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Kenya wrote history as the best country in track and field when it ruled roost as the curtains came down on the 15th edition of the World Championships at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing on Sunday.
Eight of the world's top 10 women tennis players have confirmed to compete in this year's Wuhan Open tournament, organizers said Wednesday, while the biggest names Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are missing from the list.
Briton Sebastian Coe was elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday, beating Ukraine's Sergey Bubka by 115 votes to 92 in a ballot of the governing body's 50th Congress
Britain's Andy Murray celebrated both the end of a losing streak to Novak Djokovic and the birth of coach Amelie Mauresmo's child on Sunday at the ATP Montreal Masters.
The 18-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland capped off her Rogers Cup debut with a 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 3-0 victory over No. 2 seed Simona Halep of Romania on Sunday afternoon in Toronto.
Top-ranked Serena Williams advanced to the Rogers Cup quarterfinals Thursday night, beating 16th-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-3, 6-2.
Chinese marksmen Hu Haozhe and Lao Jiajie each grabbed a ticket to Rio 2016 on Wednesday by wrapping the gold and silver medals at the 25-meter rapid fire pistol event in the world cup.
Australia's strife-prone tennis star Nick Kyrgios has enlisted the help of former "bad boy" Lleyton Hewitt to help mentor him in the lead-up to the US Open.
APStar midfielder Andrea Pirlo joined Major League Soccer's New York City FC from Juventus on Monday, a little more than a month after winning a fifth consecutive Italian league title.
Formula One world champions past and present paid their respects to Jules Bianchi and mourned one of their own at the French driver's funeral on Tuesday.
While Bastian Schweinsteiger may be new to English soccer, he's quite aware of what he's getting into with Louis van Gaal as his manager at Manchester United.
Spanish soccer club Real Madrid retained top spot on a list of the world's 50 most valuable sports teams, according to a Forbes poll released on Wednesday that was made up mostly of National Football League franchises.