Puerto Rico shuts out the Netherlands 5-0. Both teams advance to the Miami pool with Puerto Rico getting the top seed. They play the loser of the USA-Venezuela game, in which the US trails 4-1 in the bottom of the......

With the game scoreless in the top of the seventh, Hanley Ramirez just misses a two-run homer. Twice he's hit the ball deep but just short of the wall for outs. Ortiz is up with two out and a man......

England make hard work of beating Tunisia in their second pool match of the World Cup Sevens....

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has urged the International Cricket Council not to rush to a decision on moving the 2011 World Cup out of the Asian country....

As he does on most Wednesdays Steve Thompson England's World Cupwinning hooker will go hunting in the forests that surround the French town of Brive....

Last night in Columbus, the U.S. Men's National Team kept alive their unbeaten streak against Mexico and World Cup qualifying at home with a 2-0 win over El Tri. On the strength of two goals by Michael Bradley, the U.S., for the third straight game won 2-0 and the Mexicans look even further a shambo...

The U.S. kicked off the final round of qualifying with a win in Columbus tonight, continuing their decade long streak of going unbeaten against Mexico at home. Michael Bradley was the man of the match, scoring a goal late in the first, and then again in stoppage time to secure the victory. Overall I...

Giovanni Trapattoni will look at the World Cup qualifying Group Eight table and smile. Results are the only thing that matter to the archly pragmatic Republic of Ireland manager and he simply does not care how he gets them. This vital victory, however, stretched the boundaries of credibility. The sp...

He admits to not knowing the name of the prime minister, but naturalised Belgian Igor De Camargo could hardly be more animated after his maiden call-up to the national squad for Wednesday's friendly against Slovenia....

Marco Materazzi has received libel damages from the Sun newspaper over reports that he called Zinedine Zidane "the son of a terrorist whore" before the Frenchman head-butted him in the 2006 World Cup final. The amount of the out-of-court settlement was not disclosed but was described as "substantial...