utch police arrested four English and 34 Dutch soccer fans for drunk and disorderly behaviour on Wednesday before England's friendly with the Netherlands at the Amsterdam Arena.
Alemannia Aachen's Slovak international striker Slizard Nemeth was released from hospital on Wednesday after a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, the club said.
Angola were forced to cancel a friendly international in Tanzania on Wednesday because their charter flight failed to materialise, the state news agency ANGOP reported.
Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.
Euro 2008 organisers are facing a possible legal challenge over alleged similarities between the tournament's mascots and two well known German cartoon characters.
The fight against illegal drugs in sport is making progress, but some sports, notably cycling and soccer, are not doing enough, says World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Dick Pound.
Adidas AG said Wednesday that its second-quarter net profit rose 24 percent as consumers snapped up its World Cup-related merchandise and the effects of its acquisition of Reebok took hold.