Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin has withdrawn from playing for the US national basketball team this summer.
The Dallas Mavericks have signed former All-Star point guard Jameer Nelson as a free agent.
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Beijing will intensify its crackdown on illegal golf course construction.
The Dutch soccer association (KNVB) wants to postpone discussion over participation in the next World Cup in Russia as an angry country on Wednesday mourned victims of the Malaysian airliner allegedly shot down over Ukraine by armed separatists on a flight from Amsterdam last week.
Manchester United is prepared to break transfer records in order to give new manager Louis van Gaal the players he wants, according to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
Germany coach Joachim Loew said on Wednesday he never considered leaving his post after winning the World Cup title and insisted he would see out his contract, which runs until Euro 2016.
LeBron James was honored by the appearance of hundreds of fans who clutched his jersey or held up life-size cutouts of his face at a store in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing all 298 people on board, shocked the world just as the memory of missing MH370 was slowly beginning to fade.
The Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday night formally announced the opening of the 20th Commonwealth Games in Scotland's largest city of Glasgow.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Wednesday it is preparing for the 17th Asian Games and hopes its players and cheering squads would make the Asiad more enlivened and contribute to mending the stalled inter-Korean relations.
Colombia's World Cup superstar, James Rodriguez, was unveiled as Real Madrid's latest headline signing in front of tens of thousands of boisterous fans at Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.