Pat Tillman had swapped a lucrative football career to enlist in the US Army.
Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list with his 714th run
India cricket captain Virat Kohli is among the world's highest-paid athletes, according to a Forbes' compilation topped by American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather.
Yankee Irving, a computer-animated film being directed by Christopher Reeve, will be released in 2006.
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The English champions with income of $313.8 million in the 2002/03 season are comfortably ahead of Juventus and AC Milan.
'Just like humans binge on food when they are depressed, they also tend to shop for instant gratification. which is just temporary. Please do not fall into this trap,' cautions Sheetal Jhaveri.
The US needs to make a more serious commitment to the fight against performance enhancing drugs.
Several athletes testified before a grand jury investigating the BALCO lab, which is suspected of producing steroids.
The matches will feature four quarters of 17-1/2 minutes each.
The probables are training alongside top US sports stars including tennis pro Meghann Shaughnessy, American football players and ace baseball player Mark Garciaparra at the Athletes Performance Centre in Arizona.
The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Sunday for the second leg of a six-week relay in the run-up to the Athens Games.
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"There's no question that the lawsuit could potentially be the largest asset of his estate," said Tyson's attorney, Debra Grassgreen.
Mahmood Akhtar, who attacked the umpire with a baseball bat, has been jailed for three years.
For over three-quarters of a century men's tennis in Japan has played out like a kabuki tragedy, filled with decades of barren results, embarrassments and even a suicide.
Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli is the sole sportsperson from the country to feature among the world's 100 highest paid athletes in the latest Forbes list topped by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.
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The women's top seed won at love against Barbara Schett while Agassi beat Xavier Malisse at the French Open.
Australia's cricket chief James Sutherland believes beach cricket might be the solution to the logistical problems facing the sport in its attempts to get onto the Olympic schedule.
Qualifiers Spain and the United States suffered blows in friendlies, the world champions beaten 1-0 by eliminated South Africa on the SoccerCity pitch where they clinched their 2010 crown and the Americans losing 1-0 away to lowly Austria.
Rishi Kapoor discusses his son's career, as Ranbir turns 35.
Lauda was so badly injured in that accident at the 1976 German Grand Prix that a priest gave him the last rites as he lay in a coma.
Manny Pacquiao's camp today slammed the officials after the Filipino great lost his World Boxing Organisation welterweight title in a controversial unanimous decision to Australia's Jeff Horn.
The Bollywood actress and businesswoman co-owns the Indian Premier League (IPL) side Kings XI Punjab and has now expanded her cricket empire to include the Stellenbosch Kings in South Africa's newly-launched T20 Global League.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that Indian missions in Canada are working round the clock after the blast.
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'Governments forget that no matter how cunning they are, eventually they cannot ride on anarchy,' says Shuma Raha.
Formula One driver Sergio Perez said on Thursday he has dumped his sunglasses sponsor for a comment it made on Twitter about his Mexican compatriots after Donald Trump was elected as the next US president.
Former England midfielder Frank Lampard's decision to stay with Manchester City until the end of the season has "outraged" fans of Major League Soccer team New York City FC.
apanese casual wear designer Uniqlo has signed the 36-year-old Swiss as a global brand ambassador in a deal reported to be worth around $30 million a year.
Cricket, a sport dominated by Britain and former British colonies such as Australia and India, has only once featured in a Games - in Paris in 1900.
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