World Cup sensation James Rodriguez is in line to make his Real Madrid debut when the European champions tackle Europa League winners Sevilla in Tuesday's all-Spanish UEFA Super Cup in Cardiff.
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Rory McIlroy put himself among golf's greatest legends Sunday by winning his fourth major title in dramatic fashion, capturing the PGA Championship in a shotmakers' showdown at rain-softened Valhalla.
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Frank Maloney, the man behind Britain's former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis's march to the top, is undergoing a sex change and living as a woman called Kellie, she told the Sunday Mirror.
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won the Toronto Masters with a win over Roger Federer, two years after injuring himself at the same event in a freak collision with a fire hydrant.
French 13th seed Tsonga hit 11 aces and 26 winners to win Sunday's final 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) while Federer, two days after his 33rd birthday, was undone by 37 unforced errors.
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Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri has confirmed his retirement from international football with France.
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Roger Federer advanced to the Rogers Cup final Saturday night, beating Spain's Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4 to set up a match against upset-happy Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
The second-ranked Federer is seeking his third titles of the year. He has 79 career titles and is a 17-time Grand Slam champion.
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Fourty-four French riot and para-military police officers were injured when clashes broke out after a football match between Marseille and Bastia, the interior ministry said Sunday.
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Former NASCAR racing champion Tony Stewart is being investigated by police after an incident on the race track at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park on Saturday night, the U.S. media reported.
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Serena and Venus Williams will clash in the semi-finals of the Montreal WTA tournament after the American sisters battled through tough three-setters in the quarter-finals on Friday.
World number one Serena outlasted Caroline Wozniacki to clinch a 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory, while Venus also came from a set down to end the run of Spanish 14th seed Carla Suarez Navarro, the third round conqueror of Maria Sharapova, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
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Olympic great Michael Phelps settled for silver in the 100m butterfly at the U.S. Swimming Championships on Friday, falling by one one-hundredth of a second to Tom Shields.
Hours after throwing down the fastest time in the world this year of 51.17sec in qualifying, Phelps let the tension of the final -- and the pressure of trying to qualify for the Pan Pacific Championships -- get to him just a little.
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