
Australia fines, suspends Warner after bar attack
David Warner heaped more embarrassment on Australia's embattled cricket team ahead of the Ashes when the hot-headed batsman was suspended Thursday and ...

Warner axed by Australia after bar-room fight
Australia batsman David Warner was dropped for his team's Champions Trophy washout against New Zealand on Wednesday for attacking England player Joe ...

Greek gov't in deep crisis over state broadcaster
Greece's fragile governing coalition failed to reach a compromise Wednesday about the closure of the state-run ERT broadcaster. That left the ...

Archery soaring after London Olympic success
From blockbuster movies to hit TV shows to greater Olympic exposure, archery seems to be hitting all the right targets. Elite archers are competing ...
IOC opens TV rights bidding in Asia
The IOC has opened the bidding process for broadcast rights in Asia for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee says it will ...
Bach pushes Olympic TV network proposal
Olympic sports will lose young fans and viewers unless the IOC sets up its own television channel to broadcast events in the years between the games, ...

Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams dead at 91
As a teenager, Esther Williams dreamed of Olympic glory on the U.S. swim team. She had to settle instead for becoming a movie star. The self-described ...

Bach proposes changes to Olympic sports process
IOC presidential candidate Thomas Bach is calling for "flexibility" in determining which sports are in the Olympics and proposing a review of the host ...

Retirement tests if Beckham built lasting brand
David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up.
Channel 10 wins Australian TV rights for Sochi
The International Olympic Committee has awarded the Australian broadcast rights for next year's Sochi Winter Games to Channel 10. The deal, which was ...

BBC sportscaster Hall admits 14 indecent assaults
Veteran BBC sportscaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to 14 indecent assaults on underage girls, including one who was just 9 years old, prompting the ...
UK TV pulls terrorist satire after Boston bombings
A British television channel is pulling a comedy about a group of hapless terrorists from its schedule in the wake of the deadly Boston Marathon ...

Bayern tops AP rankings; Ronaldo is best player
Bayern Munich's players are used to scoring goals for fun, but this time it was the club netting a hat-trick as the German Bundesliga champion was ...
Boston Marathon headlines from world newspapers
Front page newspaper headlines from around the world about the bombings at the Boston Marathon: ___ "Bomb carnage at marathon" — The Daily Telegraph, ...
EBU gets TV rights for WCup, Euro qualifying
UEFA's marketing partner has sold television rights to qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup and 2016 European Championship to the European ...

Carlos Slim's company wins Olympic TV rights
Mexican magnate Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, secured the Latin American broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics on Friday. The IOC ...
Redknapp hits out at newspaper allegations
Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp says newspaper allegations likening the squad's recent training camp in Dubai to a "stag party" are way off ...
ESPN selling British channels to BT Group
ESPN is withdrawing from British and Irish television, announcing Monday that its channels are being sold to the BT Group. The U.S. sports network ...

Newspapers around the world run with Pistorius
Photographs of Oscar Pistorius, some with a gray hood covering his head and others with him running in the Olympic Stadium in London, were splashed ...

Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches
It was in the final minutes of a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started ...

Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics
For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...

Soccer faces epic fight against match-fixing
Soccer is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly ...

US ski success not sitting well with the Austrians
The U.S. Ski Team's success at the world championships is not being well received by the Austrian hosts. Led by Ted Ligety's two golds, plus a bronze ...
Correction: Cuba-Television story
In a story Feb. 10 about the network Telesur in Cuba, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A corrected ...