France's Benoit Paire has tested positive for COVID-19 and will have to pull out of the U.S. Open starting Monday, French sports daily L'Equipe reported Sunday. Paire, seeded 17th at the Grand Slam event, was scheduled to play Poland's Kamil Majchrzak in the first round at Flushing Meadows...

The NBA playoff games will resume Saturday following a series of commitments reached between players and the league after a strike that halted play, the parties announced Friday. In a joint statement the NBA and its players association said they have agreed to "immediately establish a...

Lewis Hamilton is the outstanding champion in modern Formula One because of his sportsmanship and his ability to motivate a team said departing head of Mercedes engine development Andy Cowell. The power-unit guru, who has worked with three-time champion Ayrton Senna, two-time champion Mika...

Harry Maguire was Tuesday named in England's squad for their Nations League matches against Iceland and Denmark despite the Manchester United captain's arrest on assault charges in Greece. The defender, 27, was arrested late Thursday after a fight with another group at a nightclub in...

Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp has praised his Bayern Munich counterpart Hansi Flick following the Germans' Champions League victory Sunday that completed a treble-winning season. Bayern beat Paris St Germain 1-0 in Lisbon to add the Champions League trophy to their German league and Cup...

Bayern Munich's journey to the Champions League title required 'brutal' mental strength and focus during a rollercoaster season that saw a major team overhaul. Sunday's 1-0 win over Paris St Germain not only clinched a sixth European crown for Bayern, it also saw them become the first team...

Paris Saint-Germain will look back at their narrow defeat by Bayern Munich in Sunday's Champions League final in Lisbon and wonder what might have been, while also stealing themselves to come back stronger in Europe's elite club competition in a new season which is already starting....

The Tour de France rolls out of the French Riviera next Saturday with peaks, plains and rigid coronavirus protocols standing between the 176 riders and the final dash along the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Delayed by over two months because of the virus, political will and organisational savvy...

Almost 150 people were arrested as Paris Saint-Germain fans set cars ablaze, smashed shop windows and clashed with police in the French capital after the team's Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich, police said Monday. The violence occurred around the Parc des Princes stadium and...

The Paris Saint-Germain of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe go after a first-ever Champions League title behind closed doors in Lisbon Sunday, but will have their work cut out against a Bayern Munich side led by the prolific Robert Lewandowski. It is a mouthwatering showdown between two of Europe's...

Neymar is finally getting his big chance to shine. He is getting the opportunity to prove he doesn’t need Lionel Messi to help him win football’s biggest club tournament. He is getting the chance to demonstrate that Paris Saint-Germain were right to pick him to lead their quest...

Lionel Messi still wishes to leave Barcelona after meeting new coach Ronald Koeman, according to reports in the Spanish media Friday, as all four sports newspapers dedicated their front covers to the Argentine's uncertain future. Marca, Spain's biggest selling daily, said the Argentine told...

The historic Williams Formula One team has been bought by US-based investment firm Dorilton Capital, ending 43 years of family ownership, it was announced on Friday. Founded in 1977 by Frank Williams and Patrick Head, Williams have won nine constructors' titles and seven drivers'...

An inspired Neymar helped Paris Saint-Germain reach the Champions League final on Tuesday, but the fact that the Brazilian was not their best player against RB Leipzig says everything about the frightening strength of Thomas Tuchel's team and shows why they can be confident of lifting the...

Barcelona insisted they had not heard from Lionel Messi that he wants to leave the club, as an emergency board meeting was being held at Camp Nou on Monday. Barca officials, including under-fire president Josep Maria Bartomeu, were due to discuss wholesale changes following the team's...

Lewis Hamilton said he was in a "beautiful" trance on Sunday as he raced to another record-breaking triumph to open up a 37-point lead in this year's drivers' championship at the Spanish Grand Prix. His Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, one of Formula One's greatest pragmatists, agreed, but he...

UEFA is hopeful that the postponed European Championship will go ahead next year with fans able to attend, president Aleksander Ceferin said on Thursday. However, the head of European football's governing body did not rule out the possibility of having to change the controversial format for...

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won Formula One's 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday to end Mercedes' run of domination and become champion Lewis Hamilton's closest challenger. In a race that was dominated by tyre strategy, Hamilton swept past Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas...

Valtteri Bottas outpaced world championship-leading Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton as the two ‘black arrows’ topped the times in Friday’s opening free practice for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. The Finn, who won the season-opening race in Austria, clocked a best lap in 1min 26.166sec...

Valtteri Bottas has signed a new deal with Mercedes, keeping him at the Formula One team until the end of the 2021 season. The Finnish driver heads into this weekend's 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone 30 points adrift of teammate Lewis Hamilton in the world championship. Next...