Robson to face Wozniacki in Paris
Source: BBC
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2013-05-24 07:48:27 -0700 | sports-news
Laura Robson to face Caroline Wozniacki in French Open Laura Robson will play former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the first round of the French Open. The British number one has beaten Venus Williams and Agnieszka Radwanska in recent...
2013 BMW PGA European Tour Championship Leaderboard Live Day 2: McIlroy struggles
Posted by: richwebnews
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 07:10:48 -0700 | sports-news
The second round of 2013 BMW PGA European Tour Championship leaderboard live coverage continues at chilly Wentworth Club, Surrey, England. After the opening round, James Kingston of South Africa leads the BMW PGA Championship by making seven birdies and one...
Osman signs new Everton contract
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 02:48:44 -0700 | sports-news
Leon Osman: Everton midfielder signs new contract Everton midfielder Leon Osman has signed a new contract, which will keep him at the club until 2015. The 32-year-old, whose previous deal was due to expire at the end of June 2014,...
Former Giro Winner Di Luca Tests Positive for EPO
Source: International Herald Tribune
Brescia :: Italy | updated 2013-05-24 07:48:03 -0700 | sports-news
Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday. Italian Di Luca, who had a previous positive for the same...
Giro Stage Called Off After Heavy Snow Overnight
Source: International Herald Tribune
Brescia :: Italy | updated 2013-05-24 06:07:13 -0700 | sports-news
Italy Heavy snow has forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello. "Due to adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on the stage route in its entirety, stage 19......
Barba makes late charge for Maroons
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 06:05:50 -0700 | sports-news
Bulldogs 24 Broncos 14 Ben Barba's magic generally rests with ball in hand. But you truly get a sense as to whether the Canterbury fullback is "on" or not by what he does off the ball. And boy was he...
Hooker Webber to captain England
Source: BBC
Bath :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 06:06:52 -0700 | sports-news
Rob Webber handed captaincy Rob Webber will captain England for the first time in Sunday's game against the Barbarians at Twickenham. The Bath hooker leads a youthful side which has nine players aged 24 or under in the starting XV...
Platini Repeats Call for European Sports Police Force
Source: International Herald Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-24 07:47:29 -0700 | sports-news
Congress he was upset that his appeal for one had been ignored for six years. "Six years ago now, in response to...problems of betting, corruption and match-fixing, as well as the problems of hooliganism and doping, I called for the...
Matthew Tvrdon faces murder charge over Cardiff hit-and-run rampage which killed mother-of-three ...
Source: The Independent
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 03:29:06 -0700 | sports-news
A man will be in court today facing charges of deliberately mowing down pedestrians in a hit-and-run rampage that left mother-of-three Karina Matthews dead. Matthew Tvrdon, 32, is accused of deliberately targeting parents and young children with a white Iveco...
Talks begin on retrospective action
Source: BBC
Wigan :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 05:49:03 -0700 | sports-news
Premier League could pilot retrospective disciplinary action A scheme that would allow retrospective action on violent incidents in the Premier League is under discussion...Proposals for the pilot would need the approval of the FA's rule-making body, the Football Regulatory Authority....
Bath owner covets 2015 Premiership
Source: BBC
Bath :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 03:54:38 -0700 | sports-news
Bath owner Bruce Craig covets 2015 Premiership title Bath owner Bruce Craig has revealed that he harbours ambitions for the club to become English champions in 2015. I want the city to have a club to be proud of," he...
Gibraltar given full Uefa membership
Source: BBC
Gibraltar :: Gibraltar | updated 2013-05-24 05:49:13 -0700 | sports-news
Gibraltar has been accepted as a full member membership of Uefa, European football's governing body. Their application was approved on a majority vote at the organisation's congress in London, with no votes against and no abstentions. The British Overseas Territory...
First black England player revealed
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 05:49:07 -0700 | sports-news
Laurie Cunningham had been recognised as England's first black footballer at any level when the then-West Bromwich Albion player appeared for the Under-21s in 1977. But Odeje, from south-east London, was called up by England schoolboys and made his debut...
Tipuric targets Lions Test place
Source: BBC
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 05:48:58 -0700 | sports-news
Justin Tipuric hopes form can push him into Test team Justin Tipuric believes he can force his way into the British and Irish Lions Test side despite battling against captain Sam Warburton for the open-side flanker position. Tipuric was preferred...
Chinese military woos big business
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-24 05:46:01 -0700 | sports-news
Some of Australia's most high flying business leaders were feted in China by an ''influence'' platform of the People's Liberation Army, a Fairfax investigation has revealed. Andrew Forrest, who touted his talks with Chinese business leaders last month as a...
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