Team Sky won the Criterium du Dauphine's team time trial on Wednesday, bringing Michal Kwiatkowski back in the overall lead at the warmup race for the Tour de France. Sky won the 35-kilometer...

Malta will be facing a very tough encounter on Thursday afternoon when it faces second placed Sweden in a Group F qualifier at Ta' Qali's Centenary Stadium. At present Sweden are one of the...

Known as Russia’s “Window on Europe,” St. Petersburg is a city like no other. Imperial palaces line its network of canals, its stadium looks like a spaceship and some days the...

Four years after the good displays in Argentina, Italy, still led by Enzo Bearzot, defied the odds and after a slow start defeated Argentina, Brazil, Poland and West Germany to return to the top of...

The sports-crazed nation of Israel was in uproar Wednesday over Argentina's abrupt cancellation of a World Cup warmup match following pro-Palestinian protests, with some of the country's leaders...

Controversy and confetti. The 1978 World Cup in Argentina was awash with both. Twelve years after being awarded the right to host the World Cup, Argentina was a very different country. It had...

Visiting Sochi is a mouth-watering prospect for World Cup fans, with beaches, blue skies and arguably the best game in the group stage. Portugal and Spain meet on June 15 in Sochi, which hosted...

Two-time swimming world champion Filippo Magnini reportedly is facing a ban of up to eight years for doping. The Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Italy's anti-doping prosecutor requested an...

Russia will go into its home World Cup without a win in seven games after drawing 1-1 with an under-strength Turkey team on Tuesday. Alexander Samedov put Russia ahead in the 36th minute with an...

Novak Djokovic has lost in the French Open quarterfinals. The 2016 champion was beaten 6-3, 7-6 (4), 1-6, 7-6 (11) by Italian player Marco Cecchinato after a battle that lasted nearly 3 ½ hours on Court Suzanne Lenglen and produced several scintillating rallies....