Activision Blizzard creates ‘Overwatch’ e-sports league
(Reuters) – Activision Blizzard Inc said on Friday it is creating a professional e-sports league based around its popular first-person shooter videogame “Overwatch”, as it pushes deeper into the fast-growing market for competitive gaming.
Great Dane Olesen races six clear after record 62 in Turkey
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen fired a course record nine-under-par 62 to power six strokes clear of the field after the second round of the $7 million Turkish Airlines Open in Antalya on Friday.
Alpine skiing: Austria’s Brem breaks leg, out for season
(Reuters) – Austria’s World Cup giant slalom champion Eva-Maria Brem has broken her left leg in a training fall and will be out for the Alpine ski season, a team doctor said on Friday.
Infantino wields funding threat to make FAs put their houses in order
ZURICH (Reuters) – Soccer’s governing body FIFA is cutting off cash to national football associations that fail to meet basic standards of transparency as its new boss works to clean up the sport after years of corruption scandals.
FIA wrong on two counts with Vettel, says Herbert
LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One’s governing body got it wrong twice over with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel at last weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, according to former race winner and television pundit Johnny Herbert.
Harvard cancels men’s soccer season over lewd rankings of women players
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – Harvard University canceled its men’s soccer season after discovering that its players had for years maintained lewd rankings of incoming women players.
State’s appeal against Oscar Pistorius sentence to be heard in open court
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Friday told state prosecutors and the defense to argue their case over the six-year sentence for murder handed to Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius in open court.
Boy seen in shower with Penn State’s Sandusky to testify in retrial bid
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A man who says he was the unidentified boy seen in 2001 in a shower with convicted sexual predator Jerry Sandusky is expected to tell a hearing on Friday that the former Penn State assistant football coach was a father figur…
Brazil is Sauber’s best chance, says Nasr
LONDON (Reuters) – Brazilian driver Felipe Nasr hopes his home Formula One race next week will finally give Swiss-based Sauber something to cheer about.
U.S. on right track after tough 2015: Klinsmann
ERFURT, Germany (Reuters) – Juergen Klinsmann is targeting at least four points from two games against Mexico and Costa Rica this month as the United States aim to get off to a fast start in the final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
