St. Louis Rams green-lit for move to Los Angeles
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The St. Louis Rams are headed to Los Angeles and the San Diego Chargers have an option to join them after NFL owners voted on Tuesday to end the league’s 21-year absence in the United States’ second-largest TV market.
Ex-NFL player Phillips dead in California prison of suspected suicide
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lawrence Phillips, a former NFL player convicted of inflicting great bodily injury in a domestic violence case and later charged with murdering a cellmate, was found dead in his California prison cell early on Wednesday of a sus…
Coe denies Russian doping was covered up
(Reuters) – IAAF president Sebastian Coe says there has been no cover up of Russian doping cases despite the latest leaked documents appearing to show that officials of athletics’ governing body were discussing how to suppress news of positive tests.
Astros, Padres set for Spring Training games in Mexico
(Reuters) – Major League Baseball will return to Mexico City for the first time in 12 years when the San Diego Padres and Houston Astros play a pair of Spring Training contests, MLB said on Wednesday.
Escape artist Serena will struggle to match 2015 feats: Evert
LONDON (Reuters) – Serena Williams must stop giving opponents head starts if she is to come anywhere near emulating last season’s feat of winning three of the year’s four grand slams, according to former world number one Chris Evert.
Kuwait sues own Olympic committee over international ban – newspapers
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s sports authority has filed a civil lawsuit against the country’s Olympic committee, local newspapers reported on Wednesday, accusing it of helping get the country officially banned from this year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Sheikh may revisit World Cup bid processes if he wins vote
LONDON (Reuters) – Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa could revisit the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups if he wins next month’s FIFA presidential election and previous “wrongful conduct” has been proven.
Soccer’s scandal-plagued FIFA dumps its once-powerful secretary general
ZURICH (Reuters) – World soccer body FIFA said on Wednesday it had fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scandals at the sport’s governing authority
Kenya’s Kiplagat seeks $1 million in prize money lost to drugs cheats
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenyan two-time world marathon champion Edna Kiplagat wants $1 million dollars to be retrospectively awarded to her as the rivals who pipped her to two lucrative World Marathon Majors series titles have since been banned for …
Halep holds off Pliskova, meets Kuznetsova next
SYDNEY (Reuters) – World number two Simona Halep continued her preparations for next week’s Australian Open by booking a semi-final berth at the Sydney International with a gritty straight-sets win over Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday.
