Second-seeded Maria Kirilenko of Russia won the Torneo Barcelona on Sunday with a comfortable 6-0, 6-2 victory over Spanish wild card Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in the final.
Top seed Roger Federer takes the Gerry Weber Open title in Halle, Germany, with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Philipp Kohlschreiber. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 2:52 pm
In an instant replay plan currently being considered by MLB, video review of disputed calls would take place at a central location and would be the responsibility of the umpire crew chief at each game, according to a memo obtained by ESPN The Magazine. Source: ESPN.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 2:49 pm
Scotland's Allan McNish leads Audi to their fifth straight victory in the Le Mans 24 Hour sportscar race. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:52 pm
With group victory and a quarterfinal place already secured, the Netherlands have to decide who to rest. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:43 pm
Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has a message for the Netherlands: the Dutch beat his team and France so easily in the first round that they ought to help out the World Cup champion and runner-up so they can face them again in the semifinals. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:43 pm
Having been eliminated from the European Championship, Greece's only remaining aim is to shake off the mantle of the only team yet to score at this year's tournament. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:31 pm
Greece goalkeeper Antonis Nikopolidis will retire from international football after Wednesday's game with Spain - following the defending champion's elimination from the European Championship. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:31 pm
Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello, driving an Audi R10 TDI, won the 76th Le Mans 24 Hour Race here on Sunday. It was an eighth win for Dane Kristensen and a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:29 pm
All Times Eastern Interleague L.A. Dodgers vs Detroit, 1:05 p.m. San Diego vs Cleveland, 1:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs Toronto, 1:07 p.m. Texas vs N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m. (1st... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:12 pm
WEBSTER: Nick plays the Euro 2008 'scenario game' before dusting off his 'seriously cracked' crystal ball. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:34 pm
AP - Tiger Woods delivered a performance worthy of prime time Saturday in the U.S. Open. He kept an East Coast television audience and a sellout crowd at Torrey Pines in suspense when his left knee buckled and he nearly dropped to the ground from the sheer pain, limping along with his club as a cane. The drama came on the last six holes, when he turned a five-shot deficit into a one-shot lead.
Finland's Mikko Hirvonen moves to the top of the World Rally Championship standings after winning the Rally of Turkey. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:23 pm
Steve Harmison says that young cricketers could start honing their technique for Twenty20 cricket rather than Tests. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:17 pm
English referee Howard Webb will officiate Wednesday's Group C match between Greece and Spain despite being the subject of death threats. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:10 pm
New Zealand lose a second wicket as they chase England's 307-5 in the first one-day international at the Riverside. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:05 pm
What is celebrated in Austria as one of the nation's greatest football successes is known in neighboring Germany as the "Shame of Cordoba." Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 11:24 am
Austria team manager Andreas Herzog called on his players to ignore the baiting of Germany in a tabloid and stay focused if wants to beat the three-time champions on Monday at the European Championship. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 15 Jun 2008 | 10:34 am
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to field in the first one-day international against England at the Riverside here Sunday. Both teams made changes... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 10:24 am
Australian officials are in talks aimed at keeping the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne beyond 2010 but no deal has yet been signed, Victoria state's acting premier Rob Hulls said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:54 am
On the verge of a championship they have dreamed about since childhood, leaders of the Boston Celtics are fighting the urge to celebrate prematurely, knowing the elusive crown is still a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:43 am
AFP - On the verge of a championship they have dreamed about since childhood, leaders of the Boston Celtics are fighting the urge to celebrate prematurely, knowing the elusive crown is still a win away.
With speculation over his future reaching fever pitch, Cristiano Ronaldo insists he is only concentrating on the tougher challenges that lie ahead for Portugal at Euro 2008. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:16 am
AFP - With speculation over his future reaching fever pitch, Cristiano Ronaldo insists he is only concentrating on the tougher challenges that lie ahead for Portugal at Euro 2008.
ALBERT Pujols suffered a strained left calf on Tuesday and was lost to the wild card-leading Cardinals for at least three weeks. Pay heed, Met Nation. That injury makes it tougher for St. Louis to be identified... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
Knicks favorite Charles Oakley, a veteran of the celebrated New York-Chicago series of the '90s, said he believes NBA officials and league executives exert too much control over the outcome of games. Oakley... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
LOS ANGELES - Over the summer, Doc Rivers took his star Celtic trio - Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen - on a boat ride. It was one of Boston's popular duckboat tours, the traditional championship... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
SAN DIEGO - Phil Mickelson leaves an impression every where he goes. Problem is, those impressions aren't always good ones. The impression Mickelson was so hungry to leave this week was winning his first... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
WINNING has its most famous quote. No one is ever going to top "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing," even if it turns out to be true that Vince Lombardi never quite said it that way. Everyone... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
BY now, it's a shame on us. We should expect nothing more, nothing less and nothing better. ESPN/NBC's live coverage of the U.S. Open began Thursday at 11 a.m. with ESPN's two-hour on-course look-in show... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
Charlie Ward's tenure with the Knicks lasted almost a decade, and in 1999, the point guard led Jeff Van Gundy's underdogs to the NBA Finals, where they lost in five games to the Spurs. Despite the disappointment... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
On a team with no offensive superstars, the Liberty are finding a defensive one. Essence Carson, a three-time Big East Defensive Player of the Year at Rutgers, shut down Minnesota's red-hot Candice Wiggins... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
Keith Hernandez cried after getting traded to the Mets 25 years ago today. He had been taken away from the Cardinals, the only team he had ever known and sent to the Mets, who hadn't been to the playoffs... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
SAN DIEGO - Andrew Svoboda hopes his work this weekend will change the course of his work back home in Westchester when he returns. Svoboda, who grew up playing Winged Foot as a youth and is now a caddie... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:07 am
The final whistle had hardly blown in the All Blacks 37-20 victory over England on Saturday when All Blacks coach Graham Henry was belittling the England scrum ahead of the second Test. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:57 am
Faced with long odds, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers returned to the practice floor Saturday for the first time since Game 4, when the Boston Celtics stormed back from a 24-point deficit to win and take a 3-1 lead in this reborn rivalry. Source: ESPN.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:47 am
The reigning horse of the year, Curlin won his fifth consecutive race Saturday, easily taking the Stephen Foster Handicap in his first race on North American soil in more than seven months.
Over the past five years, 3,035 thoroughbreds, standardbreds and quarter horses have died at racing facilities, but not all of them on the racetrack or in racing-related accidents.
A German athlete sprinted up 91 floors in 10 minutes and 53 seconds on Sunday to win the Taipei 101 race -- a leg-burning effort that took him to the top of the world's tallest skyscraper. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:01 am
Brent Milleville hit a three-run homer in an 11-run ninth inning as Stanford defeated Florida State, 16-5, in the opening game of the College World Series on Saturday.
AP - Jesus Flores hit a tiebreaking two-run home run in the seventh inning to lift the Washington Nationals to a 5-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.
Receiver Chad Johnson fully participated in drills for the first time Saturday as the Cincinnati Bengals wrapped up their minicamp. Source: ESPN.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:48 am
A birdie at the U.S. Open is a rarity to be cherished. Come Sunday at the U.S. Open, the reachable par-5 18th hole at Torrey Pines could be a golfer's dream or his worst nightmare, writes ESPN.com's Pat Forde. Source: ESPN.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:45 am
Joey Logano became the youngest winner in Nationwide Series history Saturday night, cruising to victory in the Meijer 300 at Kentucky Speedway. Source: ESPN.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:37 am
Jesus Flores hit a tiebreaking two-run home run in the sixth inning to lift the Washington Nationals to a 5-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. Flores, who had three RBIs, Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:09 am
07Nationals 5, Mariners 2 WASHINGTON @ SEATTLE @ ab r h bi @ab r h bi CGzmn ss 5 0 1 0 ISuzuki cf 4 0 1 0 Dukes rf 3 1 1 0 JoLpez... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:03 am
Jake Deitchler, an 18-year-old from Minnesota unfazed by any deficit or opponent, pulled off two major upsets Saturday to win the U.S. 145.5-pound Greco-Roman trials and become the first high schooler on the Olympic wrestling team in 32 years. Source: ESPN.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:01 am
Tiger Woods will take a one-shot lead over England's Lee Westwood into the final round of the US Open at Torrey Pines on Sunday. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 15 Jun 2008 | 3:16 am
AP - Brent Milleville's three-run homer highlighted Stanford's record-tying 11-run ninth inning and the Cardinal beat Florida State 16-5 in the opening game of the College World Series on Saturday.
AFP - Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2004 champion, will make her only pre-Wimbledon grass appearance from Monday as top seed at the Eastbourne Championships.
AP - An electrician working at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium died Saturday when he touched a high-voltage line, the second serious accident at the construction site in less than a week.
AP - With the same purpose as one of his in-your-face jumpers, Kobe Bryant leaned into the microphone. He promised more NBA finals games to come. "The series ain't over," he said. "It's far from over."
AP - Kevin Youkilis did it all in his homecoming. Youkilis singled, doubled and hit a tiebreaking homer in the 10th inning Saturday, rallying the Boston Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, the team he adored as a local prep and college star and later resented when it passed him over in the draft.
Greece coach Otto Rehhagel blames his side's lack of potency in attack for their demise at Euro 2008. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 14 Jun 2008 | 10:19 pm
Luiz Felipe Scolari says a new challenge and financial security are two reasons why he agreed to become Chelsea manager. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 14 Jun 2008 | 9:57 pm
EuroTRECKER: Spain failed to produce its magic but did manage a victory, while the Greeks are going home. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 14 Jun 2008 | 9:44 pm
TRECKER: The games are no longer 'meaningless' as the U.S. opens World Cup qualifying with Barbados on Sunday. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 14 Jun 2008 | 8:18 pm
Roger Federer reached the Gerry Weber Open final Saturday without dropping his serve in any match after a 6-1, 6-4 win against Germany's Nicolas Kiefer.
AP - Tiger Woods delivered a performance worthy of prime time Saturday in the U.S. Open. He kept an East Coast television audience and a sellout crowd at Torrey Pines in suspense when his left knee buckled and he nearly dropped to the ground from the sheer pain, limping along with his club as a cane. The drama came on the last six holes, when he turned a five-shot deficit into a one-shot lead.
AFP - On the verge of a championship they have dreamed about since childhood, leaders of the Boston Celtics are fighting the urge to celebrate prematurely, knowing the elusive crown is still a win away.
AFP - With speculation over his future reaching fever pitch, Cristiano Ronaldo insists he is only concentrating on the tougher challenges that lie ahead for Portugal at Euro 2008.
AP - Jesus Flores hit a tiebreaking two-run home run in the seventh inning to lift the Washington Nationals to a 5-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.
AP - Rocco Mediate, professional golfer. Rocco Mediate, everyman. Rocco Mediate ... sports writer?
AP - Brent Milleville's three-run homer highlighted Stanford's record-tying 11-run ninth inning and the Cardinal beat Florida State 16-5 in the opening game of the College World Series on Saturday.
AFP - Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2004 champion, will make her only pre-Wimbledon grass appearance from Monday as top seed at the Eastbourne Championships.
AP - An electrician working at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium died Saturday when he touched a high-voltage line, the second serious accident at the construction site in less than a week.
AP - With the same purpose as one of his in-your-face jumpers, Kobe Bryant leaned into the microphone. He promised more NBA finals games to come. "The series ain't over," he said. "It's far from over."
AP - Kevin Youkilis did it all in his homecoming. Youkilis singled, doubled and hit a tiebreaking homer in the 10th inning Saturday, rallying the Boston Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, the team he adored as a local prep and college star and later resented when it passed him over in the draft.