LONDON - Reigning world champion Adrian Lewis secured a quite remarkable come-from-behind World Championship semi-final win over James Wade amid farcical scenes at Alexandra Palace.
Lewis won 10 legs in a row to come from 5-1 down to beat Wade 6-5 and book a final meeting with Andy Hamilton,...

LIENZ - Austrian Anna Fenninger triumphed in the giant slalom at Lienz to claim her first career victory.
Fenninger posted a combined time of two minutes 16.08 seconds, which was 0.2secs quicker than Italy's Federica Brignone.
Tessa Worley of France was third, 0.39s behind Fenninger,...

LONDON - Dave Chisnall kept his cool to cause a massive upset and knock multiple winner Phil Taylor out of the ladbrokes.com World Championship with a commanding performance at the Alexandra Palace.
Chisnall, from St Helens, won the second-round clash in one of the biggest shocks in the...

LAS VEGAS - Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges.
Las Vegas judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered the 34-year-old, who has held world championship titles in five divisions, to complete...

LONDON - World number four Gary Anderson scraped through to the second round of the ladbrokes.com World Championships with a thrilling 3-2 win over Jyhan Artut.
Last year's runner-up looked like exiting the tournament on a number of occasions, certainly at 2-0 down and later with Artut...

LONDON - Andy Hamilton booked a second-round clash with Vincent van der Voort at the the PDC World Championships after he edged Antonio Alcinas 3-2 last night.
The Hammer twice came from behind, and after levelling at 2-2, Hamilton forced the game into a deciding set.
Alcinas missed...

LONDON - Football and rugby clubs could team up to use the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games.
The new bidding process to use the stadium after the Games opens today. West Ham are favourites to become the tenants but the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) have confirmed they will...

LONDON - Unheralded Englishman James Richardson sent Raymond van Barneveld crashing to a shock defeat in the first round of the PDC World Championships last night.
Richardson, the world number 85 from Rushden in Northamptonshire, ran out a 3-0 winner in an enthralling encounter played out...

ALTA BADIA - Italian Massimiliano Blardone secured another home win in the World Cup giant slalom at Alta Badia after finishing clear of Austrian duo Hannes Reichelt and Philipp Schoerghofer.
Blardone was down in sixth place following the first run but produced a fine second effort to win...

INDIANA - The crash that killed two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was the result of a "perfect storm" with no single factor pinpointed as the cause of the deadly accident, IndyCar officials said on Thursday.

Wheldon died when his open-cockpit car became airborne during a...