The South Lakes strongman, John Gaskins, perhaps the most powerful climber in the UK is back climbing again after a lay off. John is author of the world's hardest short sport route, Violent New...
Northamptonshire bring in Andrew Hall and Johan van der Wath as they try for their first LV County Championship win of the season, against Leicestershire at Grace Road.
Left heartbroken on the last day of the season for the past two years, FC Basel 1893 finally got their hands on the Swiss Super League trophy again on Saturday.
Karim Benzema helped France to U17 victory four years ago and is tipping Les Mini-Bleus to do it again this week according to current top scorer Yanis Tafer.
Portuguese midfielder Rui Costa said an emotional farewell on Sunday, ending his playing career at 36 in SL Benfica's 3-0 victory against Vitória FC in Lisbon.
With less than a week until Otto Rehhagel names his Greece squad, the German coach can be satisfied with the timely return to fitness of several key players.
Austria made a fine start to their pre-UEFA EURO 2008™ training camp with a 6-0 victory against third division side SV Spittal in an unofficial friendly game.
Chelsea FC have confirmed that they have reached an agreement to sign Portuguese international right-back Bosingwa from FC Porto for a reported fee of €20.5m.
Midfielder turned defender Roman Shirokov is on virgin emotional territory as he prepares to represent FC Zenit St. Petersburg in Wednesday's UEFA Cup final.
Sweden's Peter Fröjdfeldt will referee Wednesday's UEFA Cup final between FC Zenit St. Petersburg and Rangers FC at England's City of Manchester Stadium.
Eyebrows were raised when Carlos Cuéllar left Spain for Rangers FC but the defender knows he "made the right choice" after earning a UEFA Cup final place.
Test captain Michael Vaughan has called upon England to re-discover their aggressive batting ahead of the npower series with New Zealand. The opening Test of the summer gets under way at Lord's on Thursday.
Robert Key has warned England not to underestimate the threat offered by an improving New Zealand side after their strong showing against the Lions at the Rose Bowl.
Francois Du Plessis hit a brilliant unbeaten 77 to give Lancashire Lightning a thrilling three-wicket Friends Provident Trophy win over Roses rivals Yorkshire Carnegie at Old Trafford.Yorkshire reached 204 for seven thanks to a knock of 65 from Jacques Rudolph,
Dave MacLeod is digging away snow from his Echo Wall project on Ben Nevis - this is the possible E12 and the project that he soloed Darwen Dixit an 8c in Spain in preparation for. See Dave's blog,...
Club Atlético de Madrid sealed the Primera División's final UEFA Champions League qualifying berth after a 1-0 home victory against RC Deportivo La Coruña.
