BARCELONA - Pastor Maldonado spoke on Thursday of how he had feared a tragic ending to his astonishing Spanish Grand Prix success in Barcelona last weekend.

The Williams garage caught fire at the Circuit de Catalunya as members of the Formula One team, including wheelchair-bound...

BARCELONA - Pastor Maldonado started Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix with the expectation of a nation on his back and ended it as a winner, hoisted aloft on the shoulders of champions and covered in champagne.

Then, with his Williams team garage in flames and the pit lane filled with...

WROCLAW - British speedway rider Lee Richardson died in a crash in Poland on Sunday, the BBC reported.

The 33-year-old Richardson, captain of Lakeside Hammers, hit the safety fence riding for Polish team Rzeszow in Wroclaw and was taken to hospital where he died of chest injuries.
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ROME - British rider Mark Cavendish won stage five of the Giro d'Italia in a close finish in Fano.
The Team Sky man produced a powerful sprint to edge out Australian Matt Goss of the Orica GreenEdge team and Italian Daniele Bennati of Radioshack Nissan.
All three were credited with...

LONDON - David Haye and Dereck Chisora will go head to head at Upton Park on July 14 in a fight sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation, according to reports.
Neither of the British heavyweight fighters - who hit the headlines for their conduct at the press conference after Chisora's...

SHEFFIELD - Ronnie O’Sullivan beat fellow Briton Ali Carter 18-11 to win the world snooker championship for the fourth time on Monday.
Resuming with a 15-10 lead, O’Sullivan won three of the opening four frames in the final session to clinch victory.
“I played with a bit more fluency...

BARCELONA - Ferrari hope to be much closer to their Formula One rivals at next week's Spanish Grand Prix after making progress in testing at the Mugello track in Italy, Fernando Alonso said on Thursday.

The Italian team have struggled with their new car in the first four races of the...

MADRID - More than 15,000 fans turned out in pouring rain at the Mugello circuit in Italy on Tuesday to see Ferrari's Fernando Alonso lap fastest in Formula One's first mid-season test since 2008.

The Spaniard, who clocked a best time of one minute 12.444 seconds at the Ferrari-owned...

MUMBAI - The landmark gold medal Abhinav Bindra shot down in Beijing four years ago has only served to make life more difficult for the baby-faced marksman and his fellow Indian Olympic shooters.

This country that has tasted so little Olympic success, will pat swimmers on their backs...

LONDON - Ronnie O'Sullivan makes his Crucible entrance on Monday but the appealing prospect of his clash of styles with Peter Ebdon has been overshadowed by a row sparked by Mark Allen.

Allen, the 26-year-old Antrim player, last night bowed out of the Betfred.com World Championship...