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AEG, owner of LA's Kings, Staples arena, for sale
Anschutz Entertainment Group, the owner of the Staples Center arena and the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, and the top contender to build a stadium and ...
Man United's loss widens on disappointing season
Manchester United on Tuesday reported a wider loss for its fiscal fourth quarter after the celebrated soccer club was knocked out of lucrative ...
Column: Arsenal, the real deal without Van Persie
Sshhh! Don't say this too loudly, but early signs point to Arsenal being a genuine Premier League title contender. Gervinho, the forward so mediocre ...
Obama, Romney square off on China, jobs
Competing for white working-class voters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney squared off Saturday on China and accused each other of ...
Column: Much ado in NFL and England on handshakes
This weekend, the two kinds of football played on opposite shores of the Atlantic for once have a shared fascination — handshakes. Which is stunning, ...
FA apologizes for part in Hillsborough tragedy
The English Football Association apologized Thursday to the city of Liverpool and the families of 96 fans who died in the Hillsborough stadium tragedy ...
Column: Not-So-Great Britain learning to win again
Learning to lose used to be as British as warm beer and milky tea. Growing up in Not-So-Great Britain post-1966, when England football fans last had ...
UK police blamed the dead for 1989 stadium tragedy
British police and medics whose failures contributed to the deaths of 96 soccer fans in the country's worst sports disaster unfairly blamed the dead ...
US bounces back to beat Jamaica 1-0 Gomez's goal
Spurred on by a roaring crowd decked out in red, white and blue, the United States used all of that emotion as fuel to pull off a significant World ...
Murray caps Britain's golden sports summer
First came the victory in the Tour de France. Then there were the stacks of medals at a dazzling Olympics at home. If that weren't enough to lift the ...
Murray's victory caps amazing summer for Britain
After reveling in a rousing Olympic summer of sporting success, Britain awoke Tuesday to another major milestone: Finally, after 76 years of waiting, ...
Murray finally wins Grand Slam with US Open title
For Andy Murray, and for Britain, this was all rather fitting. Forced into a fifth set, despite winning the first two, against defending champion ...
US Open men's final moved to Monday again
With a potentially dangerous storm bearing down on the U.S. Open, play was suspended in the first set of defending champion Novak Djokovic's semifinal ...
US women beat Germany 1-0 to win U20 World Cup
The United States won the women's under-20 World Cup for the third time, defeating defending champion Germany 1-0 Saturday on a goal by Kealia Ohai ...
Jamaica beats US 2-1 in World Cup qualifier
After Clint Dempsey scored the fastest U.S. goal in World Cup qualifying, the Americans played a listless game, lost to Jamaica for the first time and ...
FIFA sets date for SKorea Olympic banner case
A South Korea soccer player who displayed a political sign after the bronze-medal match at the London Olympics will have his disciplinary case heard ...
Column: History-maker Pistorius a hypocrite, too?
Imagine if an athlete checked into a clinic to get his legs artificially lengthened, then came back to beat Usain Bolt over 200 meters on surgically ...
US, Germany in final of women's U20 WCup
The United States beat Nigeria 2-0 on Tuesday and will play defending champion Germany for the women's under-20 World Cup title. Morgan Brian scored ...
USA women's soccer coach Sundhage to step down
The U.S. women's soccer team's post-Olympic victory tour also will be a goodbye tour. Coach Pia Sundhage is stepping down, returning to her native ...
Former player sues DC United over concussion
A former D.C. United defender has filed a $12 million lawsuit against the team and former coach Thomas Soehn, saying they rushed him back onto the ...
Venice opener seeks to expose divisive stereotypes
Director Mira Nair views her new film, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," as a chance to fulfill what she sees as her life's purpose: telling the stories ...
Donors standing by Lance Armstrong's foundation
Lance Armstrong's reputation may be permanently stained but in the eyes of corporate and individual donors, his charity still wears an unsullied ...
Ukraine opposition leader appeals to Europe court
Lawyers for Ukraine's jailed opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, appealed to Europe's human rights court Tuesday as her only hope for a fair hearing, ...
Column: Armstrong's fall is mind-boggling
On the hot road to this village in the deepest south of France, we passed the forbidding, barren mountain where Lance Armstrong, the cyclist, took a ...