Cricket commentator Henry Blofeld has said that England can no longer afford the luxury of Kevin Pietersen.

In six innings against Pakistan, Pietersen scored 67 runs at an average of...

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has dropped Ian Bell from squads for one-day and Twenty20 series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

He had passed 50 only once in his last 14 ODI...

England cricket team coach Andy Flower has blamed his team's two-month break for their disastrous 3-0 whitewash to Pakistan.

After losing the Third Test by 71 runs, head coach Flower said: "We spent...

British football legend Sir Bobby Charlton had surgery yesterday after he fell ill before an awards bash.

The England 1966 World Cup winner and Manchester United hero had a gallstone removed.

Sir...

Italian football giants AC Milan will see their striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic sidelined in the clash against league leaders Juventus Feb 25 as the Swedish international has been handed a three-match...

Despite freezing weather, many fans waited and shouted alongside the red carpet as winners of the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards were unveiled here Monday.

Serbian tennis giant Novak Djokovic and...

Spanish La Liga football club Sevilla has sacked coach Marcelino Garcia after the team's poor run which has seen them slip from contenders for a place in Europe to a struggling outfit in the...

Former Indian cricket captain and commentator Sourav Ganguly believes that Australia have done well to blood Tasmania-born Victoria wicketkeeper Mathew Wade in international cricket.

"Genuine...

Cricket Australia may have to pay thousands of dollars in penalties after it emerged that the boundary line advertisements in Hindi had promoted tobacco smoking during the recently concluded...

Pakistan skipper Misbahul Haq has said his team's impressive victory over England sends a strong message to the cricketing world that Pakistan is a power in the sport and should no longer be...

The Australian cricket body has ordered the removal of a boundary-rope advertisement of an Indian mouthwash in Hindi after health authorities launched a probe over its similarity with a chewing...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf has said the team needs a qualified head coach to win the World Cup.

Although he praised Mohsin Khan's as a coach, Ashraf said: "No doubt the team...

Pakistan has narrowed the gap with the top four sides in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test Championship table after beating the world number-one team, England by 3-0 in the three-Test...

Lingerie Football League's final in Las Vegas was a sight to behold as scantily-clad women wearing only helmets, sports bras, knickers, garters, and shoulder, knee and elbow pads heated up millions...

A British school has launched a week-long programme in which students will be taught how to learn from failure, no matter whether they come across it during exams or on the sports field.

Education...

Washington (ANI): In the final three minutes of last night's Super Bowl, a new Twitter record was set for the highest amount of tweets sent per second during a sports match.

The final 180 seconds of...

Pakistan's cricket team has been lauded for its historic win against England in the three-match Test series played at Dubai.

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan Monday...

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador will lose his 2010 Tour de France title and be excluded from this year's Tour as well as the 2012 Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday in its...

Italian Fabio Capello's future as the England manager is doubtful after he criticised Football Association (FA) decision to strip Chelsea defender John Terry of national team captaincy.

Capello told...

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president N Srinivasan on Monday said that he is open to the idea of having a dialogue with Sahara India Parivar to try and resolve the dispute that led...

England manager Fabio Capello has blasted the Football Association (FA) for removing John Terry from England's captaincy.

He is annoyed with the FA after Terry was axed as England's captain after...

A school in London has taken up an initiative to teach children to learn from failure in exams and on the sports field.

Education experts have welcomed the move, which is being seen as a bid to...

LAKELAND | Diane Werrick, the athletic director at George Jenkins High School, has resigned less than a week after a school clerical error eliminated the school's boys soccer team from...

His coach didn't think so, but Timberwolves forward Kevin Love called Monday's NBA-imposed, two-game suspension "warranted" and vowed he won't step on anybody's face and...

INDIANAPOLIS - You can only wonder what was spinning through Eli Manning's mind that Sunday afternoon not that long ago, his expression so very glum and pensive. It was a week before Christmas...

Derrick Williams tweeted a seven-word message Saturday night that didn't require too much effort reading between the lines. "Anybody ever felt like a caged lion?" the Timberwolves...

The razzing just kept going. But what did Nate Prosser expect? Prosser signed his two-year contract extension with the Wild before the team's practice Monday at Xcel Energy Center. During...

LINCOLN, NEB. - Some look at a college basketball practice facility and see a necessary part of a successful puzzle. Others see an effective tool for netting the best young players. Still others look...

Born less than a year before the first girls' state hockey tournament, Alyson Niesen grew up with the sport in Richfield. She watched the Spartans' varsity girls' hockey players and...

In this July 25, 2010 file photo, three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain holds aloft the Spanish national flag during a victory lap after winning the Tour de France cycling race...

Today we are a convenience-based society, wanting everything fast and even faster.The last time you lined up at Big W or McDonalds, I bet you were guessing, hoping and jockeying for position to find...

The 34-year-old starred in the one-day win over India on Sunday at the MCG, smashing an unbeaten 61 from 31 balls.Hussey said he has probably survived 14 axings from the Australian team during his...

It says it will withdraw the ads that were displayed on the boundary rope during seven matches between Australia and India after learning they could be promoting tobacco.Spokesman Peter Young said...

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish hailed the return of Luis Suarez after an eight-game ban and once again insisted that he should not have been suspended in the first...

Cricket News: Dubai, Winning captain Misbah-ul Haq said his team's 3-0 routing of world number one England sends a strong message to the cricketing world -- Pakistan is a power and should be...

Cricket News: Lahore, The continuing freeze on Indo-Pak bilateral cricket is "frustrating", says Shoaib Akhtar but the former pacer does not agree with PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf's...

After last week's victory over Barak Netanya, Hapoel Jerusalem bosses were convinced their team had turned over a new leaf and was on its way back to the upper reaches of the Super League...

Despite enjoying a 12-point lead over his nearest rival, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona coach Ran Ben Shimon isn't quite ready to break out the championship champagne just yet. It would seem that he is...

In football, players and coaches have the right to challenge a decision. Sunday night's Super Bowl reminded me just how far global soccer is from meeting the challenges it faces in the 21st...

Omer Golan has done a lot for Maccabi Petah Tikva. The striker has passed up a lucrative contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv and had his pick of the litter when returning to Israel from his two-year stint...

I avoided joining the orgy of coverage for National Signing Day, which is most notable not for the superstar high schoolers committing to play at the biggest football schools, but for...

Ian Bell has been dropped from England's one-day and Twenty20 squads for the ongoing series against Pakistan in the UAE. The squads feature two new players in left-arm spinner Danny Briggs and...

Magic Johnson, Jon Barry, Michael Wilbon, and Chris Broussard discuss the significance of Kobe Bryant passing Shaquille O'Neal on the all-time scoring...

Blog After the play, Anthony hobbled to the other end of the floor, clutching his upper thigh.He called timeout on the Knicks' next possession and was looked at by Knicks trainers before...

Orlando Magic Monday night. Instead the mood in the Clippers' locker room was quiet and subdued as players and coaches worried about the seriousness of an Achilles tendon injury...

NORMAN, Okla. -- Sandwiched between an emotionally charged victory against archrival Kansas and a top 10 showdown with first place on the line, Missouri faced a test of its collective focus.The...

Orlando Magic 107-102 in overtime Monday night. But they may have lost one of the veteran cogs for the foreseeable future after guard Chauncey Billups left in the fourth quarter with a possible...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Sandwiched between an emotionally charged victory against archrival Kansas and a top 10 showdown with first place on the line, No. 4 Missouri faced a test of its collective...