LONDON - Juventus relied on its warrior instincts, according to midfielder Blaise Matuidi, as it stunned Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 to reach the Champions League quarterfinals 4-3 on aggregate at Wembley on Wednesday.
MANCHESTER - With its first home loss in 15 months, Manchester City ended up stumbling into the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wednesday.
LONDON - Mauricio Pochettino said Tottenham Hotspur had nothing to be ashamed of after three minutes of madness ended its Champions League challenge in a painful 2-1 defeat against Juventus at Wembley.
Leicester City confirmed on Wednesday that star winger Riyad Mahrez is not quitting soccer after a post appeared on the player's Facebook page announcing he was retiring.
MILWAUKEE - The Houston Rockets occasionally had trouble holding on to the ball and keeping up with the young Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.
DeMar DeRozan scored 42 points, then fed Fred VanVleet for the tiebreaking jumper from the left corner with 1.1 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 121-119 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.
MONACO - American track legend Michael Johnson says athletics has to be able to stand on its own two feet and not rely on personalities raising its profile in the post-Usain Bolt era.
Aiming for a respectable showing at the 2022 Winter Olympics, China is looking beyond its borders to recruit qualified hockey players with ancestral ties to the country.
In faraway Riga, Latvia, the Kunlun Red Star Juniors wrapped up their "home" season in Russia's top amateur hockey league this week.
Ricardo Goulart definitely has a sense of drama.
PARIS - Beleaguered Paris Saint-Germain coach Unai Emery said there was no shame in losing to Real Madrid after the expensively-assembled French side crashed out of the Champions League on Tuesday.
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