Clipper players Blake Griffin and Andrew Bynum have been voted to start the NBA All-Star game, joining Lakers players Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul to give Los Angeles four starters. …
Novara coach Emiliano Mondonico’s return to Italian soccer’s Serie A proved disappointing as he witnessed his new team lose 2-1 to Chievo Verona on Thursday and look even more certain …
Dutch Eredivisie leaders PSV Eindhoven held firm to beat NEC Nijmegen 3-2 at the Philips Stadium on Thursday night and book their place in the semi-finals of the KNVB Beker, …
A court in northeastern Brazil has ruled workers building a World Cup stadium in Recife must end their strike. The court said on Thursday it considered illegal the strike started …
Officials have disqualified three players at the Australian Ladies Masters golf tournament for breaching rules on preferred lies. Australians Corie Hou and Inhong Lim and Queensland-based Korean amateur Annie Choi …
Flamengo has fired coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo following disputes with club directors and players. President Patricia Amorim said on Thursday it made the decision after listening to the “opinion of players …
Sydney FC are set to embark on a worldwide search for a new coach after the A-League club and Vitezslav Lavicka mutually agreed to part ways at the end of …
France star Franck Ribery on Thursday criticised Bayern Munich’s lack of spending over the winter break and said the German league leaders missed a chance to strengthen their squad. Bayern …
Paris Saint-Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti told AFP on Thursday that the club have not wasted their money and that their aborted move for Carlos Tevez shows that they will not …
New Zealand soccer captain Ryan Nelsen could make his debut for Tottenham Hotspur next week after completing his move to the English Premier League soccer heavyweights. The 34-year-old’s transfer to …
Phil Mickelson has filed a lawsuit against an internet service provider in Canada to learn the identity of a person who has been posting “vexatious statements” that the four-time major …
Serie A champions AC Milan suffered a slip-up at the start of a tough series of games that continues Sunday with a home game to Napoli. The second-placed Rossoneri lost …
Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich and champions Borussia Dortmund don’t want to be frozen out in their weekend evening games at SV Hamburg and Nuremberg. Bayern and Dortmund are level on …
Fenerbahce and Besiktas both failed to take advantage of leaders Galatasaray’s shock draw with lowly Antalyaspor as they crashed to defeat in the Turkish Super Lig. Fenerbahce would have gone …
Andy Roddick remains on track to return at the ATP event in San Jose in two weeks, even though he says he hasn’t hit a tennis ball since hurting his …
Victory over Sudan Saturday will take Zambia into the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals for the first time in 16 years. A last-four place was the bottom line set by …
Mali owe their appearance in the Africa Cup of Nations in no small part to ‘old timers’ Cedric Kante and Seydou Keita. “With Cedric we’re the two veterans in the …
Equatorial Guinea admit they did not want to face Ivory Coast Saturday in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals. The Estadio de Malabo pairing appears to be the mismatch …
