India v/s Sri Lanka: Sachin Tendulkar has a message for Virat ...

Swansea City 0 Manchester United 4 Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 0 IMAGE: Romelu Lukaku celebrates scoring the second goal for Manchester United. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images Manchester United continued their perfect start to the Premier League season by crushing Swansea City 4-0 with three late goals in four minutes at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday.The scoreline matched their opening-day destruction of West Ham United after Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba and substitute Anthony Martial scored ...

IMAGE: Sally Pearson competes in the women's 100 metres hurdles final. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Australia's Sally Pearson completed one of the great sporting comebacks when she overcame two years of injury agony to win the world 100 metres hurdles title at the age of 30 on Saturday.Pearson, world champion in 2011 and Olympic gold medallist in London in 2012 and with Olympic and world silvers to her name, held off Dawn Harper Nelson, one of four Americans in the field, for an ...

Everton are one of the best teams in the Premier League with excellent players and Manchester City will likely face a tough test when they host the Merseyside club on Monday, City manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday. City drew 1-1 at home with Everton last ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will again be duelling for the title of world's best footballer after their names once again headed the shortlist on Thursday for The Best FIFA Men's Player. The pair, who have dominated the global award in its varied forms ...

IMAGE: Real Madrid players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Spanish Super Cup against Barcelona in Madrid on Wednesday. Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters Real Madrid won the Spanish Super Cup for the 10th time with a 2-0 win over rivals Barcelona at a joyous Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday to complete a 5-1 aggregate victory that underlined their new status as Spain's dominant force.   Marco Asensio followed up his brilliant late goal in Sunday's first leg with a stunning effort ...

IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand in action. Photograph: Grand Chess Tour/Twitter Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand finished joint second after playing out a draw with Wesley So of United States in the Sinquefield Cup, which concluded in St Louis, USA. Finishing with a tally of 5.5 points out of a possible nine, Anand also gained some valuable rating points to inch closer to the 2800 rating mark. With seven draws and two victories, Anand has moved to seventh place in the world ranking. Maxime ...

Five years ago, almost to the very night, British distance running hero Mo Farah had broken into Bolt's lightning bolt pose in this same stadium and the Jamaican had reciprocated with the Briton's trademark "Mobot" to mark their joyous supremacy at the London Olympics.Yet in the same stadium on Saturday, they attempted in vain to reprise that triumphant night, Farah ending up with silver in his final track race, over 5,000 metres, and Bolt suffering his anti-climactic farewell. IMAGE: Usain ...

A round-up of all the results from the 16th World Athletic Championships in London IMAGE: Kori Carter of the US beat the competition to a gold medal in the women’s 400 metres hurdles final on Thursday. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters American Kori Carter pulled off another of the growing number of shocks at the World Championships on Thursday, achieving the rare feat of winning the 400 metres hurdles title from the outside lane. All eyes had been on Carter's US teammate, Olympic ...

PHOTOS from day four of the Wimbledon championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Thursday. Federer eases past Lajovic IMAGE: Roger Federer celebrates winning his second round match. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Roger Federer turned on the style on Centre Court after a rocky start to beat Serbian Dusan Lajovic 7-6(0), 6-3, 6-2 in the Wimbledon second round on Thursday.The Swiss, trying to win an eighth title, dropped his opening service game and had ...