NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financier Stanley Druckenmiller has confirmed his interest in buying the Pittsburgh Steelers U.S. professional football team, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Thursday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Britta Steffen almost seems pleased to see the people from doping control whenever they show up for their unannounced tests.
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SUPER-BESSE, France (Reuters) - Riders expecting a break after the first mountain stage of the Tour in Super-Besse are in for a nasty surprise in Friday’s 159-km, seventh stage between Brioude and Aurillac.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - American Mike Souchak, a 15-times winner on the PGA Tour who appeared on two U.S. Ryder Cup teams, died on Thursday after a heart attack, the Tour said.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Clippers have signed twice All-Star guard Baron Davis, the NBA team said on Thursday.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Nate McLouth’s two-run homer guided the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-2 win over New York on Thursday, snapping the Yankees’ four-game winning streak.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc’s Turner Broadcasting System Inc unit will sell advertisements on Yahoo Inc’s NBA, golf and NASCAR pages in a multiyear deal, the companies said on Thursday.
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ROME (Reuters) - Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell said on Thursday he was pleased he was no longer the favorite for the 100 meters at the Beijing Olympics.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seattle Mariners out-of-form slugger Richie Sexson was released by the club on Thursday, despite having little more than $7 million still owed him on his four-year, $64 million deal.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. boxers vowed on Thursday to wage a battle for medals in Beijing and improve on their single gold from the previous two Olympic tournaments.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - For South Korea’s female archers, Olympic gold medals are like family heirlooms — passed down from one generation of competitors to the next.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The Philadelphia 76ers have signed forward Elton Brand in one of the most significant free agent deals of the close-season, the NBA team said in a statement on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The excitement is beginning to build for former world number one Lindsay Davenport as next month’s Beijing Games inch closer.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Two-times NASCAR champion Tony Stewart is to leave Joe Gibbs Racing after 11 years, the team said on Wednesday. Stewart will complete the 2008 season with Gibbs and is expected to announce his new team later this week.
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MEMPHIS (Reuters) - Spanish center Marc Gasol, younger brother of Los Angeles Lakers forward and All-Star Pau Gasol, was signed by the Memphis Grizzlies Wednesday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The Indiana Pacers have brought in seven new players after multi-player trades with Toronto and Portland.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees edged the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Wednesday to complete a two-game sweep and slow the momentum of the AL East leaders.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World 400 meters hurdles champion Jana Rawlinson has vowed to keep competing until the London 2012 Olympics after being ruled out of the Beijing Games with complications from a toe injury.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - PGA Tour veteran Kenny Perry has shrugged off any criticism over his decision to skip last month’s U.S. Open and next week’s British Open.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former world and Olympic champion Irina Privalova is back after almost eight years away from athletics, hoping to qualify for the Beijing Games.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kenny Perry is the headline act at the John Deere Classic with most of the top players already in Europe preparing for next week’s British Open.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Tampa Bay Rays have turned the American League upside down, rebounding from the worst record in the major leagues last year to the best mark so far this season and are dreaming of their first postseason action.
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QUITO (Reuters) - From selling newspapers on the streets to help his family make ends meet, Jefferson Perez grew up to become a world and Olympic champion walker and a hero in Ecuador.
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TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed veteran free agent right wing Mark Recchi to a one-year contract, the club said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A superb piece of fielding by Derek Jeter and excellent pitching from Andy Pettitte helped the New York Yankees narrow the gap on the American League East-leading Tampa Bay Rays with a 5-0 victory on Tuesday.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Martin Truex’s bid to qualify for the “Chase for the Championship” was severely jolted on Tuesday when NASCAR penalized his team 150 points for bringing an illegal car to Daytona International Speedway last week.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Cubs acquired right-handed pitcher Rich Harden from the Oakland Athletics in a six-player deal on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pittsburgh Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney and his son, Steelers President Art Rooney II, are arranging a financing plan to buy Dan Rooney’s brothers’ shares in the American football franchise, according to a statement on the Steelers’ website on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee praised Beijing on Tuesday for setting a “gold standard for the future” in its preparations for the Games, which begin in a month.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - The 2004 Athens Olympics worked their way into Greece’s social fabric for many of the wrong reasons, leaving a scar which is throbbing again now as the Beijing Games approach.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - First-round bids are due on July 18 for the Chicago Cubs baseball team, which owner Tribune Co hopes to sell along with other assets in an auction that analysts have said could top $1 billion, two sources close to the process said on Tuesday.
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CHOLET, France (Reuters) - German Stefan Schumacher of the Gerolsteiner team took the overall lead of the Tour de France by winning the fourth stage, a 29.5-km time trial around Cholet on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The possibility a top high school basketball player may skip college to play professionally overseas has some analysts questioning whether the NCAA and its popular “March Madness” tournament can remain a cash cow that generates hundreds of millions of dollars.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For Andrew Heffler, Yankee Stadium is hallowed ground not just because baseball immortals such as Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle played there but because mere mortals like his father and grandfather took him there to see games.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Vick, the former star National Football League quarterback serving a 23-month prison sentence for his role in a dogfighting ring, has filed for bankruptcy protection, court papers show.
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CHOLET, France (Reuters) - German Stefan Schumacher caught the favorites out to snatch the Tour de France overall leader’s yellow jersey with victory in the fourth stage, a 29.5-km time trial around Cholet on Tuesday.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Manny Ramirez hit a run-scoring single in the eighth inning for the game’s only run to give the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Twins on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Milwaukee Brewers obtained Cy Young Award winner C.C. Sabathia from the Cleveland Indians in exchange for a group of prospects, the National League club announced on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal stands on the verge of becoming the best player in the world, even if Monday’s rankings showed that he was still number two.
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EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - The provisional U.S. Olympic athletics team for Beijing based on performances at the American selection trials, which ended on Sunday. Only those who have met the qualifying standard are included. The official team will be announced later this month:
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OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Forged from eight days of pressure-packed competition, the powerhouse U.S. Olympic swim team spearheaded by Michael Phelps could leave Beijing as the most successful squad ever assembled.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox will both have seven players in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game later this month.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The streaking Tampa Bay Rays won their seventh game in a row on Sunday, pounding out 13 hits to rout the Kansas City Royals 9-2 in American League play.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The wife of New York Yankees superstar Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez filed for divorce in Miami on Monday, citing the slugger’s alleged infidelities.
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NANTES, France (Reuters) - Frenchman Romain Feillu seized the overall lead as compatriot Samuel Dumoulin won the third stage in a day of upsets on the Tour de France on Monday.
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NANTES, France (Reuters) - The Tour de France has long been regarded the one and only goal for professional cyclists.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Calgary Flames have signed veteran winger Todd Bertuzzi to a one-year contract, the National Hockey League club announced on Monday.
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ST BRIEUC, France (Reuters) - Norway’s Thor Hushovd powered to his sixth victory on the Tour de France when he won a mass sprint to snatch the second stage on Sunday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mariano Rivera held off a late Boston Red Sox rally to help the New York Yankees escape with a 2-1 victory on Saturday.
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AURAY, France (Reuters) - Three-times Tour de France champion Greg LeMond called for cycling to ditch the International Cycling Union (UCI) and restore its image under a new federation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s five-year reign as king of Wimbledon on Sunday with a 6-4 6-4 6-7 6-7 9-7 victory in one of the most dramatic finals seen at the All England Club.
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BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - American Anthony Kim claimed his second victory of the year by shooting a flawless five-under-par 65 to win the AT&T National by two strokes over Sweden’s Fredrik Jacobson on Sunday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Venus Williams would never swap one of her five beloved Wimbledon singles titles for a different grand slam trophy but she said on Sunday that Olympic gold medals were an even bigger prize.
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