Costa Rica beat Greece on penalties to make last eight debut

Costa Rica secured a place in the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time on Sunday after beating Greece 5-3 on penalties after the teams finished level at 1-1 after extra time, the Central......

Gomez double sets up Bayern win, Ribery back

Mario Gomez kept up his Bayern Munich revival when he scored twice and won a penalty to inspire the Bundesliga champions to a 3-0 win over Nuremberg on Sunday. Gomez, who has scored seven goals in......

Wolfsburg pointless, injured Ballack out for 6 wks

Steve McCLaren's VfL Wolfsburg slumped to another Bundesliga defeat on Saturday with a 2-0 loss at Borussia Dortmund while Michael Ballack was injured in Bayer Leverkusen's 2-2 draw at Hanover 96.......

Italy, France lead charge into Euro finals

Italy and France, who met in the World Cup final 16 months ago, led a six-team charge into next year's European championship finals on Saturday thanks to Italy's injury-time 2-1 win over Scotland......