Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Marvin Williams dropped 27 points and added 11 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks increased their playoff chances with a 114-109 victo ...
Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Marvin Williams dropped 27 points and added 11 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks increased their playoff chances with a 114-109 victo ...
Boxing
Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - In a rematch of their classic 2004 draw, Manny Pacquiao outdueled Juan Manuel Marquez and won a razor-thin 12-round split decision to claim the WBC super featherweight championship at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino. D ...
Panama City, Panama (Sports Network) - WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev will defend his crown against former champion Nikolai Valuev. The Universum Box-Promotion won the right to promote the much anticipated rematch at a WBA purse bid Monday. ...
Cardiff, Wales (Sports Network) - Andreas Kotelnik won the WBA light welterweight title with a 12th-round technical knockout of previously unbeaten Gavin Rees on Saturday. Referee Luis Pabon stepped in and stopped the fight at 2:34 of the final roun ...
Perth, Australia (Sports Network) - Danny Green, the WBA light heavyweight champion, announced his retirement on Tuesday. The Sydney Morning Herald reports sources said Green made his decision in the early morning hours of Easter Sunday to retire be ...
St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Verno Phillips unseated Cory Spinks, taking the IBF light middleweight title with a 12-round, split decision win at the Scottrade Center. Phillips (42-10-1), won 116-112, 115-113, 113-115 on the judges' scorecards, p ...
Yokohama, Japan (Sports Network) - Alexander Munoz of Venezuela won a 12-round unanimous decision over local favorite Katsushige Kawashima to keep his WBA super flyweight title Monday. Munoz (32-2, 27 KOs) dominated early and withstood a late charge ...
LONDON (AP) _ England faces its first serious Test challenge since its disastrous Ashes defence when it starts the first of three matches against India on Thursday. While England's one-day form has remained poor, the Test team rebounded from the com ...
NEW YORK (AP) _ Miguel Cotto sat onstage at Madison Square Garden wearing a sharp brown suit. Zab Judah went for the hooded sweat shirt and shorts. That hardly was the only contrast between the fighters who will meet Saturday night for Cotto's WBA w ...
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) _ Thailand's first female boxing world champion was released from jail Wednesday as reward for winning the world light-flyweight title. Siriporn Thaweesuk was released on parole from the women's prison in Pathum Thani province ...
HAVANA (AP) _ Cuba won't send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro's fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games. The competition is one of three quali ...
Golf
Romero breaks through for first win in New OrleansNew Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Andres Romero closed with rounds of 65 and 68 on Sunday to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans by a single stroke. Romero, ...
Basketball
English basketball dispute dents qualification chances for 2012 OlympicsGENEVA (AP) _ Britain's hopes of qualifying for the basketball tournament at the 2012 London Olympics are in jeopardy because of a dispute between national auth ...
Football
Premier League round-upArsenal's second trip to the North East in the space of five days ended in disappointment again as they lost their unbeaten domestic record to Middlesbrough, wh ...
Tennis
Davenport rolls in Miami opener, Jankovic survives grueling matchMiami, FL (Sports Network) - Former world No. 1 American Lindsay Davenport was an easy second-round winner Saturday at the $3.77 million Sony Ericsson Open. The ...
Cricket
Ricky Ponting says Australia will improve with more challenging contestsST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) _ Australian skipper Ricky Ponting feels the defending World Cup champion team will improve further by playing challenging games like Su ...