Fernando Ricksen, a former Netherlands national team defender, has died after a six-year battle with motor neurone disease. He was 43. Rangers, the Scottish soccer club where Ricksen played from...

Cristiano Ronaldo faces a familiar foe as Juventus opens its Champions League campaign at Atlético Madrid on Wednesday, while his former team Real Madrid visits a Paris Saint-Germain squad that...

A smiling panda and a walking Chinese lantern will be the mascots for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing. The mascots were revealed Tuesday at a ceremony at the Shougang Ice...

As the saying goes, sometimes a picture tells a story or rather there is a story behind the picture. It all seems just like a normal competitive football match photographic capture taken during a...

Liverpool opened its Champions League title defense with a 2-0 loss at Napoli on Tuesday - the latest chapter in what is becoming an intense rivalry between the two attack-minded clubs after also...

Roger Federer plans to decide "in the next month or so" whether he will play at next year's Tokyo Olympics. Federer said Tuesday his 2020 schedule is set through Wimbledon, which ends July 12....

Amnesty International and the journalists union for Italian state TV RAI have written a joint letter to the presidents of Juventus and Lazio asking the clubs not to the play the Italian Super Cup in...

U.S. Open champion Rafael Nadal will start his 2020 season on the opposite side of Australia to Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer when he leads Spain in a group-stage qualifier in the new ATP Cup team...

Manchester City will be without John Stones for around five weeks because of an injury, further depleting the Premier League champion's central defensive options. City manager Pep Guardiola says...

Neymar's ban from the Champions League for insulting match officials on social media was cut Tuesday to two group games. The Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced the three-match...