Russia hopes to stir World Cup crowds with musical spoons
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Move over vuvuzela players. The musical instrument to master for this year’s soccer World Cup is the Russian spoon.
Fencer foils the field to lift crazy golf world title
HASTINGS, England (Reuters) – Marc Chapman, a professional fencing coach, proved he was as adept with a putter as he was with a sword as he claimed the World Crazy Golf Championships title on England’s south coast.
Vieira leaves New York to join French side Nice
(Reuters) – New York City FC manager Patrick Vieira has left his position to join French Ligue 1 club Nice, both teams said on Monday.
Nadal unsure of Wimbledon appearance after French Open win
PARIS (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal has cast doubt on his participation at Wimbledon, saying he needs to see how his body recovers after a long clay court campaign culminated in an 11th French Open title.
Spanish Moto3 teenage rider dies after crash
MADRID (Reuters) – Promising young Spanish Moto3 rider Andreas Perez has died from injuries sustained in a crash in Barcelona over the weekend.
‘Zoo behind a fence:’ Russian city gets World Cup security barrier
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) – On a cold winter day in February, residents of an apartment block in the World Cup city of Yekaterinburg were abruptly cut off from their main access road, front yard and parking spaces.
For a brief moment, goalscorers forget poverty and war
(Reuters) – The eyes of the world will turn to Russia this week for the World Cup but it is far away you must look to find the sport’s beating heart — on war-ravaged streets and in poverty-stricken slums where the simple act of scoring a goal transcen…
Major League Baseball roundup: Indians’ Kluber earns 10th win
Corey Kluber won for the fifth time in his past six starts, Erik Gonzalez smashed a three-run double, and the visiting Cleveland Indians manhandled the Detroit Tigers 9-2 on Sunday.
Athletics: Echevarria produces huge leap in Stockholm
(Reuters) – Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarria produced the furthest long jump in 23 years — 8.83 meters — in winning the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Sunday but a tailwind denied him a place in the record books.
Rep for Winslow Jr. offers explanation for burglary arrest
Kellen Winslow Jr., out of the NFL since 2013, was house-shopping for his mother-in-law when he was arrested on suspicion of burglary in Southern California on Thursday, a representative for the former player says.
