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Lionel Messi had two assists and helped start a play that led to another goal, as reigning World Cup champion Argentina beat Puerto Rico 6-0 in a relocated international friendly on Tuesday night. The match was originally scheduled to be played Monday in Chicago, before promoters moved the game last week. Officials in Chicago said low ticket sales were to blame; officials with the Argentine soccer federation said the immigration crackdown in Chicago was responsible. Playing on the field he calls home with Inter Miami in Major League Soccer, Messi flicked a quick lob to set up Gonzalo…

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri© AFP World drivers’ championship leader Oscar Piastri crashed out of Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix on the opening lap after being stranded on the grid following a false start. He fell to last and then began his chase, but lost control at Turn Five and hit the wall after locking up at Turn Six. He was unhurt. It was the 24-year-old Australian’s first non-points-scoring finish this year and brought to an end a 34-race scoring streak.McLaren began the race seeking to clinch a second consecutive constructors’ championship, needing to outscore Ferrari by nine points, while Piastri led…

World number one Aryna Sabalenka raced into a fourth consecutive Wuhan Open quarter-final Thursday, having revealed she spent time on holiday last month practising with Novak Djokovic. She was joined by Iga Swiatek who reached her 25th WTA 1000 quarter-final with a hard-fought 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 win over Belinda Bencic. Sabalenka, in contrast to her rusty start against Rebecca Sramkova the day before, came out firing from the get-go to blow away Russia’s world number 20 Liudmila Samsonova 6-3, 6-2. Sabalenka, whose unbeaten match run in Wuhan extended to 19-0 as she seeks a fourth straight title, took…

Srinagar: Shams Mulani has been one of the most consistent performers on the domestic circuit over the last four seasons and he has numbers to prove it: 170 wickets and 1,248 runs in Ranji Trophy. But when it comes to rewarding the left-arm spinner, he sits down the pecking order. Despite enjoying a fruitful 2024-25 season where he took 44 wickets—third best in the most wickets list — and scored 365 runs, he was overlooked for the multi-day games against Australia ‘A’ last month. No wonder then the Mumbai lad is disappointed but he would rather let his skills do…

One of the most decorated footballers of all time, Lionel Messi was at his influential best again, as he provided two assists in Argentina’s 6-0 victory against Puerto Rico in an international friendly encounter. Lautaro Martinez and Alexis Mac Allister recorded a brace each in the goal-fest for Argentina as Messi donned the playmaker’s hat. The two assists that Messi gave in the match helped him break the world record for most assists in international football, previously held by his former Barcelona teammate Neymar Jr. Messi stood behind Neymar, who held the number one spot with 59 assists…

Max Verstappen won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix© AFP Max Verstappen cruised to victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday as championship leader Oscar Piastri’s first-lap crash allowed Lando Norris to trim his points advantage. Verstappen was in control from start to finish after taking pole position in a chaotic qualifying session Saturday and had a vast lead by the time he made his only pit stop. “The car was working really well,” Verstappen said. “It was pretty straightforward. Of course, it’s not easy around here, very windy today.” George Russell was second for Mercedes after battling illness…

Novak Djokovic in action© AFP Novak Djokovic had a relatively straightforward victory at the Shanghai Masters for a change as he beat unseeded Zizou Bergs 6-3, 7-5 Thursday to reach the semifinals, where he will face No. 204-ranked qualifier Valentin Vacherot from Monaco. The 38-year-old Djokovic has struggled in the hot and humid conditions in Shanghai, vomiting during previous matches and needing medical attention when he slumped to the ground in exhaustion after being taken to a third set by Jaume Munar in the previous round. The only major blip against Bergs was being broken when he led…

Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will all be in action for Team India in the first ODI against Australia (Images via Getty Images) Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has shed light on the challenges faced by modern Indian cricketers off the field, saying that the country’s stars live under constant scrutiny and have little to no privacy in their personal lives. Speaking on the Willow Talk podcast on the LiSTNR Sport channel, Shastri reflected on how players like Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and the current generation including Shubman Gill, live as “public property” because of…

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that FIFA chief Gianni Infantino would support moving 2026 World Cup games from US cities for security reasons if necessary. In September, Trump raised the possibility of moving games amid his crackdown on Democratic-run cities, but at the time FIFA said that it was up to football’s governing body to decide where games are held. “If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there’s unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, who’s phenomenal, and I would say, let’s move it to another location. And he would…

Christian Horner and Red Bull say they have finalized the process of Horner leaving the team he led to eight Formula 1 drivers’ titles, two months after he was removed as team principal. The team issued a statement saying that Horner would leave Monday, without giving details of any agreement. “Leading Red Bull Racing has been an honor and privilege,” Horner said in the statement. “When we started in 2005, none of us could have imagined the journey ahead — the championships, the races, the people, the memories.” Horner had been away from the F1 paddock since July,…