Disgraced sprinter Montgomery to be sentenced on fraud charge
Onetime 100m world record-holder Tim Montgomery was due to be sentenced in a check-fraud scheme Friday as his slide from the pinnacle of the sports world continues.
Sprinter Chambers admits to taking seven-drug cocktail
Dwain Chambers was taking a cocktail of seven banned drugs when he was caught doping in 2003, the disgraced British sprinter has revealed as part of his bid to be allowed to run in the Olympics.
Ryan Sidebottom took his first wickets of the series as England reduced New Zealand to 260 for eight at lunch on the second day of the first Test at Lord's here Friday.
South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Friday that has given him an Olympic Games lifeline.
Defending champion Roger Federer booked his place in the semi-finals of the Hamburg Masters Series with a straight sets win over Spain's Fernando Verdasco on Friday.
Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has dropped a potential bombshell on the club by telling Spanish television he could consider his future following the Champions League final on May 21.
Rafael Benitez has moved to bolster Liverpool's local links by bringing homegrown former midfielder Sammy Lee back to the club as his assistant manager.
The price of oil rocketed to a record high point of 127.43 dollars per barrel on Friday, as US President George W. Bush prepared to urge Saudi Arabia to pump more crude, analysts said.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe accused opposition followers Friday of terrorising villagers and supporters of his ruling ZANU-PF party, warning that they were "playing a dangerous game".
Myanmar's military regime will take foreign diplomats into the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta region on Saturday in the first such trip since the storm hit on May 2-3, Western diplomats said.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe admitted at a meeting of his ruling party Friday that his loss in a first-round of presidential elections in the country had been "disastrous."
US President George W. Bush arrived in Riyadh on Friday from Israel on a visit to Saudi Arabia that will last less than 24 hours, an AFP correspondent reported.
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