LUCAS GIOLITO took a perfect game into the seventh inning and the Chicago White Sox used three home runs for a 4-1 victory over the host Oakland Athletics in Game 1 of their American League first-round playoff series on Tuesday.

PARIS — Novak Djokovic got his quest for an 18th Grand Slam title back on track as he commenced his French Open campaign with a drama-free (6-0 6-2 6-3) victory over Mikael Ymer on Tuesday.

PARIS — Teenage Danish qualifier Clara Tauson caused a shock as she saved two match points to beat American 21st seed Jennifer Brady (6-4 3-6 9-7) in the opening round of the French Open on Tuesday.

THE MIAMI HEAT overcame long odds to reach the 2020 National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals, and they’ll have to do so again to win their first title in seven years.

MAKE no mistake. World Boxing Organization bantamweight champion John Riel “Quadro Alas” Casimero still wants undefeated Japanese Naoya “Monster” Inoue as an opponent.

DOC RIVERS and Los Angeles (LA) Clippers owner Steve Ballmer mutually agreed on Monday that Rivers would step down after seven seasons.

NEWLY recognized professional league Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 recently got a new partner in championing homegrown talents in cellular service brand Touch Mobile (TM).

PATRICK Mahomes passed for 385 yards and four touchdowns and also rushed for a score as the Kansas City Chiefs recorded a 34-20 victory over the host Baltimore Ravens in Monday night’s showdown between two of the NFL’s best teams.

MADRID — Barcelona have announced that they have created a committee in order to ascertain whether or not they are required to hold a vote of no confidence against the current board and its president Josep Bartomeu.

THREE weeks after an acrimonious exit at the US Open, world number one Novak Djokovic will resume his pursuit of an 18th Grand Slam title when he takes on Sweden’s Mikael Ymer in the first round at the French Open on Tuesday.

PARIS — Serena Williams says she has been working on reducing her mental stress and making herself understand that she cannot possibly win every point on court as her chase of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title continues at the French Open.

In the National Basketball Association bubble, the Heat were the favorites of the working class for a reason: they never took a second off. From opening to final buzzer of any given game, they could be relied on to scrap and scrape, to clamp and claw, to push and pounce. They played every possession as if it were the last, leaving nothing in the tank and understanding its significance in the grand scheme of things. They had a living, breathing culture to protect, to live by, to live up to, and darned if they were going to fail because of lack of effort. Which, in the final analysis, was why they always — always — exceeded themselves.