Grosjean desperate to win race and end barren run
Romain Grosjean is desperate to win a Formula One race — if only to keep the talk about 1996 quiet. Olivier Panis is the last French driver to win a ...

Next EPL season could be most unpredictable ever
Get ready for the Premier League like you've never seen it before. No Alex Ferguson. No Roberto Mancini. The expected return of Jose Mourinho.

Arsenal into Champions League, Ferguson bows out
Arsenal qualified for the Champions League for the 16th straight season after edging Tottenham to fourth place in the Premier League, as Alex Ferguson ...

Ferguson's managerial career ends with 5-5 draw
Alex Ferguson. Former Manchester United manager. At the end of his 1,500th game in charge of Man United on Sunday, the 71-year-old Scot bowed in front ...

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.

Column: Love or hate Beckham, he can't be ignored
Like his former Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson, David Beckham has picked the right time and best way to retire — as a winner and before the ...

Beckham to retire from football at end of season
David Beckham is retiring from soccer, ending a career in which he transcended the sport with forays into fashion and a marriage to a pop star that ...

Ups and downs in David Beckham's career
Some up and downs in the career of David Beckham, who said Thursday he would retire from football at the end of the season: ___ Up: Signs professional ...

David Beckham career highlights
Highlights in the career of David Beckham, who said Thursday he will retire from football at the end of the season: 1975 — Born May 2 in Leytonstone, ...

Murray retires with back pain; Nadal wins in Rome
Back pain forced Andy Murray to retire midway through his second-round match at the Italian Open on Wednesday. He may have to sit out the French Open, ...

Murray retires with back pain; doubtful for Paris
Andy Murray retired from his second-round match with Spanish opponent Marcel Granollers at the Italian Open on Wednesday with lower back pain and ...
Rio Ferdinand retires from international football
England defender Rio Ferdinand has retired from international football to focus on his Manchester United career. Ferdinand was recalled to the England ...

Fans celebrate United's title win during parade
In front of tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting fans, Manchester United players and retiring manager Alex Ferguson paraded the Premier ...
United's Scholes retires for 2nd and final time
Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes is retiring for a second and final time, ending a career that saw him regarded as one of the most ...

Alex Ferguson prepares for Old Trafford farewell
For almost 27 years, Old Trafford has witnessed Alex Ferguson venting his anger from the dugout, berating officials, anxiously checking his watch and ...
Triathlete Hempel retires after 2nd doping offense
Austrian triathlete Hannes Hempel has retired after failing a drug test, three years after being banned for his involvement in the doping case of ...

British fighter Audley Harrison retires at 41
Former Olympic champion Audley Harrison has retired from professional boxing. At the 2000 Sydney Games, Harrison became the first British fighter to ...

Amaechi: British footballers wary of coming out
The advice John Amaechi gave to Jason Collins before the NBA veteran came out is very different to what he tells the gay football players he knows in ...

Gay athletes have come out while active or retired
Even before Jason Collins, plenty of other athletes around the world have come out as gay, either while still active or in retirement. From Martina ...

Cyclist Hoy retires after winning 6 Olympic golds
Six-time gold medalist Chris Hoy retired from cycling Thursday, saying he had expended "every last ounce of effort and energy" in becoming Britain's ...
Dutch judoka Edith Bosch announces retirement
Edith Bosch, the 2005 judo world champion who made headlines at the London Olympics by tackling a man who threw a plastic bottle on the track just ...

Michael Owen to retire at end of season
Former England striker Michael Owen will retire at the end of the Premier League season, concluding the 16-year career of a once-prolific forward that ...
Italy's Lo Cicero retires from international rugby
Italy's most capped player, Andrea Lo Cicero, will retire from international rugby after Saturday's final Six Nations match against Ireland.
Ex-world snowboard champion Neururer set to retire
Former snowboard world champion Heidi Neururer of Austria says Sunday's World Cup parallel giant slalom in Arosa, Switzerland, will be her last race.