The Lotte Giants have been plagued by an injury nightmare all season. There will be plenty of sighs after the season ends. The two players in charge of the ‘center line’ will spend the off-season rehabilitating due to injuries. Go Seung-min, who is perfectly settled at second base and has a fire bat, and Son …
Roenis Elias (SSG Landers) showed what it means to be an ace. Elias started the away game against the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on April 26. SSG used six pitchers, including starter Park Jong-hoon, against NC on the 25th, and the mound was heavily used up. Speaking to the press before the game …
Former major league All-Star Ryu Hyun-jin will likely make two preseason appearances before marking his much-anticipated regular season return to the top South Korean league, his manager said Monday. Ryu and the Hanwha Eagles returned home Monday from their spring training in Okinawa, Japan. Ryu, the 2019 National League All-Star Game starter, reunited with the …
Kim Min-suk, sophomore outfielder for the Lotte Giants, is so young that he was only two years old when Ryu Hyun-jin was mowing down hitters as a rookie in 2006 in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). It wasn’t until after Ryu began pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013 that Kim was old enough …
South Korean football rivals Ulsan HD FC and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors played to a 1-1 draw in the opening leg of the quarterfinals at the top Asian club tournament Tuesday.The K League 1 foes traded a goal apiece in each half in their Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League showdown at Jeonju World Cup Stadium …
Korean midfielder Lee Kang-in and his Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) are off to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. Lee recorded his first career Champions League assist to help PSG defeat Real Sociedad 2-1 in the second leg of the round of 16 at Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastian, Spain, on Tuesday (local time). PSG …
Ulsan HD FC head coach Hong Myung-bo said Wednesday he understands the anger Ulsan supporters feel toward him for leaving their K League 1 club for the Korean national team. Before Ulsan hosted Gwangju FC at Munsu Football Stadium in the southeastern city of Ulsan, Hong met with the media for the first time since …
Hong Myung-bo, the incoming men’s national football team head coach, has come to the defense of a former player under fire for comments made on his recent YouTube video, saying the football community has to be tolerant toward different opinions. Hong, head coach of the K League 1 club Ulsan HD FC recently named the …
After winning the top rookie prize in 2023, Hanwha Eagles starter Moon Dong-ju hasn’t been able to match that level of success this year yet. The 20-year-old right-hander went 8-8 with a 3.72 ERA en route to capturing the 2023 Rookie of the Year award in the Korea Baseball Organization. So far this year, though, …
At age 18, a decade before Barbora Krejcikova won Wimbledon on Saturday, she was done with junior tennis and couldn’t decide whether to pursue a professional tennis career or move on, go to school and find a different path. So Krejcikova wrote a letter to one of her idols, 1998 Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna, and …