Steven Gerrard's latest moment of inspiration failed to prevent Liverpool from dropping out of the Champions League on Tuesday, with Basel securing a 1-1 draw to advance to the knockout stage at the expense of the five-time champions.

The Swiss visitors secured the point they required at Anfield to advance alongside Group B winner Real Madrid — but only after hanging on against 10 men in the face of a late Reds onslaught instigated by their captain's 81st-minute equalizer.

Memphis withstood 18 3-pointers by Dallas to beat the Mavericks 114-105 on Tuesday, with Marc Gasol's 30 points helping the Grizzlies to a victory that moved them back to the top of the NBA's Southwest Division.

The Grizzlies moved above idle Houston, while elsewhere, LeBron James led Cleveland to an eighth-straight win, his former team Miami ended a four-game skid by beating Phoenix and Utah ended a longer run of defeats.

Two clinical finishes from Robin van Persie gave Manchester United a 2-1 victory against Southampton in the Premier League on Monday, despite the visitors being pegged back for much of the game at St. Mary's.

Van Persie scored with United's only two efforts on target to give Louis van Gaal's side its fifth win a row and overtake Southampton in third place. Southampton dropped to fifth behind West Ham after its third straight loss against the teams it hopes to challenge for a top-four spot — Manchester City, Arsenal and United.

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer finished off the India leg of the International Premier Tennis League with a highly-anticipated meeting between the two stars in front of a frenzied New Delhi crowd on Monday.

The one-set match between the two rivals ended in a 6-6 stalemate under the format rules, which meant Djokovic's UAE Royals team came away with a 29-22 win over Federer's Indian Aces.

Tiger Woods appears to be on the road to recovery again, only it's no longer a question of how soon before he reaches full speed.

There are a lot more cars on the road now.

Thomas Bach never thought it would be this easy.

In rapid fashion and without a single vote against or even an abstention, the International Olympic Committee on Monday overwhelmingly approved its president's 40-point reform package — the biggest shake-up of the organization in decades.

Former England striker Gary Lineker has criticized Arsenal supporters for verbally abusing the club's manager Arsene Wenger, describing it as "disgustingly disrespectful and totally inexcusable".

A video has emerged apparently showing a group of people shouting foul-mouthed abuse at Wenger as he boarded a train after his side's 3-2 loss at Stoke City on Saturday.

A Ukrainian Premier League football match has been abandoned after angry fans chased the referee off the pitch and stopped him leaving the stadium.

With their team losing 2-1 to Metalist Kharkiv after 87 minutes and incensed at what they saw as biased decisions from Dmytro Kutakov, fans of Volyn Lutsk stormed the pitch.

Lionel Messi scored another hat trick to reach the 400-goal mark for Barcelona and spark his team's 5-1 comeback victory over Espanyol in the Catalan capital derby on Sunday, keeping the winners second in the Spanish league.

Messi matched Cristiano Ronaldo's three-goal performance in Real Madrid's win the day before to ensure Barcelona stayed within two points of its fierce rivals at the top of the table. It was Messi's third hat trick in two weeks, having also netted three goals against Sevilla in the league and at APOEL in the Champions League.

Five-time winner Liverpool and the champions of England and Italy are among the 11 teams competing for five remaining spots in the knockout stage of the Champions League going into the final round of group games.

Liverpool has been a let-down on its return to Europe's top competition after a five-year absence, but can still qualify as runner-up behind Real Madrid in Group B by beating FC Basel at Anfield on Tuesday.