The top four players on the European Tour money list have avoided each other in the draw for this week’s World Match Play Championship in Spain.
Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Rory McIlroy and Paul Casey have all been drawn in different groups for the tournament’s new round-robin stage.
Westwood’s four-man group includes fellow Englishman [...]
David Beckham will definitely rejoin AC Milan on loan in January, according to the Italian club’s chief executive Adriano Galliani.
Beckham, 34, is keen to play for Milan to maximise his chances of making the England squad for the 2010 World Cup.
Galliani told Italy’s Sky TV: “It’s 100% certain. The only thing missing is the signatures, [...]
Antonio Valencia scored a late winner for Manchester United as they clinched a 1-0 win against CSKA Moscow.
On an artificial plastic pitch in the Russian capital, United had to work hard to maintain their 100 per cent record in the UEFA Champions League this season, which sees them top Group B with three wins from [...]
Mark Webber drove a near perfect Brazilian Grand Prix, but his win was too little too late to keep Red Bull in the hunt for the constructors’ title. Similarly, there was nothing the Australian could do to prevent team mate Sebastian Vettel’s hopes of the drivers’ crown evaporating. Instead it was Brawn’s Jenson
Button who was [...]
Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has admitted he took his eye off the real ball for Darren Bent’s controversial winner for Sunderland.
The Spanish international was beaten whenBent’s shot struck a stray beach ball inside the penalty area to totally deceive the keeper.
Under the laws of the game the goal should have been disallowed with a drop [...]
Gary Van Sickle, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: Martin Laird did something fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie never did — win a PGA Tour event. He two-putted for the win after McNeill bogeyed the third playoff hole at Summerlin. Laird has a very solid game tee to green, but he’s a little spotty with that long putter. [...]
Martin Petrov fired in an equaliser for 10-man Manchester City as they earned a battling draw at Wigan.
Charles N’Zogbia had put Wigan ahead when he beat Wayne Bridge to the ball and slotted in after keeper Shay Given had parried a Hugo Rodallega shot.But Petrov latched on to a Carlos Tevez cross before beating [...]
Sania Mirza’s [ Images ] brilliant run at the WTA Japan [Images ] Open ended with a crushing 2-6, 1-6 mauling in the semi-final against world number 26 and fourth seed Francesca Schiavone in Osaka, on Saturday.
Sania’s defeat meant that the Indian has now lost all three encounters against her Italian friend.It was for the third [...]
Rafael Nadal celebrated an opening-round win in Grand Slam style while Novak Djokovic moved through ruthlessly as the top two seeds reached the third round of the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday.
Nadal, crushed in a Beijing semi-final by Marin Cilic four days ago, couldn’t control his fist pumps and enthusiasm after getting back on track over [...]
The remarkable thing about Poojashree Venkatesh and Rushmi Chakravarthi is their amazing self-belief. Indian women’s tennis depends a lot on these two.
They are two of the best women’s tennis players in the Indian circuit today. They are a study in contrast: one is 19 years old and trying to break into the big league, while [...]
