ARTIGOS RECENTES

The 2022 World Snooker Championship is underway at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield and much of the attention, as ever, is on Ronnie O’Sullivan. The Englishman can match Stephen Hendry’s modern record of seven titles if he prevails at this year’s event, which culminates on May 2.

LAS VEGAS — Shakur Stevenson made beating the undefeated Oscar Valdez look easy as he became a unified super featherweight champion Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Stevenson rolled to a dominant unanimous decision victory, adding Valdez’s WBC belt and The Ring title to his WBO championship.

Manchester United have confirmed Erik ten Hag will become their manager following the conclusion of this season. The Ajax boss will leave his current position and become United’s fifth permanent manager since Sir Alex Ferugson left the club in 2013.

World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev is among a host of tennis stars set to be banned from Wimbledon due to the war in Ukraine involving Russia. All players from Russia and Belarus, a Moscow ally which has supported the war, will be excluded from the June Grand Slam, the All England Club announced Wednesday, confirming an earlier report by The New York Times.

There have been plenty of perfect games in professional baseball. But there has likely never been a more perfect, perfect game than what Roki Sasaki pitched on Sunday. Facing the Orix Buffaloes in the Nippon Professional Baseball League in Japan, the 20-year-old hurler for the Chiba Lotte Marines retired all 27 batters he faced, including a record-tying 19 via strikeout.