Manchester United and Chelsea drew 0-0 in the Premier League on Monday as the action in the season's first big match failed to match the intrigue of the Wayne Rooney transfer saga that swirled throughout.
Alex Ferguson said fate played a big hand on Wednesday as his Manchester United team won the Champions League 50 years after the Munich air disaster, having been watched by some of the survivors. Harry Gregg, Albert Scanlon, Kenny Morgans, Bill Foulkes and Bobby Charlton were among those in the Luzhniki Stadium where United came back from the brink to beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after the match had finished 1-1 after extra time.
Yahoo Inc. chairman Terry Semel stepped down as chief executive on Monday
Fabio Capello is the ideal candidate to take over as England manager from Steve McClaren, feels former national team assistant coach Terry Venables
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
Ahead of their high-profile clash on Saturday, check out the five standout clashes between Arsenal and Chelsea.
David Beckham made a losing start to his second season in USA when his Los Angeles Galaxy were crushed 4-0 by the Colorado Rapids.
Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard was named the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann appear among the 55 nominees for the FIFPro 2016 World 11 released on Friday but England forward Wayne Rooney failed to make the shortlist for the first time. Portugal captain Ronaldo, led his country to victory at Euro 2016, while France forward Griezmann was the top player at the tournament. It is the first time that 25-year-old Griezmann has made the cut, but England captain Rooney is absent for the first time in the competition's 12-year history, after England crashed out of Euro 2016 to lowly Iceland.
Australian spin guru Terry Jenner feels spin bowlers were more inclined to bowling fast full length deliveries in Twenty20 cricket.
The layoffs would mark the most aggressive step yet by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who began a reorganisation to revive the company's fortunes after taking over from movie studio mogul Terry Semel in June 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday.
Steven Gerrard, John Terry, David Beckham, Michael Owen and Owen Hargreaves have been included in the 28-man squad for next Wednesday's friendly against Germany at Wembley.
Cristiano has been promised a record-breaking annual salary $18.5m a year to move to the Primera Liga club.
David Beckham, one of the so-called "Class of 92", went on to win six Premier League titles under Alex Ferguson at United alongside youth-team buddies Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, and Gary and Phil Neville. Beckham also won two FA Cups and, memorably, the Champions League in 1999. He topped up his trophy collection with a La Liga winners' medal for Real Madrid and added two MLS Cups during a north American adventure with LA Galaxy.
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard will miss the next few weeks after tearing a muscle in his right thigh.
The Indians felt that if they acceded to Chinese claims in Ladakh, Beijing would simply be emboldened to press for further concessions in the future. A revealing excerpt from India And The Cold War.
Three-time champion Saina Nehwal staved off a challenge from a lower-ranked Pai Yu Po of Chinese Taipei to make a positive start to her women's singles campaign at the $900,000 Indonesia Super Series Premier badminton tournament in Jakarta on Tuesday.
No Indian bowler has had a better debut year in Test cricket than the young lad from the Gujarat and Mumbai Indians teams.
Rajinder Gupta, CEO and managing director of the Trident group, spoke to Business Standard about the company's plans.
Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh's fourth professional bout was on Tuesday rescheduled from February 13 to March 12.
British Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe has attacked spiralling wages in the Premier League.
No matter how they started out, part of what makes business leaders successful is their ability to learn something at every step.
Terry Jenner, mentor of the legendary Australian spinner Shane Warne, commenced his five-day coaching camp in Chennai.
Barcelona put one foot in the Champions League last 16 with a 5-0 away drubbing of Basel and are the only team with a 100 percent record.
The UK retailer earned an EBITDA of 2.7 million in the year ended June 2007 on the back of 17 per cent growth in sales, said Welspun India director Akhil Jindal in Mumbai on Monday. Christy's, which was losing money, customers and market share when it was acquired by Welspun, has reversed the tide by winning back customers, adding new ones and expanding its reach by opening more shop-in-shops.
A new Team England Footballers' Charity has pledged a minimum of one million pounds over the next four years.
Though deprived of victory, England, coming off a series of poor results, will take heart from the way they grew in confidence as the game progressed and will aim to show more of the same in Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifier.
Chelsea failed to score for a fourth successive English Premier League match in a 0-0 draw with Fulham.
Thierry Henry was voted Footballer of the Year for the third time in four years by the Football Writers' Association
The federal and provincial governments have pledged to cover the $860,000 cost for the memorial playground and the monument.
Zimbabwe captain Prosper Utseya won the toss and elected to field against Bangladesh, in an inconsequential Champions Trophy qualifying match.
Violence and disorder involving England fans must not happen: for the sake of the players and the nation as a whole, writes England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Chelsea ended their pre-season tour of the US with a 1-0 win against Los Angeles Galaxy.
Andriy Shevchenko broke a seven-week drought on Tuesday with two goals which helped send champions Chelsea to the final.
England will resume their Euro 2008 campaign in Estonia on Wednesday.
Chelsea coach Maurizio Sarri said the refusal of his goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga to be substituted in Sunday's League Cup final was the result of a "big misunderstanding", adding that the Spaniard "was right but in the wrong way".
The German international threw the ball at Phillips after the final whistle. He later claimed Phillips had pushed him and stood on his foot during the game.
Veteran drag-flicker Sandeep Singh scored twice as Jaypee Punjab Warriors drubbed debutants Kalinga Lancers 7-3 in a high-scoring Hockey India League match in Bhubaneshwar.
Thousands of Chelsea fans turning out in west London to celebrate winning the Premier League title on Monday were told to prepare for more success next season by manager Jose Mourinho.
CM makes 'Make in Maharashtra' pitch to China.
