FIFA's International Board agreed Saturday to halt all experiments with technology in soccer. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:41 pm
GLENEAGLES (Reuters) - Goal-line technology to determine whether a goal has been scored will not be used in football for the foreseeable future, the game's law-makers ruled on Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:35 pm
VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Winning the U.S. Olympic trials will be more difficult than capturing a gold in Beijing, world indoor shot put champion Christian Cantwell said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:24 pm
China's Liu Xiang will now be the clear favourite for the World Indoor Championships 60m hurdles title here on Saturday, after Cuba's Dayron Robles was surprisingly eliminated in the heats. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:14 pm
Roger Federer is at a sensitive stage of his brilliant career — one in which he has looked surprisingly vulnerable. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:13 pm
Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been released from hospital after being detained under mental health laws because of potentially threatening behaviour, it was reported... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:01 pm
Ted Ligety of the United States has won a men's World Cup giant slalom for his second career victory. Ligety was third after the first run and added the second best second run to win... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:59 pm
South Africa's Western Stormers climbed off the bottom of the Super 14 rugby standings with an bonus-point 34-16 win over Australia's Queensland Reds at Lang Park on Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:48 pm
Tottenham's UEFA Cup last-16 second-leg tie at PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday is under threat of being postponed due to a strike by Dutch police. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:42 pm
The Waikato Chiefs superior fitness saw them snatch a a late 22-20 victory over the Central Cheetahs in a cliffhanger Super 14 rugby match here Saturday. The Chiefs scored... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:41 pm
Championship leaders Wales were forced into a late change for their Six Nations rugby union international against Ireland here on Saturday when hooker Huw Bennett pulled out just hours... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:34 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists, expressed his support for the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, rejecting Chinese allegations that he was trying... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
Wales aim to seal the Triple Crown against Ireland in Dublin, while England travel to Murrayfield to face Scotland. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:27 pm
Japan's Daisuke Naito retained his World Boxing Council flyweight title here Saturday, fighting out a draw with former champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam of Thailand. There was... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:24 pm
David Gold criticises Sepp Blatter's outburst over Martin Taylors' tackle on Arsenal striker Eduardo. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:14 pm
AFP - With Manchester United otherwise engaged in pursuit of a trophy treble, Arsenal will relish the opportunity to steal a march over their rivals in the Premier League title race this weekend.
AP - Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period. Isenhour said it was a "one-in-a-million" golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces misdemeanor criminal charges for killing.
Man Utd face Portsmouth in the first FA Cup quarter-final, with four Premier League and Cup games later. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:31 am
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has questioned the wisdom of scheduling this year's FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:04 am
Avram Grant wants Chelsea to move beyond the Jose Mourinho era by playing an attacking style of football. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:56 am
Arsene Wenger will challenge his Arsenal team to run out at Wigan on Sunday and pick up where they left off against AC Milan in midweek. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:30 am
AP - Tom Coughlin cashed in on the New York Giants' improbable run to a Super Bowl title, agreeing to a four-year, $21 million contract that will make him one of the NFL's highest-paid coaches.
Dubai International Capital agreed late Friday to become a minority partner in Liverpool and is locked in negotiations to purchase a 49 percent stake in the Premier League club. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
Rafael Benitez has revealed Liverpool considered making a bid for former Kop hero Michael Owen last summer before signing Fernando Torres. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
AP - The Los Angeles Lakers found their long-range shooting touch in the second half against their crosstown rivals, then found themselves with the best record in the West.
Roger Federers intriguing season continues Monday with a singles match in New York that will not count in the rankings but has still managed to sell out 19,000 seats in Madison Square Garden. Federers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:36 am
There appears to be no room for him in regular rotation, leaving Scioscia to try to concoct a way to get his potent bat in the lineup. A trade is possible.
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Juan Rivera could start in the outfield for the Atlanta Braves, or the New York Mets, or the San Francisco Giants. Or he could sit on the bench for the Angels, a scenario that does not bother him.
Allison Jaskowiak found a support group to pull her from a dark period in her playing career.
The spring 2004 evaluation had not gone well. Allison Jaskowiak worked out for an hour for USC's new coach, and barely made a basket. Mark Trakh walked away shaking his head. He called the sophomore from Missouri into his office.
McCabe says foul that sent Collison to the line was 'not a game-appropriate call.'
Bill McCabe , the Pacific 10 supervisor of officials, criticized the call made by official Kevin Brill at the end of regulation in UCLA's 77-67 overtime victory over Stanford at Pauley Pavilion on Thursday night.
McCabe says foul that sent Collison to the line was 'not a game-appropriate call.' Bill McCabe , the Pacific 10 supervisor... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Like Moses leading his people out of the wilderness where they'd wandered for years, Commissioner David Stern arrived Friday and gazed over the land of milk and honey . . .
The last time Riverside King junior forward Kawhi Leonard played against Compton Dominguez, his father had been shot and killed the night before.
The last time Riverside King and Compton Dominguez played in a high school basketball game was Jan. 19 at Pauley Pavilion, and Kawhi Leonard was grieving.
Third baseman, who was competing with Garciaparra for the starting job, will have surgery and miss at least eight weeks.
VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Andy LaRoche fell out of the two-man race to be the Dodgers' starting third baseman Friday night, when a ligament in his right thumb was revealed to be torn and in need of surgery that will sideline him eight to 10 weeks.
Third baseman, who was competing with Garciaparra for the starting job, will have surgery and miss at least eight weeks. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Veteran will be the team's starting third baseman on opening day after LaRoche injures his thumb and will be out two months. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Maurice Simmons, a linebacker who signed a letter of intent with USC, was charged with felony robbery and assault with a firearm. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Like Moses leading his people out of the wilderness where they'd wandered for years, Commissioner David Stern arrived Friday and gazed over the land of milk and honey . . . Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Playing at the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, the 72-year-old South African golfer shows he still has a trim game and is an ambassador for the sport. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Playing at the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, the 72-year-old South African golfer shows he still has a trim game and is an ambassador for the sport.
The dapper little man in the black golf shirt and the flat stomach had just finished his round Friday in the Toshiba Classic stop on the Champions Tour.
Jeff Gordon, bouncing back from a hard crash in Las Vegas, felt a whole lot better Friday night after winning the pole for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Source: ESPN.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:38 am
Paul Pierce scored 22 points and Kevin Garnett added 16 and eight rebounds before the Celtics starters sat out the fourth quarter on Friday night in a 116-93 victory over the Chicago Bulls, Boston's seventh... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:35 am
Francisco Liriano faced a major league team for the first time in 18 months, gave up no runs and felt no pain. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:32 am
AP - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to crack down on spying next season with more inspections and harsher penalties, steps that follow the disciplining of the New England Patriots for taping opponents' signals.
The Seahawks reached an agreement in principle Friday night with Cowboys running back Julius Jones, the second running back move made by the team this week. Source: ESPN.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:58 am
AFP - Fourth seeded Argentine Guillermo Canas rolled over Amer Delic 6-4, 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the ATP Las Vegas tournament, putting an end to a string of upsets.
Jack Roush said he would most likely appeal the penalties levied against his driver Carl Edwards and the Office Depot team after the Sprint Cup race in Las Vegas. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:26 am
AP - Allen Iverson scored 29 points despite spraining his right ring finger in the first half and the Denver Nuggets snapped San Antonio's 11-game winning streak with a 109-96 statement win over the Spurs on Friday night.
Both Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada shared the designated hitter spot because of the same injury, a sore lat muscle, in the Yankees’ 9-5 loss to Houston on Friday. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:24 am
Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Andy LaRoche tore a ligament in his right thumb Friday and will need surgery that could sideline him for 8 to 10 weeks. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:23 am
Not much was normal about what unofficially counts as Pedro Martínez’s spring opener — not the site, not the hour and not the circumstances. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:23 am
Tripp Isenhour said that it was a “one-in-a-million” golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces criminal charges for killing. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:21 am
Tom Coughlin signed a four-year contract worth roughly $21 million to coach the Giants through 2011, completing a comeback on Friday just as surprising as the team’s recent championship run. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:20 am
Wide receiver Brandon Lloyd signed a one-year contract with the Chicago Bears and inadvertently stirred a quarterback controversy. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:19 am
Chris Paul had 25 points and 16 assists, and the New Orleans Hornets won their third straight game, 107-96 against the visiting Nets on Friday night. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:18 am
Post Don Imus, Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer has what every college basketball coach dreams of in a single incoming class — five McDonald’s all-Americans. Source: NYT > Sports | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:17 am
Marion Jones has begun her six-month sentence in federal prison for lying to investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs and her role in a check-fraud scam. Source: ESPN.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:05 am
New Zealand close day four of the first Test at 147-8 with a lead of 269 after a hat-trick from Ryan Sidebottom. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 4:51 am
Fourth-seeded Guillermo Canas of Chile remained the lone seeded player left in the Tennis Channel Open on Friday, beating American qualifier Amer Delic 6-4, 6-4 to reach the semifinals.
Duke-North Carolina showdowns usually turn into instant classics. But Saturday's 224th meeting is for much more than bragging rights, writes Stewart Mandel.
Defending champ Lance Mackey and his 14 dogs were the first team in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to pull into this Yukon River outpost. Source: ESPN.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 3:17 am
Junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton of England, one of the most popular fighters in the world, signed with Golden Boy Promotions on Thursday. Source: ESPN.com | 8 Mar 2008 | 2:25 am
Several squads were itching to call. But Alex Rodriguez wasn't about to answer. In fact, A-Rod never envisioned himself leaving the Yanks, says Jon Heyman.
Pakistan's Australian coach Geoff Lawson says terrorists win if Cricket Australia withdraws from its scheduled tour of Pakistan. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:31 am
Former champion sprinter Marion Jones reports to a Texas jail to begin a six-month sentence for drug use. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:15 pm
Roger Federer couldn't figure out why he felt so sluggish at the start of this season. His doctors eventually gave him an explanation: The world's No. 1 tennis player had mononucleosis.
Inter have been given a boost ahead of their clash with Reggina at the weekend with the return of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:27 pm
Arsenal's Arsene Wenger says he does not feel any more pressure this season to win a trophy than in years past. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:12 pm
AFP - With Manchester United otherwise engaged in pursuit of a trophy treble, Arsenal will relish the opportunity to steal a march over their rivals in the Premier League title race this weekend.
AP - Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period. Isenhour said it was a "one-in-a-million" golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces misdemeanor criminal charges for killing.
AP - Zach Parise stood much taller than his 5-foot-11 frame in the eyes of New Jersey coach Brent Sutter.
AP - Tom Coughlin cashed in on the New York Giants' improbable run to a Super Bowl title, agreeing to a four-year, $21 million contract that will make him one of the NFL's highest-paid coaches.
AP - Jack Roush says it ain't so. Not everyone believes him.
AP - The Los Angeles Lakers found their long-range shooting touch in the second half against their crosstown rivals, then found themselves with the best record in the West.
AP - Francisco Liriano faced a major league team for the first time in 18 months, gave up no runs and felt no pain.
AP - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants to crack down on spying next season with more inspections and harsher penalties, steps that follow the disciplining of the New England Patriots for taping opponents' signals.
AFP - Fourth seeded Argentine Guillermo Canas rolled over Amer Delic 6-4, 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the ATP Las Vegas tournament, putting an end to a string of upsets.
AP - Allen Iverson scored 29 points despite spraining his right ring finger in the first half and the Denver Nuggets snapped San Antonio's 11-game winning streak with a 109-96 statement win over the Spurs on Friday night.