Midfielder Ibrahim Afellay said he was prepared to fight for his place in the Barcelona team after completing his transfer from PSV Eindhoven on Friday. (more…)

Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez has been robbed of about $500,000 in a systematic attack on his back account.

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Andy Murray will be staying with coach Alex Corretja for the first half of 2011. (more…)

Alex Ferguson became Manchester United’s longest-serving manager on Sunday with his team topping the Premier League but with heavy snow denying him the chance to mark the milestone with a win over title rival Chelsea. (more…)

Rafael Nadal says he hopes that Alberto Contador’s doping case will be cleared up soon to stop the “tremendous damage” caused to all sports. (more…)

Hannover has extended the contract of striker Didier Ya Konan by two years until 2014.

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Struggling Osasuna won only their second point away from home all season as they stormed back to draw 3-3 against Valencia and put a dent in their rival’s Champions League hopes on Monday.

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Liga de Quito won the Ecuador first-division title Sunday for its 10th league championship, despite a 1-0 loss to Emelec in the two-leg final. (more…)

Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri has admitted to sneaking a glance at the Serie A table after his side rose to second with a 1-0 win at Genoa. (more…)

Martina Navratilova was hospitalized in Kenya because of fluid accumulation in her lungs after attempting to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. The 54-year-old tennis great is expected to recover. (more…)

Mike Tyson and I were sitting around a few months back, talking about life.His life, that is, a subject Tyson seems to find almost as fascinating as a lot of other people do. (more…)

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has hit out at Fifa for handing Russia the chance to host the 2018 World Cup ahead of England. (more…)

Bundesliga leader Borussia Dortmund will be without leading striker Lucas Barrios for the Europa League game against Karpaty Lviv on Thursday and Sunday’s Bundesliga match against Nuremberg.

Dortmund says Barrios suffered a right-knee injury in the 4-1 victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday.

Mike Stojanovic, a goal-scoring threat for Canada’s national team as well as several clubs in the defunct North American Soccer League, has died. He was 63 and will be buried today, Saturday in Campbellville, Ontario. (more…)

Poultry giant Venky’s has become the first Indian company to own an English Premier League club after completing its takeover of Blackburn. (more…)

Jean Junior Monuma Constant scored the only goal to earn Haiti a surprise 1-0 win over Qatar in a friendly at the Khalifa Stadium on Thursday. (more…)

England’s Football Association says construction of a national soccer center will begin in January, almost a decade after the plans were first unveiled. (more…)

Palmeiras doctors say Chile midfielder Jorge Valdivia has a left leg muscle injury that will likely keep him sidelined for the rest of the year. (more…)

It was a slim victory for BATE against Sheriff in Thursday’s Europa League action to stay in first place in Group E, while Dynamo Kyiv moved to second place after a 1-2 win at AZ. (more…)

Internazionale manager Rafael Benítez believes almost throwing away a 4-0 lead against Tottenham Hotspur can teach the European champions a ‘lesson’ on how to defend their lead. (more…)