been playing well the last six months and that is what I look at, not that I didn’t make it to the final of the last four Grand Slams,” Federer said.Second-seeded Fed

Korean adoptee dreams of F1 debutChoi Myung-gil, 25, is at ease now in Seoul. He has not always been comfortable in this crowded city; adopted as an infant by a Dutch family, Choi in fact says he often finds it difficult to live here.“People expect me to be 100 percent Korean, but I grew up in a different country and I think differently,” says Choi.He grew up as Recardo Bruins in the small village