Manchester City misfit Robinho made a winning second debut for Santos as he scored the decisive goal in a 2-1 victory against Brazilian rivals Sao Paulo on Sunday.
Olympic 1500 meter champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced.
New world No. 1 Serena Williams, above, will take on her older sister and defending champion Venus in the final of the season-ending WTA Championships in Qatar on Sunday as injuries again took their toll on the world’s top women tennis players.
Crisis club Portsmouth are on the verge of becoming the first-ever English Premier League side to enter administration, unless a buyer can be found for them by the end of this week.
Substitute Steven Gerrard scores a controversial late penalty to earn struggling Liverpool a 2-2 English Premier League draw against Birmingham at Anfield.
Manchester City are up to fifth place in the English Premier League table after a comfortable 2-0 home win over Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday.
Matt Kuchar admitted he was satisfied with his second-round 68 to finish a stroke behind leader Vaughn Taylor at the Turning Stone Resort Championship in New York.
Thousands of Canadians turned the streets of Vancouver into rivers of red on Sunday in jubilant celebration of the country’s Olympic gold-medal win in men’s ice hockey.
Ten-man Germany score the winning goal in the second minute of injury time to beat Nigeria 3-2 and secure a quarterfinal showdown with Brazil at the under-20 World Cup in Egypt.
England captain John Terry braves the public eye despite continuing revelations about his private life, but his table-topping Chelsea team are held to a shock 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened Hull City.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the resignation of the nation’s top Olympic officials Monday after the country’s worst performance in a Winter Olympics in nearly a hundred years.
