England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff flew to Jamaica on Monday for a scan after picking up a side strain in England's opening warm-up game against an invitational team from St Kitts & Nevis. Flintoff pulled out of the match on Sunday and was replaced by Stuart Broad.
Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt will come to India next week to play a cricket match against a team that includes World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh.
Mumbai Indians have signed on Dwayne Bravo, while former England batsman Mark Ramprakash rejected an offer to join in lucrative IPL.
Britain's Mo Farah stormed to victory in the 5,000 metres on Saturday to secure an unprecedented third successive distance double at major global championships.
The dancer and choreographer who created the popular dance used by Jamaica sprinter Usain Bolt to celebrate his victories at the Beijing Olympics was shot to death at a Kingston nightclub on Friday, police said. Smith created the "Gully Creeper" that Bolt danced each time he won a race at the Olympics last August.
Usain Bolt streaked to 100 meters Olympic gold at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday thanks to yam power, his father said. Wellesley Bolt said his son was partial to the vegetable grown in the north-western area of Jamaica where the sprinter was born.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt won 100 meters gold at the Beijing Olympics in a world record time on Saturday, running 9.69 seconds to claim victory in an exhilarating showdown with his compatriot Asafa Powell.
West Indies cricket officially shut the door on Shivnarine Chanderpaul when the name of the team's second highest run-getter was left out of the Test squad set to face Australia on June 3.
Mexican media called on Sven Goran-Eriksson to quit as national coach on Thursday, a day after his side lost to Honduras and avoided an early World Cup exit by the skin of their teeth.
Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the 100 metres at a Paris Golden League meeting on Friday in 9.79 seconds, recording his best time of the season despite a poor start in damp, chilly conditions.
Compatriot Ronnie Baker, who had set the previous fastest 100m of the year nine days ago, was second in 9.93 seconds, with Jamaica's Yohan Blake third a further hundredth of a second back.
Opening batsman Matthew Hayden will miss the rest of Australia's tour of the Caribbean due to injury.
United States President Barack Obama has determined India and its three neighbours, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, among a list of 22 nations that are major illicit drug producing or transit countries.
For an hour on Saturday at Sabina Park, West Indies cricket took a step back in time. Fidel Edwards and Daren Powell bowled with real hostility to take two wickets each as Australia slumped to 17 for four on the third day of the first Test.
Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt has decided not to race again this year after his triple gold medal haul at last month's World Championships in China.
More than the runs scored, it is the manner of his dismissals that is causing frustration, considering that the Indian cricket establishment has invested heavily in the 21-year-old from Rourkee.
The United States made up for their botched performance in the sprint relays by winning both 4x400 meters events on Saturday to finish the Olympic athletics program on a high.
American Bryan Clay outclassed the opposition to win gold in the Olympic decathlon on Friday, leading from start to finish in the two-day competition. His winning margin of 240 points was the most convincing in the multi-disciplined event since 1972.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday.
Shelly-Ann Fraser surged to Jamaica's first Olympic women's 100 metres gold medal on Sunday and led compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart to the event's first national podium sweep.
Kane Williamson completed an unbeaten century to guide New Zealand to a modest first day total of 240 of two in the opening Test against West Indies on Sunday.
Jamaica police have scheduled a news conference for next Tuesday in which it will reveal former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's cause of death, a police source told Reuters late on Saturday.
Sprint king Usain Bolt aims to crown his legacy with an unprecedented Olympic threepeat at the Rio Games, and to top that off by running the first ever sub-19 seconds 200 meters.
Jamaica's Asafa Powell beat compatriot and world record holder Usain Bolt in the men's 100 metres at a Grand Prix meeting on Tuesday.
Usain Bolt, the 100 metres world record holder, ran the fastest time in the 200 this year, winning in 19.67 seconds, at the Athens Grand Prix on Sunday.
World 100 meters record holder Usain Bolt defeated his closest rival Asafa Powell to qualify for the Beijing Olympics on Saturday. In what had been billed as the clash of the world's two fastest men, Bolt ran 9.85 to finish first in Jamaica's Olympic trials, while Powell, the former record holder, clocked 9.97 seconds.
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown has no intention of relinquishing her Olympic 200 metres title at this year's Beijing Games, even if she will probably start as favourite for the more prestigious 100 metres crown. The 25-year-old won the world title in the shorter sprint in Osaka last year and is aiming to become the first woman -- barring the now disgraced Marion Jones -- to win both in one Games since Florence Griffiths Joyner two decades ago.
World record holder Powell clocked 10.01 seconds in the quarter-final heats while Gay won his heat in 10.06.
Wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi is to join the Australian side in the West Indies as cover for Brad Haddin, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Friday. Haddin broke a finger on his right hand during the first Test against West Indies in Jamaica and played with the injury during the drawn second Test in Antigua.
Athletics legend Michael Johnson feels Usain Bolt has surpassed the likes of him and Carl Lewis by his sheer consistency and can easily be considered the 'greatest' track-and-field star in the world at this point.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Tuesday announced the details of England's tour to West Indies next year when they will play four tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 match.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), reeling from the fallout from the team's withdrawal from the tour of India, is facing fresh pressure from its worried commercial and broadcast partners.
West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell was banned on Tuesday for one year for a doping whereabouts rule violation.
"I am sticking to my findings. He [Woolmer] was murdered," Indian born Dr Ere Seshaiah was quoted as saying.
Trinidad and Tobago reached the final of the regional one day competition for the West Indies, despite their semi-final with Barbados falling victim to the weather on Friday.
Only close relatives attended the funeral in Observatory, near the family's Pinelands home outside Cape Town.
Images from Thursday's proceedings at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
