SC Heerenveen's Afonso Alves has been named Dutch Player of the Year, beating Phillip Cocu and Alex to claim the title after a memorable Eredivisie campaign.
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AEK Athens FC 1-4 Sevilla FC (agg: 1-6)The grieving Spanish side earned their first crack at the UEFA Champions League after a fine away display.
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Luděk Zajíc has paid for a disappointing start to the season as coach of Czech side FK Mladá Boleslav, who have replaced him with the experienced Zdeněk Ščasný.
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Galatasaray SK have strengthened their midfield options by completing the signing of Vestel Manisaspor's versatile Turkish international Hakan Kadir Balta.
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James Blake had endured four grueling matches, finally succumbing in the fourth round in a five-set duel with Tommy Haas, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 7-6 (4).
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The Yankee star’s half brother is 15 years older and is a decorated officer in the Air Force.
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Pedro Martínez reached the mark after missing almost a year while recovering from rotator-cuff surgery.
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Roger Clemens’s immediate future is uncertain after elbow problems forced him out of the Yankees’ loss to the Mariners Monday afternoon in the Bronx.
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The Seminoles, coming off a 7-6 season, their fewest number of wins since 1986, continued to look like a struggling program and were beaten by Clemson.
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Mickelson wins final-round showdown with Woods for the Deutsche Bank Championship. But he says he might not play in the next playoff event.
NORTON, Mass. -- Finally. Phil Mickelson finally beat Tiger Woods at his own game: brilliant shotmaking and clutch putting at the most crucial time -- and in the company of the world's No. 1.
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After a dominating performance in qualifying Sunday, the two are expected to lead the U.S. in unseating China and winning the world championship in Germany. They will compete against each other the
STUTTGART, Germany -- Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson will be teammates for United States women's gymnastics Wednesday, hoping to lead it to a team gold medal. They will be rivals the rest of the week, aiming to win the all-around title and individual event medals and set themselves up as favorites to be the best gymnast at next summer's Olympics in Beijing.
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Things to look for in the first week of the NFL season.
Rex or Wrecks
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NEW YORK -- Coincidentally, it was Labor Day at the U.S. Open tennis tournament when machines took over. Sports may never be the same.
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Sixth-seeded American loses a fifth-set tiebreaker at U.S. Open for second time in three years, falling to Haas in fourth round.
NEW YORK -- This time, it was a man named Haas who slipped away from James Blake in another beguiling, and often bewildering, U.S. Open encounter.
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Carlos Zambrano bit the hand that feeds him Monday afternoon at Wrigley Field, ripping Cubs fans for booing him off the mound after another in a series of erratic outings.
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Payback coming after Chargers QB's trash talk during filming of Tomlinson commercial
Tuesday's two-minute drill ...
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NU hungry to make up for 2006 losses
This was early Monday afternoon and Pat Fitzgerald, the Northwestern coach, was reflecting on Michigan's stunning loss to Appalachian State. He first noted the parity in college football and then, quickly, turned to his own team's 27-0 Saturday win over Northeastern.
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Exasperated Guillen says only Jenks' job safe for 2008
When the White Sox packed up from spring training, they seemed content with their late-inning security. That has proved to be a fatal mistake.
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Newest signee learned English on his own; crash course on MSL is next
Wilman Conde didn't learn English in school or from instructional tapes. He learned it from playing video games.
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Fears that England will be without Andrew Flintoff and Ravi Bopara for the two remaining NatWest Series matches against India and the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa grew last night when Sussex's Luke Wright was added to the squad. Flintoff missed Sunday's match at Headingley with what appears to be a recurrence of the chronic ankle condition that continues to blight his career, while Bopara is waiting to find out whether the dislocation and break he suffered to his right thumb in Leeds is more serious than initially thought.
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Hull Kingston Rovers have achieved their objective by surviving in Super League, but the club and their star player face Rugby League tribunals later this month.
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Justine Henin and Serena Williams sidestepped each other for four years
until they contested the final of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Miami
five months ago. Since then they have barely been able to avoid crossing
paths and today they will meet for the third time in a row in the
quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament.
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Fairytales tend to have a limited lifespan in racing, and yesterday the one starring Cockney Rebel came to an abrupt end on the Newmarket gallops. A 30,000-guinea yearling, in the spring he won two Classics for a trainer, Geoff Huffer, whose career had previously seemed doomed by a spell in prison. But then Cockney Rebel suffered an injury in defeat at Royal Ascot, and yesterday plans for his comeback were wrecked by another one.
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George Washington has now won just one of his last six races but this most
theatrical of champions still commands the stage like few other modern
thoroughbreds. And while he resumes his career this weekend, as anticipated,
yesterday he was issued with yet another new script.
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Claude Giroux scored twice as Canada steamrolled over Russia 8-1 in Game 5 of the Super Series on Tuesday night.
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Josh Beckett outduelled Roy Halladay as the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 on Tuesday night.
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Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell has been suspended without pay indefinitely and placed in the NHL's substance abuse program.
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Justine Henin of Belgium, the world's No. 1 women's tennis player, topped eighth-seeded Serena Williams in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Tuesday night.
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Donald Turner is the second Canadian wheelchair basketball athlete in a week to be suspended, barred two years on Tuesday after testing positive for cocaine.
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PFC CSKA Moskva have received a lift with the group stage fast approaching with Daniel Carvalho among three players making steady progress from injuries.
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Striker Bonaventure Kalou has surprisingly departed RC Lens to join UAE side Al-Jazira Club just weeks after signing a three-year deal with the Ligue 1 outfit.
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UEFA has announced it is handing out €43.2m in solidarity payments from UEFA Champions League profits to the top leagues of its member associations.
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Malta are taking inspiration from a 16th century siege on the island as they seek victory against the odds at home to Group C rivals Turkey in Ta' Qali on Saturday.
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The first new official continental tournament in five years launches today with the start of qualifying for the UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship.
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PFC CSKA Moskva have received a lift with the group stage fast approaching with Daniel Carvalho among three players making steady progress from injuries.
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