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    Padres' Song Sung-mun hits 1st MLB home run in loss

    Song Sung-mun has hit his first home run in Major League Baseball. Song hit a solo shot off Chicago Cubs starter Colin Rea to lead off the top of the fifth inning at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Wednesday (local time). Song drilled a middle-middle fastball from Rea and sent it 385 feet into the stands in right field. The line drive shot left Song's bat at 107.7 miles per hour, with a launch angle of 20 degrees. Song had hit a double in his first trip to the plate in the third inning. The former Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) All-Star flied out in the sixth and grounded out in the eighth. The Korean is batting .233 in 33 games in his first major league campaign, and has a home run, nine RBIs and six steals. Song's home run cut the Padres' deficit to 9-1 and they went on to lose by 23-3. San Diego starter Walker Buehler served up three home runs and reliever Kyle Hart, a former starting pitcher in the KBO, also surrendered three dingers. Catcher Rodolfo Duran, who pitched the final two innings of the blowout, gave up two more long balls, as the Padres suffered their fifth consecutive loss.

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    Padres' Song Sung-mun hits 1st MLB home run in loss
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    Doosan Bears sign temporary replacement pitcher to full contract, acquire new infielder

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    Doosan Bears sign temporary replacement pitcher to full contract, acquire new infielder
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    Talks on having Korean tour players at LPGA tournament fall through

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    Talks on having Korean tour players at LPGA tournament fall through
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    Lee offers consolation to national football team after World Cup group-stage elimination

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    Dinos sign new infielder Crim

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Flying high again: Hanwha Eagles return to Korean Series after 19-year wait

The Hanwha Eagles are going to the Korean Series for the first time in 19 years. The Eagles routed the Samsung Lions 11-2 on Friday at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in the central city of Daejeon to win the best-of-five Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason series in five games, With this convincing win before a sellout crowd of 16,750, the Eagles punched their ticket to the KBO championship stage and booked a date with the LG Twins. Starter Cody Ponce struck out nine in five strong innings, while the bats exploded for 13 hits, with cleanup Roh Si-hwan getting four hits and captain Chae Eun-seong driving in five runs. The Twins earned a bye to the Korean Series after posting the best record in the regular season. The best-of-seven series starts at 2 p.m. Sunday at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul. The Eagles last played in the Korean Series in 2006. Their only title came in 1999. The Twins will try to capture their second title in three seasons. Although he did not pitch in this game, Eagles pitcher Moon Dong-ju was voted the MVP of this series. A starting pitcher during the regular

Oct 24, 2025By Yonhap
Flying high again: Hanwha Eagles return to Korean Series after 19-year wait
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Host Korea goes winless on Day 2 at International Crown

Korea failed to win a match against the World Team on the second day of the International Crown on Friday, blowing late leads to take a tie and a loss. Ko Jin-young and Ryu Hae-ran for the No. 2 seed Korea got a tie against Brooke Henderson of Canada and Hsu Wei-Ling of Chinese Taipei of the seventh-seed World Team in their fourball match on Day 2 of the LPGA match-play competition at New Korea Country Club in Goyang, just northwest of Seoul. Kim Hyo-joo and Choi Hye-jin lost 1-up to Charley Hull of England and Lydia Ko of New Zealand. Korea had a win and a tie against Sweden to open this competition Thursday. A match win is worth one point, and a half point is awarded to each team in case of a tie. The host country will play Japan on Saturday. With two points through two days, Korea is in second place in Pool B, with the World Team leading the way at three points. Japan and Sweden, the two other teams in Pool B, have 1 1/2 point each. The International Crown features seven countries — Korea, the United States, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Sweden and China — plus the brand-new World te

Oct 24, 2025By Yonhap
Host Korea goes winless on Day 2 at International Crown
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Poyet cooks up amazing bibimbap in Jeonju

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors is back. After a fall from grace last year, the Jeonju club is back at the top of the K-League after winning the title last weekend. The club has now been champion of Asia’s oldest professional league 10 times, not bad given the southwestern club only won its first title in 2009. A 2-0 win over Suwon FC on Oct. 18 and a defeat for Gimcheon Sangmu, the closest challenger, means Jeonbuk cannot be caught in the standings despite five games remaining on the schedule. The team has been just that dominant and impressive. It feels like Korean soccer has returned to a familiar pattern. Jeonbuk was the dominant team of the previous decade, a winning machine. In Asia too, the two-time continental champion was a feared force. That’s why last season felt so strange, as Jeonbuk finished 10th out of 12 teams and came close to relegation. It was almost unthinkable for such a storied team. In December, the club appointed Gus Poyet as manager. The Uruguayan made a name for himself as an all-around midfielder in Spain with Real Zaragoza and then in England with Chelsea and Totte

Oct 24, 2025By John Duerden
Poyet cooks up amazing bibimbap in Jeonju
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Lions manager 'proud' of players for grinding out KBO postseason wins

Ahead of his club's 11th postseason game of this month, Samsung Lions manager Park Jin-man said Friday he was "proud" of his players for their collective show of determination and grit. The Lions are set to play the Hanwha Eagles in the deciding Game 5 of their best-of-five Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason series at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in the central city of Daejeon on Friday. They have made it this far after rallying from a 4-0 deficit in Game 4 for a 7-4 win. As the No. 4 seed, the Lions began their postseason in the wild card round, where they needed two games to knock out the fifth-seed NC Dinos. Then it was on to the best-of-five first round, where the Lions upset No. 3 seed SSG Landers in four games. The current series has featured a couple of one-run games and plenty of late-inning drama. Both teams now find themselves a win away from reaching the Korean Series. "I know a postseason game takes so much out of you, a lot more than a typical regular-season game. And our players are squeezing out every last bit of their energy," Park said in his pregame media avai

Oct 24, 2025By Yonhap
Lions manager 'proud' of players for grinding out KBO postseason wins
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Rookie Eagles pitcher hoping to pitch in Korean Series after getting 1st postseason taste

Still just weeks away from his 19th birthday, Hanwha Eagles rookie right-hander Jeong Woo-joo is grateful for the chance to pitch in postseason games for the first time. He now hopes he will get to keep doing that beyond this week. Jeong threw 3 1/3 shutout innings in a start against the Samsung Lions in Game 4 of the teams' best-of-five Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason series Wednesday night. Relying on high fastballs, Jeong struck out five batters in a dominant showing that exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations. A win would have sent the Eagles to the Korean Series for the first time since 2006, but they blew a 4-0 lead and lost 7-4, setting up a do-or-die Game 5 for Friday night at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in the central city of Daejeon. That game was Jeong's second postseason outing, following a relief appearance in Game 2 on Sunday. The pitcher said he couldn't have asked for much more in his rookie campaign. "I didn't think I would get to start a postseason game in my rookie year," Jeong told reporters before the deciding game at his home park. "I am so t

Oct 24, 2025By Yonhap
Rookie Eagles pitcher hoping to pitch in Korean Series after getting 1st postseason taste
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Eagles manager to lean on 2 American starters in KBO postseason elimination game

Hanwha Eagles manager Kim Kyung-moon laid out a bold pitching plan for his team's winner-take-all game in the Korea Baseball Organization postseason Friday night, saying he will use his two American starters to cover nine innings. Cody Ponce is scheduled to start Game 5 of the best-of-five series against the Samsung Lions at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in the central city of Daejeon, with the winner of the contest advancing to the Korean Series. Though Kim previously said he would go all-hands-on-deck for this game, the veteran skipper said in his pregame media session that another starter, Ryan Weiss, will pitch after Ponce — provided that Ponce, ideally for the Eagles, can go at least five innings. "We will try to finish this game with our two foreign-born pitchers," Kim said. "They are our two aces and will be going on four days and five days of rest." Ponce won the Triple Crown as the regular-season leader in wins, ERA and strikeouts but gave up six runs in six innings in Game 1 against the Lions last Saturday, though the Eagles won the game 9-8. Weiss, also among the league leade

Oct 24, 2025By Yonhap
Eagles manager to lean on 2 American starters in KBO postseason elimination game
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NBA head coach, player charged in sprawling sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes

NEW YORK — The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations that authorities said leaked inside information about NBA athletes and rigged poker games backed by Mafia families. Portland coach Chauncey Billups was charged with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games tied to La Cosa Nostra organized crime families that cheated unsuspecting gamblers out of at least $7 million. Heat guard Terry Rozier was accused in a separate scheme of exploiting private information about players to win bets on NBA games. The two indictments unsealed in New York create a massive cloud for the NBA — which opened its season this week — and show how certain types of wagers are vulnerable to massive fraud in the growing, multibillion-dollar legal sports-betting industry. Joseph Nocella, the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, called it “one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became wi

Oct 24, 2025By AP
NBA head coach, player charged in sprawling sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes
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Bears hire ex-manager of rival club as bench coach

Four days after hiring a new manager, the Doosan Bears added the former skipper of a rival team to their coaching staff Friday. The Bears said Hong Won-ki will work as the bench coach, alongside new manager Kim Won-hyong. Hong was the manager of another Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club, the Kiwoom Heroes, from 2021 to July this year, when he was fired with the Heroes mired in last place in the 10-team league. Hong, 52, managed against Kim in the 2022 Korean Series, when Kim was leading the SSG Landers. The Landers won the series in six games for Kim's only title as manager. Hong played for the Bears from 1999 to 2005 and won the 2001 Korean Series title with them. "I am overwhelmed to be putting on a Doosan Bears jersey for the first time in 20 years. This is where I enjoyed the best years of my playing career," Hong said. "Manager Kim and I went head-to-head in the 2022 Korean Series, and now we will begin a new chapter in our relationship. I will try to help him the best I can." The Bears have overhauled their staff after missing the postseason for the first time since 2022. In ano

Oct 24, 2025By Yonhap
Bears hire ex-manager of rival club as bench coach
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World Taekwondo president reelected to 6th term

World Taekwondo (WT) President Choue Chung-won has secured a sixth and final term, extending his 21-year tenure at the helm of the global taekwondo body by another four years, the organization announced Thursday. Delegates reelected Choue, 77, during the federation’s general assembly held at the Worldhotel Grand Juna in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. The vote combined on-site and online participation from WT council members and national associations. Choue received 143 votes in favor, with five against and one abstention. Choue, the only Korean currently heading an international sports organization in the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), will serve until the 2029 World Taekwondo Championships. He first assumed the presidency in 2004, after the death of founding president Kim Un-yong, and won reelection in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021. During his tenure, taekwondo has solidified its position as a core Olympic sport and strengthened transparency through reforms to scoring and competition rules. Choue is also credited with expanding taekwondo’s global

Oct 23, 2025By Lee Hae-rin
World Taekwondo president reelected to 6th term
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Korea wins 1 of 2 matches vs. Sweden to begin LPGA match-play event at home

The host Korea beat Sweden in one match and had a tie in another to begin the LPGA match-play competition Thursday. Kim Hyo-joo and Choi Hye-jin for the third-seeded South Korea teamed up to beat Maja Stark and Linn Grant of the No. 6 seed Sweden 3 & 2 in their fourball contest of the International Crown at New Korea Country Club in Goyang, just northwest of Seoul. Ko Jin-young and Ryu Hae-ran got a tie against Ingrid Lindblad and Madelene Sagstrom on the par-72, 6,385-yard course. In the Kim-Choi vs. Stark-Grant match, Korea won the par-3 second hole with Choi's birdie, but Grant's birdie on the next hole allowed Sweden to tie the match. Korea regained its lead thanks to Kim's birdie on the par-5 fourth hole, and the duo did not lose another hole the rest of the way. The South Koreans went up by three holes by winning the par-4 ninth with a birdie and closed out the Swedes on the 16th hole. In the other match, Ko and Ryu held a 1-up lead through 13 holes, but Lindblad made a birdie on the par-5 14th to win that hole for Sweden and tie the match. And it stayed that way as the teams matche

Oct 23, 2025By Yonhap
Korea wins 1 of 2 matches vs. Sweden to begin LPGA match-play event at home
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