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Twenty-six charged in latest basketball gambling scandal
AFP, Published on 16/01/2026
» LOS ANGELES - Twenty-six people have been charged with fixing US college and Chinese professional basketball games in an alleged transnational criminal conspiracy, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
Increased doping in pandemic 'not a particular worry', says WADA chief
AFP, Published on 22/06/2021
» MONTREAL - World anti-doping chiefs insist they are not overly worried by athletes who may have tried to take advantage of reduced drugs testing programmes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Move that reshaped pros' lives
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 11/04/2021
» JH Taylor, James Braid and Harry Vardon sat down together in 1901 and over a beer and a fag discussed how best to form the first association of professional golfers.
Djokovic worried by 'extreme, impossible' US Open health restrictions
AFP, Published on 06/06/2020
» BELGRADE: World number one Novak Djokovic described the strict hygiene restrictions under which the US Open is likely to be played as "extreme" and a cap on support teams as "really impossible" on Friday.
What now for tennis in 2020?
AFP, Published on 01/06/2020
» PARIS - Professional tennis has been in cold storage since March due to the coronavirus pandemic with tournaments unlikely to resume before August.
Six talking points in Formula One
AFP, Published on 30/05/2020
» PARIS: Williams potentially up for sale, McLaren and Renault cutting staff and world champions Mercedes having to deny they are pondering a dramatic exit from Formula One.
Coronavirus: The weeks that rocked sport
AFP, Published on 13/04/2020
» PARIS - As the coronavirus pandemic has put much of the globe in lockdown, sports has not been immune, indeed the deadly fall out from a Champions League game in Milan and the speed with which the disease spread through the UAE Tour peloton raise worrying issues for the future.
Berlin Half-Marathon terror attack foiled
AFP, Published on 09/04/2018
» BERLIN: German authorities arrested six people Sunday over an alleged plot to carry out a terrorist attack on the German capital's half marathon, which attracted 36,000 runners.