Overhauled Galaxy loaded with top talent in title quest
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Love them or hate them, the LA Galaxy have always been Major League Soccer’s glamor team with a seemingly never-ending cast of top talent that have long set the standard for the North American league.
Giovinco, Drogba give high hopes to Canadian MLS clubs
TORONTO (Reuters) – Italian Sebastian Giovinco revived his career with Toronto FC last year and Chelsea great Didier Drogba thrived in his first season with Montreal Impact, giving the Canadian teams high hopes for the 2016 MLS season.
Noted tennis journalist Bud Collins dies aged 86
(Reuters) – Hall of Fame tennis writer and TV commentator Bud Collins, who helped popularize the sport during his decades-long career, died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts on Friday after a long illness. He was 86.
McGregor, Holm top bill as UFC grows in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Conor McGregor vows to build the UFC into a billion-dollar business and Holly Holm makes her first defense of the title she won in spectacular fashion from Ronda Rousey as mixed martial arts grabs the spotlight in the Nevada deser…
No proof of 2006 World Cup vote buying, Beckenbauer under pressure
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – There is no evidence of vote-rigging in the awarding of the 2006 soccer World Cup to Germany, says a report into the scandal which piled more pressure on former World Cup chief Franz Beckenbauer over a payment to a disgraced ex-FI…
Djokovic finds form to delight Serbian fans in Davis Cup
BELGRADE (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic shook off an eye infection to beat Kazakhstan’s Aleksandr Nedovyesov 6-1 6-2 6-3 in front of a passionate home crowd to give Serbia a 1-0 lead against Kazakhstan in their Davis Cup first-round tie on…
Champions League needs Manchester United more than Leicester, says U.S. sports mogul
LONDON (Reuters) – Top European soccer clubs have discussed changing the Champions League to ensure the elite are always in it and the likes of Premier League leaders Leicester City are not, according to a U.S. sports executive involved in the talks.
UEFA names Theodoridis as interim replacement for Infantino
NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) – European soccer’s governing body UEFA confirmed on Friday that Theodore Theodoridis will take over as acting general secretary from Gianni Infantino who was elected as FIFA president last Friday.
Questions grow about Zika’s risk to future pregnancy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Few women have competed in the Olympics while pregnant, but the suspicion that the Zika virus in mothers is causing birth defects is central to calculations by athletes and others planning travel to Brazil in August for the summ…
Quiet man Van Niekerk unconcerned by training disruption
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – World 400 meters champion Wayde van Niekerk is hoping disruptions to his training program will not stop him becoming South Africa’s first Olympic gold medalist in the event for almost a century at this year’s Games in Rio de Janeiro.
