FIFA President Sepp Blatter met with News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch on Thursday, weeks after their organisations signed a $425 million ($A407 million) broadcast deal. Murdoch later wrote on Twitter …
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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 …
Continue reading Cadel Evans opens up about adopted sonHOOPTON-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 …
Continue reading Australia’s Murphy seals world bowls crownJohn 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. …
Continue reading Rooney, John not Wayne, joins Orlando CityIvory 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 …
Continue reading Ivorians clinch African Cup quarter-finalsJuventus 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 …
Continue reading Juventus supremacy faces test at UdineseRafael 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 …
Continue reading Nadal beats Federer to make Open finalDespite 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 …
Continue reading Bayern can’t shake off Bundesliga rivalsBernard 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 …
Continue reading Hopkins, Dawson set for April rematchNew 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 …
Continue reading Jayawardene denies slump down to politicsEuropean 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 …
Continue reading UEFA warns clubs to fix financesRising 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 …
Continue reading Figure skating: Gachinski leads PlushenkoOutspoken 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 …
Continue reading Toulon rugby owner banned for 130 daysTottenham 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, …
Continue reading Business as usual, Redknapp to pick teamTottenham 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 …
Continue reading I write like a 2-year-old: soccer bossEliminated 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 …
Continue reading Out of Copa, Madrid turns to league titleBarcelona 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 …
Continue reading Barca’s Iniesta, Sanchez out for 2-3 weeksStricken 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 …
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