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Sergio Garcia of Spain shot a fine six-under 65 to hold a two-stroke lead after the third round of the PGA tour's Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston. Swede Henrik Stenson's...

A Swedish football player watching his brother play had to have a police escort from the ground after death threats from rival fans in Stockholm. Miiko Albornoz, who plays for...

The New Zealand cyclist Linda Villumsen has put in a outstanding solo effort on the final day to claim victory in a tour in France. Starting the final day of...

The American golfer Jim Furyk leapfrogged Jason Dufner to snatch a one-shot lead after the penultimate round of the PGA Championship at New York's Oak Hill. Furyk, who began the...

The hot favourite Tiger Woods hasn't been able to break par on the opening day of golf's last major of the year, the PGA championship at the Oak Hill country...

Tiger Woods has completed an impressive preparation for this week's US PGA Championship by extending his domination of World Golf Championship events with a seven-stroke victory in the…

Tiger Woods is poised to extend his remarkable record in World Golf Championships by winning the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational for an eighth time. The world number one backed up his second...

The New Zealand javelin thrower Stuart Farquhar had his biggest result at a Diamond League meet, throwing the Javelin out to 80.42 metres, good enough for third place in the...

Sweden has beaten Switzerland 5-1 in the final to become the first team since 1986 to win the ice hockey world championship on home ice. The Swedes' victory snapped a...

The United States have dumped the defending champions Russia out of the ice hockey world championships with an 8-3 hammering, while co-hosts Finland edged Slovakia in a 4-3 thriller, also...

Two Swedes are atop the leaderboard at the Players Championship in Florida as play in the third round has been suspended due to an earlier rain delay. David Lingmerth is...

Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia holds a one-shot lead over world number one Tiger Woods heading into the third round of the Players Championship in Florida. Garcia, the 2008 champion, fired...

The world golf number two Rory McIlroy says anything but winning the US Masters this week will be a disappointment. The 23-year-old Northern Irishman has already won two majors, though...

A chain of Maori farms in the King Country says it has a few weeks worth of feed left, as it grapples with the dry spell.

David Beckham enjoyed a memorable French soccer debut for Paris Saint-Germain when he came off the bench to help set up the second goal in the ladder leader's 2-0 win...

The former champion Luke Donald was the biggest name to fall in the second round of the snow-delayed World Golf Match Play Championship after being pummelled 7 and 6 by...

Four foreign nationals have been arrested in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on suspicion of being Christian missionaries. Proselytising is forbidden in Libya.

The former U.S. Open tennis champion Samantha Stosur concedes there is no magic solution to her problems on home courts after a shock loss to Sofia Arvidsson in the opening...

Defending champion Mahe Drysdale has won the Billy Webb Challenge on the Whanganui River for the third time. The Olympic single sculls rowing champion comfortably beat fellow London Games gold...

The New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell who's shot his best round on the European Tour in six years, says he hasn't lost any of the mental toughness he possessed when...

The Swedish golfer Peter Hanson capitalised on some early mistakes by his Ryder Cup team-mate Rory McIlroy to hold on for a one-shot victory over the world number one at...

Swedish triathlete Lisa Norden was confirmed as this year's women's world triathlon champion in Auckland on Saturday afternoon. New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt finished third.

Sweden's Jonas Blixt and Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge shared the lead after the second round of the US PGA Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson was unveiled as technical director of Thai club BEC Tero Sasana, the first venture by the Swede into Asian football in his colourful 35-year coaching...