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With a host of Chinese national players and a high-caliber group of foreign stars, Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande is expecting to make a large impact on the AFC Champions League.
After having a well-earned break at the CBA's All-Star gala on Sunday, the league's top players have to switch their attention to this year's playoffs, which are hard to predict.
Former England captain David Beckham enjoyed a promising French league debut for Paris St Germain, riding warm crowd support in a late cameo during the 2-0 home victory over Olympique Marseille on Sunday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has sounded a warning to Rio 2016 officials about delays to key infrastructure projects.
I remember quite clearly the last time a professional sports team was anywhere nearly as disappointing as this season's Los Angeles Lakers.
The trade deadline came and went early on Friday morning (Beijing time) and I stupidly stayed up to see my Celtics make the blockbuster trade(s) that would push them into Eastern Conference contention or, alternately, a brave new future. Instead, all I saw was a classroom full of general managers sitting on
Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are chasing Michael Jordan for title of best player of all time. Tym Glaser asks if either can do it.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is opening a glitzy "lifestyle destination" complex with an official basketball court, a hoop-themed restaurant and a children's zone.
A South African court granted bail on Friday to Oscar Pistorius, charged with the murder of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, after his lawyers successfully argued the "Blade Runner" was too famous to flee justice.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has set up an internal task force in its latest efforts against match-fixing, which had plagued several of its member associations.
The Australian men's 4x100m freestyle relay squad has admitted using a sedative banned by their national Olympic committee in a bonding session before the London Games.
The day before her Paralympics star boyfriend Oscar Pistorius shot her dead, Reeva Steenkamp publicly proclaimed her support for a campaign against the violence that kills thousands of women in South Africa each year.