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Seven Indian Commonwealth Games athletes signed with IOS Sports seventeen days after the closing ceremony. In a market where cricket takes 87 percent of the money, the timing is the strategy.
Chef de mission Kosei Inoue named Hiroshima’s 218-medal record as the target. That is thirty more than Japan won in Hangzhou, and only some sports can supply the difference.
Ten names worth following from US Open Fan Week through the October league openers — who they are, what they just did, and where to find them next.
Chase Center hosts the showcase on July 30–31 — All-Star Weekend in only the Valkyries’ third season, after two years of sellouts and playoff basketball.
Packed arenas and school pathways made badminton a mass sport across Asia. In the U.S. and Canada, the bottleneck is still courts, clubs, and screens.
India hosts Worlds for the first time since Hyderabad 2009. Tickets, Star Sports, JioHotstar, and home stars will decide whether Delhi feels like a one-week festival — or a week sponsors want again.
The Dutch women and Swedish men won EuroBeachVolley in Poland. Because Olympic places belong to countries rather than pairs, Sweden still has a selection decision to make.
Bangladesh’s first Test win in Australia came after a disastrous warm-up. Hasan Mahmud and a fast-bowling program built for overseas conditions drove the turnaround.
Women’s T20 runs July 12–20, 2028 in Pomona; men follow July 22–29. Six teams, one continental berth each, and a field small enough to leave heavyweights outside.
Tianjin hosts Aug. 21–30. The winner walks into LA28; the top three lock 2027 World Championship places. China, Japan, and defending champion Thailand set the stakes.
Drop 2 runs through Aug. 20 after more than 4 million tickets sold in April. Price bands, purchase limits, and the sessions already gone.
Düsseldorf opens Thursday with 16 men’s and 16 women’s teams. The United States defends both titles while the first Olympic berths outside the host get decided.
The 26-year-old from Guwahati came from a game down to beat China’s Han Qian Xi for her first BWF World Tour title — in the same country that tore her knee in 2024.
The 18-year-old from Satara joins Nagal and Suresh for the second qualifying round against Korea, with a Final 8 place in Bologna on the line.
India named its Junior Asia Cup squad this week. Captain Khaidem Shileima Chanu is one more excellent Asian hockey player most sports fans have never heard of.
Motion sensors turn real kicks into a digital bout. The Asian Games just made that format a medal event — and the answer to the sport question is more sweaty than it sounds.
After a pandemic-era disappearance, snooker’s old Beijing flagship opens in Taiyuan with a world champion from Lanzhou, another from China’s first Crucible wave, and a record home draw.
Sports Entertainment Group takes the Super Netball licence on October 1. Western Sydney keeps a franchise. The orange-and-charcoal AFL brand does not come with it.
Aichi–Nagoya opens in six weeks. These are the names who can turn a continental medal into an LA28 résumé — or a bigger pro market.
Washington supplied the trophy and the flags. The harder job is turning packed courts into an affordable pipeline beyond Manila.
Milano Cortina put Alysa Liu and Chloe Kim back in the spotlight. Why does coverage still reach for discipline before power, charisma, or cultural weight?
A playoff par at Royal Lytham made the 23-year-old Okayama pro Japan’s second straight AIG Women’s Open champion — and wiped a fall qualifying trip off the calendar.
The 39-year-old MLB veteran retired 21 straight Doosan batters on 74 pitches at Jamsil — then left on a pre-set pitch count as the bullpen tied the game.
Detroit’s back-to-back AL Cy Young is headed to Los Angeles for Hope, Ryan, and Smith — a rental ace for a rotation that still has Yamamoto healthy and Ohtani’s mound on pause.
Chopra, PT Usha, and Gujarat’s Harsh Sanghavi took the Commonwealth Games flag at the Hydro — India leaves with 39 medals on a stripped programme and four years to host the centenary.
A rain-cut Singapore final over Hong Kong sealed the title. Kushal Bhurtel’s six-hitting summer is what Nagoya Group A — Afghanistan, Japan, and a quarterfinal berth — has to answer.
A 112 mph two-run shot against Boston briefly made it 4–3 at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles still lost 9–4 — and the mound half of Ohtani’s season remains paused on a sore knee and biceps.
A four-day college camp in Atherton just wrapped. ARC World returns to Markham in September. The pioneer’s second act is infrastructure, not nostalgia.
Same U-23 tournament, opposite squad philosophies — military-gold urgency meets an LA28 development window on home soil in Aichi–Nagoya.
Three Indians, a Paris Olympic champion, and Sri Lanka’s world-lead thrower meet at Scotstoun after a windy qualifier where nobody cleared 84 metres.
The Philippines’ women’s lacrosse team closed Pool D in Tokyo with an 11–5 win over Czechia — a diaspora programme’s first World Championship victory, one year after its first senior medal.
Every Indian semifinalist won on Friday — Lamboria by RSC, Lovlina 5–0, Arundhati over the defending champion — so Saturday’s SEC Hall 5 card is ten gold bouts, not ten medal hopes.
The French Football Federation hired Qi Zu through 2030 — the Adidas campus ambassador Chinese fans already claimed, not the Super League coach they never got.
At the Mubadala DC Open, world No. 29 Alexandra Eala meets wild-card Zheng Qinwen in a first-round that flips their Hangzhou story — and starts the hard-court road to the U.S. Open.
Sharmila Dhankar’s 9.81 m F57 shot put in Glasgow ended a 20-year wait — and proved a Rewari seated-throws pathway can rewrite India’s Games medal sheet.
Team61’s $70 million stake makes the first Korean MLB player the first Korean MLB owner — minority, Vegas-bound, and built as an Asia strategy, not a vanity jersey.
Tadahito Iguchi — World Series second baseman, Lotte skipper, Roki Sasaki’s early steward — inherits the job through LA28, with Ohtani’s Olympics file already open.
Men’s quarterfinal byes put the rivals on opposite halves in Aichi–Nagoya; India’s women open their title defence against the hosts. The bracket math is the story.
After calling it his “last decision,” the NBA’s all-time leading scorer takes a veteran-minimum deal to Philadelphia for a record 24th season beside Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown.
A second straight Rose Garden visit turned on Ohtani and Yamamoto — proof that MLB’s reigning dynasty is narrated through Tokyo’s exports, not around them.
After an Orange Cap season that already crowned him, a 15-year-old’s record T20I fifty in Harare wasn’t a coming-out party — it was the national team matching a market that moved first.
A must-not-lose game against South Africa, a captain on the bench, and another early exit under Hong Myung-bo showed how far Korean football has drifted from a system that can survive without a perfect week.
The Asian Tour’s new PGA Tour–DP World alliance rebuilds a path toward Europe and the U.S. — and pulls elite Asia golf away from LIV’s International Series ladder.
Ferran Torres’ 106th-minute finish beat Argentina 1–0 in extra time, sealed a Euro–World Cup double, and left Messi’s likely last final without a reply.
Left-knee irritation has ended his near-term starts after an Orthovisc injection. Hitting is fine; the rotation will wait.
Sunil Narine broke Washington’s top order; Shadley van Schalkwyk survived a 12-run final over to deliver Los Angeles its first championship.
Her 21–17, 21–17 win over Akane Yamaguchi delivered a first Super 750 crown — and stronger evidence than the uneven route that brought her to Sunday.
The firm’s Asia-Pacific lead says the platform is exploring sports as part of a wider regional push.
The Dodgers star reached 300 career homers quickly. Knee management is now shaping the second half.
San Francisco listed the outfielder fifth against Colorado after he batted seventh the night before.
Hong Kong vs Inter on August 1, then Seoul against a K League All-Stars side and Atletico Madrid — a three-match tour built around staggered World Cup returns.
Paramount+ will stream both competitions, with select matches on CBS Sports Network and Golazo.
