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Muttiah Muralitharan shattered India's star-studded top order with four wickets for 38 as Sri Lanka strengthened their hold on the first Test in Colombo, after declaring at 600 for six..
Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen plans to appeal against a ruling by a Dutch court ordering his former employer to pay him $1 million in compensation for his dismissal last year.
Holders Australia could boycott the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided that the tournament could go ahead in Pakistan despite safety concerns.
Jelena Jankovic made the most of her improved serve as she beat Hungarian Melinda Czink 6-3 6-2 in the East West Bank Classic in Carson, California, and continued her progress towards the world's No 1 ranking.
Formula One chief Max Mosley has been awarded a record $120,000 after winning his privacy case against a tabloid newspaper over a story alleging he attended a five-hour sex session involving Nazi role play.
The Philippine government and the private sector are offering 9.5 million pesos (US$220,000) to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal.
Gary Hall Jr. thinks the sport of swimming has its share of doping cheats just like baseball and track and field. In recent years, though, swimming has avoided the widespread scandals that have damaged other sports.
Croatian Marin Cilic upset sixth-seeded Andy Roddick 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Thursday, the American player joining top-ranked Roger Federer among the early casualties of the Masters Series event.
Frank Dancevic beat Croatia's Mario Ancic 6-3 6-4 Monday night to assure Canada of at least one player advancing to the second round of Rogers Cup.
Marcus Burghardt of Germany won the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, leading a two-rider breakaway as the race left the high mountains of the Alps.
Muttiah Muralitharan shattered India's star-studded top order with four wickets for 38 as Sri Lanka strengthened their hold on the first Test in Colombo, after declaring at 600 for six..
Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen plans to appeal against a ruling by a Dutch court ordering his former employer to pay him $1 million in compensation for his dismissal last year.
Holders Australia could boycott the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided that the tournament could go ahead in Pakistan despite safety concerns.
Jelena Jankovic made the most of her improved serve as she beat Hungarian Melinda Czink 6-3 6-2 in the East West Bank Classic in Carson, California, and continued her progress towards the world's No 1 ranking.
Formula One chief Max Mosley has been awarded a record $120,000 after winning his privacy case against a tabloid newspaper over a story alleging he attended a five-hour sex session involving Nazi role play.
The Philippine government and the private sector are offering 9.5 million pesos (US$220,000) to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal.
Gary Hall Jr. thinks the sport of swimming has its share of doping cheats just like baseball and track and field. In recent years, though, swimming has avoided the widespread scandals that have damaged other sports.
Croatian Marin Cilic upset sixth-seeded Andy Roddick 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Thursday, the American player joining top-ranked Roger Federer among the early casualties of the Masters Series event.
Frank Dancevic beat Croatia's Mario Ancic 6-3 6-4 Monday night to assure Canada of at least one player advancing to the second round of Rogers Cup.
Marcus Burghardt of Germany won the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, leading a two-rider breakaway as the race left the high mountains of the Alps.
Top seed Roger Federer was knocked out of the Masters Series tournament in Toronto with a 2-6 7-5 6-4 defeat to France's Gilles Simon in a second-round match on Wednesday night.
U.S. basketball star LeBron James has suffered a pre-Olympic injury scare at the team's training camp in Las Vegas and will miss Friday's warmup game against Canada.
Cricket history was made on the second day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India as home batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan was given a reprieve by a television umpire.
Jelena Jankovic is still on course to claim top spot in the women's world rankings after a 7-5 6-2 victory over American Vania King in the WTA tournament in Carson City, California.
More often than not, sport is best experienced by being there. But Formula One is perhaps one of the rare exceptions -- you get the best seat in the house by watching on TV.
Sprinter Tyson Gay has withdrawn from the London Grand Prix, insisting the hamstring he injured at the U.S. Olympic trials will not rule him out of next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
Saunier Duval have pulled out of cycling, blaming the drug scandal that engulfed the team at the Tour de France.
Asafa Powell took on the world's fastest man with every intention of beating him to the finish line and Usain Bolt could not catch up in time.
Title holder Novak Djokovic eased into the third round of the Masters Series event in Toronto with a 6-4 6-4 win over local hope Frank Dancevic.
Second seed Serena Williams has withdrawn from the WTA event at the Home Depot Center in Carson City after giving up her fight against a left knee injury.
Sweden's Christian Olsson will be unable to defend his Olympic triple jump crown in Beijing after he pulled out of the Games with a hamstring injury.
Malinda Warnapura hit his third Test half-century on Wednesday as Sri Lanka reached 85-2 at close of a rain-shortened opening day of the first cricket Test against India.
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has been ruled out of Saturday's Tri-Nations rugby Test against Australia because of a persistent ankle injury.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson turned the pre-season heat on Premier League rivals Chelsea by claiming Luiz Felipe Scolari has inherited an ageing squad who will struggle to improve.
Spaniard Carlos Sastre produced a stunning performance on the classic stage to Alpe d'Huez to cross the line over two minutes clear and take the Tour de France yellow jersey by one minute, 24 seconds from CSC team-mate and previous leader Frank Schleck.
Doping-tainted sprinter Katerina Thanou has been included on Greece's official team list for the Beijing Olympics.
With the match on the line, Andy Roddick was too much for Nicolas Mahut.
Joe Calzaghe postponed his proposed September fight against Roy Jones Jr. because of a sprained right wrist.
Frenchman Cyril Dessel dashed to his first Tour de France stage win by leading a breakaway group of four riders to a downhill finish after the 157-kilometer trek from Cuneo, Italy to Jausiers.
New Zealand coach Graham Henry hopes that skipper Richie McCaw can make a remarkable recovery from injury in time for Saturday's Tri-Nations rugby clash with Australia in Sydney.
Serena Williams plans to keep playing through a left knee injury despite advice from a doctor and her father that she rest with less than three weeks before the Beijing Olympics.
Disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones has asked President Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam.
England suffered an emphatic 10-wicket defeat inside four days at Headingley in the second Test against South Africa who take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
The Italian Olympic Committee performed surprise doping tests on new Tour de France leader Frank Schleck and his CSC team after Sunday's 15th stage, which concluded in Italy.
The Piquet surname has been a millstone around Nelson Jr's neck throughout a frustrating rookie season in Formula One.
Lewis Hamilton described his domination of the German Grand Prix as "the best weekend" of his career as he stretched his lead at the top of the Formula One world championship.
Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell go head-to-head in a 100 meters warmup for the Beijing Olympics in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Aleksandra Wozniak won eight matches in nine days to claim her first WTA Tour singles title and become the first Canadian to triumph on the Tour in 20 years, taking advantage of an injury to Marion Bartoli to win the Bank of the West Classic final in Stanford 7-5 6-3.
Valentino Rossi finally conquered one of the two tracks he had yet to win on in MotoGP, beating Casey Stoner to win the United States Grand Prix at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Nathan Deakes of Australia, the 50-kilometer walk world champion, has withdrawn from the Beijing Olympics because of a hamstring injury.
Frenchman Gilles Simon captured the Indianapolis Tennis Championships title on Sunday when he defeated defending champion Dmitry Tursunov 6-4 6-4 on Sunday.
England's batsmen continued to struggle on the third day of the second Test against South Africa, reaching 50-2 in their second innings on Sunday to remain 269 runs short of making the tourists bat again at Headingley.
Frank Schleck of Luxembourg seized the overall race lead in the Tour de France after a dramatic first stage in the Alps, won by Australian Simon Gerrans.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has won the German Grand Prix for his fourth Formula One victory of the year.
Defending world champion Casey Stoner claimed his fifth straight pole position in qualifying for Sunday's United States MotoGP at Laguna Seca, California.
Top seed James Blake struggled after a rain delay before crashing out 4-6 6-3 6-4 to defending champion Dimitry Tursunov in the semifinals of the Indianapolis Championships.
Tour de France sprint king Mark Cavendish has pulled out the race ahead of Sunday's 15th stage -- the first in the Alps.
Top seed Serena Williams injured her left knee and retired from her semifinal in the Bank of the West Classic on Saturday, leaving Canadian qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak with a clear path to Sunday's final.
Top-seeded Serena Williams injured her left knee and pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic in California on Saturday, becoming the third singles player on the U.S. Olympic women's tennis team with a knee injury.
Dani Pedrosa's world title hopes were seriously hit when he was forced to pull out of Sunday's United States MotoGP because of injuries suffered in a fall in Germany last weekend.
South Africa took a lead of 119 over England with six first innings wickets standing before bad light ended play early in the second Test at Headingley.
British Sprinters Craig Pickering and Tyrone Edgar have been selected for the Olympic 100-meter squad a day after a judge refused to overturn Dwain Chambers' lifetime doping Olympic ban.
Oscar Freire closed in on the sprint title at the Tour de France by winning Saturday's 14th stage, while Australia's Cadel Evans kept the yellow jersey in the doping-battered race.
Spaniard Oscar Freire snatched victory for Rabobank on stage 14 of the Tour de France, winning the final sprint at the close of the 194 kilometers ride from Nimes to Dignes Les Bains.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for Sunday's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim with a storming final lap of qualifying.
Australia made a storming start to their Tri-Nations campaign with a 16-9 win over world champions South Africa in Perth on Saturday.
James Blake made quick work of quarterfinal opponent Yen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Friday, beating the unseeded player 6-2 6-0 in 45 minutes.
Serena Williams spent more time waiting for her quarterfinal match to start than she did on the court against Patty Schnyder. Neither activity proved to be too stressful for the top seed.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was the center of attention on his long-awaited return to Test action but could not prevent South Africa taking the early edge in the second match of the series at Headingley.
Spanish cycling team Saunier Duval have sacked Italian Riccardo Ricco following his positive test for EPO at the Tour de France.
British sprint sensation Mark Cavendish claimed his fourth stage victory at the drug-tainted Tour de France on Friday as he snatched the 13th leg from Narbonne to Nimes.
Lewis Hamilton dominated Friday's practice sessions for the German Grand Prix, putting McLaren on course for a first Formula One win in Germany in a decade.
British sprinter Dwain Chambers has failed in his London High Court bid to compete at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been left out of South Africa's Olympic team for the Beijing Games.
Patty Schnyder beat Russian Alisa Kleybanova on Thursday to set up a quarterfinal match against Serena Williams at the Bank of West Classic in Stanford.
German driver Sebastian Vettel will switch to the Red Bull Formula One team from Toro Rosso next season.
Top seed James Blake struggled early in the first set and fended off two set points in the second before defeating Jun Woong-sun of South Korea 6-3 7-5 in the second round of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.
Yao Ming is back, transforming China's basketball team and providing a big relief for Olympic organizers.
Italian climber Riccardo Ricco has become the third cyclist to be kicked out of this year's Tour de France after testing positive for the blood-booster EPO, but by far the most high profile.
South Africa's selectors have recalled No. 8 Pierre Spies and center Francois Steyn among four starting changes for Saturday's Tri-Nations match against Australia in Perth.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will start his first Test in 18 months against South Africa at Headingley on Friday, but the hosts have been hit by injury worries to two key strike bowlers.
British sprinter Dwain Chambers will find out on Friday if he has any chance of competing at the Beijing Olympics.
Isle of Man sprinter Mark Cavendish made cycling history on Thursday when he became the first-ever Briton to claim three stage wins in a single Tour de France.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius -- nicknamed the "blade runner" for his prosthetic limbs -- still hopes to make it to the Beijing Olympics despite failing to qualify for the individual 400-meter event, his coach said Thursday.
Gilles Simon used a simple serve-and-volley game to beat Germany's Benjamin Becker 7-5 3-6 6-0 and reach the quarterfinals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Wednesday.
Top-seeded Serena Williams rallied from one set down to beat hard-hitting teenager Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal 4-6 6-3 6-2 on Wednesday in the second round of the Bank of the West Classic.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius fell short of the 400-meter qualifying time for the Olympics Wednesday, though his lifetime best run could yet get him to Beijing in the relay.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius fell short of the 400-meter qualifying time he needed Wednesday to make the Olympics, though the personal best time he ran could still get him to Beijing in the relay.
British sprinter Dwain Chambers' appeal for a place at the Beijing Games will be heard in London's High Court on Thursday -- but whatever the outcome the case is far from at the finishing line.
Defending champion Carlos Moya needed nearly three hours to subdue Serbian Viktor Troicki 3-6 7-6 (2) 7-5 on Wednesday and reach the quarterfinals at the Croatia Open.
Kurt-Asle Arvesen of Norway celebrated his first Tour de France triumph after an 11th stage that started with the second doping bust to mar the race this year.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen is praying for sun at the German Grand Prix, as he seeks to end a miserable run that has seen Lewis Hamilton draw level with him in the race for the championship.
MotoGP world championship contender Dani Pedrosa will compete at this weekend's U.S. Grand Prix despite surgery for injuries suffered after crashing in the last race.
Usain Bolt will headline the London Grand Prix meeting on July 26 at Crystal Palace and is promising "something very special" in the 200 meters.
American James Blake looked rusty before he rallied to beat unheralded Israeli Dudi Sela 7-6 6-2 in a first-round match at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Tuesday.
The Tour de France has been hit by a fresh doping scandal with Spanish rider Moises Duenas Nevado testing positive for the blood booster EPO, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
Switzerland's Patty Schnyder had an easy time with former two-time NCAA champion Amber Liu, winning 6-1 6-1 in her opening-round match at the Bank of the West Classic on Tuesday night.
Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Stefan Koubek and Karin Knapp have withdrawn from the Beijing Olympic tournament because of injuries.
The 17 UCI ProTour cycling teams at the Tour de France unanimously agreed Tuesday not to renew their ProTour licenses for the 2009 season.
World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe admits she faces a "race against time" to compete in the grueling event at the Beijing Olympics.
India will not make any changes to the itinerary for England's cricket tour later this year, despite protests from the England and Wales Cricket Board over some of the venues.
Honda are delaying a decision about title contender Dani Pedrosa's fitness for this week's US MotoGP race following his crash in Germany on Sunday.
Lindsay Davenport has pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic, in Stanford, California, because of a sore right knee.
Defending champion Dmitry Tursunov won his opening-round match at the Indianapolis championships, surviving a second set lapse before beating Igor Kunitsyn 6-3 7-5.
Two-time finalist Filippo Volandri ended a seven-match losing streak when he beat Italian compatriot Flavio Cippola 6-1 6-4 in the first round of the Croatia Open on Monday.
Saunier Duval's Leonardo Piepoli won the 10th stage of the Tour de France as Australia's Cadel Evans took over the race leader's yellow jersey in a dramatic finale on the cruel slopes of the Hautacam on Monday.
British sprinter Dwain Chambers' appeal for a place at the Beijing Games was delayed until Thursday by a judge who will decide whether to overturn his lifetime Olympic ban.
England called up all-rounder Andrew Flintoff to their squad for the second Test at Headingley moments after the first Test against South Africa at Lord's had petered out into a tame draw on Monday.
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