2012-05-18T01:04:03Z |
 (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc lost its bid to be dismissed from a lawsuit accusing the video game company of involvement in an NCAA conspiracy to prevent college athletes from being paid. Plaintiffs led by former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon had accused the National Collegiate Athletic Association and its marketing company of violating U.S. antitrust law by conspiring to force students to sign away their ability to profit commercially from playing college sports. ...
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2012-05-18T00:35:13Z |
 HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Olympic high hurdles champion Dayron Robles will attempt to get close to 13 seconds when he sharpens his London Games build-up with his first athletics meetings in the United States next month.
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2012-05-18T00:23:01Z |
(Reuters) - Twelve months after losing a playoff for the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas, Ryan Palmer had redemption on his mind after taking control of the tournament in Thursday's opening round. |
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2012-05-17T22:37:26Z |
 ROME (Reuters) - Ailing Briton Andy Murray suffered another setback to his French Open preparations as he was ousted 6-7 6-3 6-2 by Richard Gasquet in the third round of the Rome Masters on Thursday.
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2012-05-17T22:32:34Z |
 PARIS (Reuters) - Four years ago, Elodie Clouvel missed out on an Olympic swimming spot and was scared of horses. Now she is gunning for a modern pentathlon medal at the London Games as well as contemplating a modelling career.
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2012-05-17T20:15:49Z |
(Reuters) - Australian Marc Leishman soared into an early one-shot lead with a pair of eagles on the back nine in Thursday's opening round of the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas. The 28-year-old Leishman took advantage of relatively calm conditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas, chipping in to eagle the par-four 11th and holing an eight-foot eagle putt at the par-five 16th on the way to a five-under-par 65. ... |
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2012-05-17T18:42:03Z |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Shivnarine Chanderpaul defied England with a typically tenacious unbeaten 87 to lead West Indies to 243 for nine on the first day of the opening test at Lord's on Thursday. The obdurate left-hander, reprieved on 15 after reviewing an lbw decision, frustrated the hosts with his awkward crab-like stance and intense concentration to keep his team in the game after England had won the toss in favourable bowling conditions. ...
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2012-05-17T18:36:28Z |
 ATHENS (Reuters) - The flame for the London Olympics, which start on July 27 after a 70-day torch relay around Britain, was handed over on Thursday at a damp ceremony in the marble stadium that hosted the first modern Games in 1896. The flame, lit from the sun's rays at the home of the ancient Games in Olympia a week ago, was presented under grey and rainy skies to Britain's Princess Anne by the president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Spyros Capralos. Transferred to a small lantern by golden torch from a cauldron, it will be guarded overnight in the British embassy in Athens. ...
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2012-05-17T18:28:52Z |
 (Reuters) - Liverpool have been granted permission to speak to Wigan Athletic manager Roberto Martinez about taking over from Kenny Dalglish who was sacked on Wednesday. Wigan chairman Dave Whelan told Sky Sports: "I've always said that when a big club comes he (Martinez) will have permission to talk to them and... they don't come any bigger than Liverpool. "I gave him permission and he'll be talking to them soon. I don't know when, but it will be quite soon. ...
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2012-05-17T17:55:57Z |
 (Reuters) - Twice MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner said on Thursday he had lost his love for the sport and would retire at the end of the 2012 season.
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2012-05-17T17:36:50Z |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Shivnarine Chanderpaul defied England once again with a tenacious unbeaten 87 to lead West Indies to 243 for nine on the first day of the opening test at Lord's on Thursday.
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2012-05-17T17:33:00Z |
 By Alasdair Fotheringham
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2012-05-17T16:13:05Z |
 LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United, rated by Forbes as the world's most highly-valued sports team, showed the first effects of a rare barren season when reporting a dip in quarterly revenue and underlying profit. United, deposed as Premier League champions last weekend by local rivals Manchester City, paid the price for a failure to make it beyond the group stages of the Champions League, having reached the final of Europe's premier tournament in 2010-11. The club had its woes compounded by an exit from the Europa League, Europe's secondary competition, at the round of 16 stage. ...
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2012-05-17T13:52:49Z |
 MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - For Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben, Saturday's Champions League final against Chelsea in the Bavarian capital is the game of a lifetime and a chance to make amends for 2010. Bayern want to set the record straight with a fifth top European prize after making their second Champions League final in three seasons and losing the 2010 decider 2-0 to Inter Milan. "This is the match of a lifetime," Dutch winger Robben told reporters on Thursday. "It is time. You have to win the Champions League once in your life. ...
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2012-05-17T13:52:06Z |
 DUBAI (Reuters) - Newly-crowned Premier League champions Manchester City will strengthen their squad in the close season as the club target European glory next year, manager Roberto Mancini said on Thursday. The Italian led City to their first domestic title in 44 years on Sunday as a stoppage-time goal from Sergio Aguero sealed a 3-2 win over Queens Park Rangers to pip defending champions Manchester United on goal difference. ...
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2012-05-17T13:51:26Z |
LONDON (Reuters) - Former England forward Michael Owen said he hoped to continue playing top-level football after being told by Manchester United that his contract was not being renewed. "I don't think I have lost the ability to score goals or play at a high level," Owen, who has endured a frustrating three years at United because of injury, told Sky Sports television on Thursday. "I certainly feel as if I can still play at the top level so we will wait to see where that is. If it's not in the Premier League it may be further afield. ... |
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2012-05-17T12:51:40Z |
 (Reuters) - Pastor Maldonado spoke on Thursday of how he had feared a tragic ending to his astonishing Spanish Grand Prix success in Barcelona last weekend. The Williams garage caught fire at the Circuit de Catalunya as members of the Formula One team, including wheelchair-bound principal and founder Frank Williams, had gathered for a victory photograph. "At that moment I was so scared for all of us," said Maldonado, the first Venezuelan to win a race and a 500-1 long-shot before sensationally putting his car on the front row in qualifying. ...
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2012-05-17T12:34:16Z |
PARIS (Reuters) - Montpellier must stay fully focused as they still need one point to secure their first Ligue 1 football title, coach Rene Girard warned ahead of their final game at Auxerre, even though fans are already planning a welcome parade. The Southerners, who are on 79 points, three ahead of second-placed Paris St Germain, will be crowned for the first time since the club was created in 1974 if they get at least a point at relegated Auxerre on Sunday. If PSG fail to win at Lorient, Montpellier will clinch the title regardless of their result in Burgundy. ... |
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2012-05-17T12:28:27Z |
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will wear black armbands when they play Italy at June's European Championship to honour the victims of a pub shooting in Northern Ireland that occurred as fans watched the same two sides at the 1994 World Cup. Six people died and five others were injured when gunmen opened fire on a packed bar in Loughinisland, County Down on June 18. The shooting occurred during a troubled period in Northern Ireland's history where unionists, loyal to the governing British, clashed with nationalists who wanted a reunification of the partitioned island. ... |
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2012-05-17T11:53:41Z |
 ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece formally hands over the Olympic flame to a London delegation led by Princess Anne and including David Beckham on Thursday at the Panathenaic stadium where the first modern Games were held in 1896. Seb Coe, chairman of the London organising committee LOCOG, spoke of a 'massive, massive moment' as the clock ticks down to the Games opening on July 27 while London Mayor Boris Johnson was typically ebullient. "It's an amazing day for us. This is the moment when we prepare to take the torch and the eyes of the world are swivelling to London," Johnson told reporters. ...
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