BARCELONA - French wonderkid Ousmane Dembele on Monday shrugged off comparisons with Neymar and insisted he still has much to learn, despite becoming the second most expensive player in history as he was presented by Barcelona.
LONDON - England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is set to join Premier League champion Chelsea from Arsenal, according to British media reports on Monday.
LONDON - Having been torn to pieces in its humiliating 4-0 loss at Liverpool on Sunday, a similar fate befell Arsenal in the post-match postmortems.
SHANGHAI - Marcello Lippi said he is desperately short of attacking options, but China's veteran Italian coach has told his players not to give up hope of reaching next year's World Cup.
After flirting with becoming an Asian soccer power for much of the past 25 years, Uzbekistan could finally clinch a place at the sport's top table over the next two weeks.
NEW YORK - When Maria Sharapova's first Grand Slam match after a 15-month doping suspension ended with Monday's first-round victory at the US Open, she dropped to her knees and covered her face, tears welling in her eyes.
NEW YORK - The absence of several top players might be a concern for the US Open organizers but it provides a unique opportunity for some new faces of the sport to prove their worth, according to former world No 1 Mats Wilander.
NEW YORK - Volatile Australian Bernard Tomic admitted on Monday that he's "not the smartest guy in the world" but insisted he has no regrets over his frequent controversial outbursts.
GLASGOW - Denmark's Viktor Axelsen realized his childhood dream by beating the legendary Lin Dan in straight games to claim the men's singles gold at the Badminton World Championships on Sunday.
TIANJIN - Olympic table tennis champion Ma Long is facing arguably the toughest challenge of his career as his creaking body puts added strain on his title defense at the Chinese National Games in Tianjin this week.
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