Tour de France champion Cadel Evans has never been one to take the easy path in life. But standing in a courtroom in southern Ethiopia alongside his wife Chiara last …
John Rooney, a 21-year-old midfielder and younger brother of Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, signed a contract on Thursday with Orlando City in the lowest level of US professional soccer. …
HOOPTON-ON-SEA, England, Jan 26 PA – Australia’s Karen Murphy has won her first world indoor bowls title by beating England’s Debbie Stavrou in the final of the Ladies World Matchplay …
Ivory Coast became the second country after Equatorial Guinea to reach the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals thanks to a 2-0 win over Burkina Faso in Group B ON …
Juventus were somewhat of a surprise winner of the Italian league’s symbolic winter title, and the team’s supremacy will immediately be tested when they begins the second half of the …
Despite spending freely on new players last year, Bayern Munich have found themselves caught up in the closest Bundesliga race in 20 years. Four teams are separated by only one …
Rafael Nadal ripped open old wounds to shatter Roger Federer once more and reach his 15th grand slam final at the Australian Open on Thursday night. Nadal rallied from a …
European clubs have been given a final warning over financial fair play, as UEFA threatened to impose player bans and points deductions for the continent’s worst offenders from the 2014-15 …
New Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene rejected the sports minister’s allegation that politics and infighting within the playing squad has caused the team’s recent slump. Jayawardene said that the team …
Bernard Hopkins, the oldest champion in boxing history, is set to make a historic title defence at age 47 in a rematch against fellow American Chad Dawson on April 28 …
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will swap the dock for the dugout on Friday and his men will be fully prepared to beat Watford despite his absence from training this week, …
Outspoken Toulon owner and club president Mourad Boudjellal was handed a 130-day ban on Thursday after using lurid language to describe the level of refereeing in a recent Top 14 …
Rising Russian star Artur Gachinski overshadowed former Olympic champion Yevgeny Plushenko’s return by leading the men’s short program at the European figure skating championships here on Thursday. World bronze medallist …
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp told police he writes like a toddler and paid his accountant handsomely “to look after me”, the jury in his trial on allegations of tax evasion …
Eliminated from the Copa del Rey by Barcelona, Real Madrid will now turn their focus to breaking their rival’s three-year reign at the top of the Spanish league, beginning with …
Barcelona says midfielder Andres Iniesta will be sidelined for three weeks with a muscle tear in his left thigh. Iniesta was injured in the first half of Barcelona’s 2-2 draw …
Stricken Swiss side Neuchatel Xamax slipped from crisis into shame and near-oblivion on Thursday, as its Chechen owner was arrested hours after declaring the club bankrupt. Bulat Chagaev was detained …
Swiss authorities say they have arrested the Chechen owner of Neuchatel Xamax, hours after the football club said it would file for bankruptcy. Geneva prosecutors said in a statement on …
