LONDON, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian goalkeeper Alexander Doni has signed contract with Liverpool, confirmed the Premier League side on Friday. Doni, 31, played for AS Roma in Italy in the past six seasons, lifting the Coppa Italia twice as well as...
ISTANBUL, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Cup champions Besiktas on Thursday forfeited the Turkish Cup they won last year until the legal proceedings against some of their members in alleged match-fixing allegations are complete. Besiktas has become the...
sprint/middle-distance/long run短跑/中/长距离跑 marathon 马拉松 relay race; relay 接力 hurdles; hurgle race 跨栏 walking; walking race 竞走 steeplechase 障碍赛 high jump 跳高 pole jump; pole vault 撑竿跳高 long jump 跳远 hi...
GENEVA, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell set the world fastest result in men's 100 meters of the year as he won in 9.78 seconds at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Thursday. Powell's sprint was 0.01 of a second faster than...
The National Basketball League has formally locked out its players after they failed to reach an agreement with the owners on a new collective bargaining agreement. The lockout took effect early Friday morning when the previous labor deal expired. NB...
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 25 (Xinhua) -- On the road against a struggling Atletico-PR on Saturday, Bahia won 2-0 in the 6th round of the Brazilian Championship. The result led to the release of Atletico-PR's head coach, Adilson Batista. Lulinha and Marcon...
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland won the 111st US Open at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, on Sunday. The 22-year-old won the title with a tournament record 16-under-par total of 268, carding a fin...
BERLIN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- After a long back and forth, German international veteran midfielder Michael Ballack will no longer belong to the national squad, head coach Joachim Loew confirmed on Thursday. This is the result after talks between head c...
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Brazil coach Mano Menezes said on Tuesday that Kaka wanted to be left out of the Copa America squad in order to have more time to regain his form following knee surgery. Kaka underwent left knee surgery earlier thi...
DEN BOSCH, Netherlands, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Kim Clijsters went through Monica Niculescu of Romania 7-5, 7-5 to reach the second round on Monday at the Den Bosch WTA tournament, a grass-court warmup for Wimbledon. After leading 4-2, top-seeded Clijste...
