LONDON - England's Luke Donald was last night named the PGA Tour player of the year and said: "That's a great honour to cap off what has obviously been an amazing year for me."
World number one Donald, who on Sunday completed his double of money list titles on both sides of the Atlantic,...

LAGOS - Nigeria's former world indoor champion sprinter Sunday Bada has died at the age of 42.
Bada won his world indoor title over 400 metres in Paris in 1997, and was technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria until his death on Monday.
The International Association...

LONDON - A special investigations committee appointed by amateur boxing's world governing body, AIBA, has exonerated the organisation of impropriety after allegations of corruption levelled against it by BBC Newsnight.
The committee, chaired by the chairman of AIBA's disciplinary committee,...

DUBAI - Luke Donald has bucked a trend by landing a unique trans-Atlantic double despite lacking the power of many of his peers and he wants lesser players to know that in golf you do not have to be big to be beautiful.

"I'm sure some golfers out there have looked at my success and...

LONDON - Chris Tomlinson insists he and his fellow athletes would welcome drugs cheat Dwain Chambers back into the British Olympic team.
Long jumper Tomlinson, who has competed in two Olympic Games, hopes Chambers gets the opportunity to run in the 100 metres at London 2012.
The...

NEW YORK - Luke Donald has felt the need to declare Tiger Woods "the greatest player I have played with" - a day after saying Rory McIlroy had more talent.
World number one Donald took on world number two McIlroy head-to-head today in the opening round of the Dubai World Championship, an...

 LONDON - Formula One will race in the United States next year after organisers of a new grand prix in Texas reached a deal with commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone on Wednesday.

"Mr Ecclestone received his check today," Red McCombs, a founder of the Circuit of the Americas in...

DUBAI - Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald are centre stage in Dubai this week as they do battle for the European Tour's money list crown, but Sergio Garcia is going for something special too.
Garcia has the chance to record a third consecutive victory after his October wins on his home Castellon...

YORK - Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins both crashed out of the williamhill.com UK Championship on a high-class day of action in York.
Higgins saw fellow Scot Stephen Maguire to race into a 5-1 lead in this evening's match and his valiant comeback proved in vain as Maguire completed a 6-4...

LONDON - Britain could be in line for its greatest medals success at the London 2012 Games, four-time Olympic rowing champion Sir Matthew Pinsent has predicted.
Team GB won 47 medals including 19 golds to come fourth in the 2008 Olympic medal table. British athletes won 102 medals including...