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    Korea rallies past Czechia 2-1 for opening victory

    ZAPOPAN, Mexico — Korea defeated Czechia 2-1 to open their 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico on Thursday, taking a big step toward a place in the knockout stage. Substitute Oh Hyeon-gyu netted the go-ahead goal in the 80th minute at Estadio Guadalajara in Zapopan, near Guadalajara in western Mexico, after the teams had traded a goal apiece earlier in the second half following a goalless opening half. Ladislav Krejci headed in the match's first goal for Czechia in the 59th minute before Hwang In-beom scored the equalizer eight minutes later. Hwang then assisted Oh's goal, which came a couple of minutes after a would-be Czechia goal was disallowed on an offside. This was the fourth time that Korea won their first match of a World Cup, following 2002, 2006 and 2010. Korea progressed to the knockout phase in 2002 and 2010. Korea's next Group A match will be against Mexico, one of the tournament's three co-host countries, at 7 p.m. next Thursday at Estadio Guadalajara. It will be 10 a.m. next Friday in Korea. Mexico defeated South Africa 2-0 in Mexico City in the tournament opener earlier Thursda

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    Korea rallies past Czechia 2-1 for opening victory
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    World Cup opener sees Son Heung-min fever sweep Mexico stadium

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    World Cup opener sees Son Heung-min fever sweep Mexico stadium
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    Tigers unable to come to terms with injury replacement player Rodriguez

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    Tigers unable to come to terms with injury replacement player Rodriguez
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    KT Wiz sign Allen as injury replacement for ace Boushley

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    Daytime World Cup fever grips Seoul for 1st time in 24 years

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Korea loses to Japan in Asian men's U-23 football title

Korean players painfully ponder their loss in the 2016 Asian Football Confederation U-23 Championship's title match with exultant Japanese players in backdrop. (Yonhap) South Korea dropped to Japan 3-2 Saturday to come up short of the Asian men's under-23 football title in Doha.South Korea blew a 2-0 second-half lead in the final of the the 2016 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Championship, as Japan scored three unanswered goals in a 14-minute span at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium in the Qatari capital.The tournament also served as the Asian qualification event for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Both countries had already secured their Olympic berths by reaching the final, while the third-place Iraq took the other Asian berth.South Korea had a pair of goals erased by offside calls in the opening moments, before midfielder Kwon Chang-hoon finally put one in that counted.Left back Sim Sang-min sent a long cross for forward Jin Seong-uk, who headed it down to set up Kwon's volley. Goalkeeper Masatoshi Kushibiki was frozen in his spot as the shot deflected off the l

Jan 31, 2016
Korea loses to Japan in Asian men's U-23 football title
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Hingis at Australian Open

Martina Hingis, left, of Switzerland and Sania Mirza of India talk during their match against Czech Republic’s Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in the women’s doubles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Friday./ AP-Yonhap

Jan 29, 2016
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Anyang Halla set team points record

By Nam Hyun-wooAnyang Halla are about to shatter the points record in the Asia League Ice Hockey (AL).On Thursday, forwards Kim Ki-sung and Mike Testwuide led the reigning AL regular season champions to beat Tohoku Free Blades 4-2 in Hachinohe, Japan. This gave the team 102 points after 42 games this season. With the win, the Halla shattered their previous team points record of 99 points set last season.Halla are the second club to record more than 100 points in a single regular season in the AL history since 2003, following Oji Eagles of Japan. The Eagles recorded 102 points in the 2012-13 season and league record 110 points in the 2013-14 season.With a month left before the regular season ends, league leaders Halla are expected to break the Eagles’ feat. Halla are in a tight race for their fourth AL pennant against Sakhalin of Russia, No. 2 with 99 points, and will face the Free Blades this weekend, wrapping up their 10-day away series in Japan.As the league gets close to its final phase, the club is also expected to see its players win personal titles _ prolific scorer Testw

Jan 29, 2016
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Park In-bee withdraws from LPGA season opener with back injury

World No. 2 Park In-bee withdrew from the LPGA Tour's season opener on Thursday in the Bahamas with a back injury after shooting her worst round in seven years.Park shot a seven-over 80 at the Pure Silk Bahamas LPGA Classic, the worst score in the field of 108 after one round. Park picked up four birdies, but also committed seven bogeys and two double bogeys at the par-73, 6,625-yard Ocean Club Golf Course on Paradise Island.Her Seoul-based agency, Galaxia SM, said Park came down with back pain during the round and decided to pull out of the tournament after completing her first day.Park will also skip the next week's event, the Coates Golf Championship in Ocala, Florida.The last time Park failed to break an 80 at an LPGA event was the final round of the Wegmans LPGA in June 2009, when she carded a nine-over 81. It remains Park's worst LPGA round.Park birdied the second and the fourth holes, and traded a bogey on the fifth with a birdie on the sixth.Park had her first hiccup with a double bogey on the par-5 seventh and dropped another shot with a bogey on the ninth.The bottom fell ou

Jan 29, 2016
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Korean baduk player to take on Google's AI

By Kwon Ji-younBaduk player Lee Se-dol/ Korea Times photoGoogle’s artificial intelligence (AI) has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging Korea’s top Go player.Lee Se-dol, a professional player of the game, known as baduk in Korean, has dominated the world of baduk for the last 10 years earning a nine-dan rank. In March he will take on AlphaGo, a program based on general-purpose AI methods, in a baduk match.The winner takes $1 million (approximately 1.2 billion won) in what Google DeepMind, the program’s creator, calls the “ultimate challenge.”“It is an honor to be up against a computer program that is up for the challenge against human professional Go players,” Lee, who turned pro in 1995, told Nature. “It will be a meaningful event regardless of the results.”AlphaGo uses deep neural networks to mimic expert players. The AI company, founded in the U.K. as DeepMind Technologies in 2011 and acquired by Google in 2014, has further improved the program by learning from games played against itself.AlphaGo won over 99 percent of its gam

Jan 28, 2016
Korean baduk player to take on Google's AI
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Former major league pitcher Seo Jae-weong announced his retirement Thursday with his South Korean hometown club.

The Kia Tigers in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said Seo, 38, informed the club Thursday that he has thrown his last pitch. Through the club, the right-hander said he wanted to open up more opportunities for younger players.The Tigers said they would be willing to bring Seo back to their coaching staff if he desired to stay in the game. They added they will schedule a retirement ceremony for the veteran.Seo signed with the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1998, and made his big league debut in 2002. He later pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays over his six-year big league career, compiling a 28-40 record with a 4.60 ERA in 118 appearances, 102 of them starts.He then joined the Tigers, based in his hometown of Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, before the 2008 season. He was 42-48 in 164 appearances with a 4.30 ERA.In 2012, Seo set a KBO record by tossing 44 consecutive scoreless innings in starts. He tossed four scoreless starts in a row and then back-to-back complete game shutouts. (Yonhap)

Jan 28, 2016
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Free agent Lee Dae-ho pushes back scheduled trip home to continue MLB talks

South Korean free agent slugger has postponed his scheduled trip home from his Arizona training base to continue contract talks with a major league club, his agency said Thursday.Lee had been set to return to South Korea on Friday, but an official with Montis Sports Management Group said Lee has pushed the trip back "by three to four days.""He's going over some contract details with a big league club," the official added, without identifying the team.The 33-year-old first baseman/designated hitter has been working out with his former Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club, the Lotte Giants, in Arizona since Jan. 4.A Montis official flew to the United States with Lee and has been working with Lee's U.S. agency, MVP Sports Group, to try to get a deal done.Lee, who bats and throws right-handed, is coming off the most productive season of his four-year career in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He had career highs of 31 home runs and 98 RBIs in 141 games for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and won the Japan Series MVP as the Hawks knocked out the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in five games

Jan 28, 2016
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Rising star eyes Olympic football glory

After enjoying a coming-out party at the Asian Olympic men's football qualification tournament, South Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan said he hopes to be part of the Summer Games, too.South Korea clinched their eighth consecutive Olympic berth by reaching the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Championship here in the Qatari capital. The championship also serves as the regional qualification event for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and South Korea have secured one of three Asian spots.Once unheralded, Hwang has emerged as a key offensive force and one of South Korea's most promising youngsters. Yet he won't get to play in the final against Japan on Saturday, as he was scheduled to rejoin his Austrian club FC Red Bull Salzburg after the semifinals.With the championship not on FIFA's International Match Calendar, clubs weren't obliged to make their players available. South Korean officials told Salzburg that Hwang would be returned once the country qualified for the Olympics.In his last meeting with South Korean reporters before leaving Doha late Wednesday,

Jan 28, 2016
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South Korea, Japan to renew football rivalry at continental championship

South Korea and Japan will renew their football rivalry at the continental under-23 championship on Saturday in Qatar.The two countries will meet in the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Championship at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, or 11:45 p.m. Saturday in South Korea.The championship is also the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, and both countries have already secured their Olympic berths by reaching the final. Three Asian spots are up for grabs, open to the top three finishers at this event. Qatar and Iraq will vie for the final Asian berth in the third-place match on Friday.South Korea will be making their eighth straight Olympic appearance, while Japan will be going to the Olympics for the sixth straight time.South Korea had a record of two wins and a draw in Group C, and knocked off Jordan and Qatar in the knockout phase to reach the final. They've netted 12 goals and allowed three.For South Korea, midfielders have done all the damage, and Kwon Chang-hoon and Moon Chang-jin are tied for the

Jan 28, 2016
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IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

This pitch of about 25 yards requires a high, soft trajectory with lots of wrist cock and a full but slow, low-power body turn. At the finish, I’m facing the target just like a full-power swing.Difference between a chip and a pitchSurprising as it sounds, many golfers don't know when to pitch and when to chip. They're two different shots with different techniques, and knowing when to use each can lower your scores.Arnold Palmer was a very good chipper, but a poor pitcher of the ball; in his early career, Jack Nicklaus was just the opposite. It's quite possible that you also are better at one technique than the other and should use the technique you perform best whenever feasible.Think of the pitch shot as the air route to the flag, while the chip travels mostly on the ground. Since it's easier to judge a rolling ball than a high-flier, you should chip the ball if you're within six paces of the green. If you're more than six paces from the green and there's trouble, such as rough, between you and the green, pitch the ball. Once you know how to chip and pitch, you'll be able

Jan 27, 2016
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