Ticket prices for China's National Games in Shenyang will stick to its low rate, in order to encourage the participation of the mass audience.
Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona got his contract as honorary sports ambassador extended for a second year by the Dubai Sports Council.
More than 551,000 tickets were sold before the first day of the Kazan Universiade and that set a record in the history of Universiade.
Thanks for the memories Roger and Rafa, but it's the Novak and Andy show now.
A glance at the list of men's singles champions at Wimbledon the past dozen years reveals plenty of pleasant-enough looking chaps, though not a single slam-dunk male model in the bunch.
OK, let's just see what I got right about Wimbledon this year.
Ewen McKenzie was named as new coach of the Wallabies on Tuesday after the Australian Rugby Union decided to part ways with New Zealander Robbie Deans.
Atletico Madrid reached an agreement to sign Spain striker David Villa from Spanish champion Barcelona on Monday, in what could be one of the bargain deals of the offseason.
Bayern Munich announced Monday striker Mario Gomez will join Italian side Fiorentina.
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.
Chinese pair Xue Chen and Zhang Xi beat Karla Borge and Britta Buthe of Germany 18-21, 21-17, 21-19 in a nail-biting final to win the women's title at the beach volleyball world championships on Saturday.
Chinese diver Lin Jin retained his title of the men's 1 meter springboard at the Kazan Universiade here on Monday.
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