March 8, 2010
Liverpool’s hopes of claiming the fourth and final Champions League place in the English Premier League suffer a setback as a first half Hugo Rodallega goal gives struggling Wigan a 1-0 home victory on Monday.
Chelsea cruise into the semifinals of this season’s FA Cup with a 2-0 home win over Stoke City on Sunday with deposed England captain John Terry playing a key role by setting up the first and scoring the second goal.
March 8, 2010
Arsenal’s influential captain Cesc Fabregas misses the Champions League last 16 second leg clash against Porto at The Emirates on Tuesday.
Are professional football players at greater risk of dementia and other neurological problems?
March 8, 2010
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador suffered a heavy crash in the opening stage of the Paris-Nice race in France — the first major European contest of the 2010 cycling season.
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Hans Jorg Butt scores again from the penalty spot as they eliminate fellow European powerhouses Juventus from this season’s Champions League with a superb 4-1 win in Turin on Tuesday night.
March 8, 2010
Camilo Villegas of Colombia wins the PGA Honda Classic by five shots over American Anthony Kim.
In a major upset, Evan Lysacek of the United States edged out defending gold medalist Russian Evgeni Plushenko to win the men’s figure skating gold medal.
March 8, 2010
World number two Novak Djokovic beats John Isner in a grueling four hour 16 minute encounter to secure Serbia’s passage into the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup on Sunday.
Algeria grabbed Africa’s last qualification place for the 2010 World Cup by beating Egypt 1-0 in a tense deciding play off in Khartoum, Sudan on Wednesday, thanks to a first-half goal from Antar Yahia.
March 7, 2010
Camilo Villegas of Colombia won the PGA Honda Classic by five shots over American Anthony Kim.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter claims the Football Association of Ireland asked to be included in the World Cup finals as an extra team following the Republic of Ireland’s controversial play-off exit to France.
March 7, 2010
World number two Novak Djokovic beat John Isner in a grueling four hour 16 minute encounter to secure Serbia’s passage into the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup on Sunday.
Ari Vatanen, the recently defeated presidential candidate for world motorsport’s governing body the FIA, tells CNN he thinks Renault would be “right to quit” Formula One.
March 7, 2010
Chelsea cruise into the semifinals of this season’s FA Cup with a 2-0 home win over Stoke City on Sunday with deposed England captain John Terry playing a key role by setting up the first and scoring the second goal.
Rory McIlroy bounced back from his disappointing end to the European Tour season by helping Ireland surge to a three-shot lead at the World Cup teams event in China on Thursday.
March 7, 2010
Bayer Leverkusen saw their record unbeaten run come to an end as a 3-2 defeat by struggling Nuremberg saw them slip back in the Bundesliga title race.
Kenwyne Jones scored a double as Sunderland fought off a Wolves comeback to register a 5-2 victory in the only English Premier League match on Sunday.
March 7, 2010
Real Madrid come from two goals down to beat Sevilla 3-2 in Spain’s La Liga and claim top spot in the standings ahead of arch-rivals and reigning champions Barcelona who are held 2-2 by Almeria.
Motorsport’s governing body, FIA, are to appeal against last week’s decision of the Tribunal de Grande Instance who ordered the overturning of a lifetime ban imposed on Flavio Briatore.