Millions of Pakistani fans will be praying for Aisam-ul-Haq to win the US Open mixed doubles finals, so that they have at least something to cheer about on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr that has otherwise been marred by floods and a cricket scandal.

In what could be one of the most awaited auctions in a long time, a 1962 AC Aceca, once owned by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, is expected to fetch 130,000 pounds at an auction.

A research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has claimed that at least one in ten athletes sustained an injury and a further one in 14 fell ill during the 2010 Winter Olympics, held in Vancouver, Canada.

The Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi, in an initiative with the Delhi Traders Association has decided to organize the "Commonwealth Games Shopping Festival" across all main markets in Delhi from September 25, 2010 to October 15, 2010.

Retired basketball player Dennis Rodman is said to have shocked partygoers when his sex romp with six girls was broadcast through a cordless microphone in his pocket.

Helen Wood, who gave a threesome to Wayne Rooney with hooker Jennifer Thompson, has revealed that the soccer ace gave them a workout they won't forget.

Troubled soccer star Wayne Rooney is set to face wife Coleen for the first time after the news of his alleged link up with prostitutes emerged and it is likely to decide the fate of their marriage.

Supermodel Heidi Klum has teamed up with sports firm New Balance to launch her own range of activewear.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sent Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal an official notice saying he is under investigation for being involved in match fixing in the Sydney Test.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should have promptly suspended the tainted players-Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer - after they were allegedly accused of spot fixing during the Lord's Test against England, said former International Cricket Council president Ehsan Mani.

A professional cricket career is seen in Pakistan as an escape route into a world of glamour, celebrity and untold riches, but the recent revelations of match fixing and spot fixing by Pakistani cricketers, is likely to have an adverse impact, feel experts and agents.

At a time when the cricketing world wants Pakistan banned for a series of match-fixing scandals involving its players, Australian captain Ricky Ponting says cricket cannot afford to lose Pakistan.

Argentine football star Carlos Tevez laid on two goals and scored one as Argentina handed Spain its first loss since winning the 2010 South Africa World Cup, earning a dominant 4-1 win in a friendly trouncing in Buenos Aires.

Pakistani cricket may be going through a period of great turmoil and uncertainty after the spot-fixing allegations, but the team's one-day captain, Shahid Afridi, is quite optimistic that the entire squad will be available for the World Cup 2011.

The Australian Cricketers Association has urged players to refuse to sign Cricket Australia contracts next year as a row has erupted over an attempt to take 10 per cent of their earnings from the Indian Premier League.

Smell the tailgate party - it's college football season. But if you're flying in for a game, you might be headed for a headache. Cutbacks at major airlines have made flight choices more difficult this...

When a team has a lot of new faces there is always the worry that, as a group, they won't all mesh together into a cohesive unit. Heading into the season, Shaun Tarantola was cautiously optimistic hi...

NEW YORK — DECEMBER 10: (FILE PHOTO) Running back Reggie Bush #5 of the USC Trojans poses with the 2005 Heisman trophy after winning the award at the 71st Annual Heisman Ceremony on December 10,...

There could hardly be a worthier rallying cry for the All Blacks, but distressing images from earthquake-ravaged Canterbury provide just another layer of motivation before a potentially historic Tri-N...

Brendon McCullum is prepared for the possibility of his run of 52 straight tests coming to an end. The Black Caps wicketkeeper/batsman is attempting to reinvent himself as a specialist batsman this s...

LAHORE: In a tiny room overlooking a slum, four men work a dozen or so phones, struggling to keep up with calls from Pakistanis placing illegal bets on a cricket match in England. Some phones are rig...

Sonny Bill Williams will make his first start for Canterbury after being named in the lineup to face Northland in Whangarei on Saturday. Williams will start at second-five, replacing Ryan Crotty, as ...

Recommend Georgia wide receiver A.J. Green will miss three more games after the NCAA suspended him for selling his game-worn jersey to a person defined as an agent.Green received money for his Indepen...

England soccer coach Fabio Capello, gesturing to his team during a Sept. 3 Euro 2012 qualifying match, won't seek a new deal when his contract expires.

64.8— percentage of games last season where the margin was within one score in the fourth period. Moral of the story: It's hard to leave NFL games early and beat the traffic.

Saturday, North University Drive will be renamed John R. Wooden Drive before the Purdue football game against Western Illinois, according to a news release from Purdue.

(FSY) says he'll do whatever he can to make sure the Colts' high-scoring offense works like it should — regardless of where the umpire lines up or how quickly he gets into position.

Rafael Nadal of Spain has brought a bigger, better serve to the U.S. Open this year, and the top seed has yet to drop his serve through four rounds.

Jake Fisher was eliminated Wednesday in the 163-pound class of Greco-Roman wrestling. He was the last of seven Greco-Roman entrants from the USA to compete this week.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A memorial service will be held next week in Laramie for a 19-year-old University of Wyoming football player killed in a car accident.

It took just one weekend of games for the Mountain West Conference to show why it probably will never earn Bowl Championship Series automatic-qualifying status — with or without BYU.

VANCOUVER — Police in British Columbia have charged a former Tsawwassen baseball coach with a number of sexual assault-related charges, and are appealing for information about any more victims who h...

Waterloo Warrior football player Brad Morton packs his bag in the football locker room after players held a news conference on June 17. The University of Waterloo suspended the team for the 2010 seaso...

Five years ago this week the nation was spellbound by cricket. England were on the verge of winning the Ashes at The Oval, the ground could have sold out 10 times over on each of the five days of the ...

Novak Djokovic launched a seemingly easy volley wide of the court and swiped his racket at the ground angrily Wednesday afternoon. He threw his head back and howled to no one in particular, his frustr...

Inter Milan in August, will undergo surgery after suffering the injury against Timisoara in Romania last month during a Europa League qualifier. Balotelli looks set to miss this month's Premier Leagu...

United Nations ambassadors from their long-at-odds countries to Flushing Meadows to sit in the stands together. The idea of Pakistan and India on the same side of anything has long been considered fa...

U.S. Open , most tennis fans were pretty sure a Spanish left-hander would reach the men's semi-finals. And they were right. The forecasters were vindicated even before the quarter-finals were played,...

U.S. Open semifinals for the fourth consecutive year. With swirling wind topping 20 mph in Arthur Ashe Stadium, 2008 Australian Open champion Djokovic was the more aggressive player, and he won the p...

Filed at 7:17 p.m. ET MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Home plate umpire Bob Davidson says he ejected a fan at Miller Park because the fan used a homophobic slur aimed at

Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau says he's still optimistic that he will play again this season even though he's been out of the lineup for two months because of a concussion. Morneau spo...

Filed at 6:24 p.m. ET LEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Living off fast food and pocket change as you chase a dream from one small tour stop to another is easy -- romantic, even -- when you're young and have no r...

Tiger Woods returned to one of his happy hunting grounds on Wednesday riding the momentum from one of the best weeks of a turbulent year into his title defence at the

Tiger Woods figured he could only deal with one problem at a time. In this case, golf had to wait its turn. ''Let's just say I've been through a lot lately, and I didn't want to have any more informa...

Filed at 6:10 p.m. ET ISTANBUL (AP) -- Ersan Ilyasova scored 19 points and undefeated Turkey hit 10 of 17 3-pointers in its 95-68 victory over Slovenia on Wednesday night in the world championship qu...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - World championship hosts Turkey and dark horses Serbia advanced to the semi-finals in contrasting fashion after both teams produced scintillating performances to beat their rivals...

Jets than they should. The way Ryan took to reality TV, there's surely a season on ''Survivor'' or even ''Dancing with the Stars'' in his future should the football thing not work out. Hard not to li...

Filed at 7:28 p.m. ET PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Kevin Kolb has Aaron Rodgers on his speed dial. Kolb began studying Rodgers before he replaced

Mike Martz , you're on the spot. You, too, Jay Cutler. And the same goes for the rest of the offense. The Chicago Bears insisted their struggles during a winless preseason were no cause for alarm, th...

Twitter ? Not a chance. ''I don't follow him because it's just a bunch of nonsense,'' Lewis said Wednesday. ''I don't really care where he goes to eat and so forth, or who he buys dinner for. But I g...

Filed at 6:11 p.m. ET BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Resting on the top shelf of Jake Delhomme's locker are a ratty set of shoulder pads, hand-me-downs from New Orleans teammate Billy Joe Tolliver. Delhomme br...

Dallas Cowboys right tackle Marc Colombo and left guard Kyle Kosier missed practice again Wednesday because of knee injuries suffered during training camp, leaving little time for them to prove they a...

Filed at 5:07 p.m. ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Vince Young refuses to be drawn into the conversation on whether Reggie Bush should keep his Heisman Trophy of if he would accept it if the trophy was t...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - World championship hosts Turkey and dark horses Serbia advanced to the semi-finals in contrasting fashion after both teams produced scintillating performances to beat their rivals...

THE 33 miners trapped underground in Chile were treated to live television pictures of the country's soccer team playing against the Ukraine.

THE 33 miners trapped underground in Chile were treated to live television pictures of the country's soccer team playing against the Ukraine.

Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder charges. Photograph: Public Domain

LEMONT, Illinois (Reuters) - Tiger Woods returned to one of his happy hunting grounds on Wednesday riding the momentum from one of the best weeks of a turbulent year into his title defense at the BMW ...

Rafa Nadal, the world number one, is through and playing some of the best tennis of his life but faces an opponent that could be the closest thing to a mirror image of himself in Fernando Verdasco, th...

QUEBEC CITY, Canada (Reuters) - Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso and Olympic road race champion Samuel Sanchez are among the big names competing in Canada this week as the ProTour arrives on North Am...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - World championship hosts Turkey and dark horses Serbia advanced to the semi-finals in contrasting fashion after both teams produced scintillating performances to beat their rivals...

CHICAGO, IL -- 09/08/10 -- The nation's major professional sports leagues are collectively sending an important cultural message in the battle against climate change by encouraging and endorsing the ...

and online youth sports magazine SASports.com are teaming up to promote the Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention or STOP Sports Injuries campaign locally. STOP Sports Injuries was created in early 200...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Ted Schulz won the First Tee Open on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, holing a 12-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole at Pebble Beach en route to a 2-under 70 and a one-...

LEMONT, Ill. - Living off fast food and pocket change as you chase a dream from one small tour stop to another is easy when you're young and have no responsibilities. At 39, with one small child and ...

LEMONT, Ill. - His swing was a mess, and so was his marriage. Tiger Woods figured he could only deal with one problem at a time. In this case, golf had to wait its turn. "Let's just say I've b...

25. Alhambra 1-0 NR The Chronicle Top 25 football rankings include schools within San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and parts of Sonoma counties, along with members of the West C...

The defending champion Spanish basketball team has been knocked out of the world championships in Turkey, losing 92-89 to Serbia in their quarterfinal in Istanbul.

Sidney Crosby teams up Sport Chek, Sports Experts and Hockey Experts (from the left: Bob Sartor, CEO, The Forzani Group Ltd., Sidney Crosby, Tom Quinn, Pres & COO, The Forzani Group Ltd.)

Aston Villa have confirmed the appointment of Gerard Houllier as their new manager.Houllier will succeed Martin O'Neill and has returned to the Barclays Premier League after a six-year absence since e...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Boise State opened its 2010 season with an exhilarating come-from-behind, last minute victory against a solid Virginia Tech team while playing a ‘neutral...

Indian Oil Corporation XI 268 for 8 (Pujara 83, Shukla 60, Patel 54, Yo Mahesh 3-37) beat India Cements 265 (Arun Karthik 49, Suresh 46, Mukund 45, Patel 2-43, Dani 2-34) by three runs

Football teams from Cal Poly and UC Davis are joining the Big Sky Conference, commissioner Doug Fullerton said Tuesday. The universities accepted invitations to join the Big Sky as football-only scho...

The parents of the woman at the center of a sex scandal involving Wayne Rooney have apologized to the England striker's wife. Several tabloid newspapers claimed Sunday that Rooney cheated repeatedly ...

ISTANBUL: Serbia knocked defending champ Spain out of the world championship today when Milos Teodosic made a long 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds left for a 92-89 quarterfinal victory. Spain erased an ei...

Pakistan and Essex leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has been released without charge by police after being arrested in connection with alleged cricket betting irregularities, police sources said on Wedneday...

Argentina striker Carlos Tevez may consider retiring from international play before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil because of the physical toll on his body. The 26-year-old Tevez said he has been worn ...

Albert Haynesworth isn't going anywhere, at least not for now.Addressing the latest trade reports concerning the troublesome defensive tackle, coach Mike Shanahan on Wednesday said Haynesworth will be...

. "Whatever you guys report, you have to go with that. But if I'm not mistaken, I think the Heisman Trust people released a statement saying that whatever was said yesterday was inaccurate. So that's ...

Recommend Not long ago, it appeared that the Reds' Joey Votto and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols were going to duke it out in the National League's Triple Crown race as well as the MVP balloting.Now, ma...

(FSY) and ended a three-game skid that followed a season-best eight-game winning streak. The Yankees are the only team in the majors without a four-game losing streak this year. New York has never b...

MOSCOW (AP) — Selcuk Cebi of Turkey captured the last gold medal on offer in the Greco-Roman program at the world wrestling championships, defending his title in the 74-kilogram (163-pound) categ...

HARTFORD — A second organization announced plans Wednesday to create a new sport out of competitive cheerleading in an effort to get competitions recognized by the

MONTICELLO, Ark. (AP) — The new baseball coach at the University of Arkansas at Monticello is familiar with the program, since the Henderson State team he has led for the past six years has playe...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas-Little Rock women's basketball program has named Rebecca Chilton Peoples as director of basketball operations.

New England Patriots quarterback expires after this season. He said Wednesday he loves playing for the team but has learned not to assume anything and just wants to focus on playing football. Brady su...

Waterloo Warrior football player Brad Morton packs his bag in the football locker room after players held a news conference on June 17. The University of Waterloo suspended the team for the 2010 seaso...

Waterloo Warrior football player Brad Morton packs his bag in the football locker room after players held a news conference on June 17. The University of Waterloo suspended the team for the 2010 seaso...

England batsman Kevin Pietersen is hoping to play for South African franchise Kwa-Zulu Natal in October as a warm-up for this winter's Ashes.The South African-born batsman is keen to recover his best ...

Grey Global Group , an advertising agency, but on a sunny Wednesday afternoon the week after Labor Day, he got an added bonus to go with his food: a side of tennis. That side was served up at Madison...

It was the shriek versus the shout, a diminutive slugger overcoming a towering slugger. The Wimbledon finalist, Vera Zvonareva of Russia, powered her way into the women’s semifinals with a hard-foug...

Filed at 4:20 p.m. ET BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -- Aston Villa has appointed Gerard Houllier as manager, bringing the Frenchman back to England's

Filed at 3:05 p.m. ET BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Interim Argentina coach Sergio Batista will keep the job until the end of the year, a reward for Tuesday's 4-1 victory over World Cup champion Sp...

Princeton University for a major violation in its women's tennis program. The Division I committee on infractions says the case centered on a Princeton alumnus who paid $33,000 in impermissible educa...

Filed at 2:56 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- The head of the men's tennis tour expects a decision soon on proposals to increase the ATP offseason from five weeks to seven or eight by 2012. ATP chief execu...

Robinson Cano flied out and Swisher, hobbled by a stiff left knee, drove a 2-0 pitch to the opposite field and into the Baltimore bullpen in left-center. It was Swisher's 26th home run of the season ...

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Detroit Red Wings have signed forward Kirk Maltby to a one-year contract. Red Wings general manager Ken Holland announced the signing Wednesday. The two-way contract means he can play in Detroit and ...

Filed at 4:58 p.m. ET DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Rumeal Robinson, who led Michigan to the NCAA championship in 1989, has been found guilty on 11 federal financial fraud charges. A jury returned its ve...