Tantrums, trickery and tragedies at the FIFA World Cup games over the years.
Cross examination of murder-accused Paralympian Oscar Pistorius continued for the sixth day on Monday, with State Prosecutor Gerrie Nel trying to show the court that Pistorius's testimony was not unreliable and not true.
A sports tribunal has stripped points from a Brazilian club because its fans racially abused a referee during a match, causing its relegation in a regional championship in southern Brazil.
About 200 supporters of Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea fought in a city center street prior to their teams' Champions League quarterfinal match on Wednesday.
Uruguayan soccer has lost its leadership with little more than two months before its national team is to compete in the World Cup.
A man was shot in the leg during clashes between rival fans outside Brazil's Castelao Arena, one of 12 stadiums to be used for this year's World Cup.
Honduran police say they are looking for three men who opened fire at a soccer game in a village near the capital city of Tegucigalpa, killing five people.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward is expected to be sidelined for at least four weeks with a broken jaw after being hit by a pitch from Mets starter Jon Niese in New York on Wednesday.
At lease three people died in a shooting incident at a sports club near the southern German city of Heidelberg on Tuesday evening.
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is due in court on Wednesday to face charges in the worst mass-casualty attack on US soil since September 11, 2001.
Police in rural Brazil have detained one man and were seeking two others in the slaying of a soccer referee who was killed, dismembered and decapitated by spectators after he stabbed a player to death mid-match, a police official said Monday.
One man has been arrested in northern Brazil after a referee who fatally stabbed an amateur player over his refusal to leave the field was decapitated by a mob, police said on Saturday.
A bomb planted near a yard where people were playing soccer in Iraq killed 12 people on Sunday, police and medics said.
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