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Hull City - Leicester City

Hart has been with City since 2006, and is England's undisputed No. 1. The first game of the Premier League season is finally upon us and, well, I'm not reall...

No quick decision expected on Rio Olympic gold medalst Simone Biles' future

Biles has spent the past three years dominating her sport. "I had to focus", said Biles who finished by leading the way with her high-speed tumbling Samba p...

Crawford leads Giants over Marlins again, Bonds ejected

He said he had three hits and two hits the next couple of days, so he did a little better than I did the next day". Crawford visited before the game with Renn...

Watch Arsene Wenger's Arsenal vs Liverpool pre-match press conference in full

But they want to do well. On one hand, Wenger played it very coy when questioned directly about the club's pursuit of Shkodran Mustafi, serving to suggest tha...

Simone Biles, US gymnasts to adorn Special K boxes

Aly Raisman , Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez,Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian led the Unites States in a dominant performance in the women's team all around ...

US women's basketball routs Canada, clinches Group B

Maya Moore and Diana Taurasi each had a game-high 12 points, while Tina Charles added 10. Diana Taurasi (#12) high fives Lindsay Whalen (#4) and Maya Moore (#...

Perez's homer helps Royals rally past Rays

Kiermaier, who entered hitting.163 with two RBIs in 16 games since coming back from a fractured left hand, hit a three-run drive off Chien-Ming Wang in a five-r...

LeBron James agrees to 3-year deal with Cavs

James posted to his Instagram a picture of him signing the deal Friday, perhaps at his home in Bath Township, with agent Rich Paul. James announced on Uninte...

Fielding lapses cost England against Pakistan in 4th Test

Younis Khan also seemed to be at ease while facing the English pacers as he also scored a magnificent century. It was a repeat of Thursday's events, when Paki...

Katie Ledecky Saves The Day & Leads US To 4x200m Freestyle Relay Win

And Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom also broke her own world record, leading from the start in the 100-meter butterfly to take gold in 55.48, .16 seconds faster than ...

BCCI announces squad for Florida T20Is against Windies

The focal point behind their exclusion is the issue of availability as India "A" are scheduled to play a quadrangular tournament in Australia during August-Sept...

Man City revolution may take time, warns Guardiola

However, he had a disappointing campaign for England during the European Championship, blamed for two of the goals conceded - including Iceland's victor in th...

Adrian defends men's 100-meter freestyle crown

Held, Phelps, first leg-swimmer Caeleb Dressel, and anchor-leg swimmer Nathan Adrian took the podium to receive their medals after the event, and Held kept it t...

Chinese swimmer tests positive in Rio

Although not directly performance-enhancing, diuretics are banned due to their use as masking agents to hide the presence of other products. Hydrochlorothi...

Rio Olympics kicks off after a glittering opening ceremony

The glitter and glamour of Rio's stunning Olympics opening ceremony gave way Saturday to bitter competition for the first medals of the Games dogged by a doom-l...

Phelps glad to end career on own terms

He will next swim the 100 fly Friday night, and the medley relay on Saturday. Phelps also described the participation of refugees in Rio as "special". For fan...

Great Britain cycle world champion Armitstead cleared to race in Rio

Armitstead admitted fault with the second two missed tests, but successfully appealed to CAS over the first, which happened at a GB team hotel. The other two ...

Bulgarian athlete fails drugs test at Olympic Games

Steeplechase contender Silvia Danekova has tested positive to a banned substance at the Rio Olympics 2016. Bulgaria are at the Games without a team in the wei...

Sweden stuns U.S. women's soccer team with penalty-kick victory

Sweden gave itself a shot with its fight and determination and by Sundhage's smarts, crowding the midfield and allowing the US scarce room to breathe or flow. T...

Summer Olympics: Here's the medal count after Day Six in Rio

By Vivek Prabhakar Singh Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Aug.11 (ANI): An Indian couple travelled all the way from the national capital to Rio de Janeiro in a bid...

Simone soars to gold, lands atop women's gymnastics for all time

Ryan Murphy struck gold in the 200 meter backstroke In the women's 200-meter backstroke semifinal, more disappointment for defending Olympic champion Missy Fran...

American Simone Manuel wins gold in women's 100 freestyle

Once again proving her dominance, Ledecky erased that 0.89 deficit and finished the race almost two seconds ahead of second-place Australia. Ledecky retook the ...

One third of Russian team banned from Olympics for doping

Not all hope is lost for athletes who have been denied the right to compete, they may still appeal to a world sports arbitration court in Switzerland. "As a eff...

Game Time! An Epic Olympic Battle In The New NBA 2K17 Trailer

There was no gameplay footage shown. Check out this dope trailer of the Dream Team facing off against the 2016 Rio Olympic team. 2K Sports that in " NBA 2K17 " ...

Guardiola casts doubt on Hart's future at Man City

Hull City's drastic shortage of players means Jake Livermore will partner Curtis Davies in defence against Leicester City. If you would have placed a pre-seas...

Phelps leaves Lochte in his wake one last time at Olympics

Phelps scored the 200-meter individual medley Olympic gold, and just 38 minutes later he successfully made it into the 100 meter butterfly semifinal. If Biles e...

Zlatan: There is something big coming from Manchester United

The game finished 2-1 in favour of United, who gained their first piece of silverware under the new manager. "But I remember that I win this trophy because some...

Armstrong wins third straight Olympic women's time trial

Van der Breggen had been 16 seconds faster than Zabelinskaya over the first 10km, but conceded 22 seconds across the rest of the course. Zabelinskaya was born...

Missy Franklin fails to make final in 200-meter freestyle

ET on NBC ). Ledecky won her third gold medal and fourth overall medal of the Rio Games, leading relay teammates Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith and Maya DiRado...

EXTRA Hosszu wins women's 200m individual medley for third gold in Rio

Hosszu was sixth at the turn with world champion Emily Seebohm of Australia leading. At the 2012 London Games, Hosszu was expected to shine. Britain's Siobh...

Florida booster clears receiver Callaway of sexual assault

The complainant and her attorney, Colorado-based John Clune, boycotted an August 5 hearing because of what Clune considered a possible conflict of interest beca...

Michael Phelps gets mixed up with Ryan Lochte in commentary mistake

Phelps has already come back from retirement once, but has said he plans to retire after Rio. After a strong start from local favourite Thiago Pereira , Phel...

'Super-coach' era arrives in cash-laden Premier League

City will have a quick turnaround after this match to start that two-legged series, which opens Tuesday at Steaua Bucharest in Romania. The pre-season games a...

First a gaffe, then gold for German shooter Henri Junghaenel

Junghänel was in fine form in Friday's final, shooting an Olympic record score of 209.5 to hold off the challenge of South Korea's Kim Jonghyun (208.2) and Ki...

Rod at DH, batting 3rd in final game

But Rodriguez was at just 93 pitches through seven innings and had retired the last seven Yankees. Jeter, like Rivera a five-time World Series champion, g...