MIAMI (Reuters) - Colombian Camilo Villegas is the fans' favorite at Doral this week but he is keen to keep his focus on the course and not on the legions of Spanish speaking supporters who follow him.
Villegas heads into Thursday's WGC-CA Championship, featuring an elite 30-man field, in excellent ...More
ARLINGTON, Texas (Reuters) - Ghana's Joshua Clottey will target Filipino Manny Pacquiao's body for punishment when the two clash in Dallas this weekend.
Seven-time world champion Pacquiao's WBO world welterweight title is on the line and Clottey intends to soften up his opponent.
"I will go to his ...More
DOHA (Reuters) - Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang's chances of defending his world indoor title this weekend are almost impossible, one of his country's top coaches said on Wednesday.
"He felt he should come," Feng Shuyong, technical leader of the Chinese world championship team, said of Liu's first global ...More
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - An Olympic mystery was solved on Wednesday when officials said they had located the stick Sidney Crosby used to win the men's hockey gold medal for Canada at the Vancouver Games.
The stick, along with one of Crosby's gloves, disappeared during the chaotic on-ice celebrations following ...More
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The Atlanta Thrashers recalled 48-year-old defenseman Chris Chelios from the minors on Wednesday, adding veteran leadership to their line-up for a playoff push.
Chelios, who is 11 years older than the next oldest Atlanta player, is the National Hockey League's oldest active player.
Hall of Famer Gordie ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones signed a contract Wednesday to play with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock in a bid to revive her athletic career.
The WNBA marks a second chance for Jones, who was stripped of five Olympic medals for using performance-enhancing drugs and sent to ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six-times All-Star Nomar Garciaparra retired Wednesday after signing a one-day contract with the Boston Red Sox so he could end his career with the team he made his mark with.
The 36-year-old Garciaparra, one of baseball's best shortstops during his prime, played nine of his 14 ...More
MILAN (Reuters) - Germany's Linus Gerdemann grabbed victory in the first stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Wednesday, the first big stage race of the Italian season.
The Milram rider beat off second-placed Spaniard Pablo Lastras of Caisse d'Epargne while Denmark's Matti Breschel was third for Saxo Bank.
The ...More
DOHA (Reuters) - American world indoor sprint favorite Ivory Williams has tested positive for marijuana and ruled ineligible for the world championships, costing the event one of its key match-ups, officials said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said Williams had tested positive for a metabolite of marijuana at ...More
AURILLAC, France (Reuters) - Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan claimed a shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race Wednesday while Alberto Contador showed in a nervy finale he had regained confidence two days after crashing.
The twice Tour de France champion lost balance in the final sprint after 153 km from St ...More
