Reuters - Former Spanish Primer Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, criticized for intervening in Alberto Contador's doping case when still in office, has questioned the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) decision to ban the cyclist for two years.
AP - French police officials familiar with the operation say the home of cycling great Jeannie Longo was raided on Wednesday and that her husband was arrested on suspicion that he bought doses of the banned performance-enhancer EPO.
PEETZ, Colo. – Peetz had four players score in double figures as the Bulldogs defeated Briggsdale, Colo., 63-48 in a boys’ basketball game Thursday night.
AP - Dutch troops are joining a race against time to prepare ice for a legendary 125-mile (200 kilometer) race across frozen waterways in the northern Netherlands that could be staged for the first time in 15 years.
AP - The strangest coaching decision during Super Bowl week wasn't when Bill Belichick ordered his defense to act like matadors and wave Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw by for a touchdown from 6 yards out with less than a minute left in the game.
Dimitar Berbatov is considering a comeback to international soccer, and says he expects an invitation from Bulgaria's new coach. Coach Lyuboslav Penev says he would be glad if Berbatov returns to the team, adding that he will talk with him later this week. Berbatov had said Tuesday that if he receives an invitation, he could consider a comeback.
In deeper fantasy basketball leagues, finding useful players on the waiver wire can be a very difficult task. With most popular free agent choices already owned, owners of deeper leagues often have to dig at even less popular names for fantasy production.
ASU is ineligible for the postseason for the second time in its history due to NCAA probation, so its one attainable goal is to win the inaugural Pac-12 championship.
The Iraqi Football Association has lodged an official objection after Sunday's 2012 London Olympics qualifier with UAE, claiming the game's only goalscorer was ineligible.
With football mania nearing its peak in time for Sundayâs 46th Super Bowl game or Super Bowl XLVI, in football-speak there was a time when professional football and its players were neither respected, prized nor paid millions of dollars.
Goals Soccer Centres plc Change of Adviser Goals Soccer Centres plc is pleased to announce that it has appointed Collins Stewart Europe Limited as its Nominated Adviser and Broker with immediate effect. ...
The York College of Pennsylvania women's basketball team has just won its ninth game in a row. On Monday, February 6, 2012, the York College Spartans played the McDaniel's Green Terror at home. The Spartans got a decisive victory against the Green Terror.
Harry Keough, a St. Louis postman who reached the highest levels of American soccer, as both a player and a coach, died Tuesday of natural causes after suffering from Alzheimer's. He was 84.
Skipper Morgan has coached tennis at Martin County High School for 17 seasons and his Tigers have been to the state tournament three of the last four years.
AP - Gabriel Landeskog broke a tie 38 seconds into the third period and David Jones added two goals, helping the Colorado Avalanche snap a five-game skid with a 5-2 win over the struggling Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night.
When a group of golfers in Texas were trying to play through a slower group, a fight broke out resulting in one man being stabbed by a broken golf club. The club hit the man's femoral artery in his groin area leading to severe blood loss.
Closers in fantasy baseball are plentiful. Look for the pitchers that convert the opportunity to save the game. Pitching in a game when your team is leading serves no purpose. The best closers in baseball are almost always automatic.
AP - NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers avoided a salary arbitration hearing next week, agreeing to a $19 million, two-year contract.
In Cottage Grove, Oregon this past weekend, the Eugene Disc Golf Club held its inaugural Ice Bowl event at the North Regional Park Disc Golf Course in order to both raise awareness of the sport of disc golf and help out a great cause.
24th Annual West Michigan Golf Show with hundreds of exhibits from courses and resorts to clubs and merchandise. Also, fabulous door prizes, free golf lessons, clinics, and the Treetops Par-3 Challenge (a real grass golf hole indoors!) where one lucky golfer might win $25,000!
Former women's tennis great Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario says her parents have drained her of her US$55 million (NZ$66 million) wealth and left her struggling to pay off her debts.
Former tennis star Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario has claimed in a memoir that her parents stole the $NZ72m she earned as a player, leaving her broke.The four-time Grand Slam champion, who retired in 2002, made the claims in her memoir...
AP - Bill Murray stumbled into the back of a crowded conference room Tuesday just as Tiger Woods was wrapping up his press conference at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The "Caddyshack" star looked more confused than usual.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Girl gamer, Missy Wedig, creates a single draftee, fantasy baseball mini-game with delicious twist. Girls can pick one player to be their Baseball Boyfriend. ...
AP - Eli Manning hoisted the Lombardi Trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked that New York City should now be nicknamed the "Big Blue Apple," as thousands of fans crowded lower Manhattan on Tuesday to celebrate the New York Giants' Super Bowl victory amid tons of confetti.
AP - New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard tore his left anterior cruciate ligament during the second half of Super Bowl, the team announced on Tuesday.
A Manhattan man says there’s no love for tennis whites at this public park. East Village resident Douglas Howard is suing the city over claims he lost his permit to teach tennis at the East River Park after complaining about reverse discrimination by non-white workers there. His Manhattan federal...
The International Olympic Committee has announced that softball, a sport primarily played by women that is similar to baseball, is one of eight sports under consideration for addition to the 2020 Olympic Games . The International Olympic Committee announced the removal of...
Fantasy baseball circles are already abuzz with talk of strategy. Whispers of who will be taken where and in what round and what positions are deep and plentiful fill the air--ah, the sounds of spring. Yet there is a familiar name that has gone without the usual fanfare and...
Tennis players come from all over the world, and the Texas State women’s team athletes are no different. Seven of the eight current players for the Bobcats were not born in the United States, and these athletes have led the program to some of its most successful years.
Baseball may be the American (both Northern and Latin) past-time, but it won't be played in the London arena of the 2012 Olympics. Back in 2005, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to oust baseball and softball from the games starting in 2012.
In the US, there are nearly three million youth soccer players, and half of them are female. New research has found that despite reporting appropriate body perception and attitudes toward eating, elite youth soccer athletes face an increased risk for delayed or irregular menstruation.
In a perfect world, the success or failure of a college football program would sit squarely on the shoulders of the coaches and players. However, in the big buck world of NCAA football, coaching and athletic prowess only go so far.
Here are six baseball players who all share their name with Valentine's Day: Corky Valentine Corky Valentine was a baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds. He was mainly a pitcher in the 1950s but only got to spend two of those years in the majors.
Nadal and Djokovic have effectively threatened the brilliance of mental acuity and shot-making, exemplified by more cerebral players like Federer and Murray, who favor tactics and touch over drawing errors while running down and wearing out opponents.
The union representing professional soccer players said Tuesday its members are mistreated financially by clubs in Eastern Europe, which can lead to the greater risk of match-fixing.
Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
These are the college football conferences ranked by the the number of players from each conference who were Super Bowl MVP's. Conferences with the most Super Bowl MVP's are ranked the highest, and players are counted for each MVP they won.