Games: Athletes expelled, India to appeal after needles found
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – Indian team officials will appeal a decision to throw athletes Rakesh Babu and Irfan Kolothum Thodi out of the Commonwealth Games after they were found to have breached the Games’ anti-doping ‘no-needles’ policy.
Motor racing: Ferrari review pitstop procedures after mechanic injury
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Ferrari have reviewed their pitstop procedures after an incident at the Bahrain Grand Prix left a mechanic with a broken leg, team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said on Friday.
Russia’s Prokhorov sells 49 percent in Brooklyn Nets basketball team
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has sold a 49-percent stake in the Brooklyn Nets basketball team to Joe Tsai, the executive vice chairman and co-founder of the Alibaba Group, the NBA team said in a statement.
Games: Gold Coast businesses fume over Commonwealth ‘disaster’
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – A few minutes’ walk from the Commonwealth Games basketball venue, a deflated Armando Cozzolino surveys empty tables and idle waitstaff at La Roma restaurant, waiting for a promised business dividend that has stubbornly…
Motor racing: Mercedes’ Hamilton sets the early pace in China
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was fastest in the opening practice session for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix on Friday with championship leader Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari only sixth quickest at the Shanghai International Circuit.
Golf: From stopping pucks to sinking putts, Henderson switch pays off
(Reuters) – Canadian Brooke Henderson gave up ice hockey six years ago to focus on golf but the former goaltender says the time ‘between the pipes’ helped prepare her for life on the elite women’s tour.
Games: Hughes learning to live with 200 meters disqualification
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – England sprinter Zharnel Hughes said he had no choice but to accept the decision that robbed him of 200 meters gold at the Commonwealth Games, adding that making contact with rival Jereem Richards had been an accident….
McDavid named in Team Canada for world championships
(Reuters) – Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid, the NHL’s leading scorer, headlined a list of players named in Canada’s team for the ice hockey world championships, Hockey Canada said on Thursday.
Golf: South African Sabbatini leads by two at Hilton Head
(Reuters) – A flawless Rory Sabbatini held a two-shot lead after the first round of the RBC Heritage in South Carolina on Thursday only hours after being unsure if he would be fit to play.
Stephens serves up tennis to inner city youth
COMPTON, Calif. (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens on Thursday unveiled refurbished tennis courts at a school in impoverished Compton, California, the latest in an ongoing effort by the African American player to expand the reach of the spo…
