Sports

December 23, 2011

No. 1 Syracuse rolls to 13-0; Big East play awaits

Tulane was executing its game plan just as coach Ed Conroy had mapped it out. The Green Wave was within three points of top-ranked Syracuse late in the first half, and then in the blink of an eye any chance at a major upset disappeared. James…

December 23, 2011

No. 1 Syracuse rolls to 13-0; Big East play awaits

Tulane was executing its game plan just as coach Ed Conroy had mapped it out. The Green Wave was within three points of top-ranked Syracuse late in the first half, and then in the blink of an eye any chance at a major upset disappeared. James…

December 22, 2011

US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr jailed for domestic abuse

US boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr has been jailed for 90 days by a Las Vegas court after pleading guilty to assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Josie Harris, in 2010.   He was also ordered to pay a fine of $2,500 (£1,600) and complete 100 hours of community…

December 22, 2011

Kobe with torn wrist ligament; status for opener unclear

Kobe Bryant did not play in the Los Angeles Lakers' preseason finale against the Clippers on Wednesday night because of a torn ligament in his right wrist, and his status for the season opener on Christmas Day is up in the air.   A MRI revealed the…

December 21, 2011

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez handed eight-match FA ban

Liverpool's Luis Suarez has been handed an eight-match ban and a £40,000 fine by the Football Association after…

December 21, 2011

Ricky Ponting keeps Australia spot as Hughes & Khawaja dropped

Australia have dropped batsmen Phillip Hughes and Usman Khawaja for the Boxing Day Test against India at Melbourne - but former captain Ricky Ponting keeps his place in a 13-man squad. Hughes and Khawaja were omitted after Australia's humiliating…

December 21, 2011

Bulls Rose signs $94M extension

Derrick Rose says there isn't much that excites him. A maximum contract extension, though, just might. The reigning MVP agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Chicago Bulls worth approximately $94 million, a person familiar with the…

December 21, 2011

Edwards aiming to be fastest bowler on earth

Batsmen around the world may start to shiver in their boots after Fidel Edwards threatened to touch the 160 kilometre-an-hour mark in the next year. The 29-year-old West Indies fastbowler, who is playing for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash, said…

December 21, 2011

Boxing star remanded

SOBBING LOUDLY that he did not want to go to prison, Barbados’ boxing star, Anderson Fitzgerald Emmanuel, was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds yesterday when he appeared in court charged with committing robbery. The 26-year-old heavyweight…

December 20, 2011

McDyess set to retire after Spurs waive NBA vet

Antonio McDyess was waived by the San Antonio Spurs on Monday, clearing a path to…