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Roger Federer has pulled out of his comeback match against Juan Martin Del Potro at the Miami Open with a stomach bug. The 34-year-old was due to make his return on Friday after suffering a knee injury in January while running a bath for…

West Indies secured their spot in the World T20 2016 semi-finals with a third successive win but made hard work of chasing a small target of 123. With just a shave over a run-a-ball needed, West Indies were routinely dragged back, to a…

Wales manager Chris Coleman says Euro 2016 should go ahead as planned despite increased security fears following the suicide and bomb attacks in Belgium. "It's what everybody wants," Coleman said. "It's what the people want and we should…

Indian Wells tournament chief Raymond Moore has quit after his controversial comments about women's tennis. Moore, 69, said the women's game "rides on the coat-tails" of the men - a view described as "sexist" by the United States Tennis…

A Florida jury has awarded Hulk Hogan $115m (£79m) after the gossip news website Gawker published a sex tape of the retired professional wrestler. Mr Hogan's legal team argued that the New York-based website violated his privacy and video…

England pulled off the second-highest run chase in Twenty20 international history to stun South Africa and get their World T20 campaign back on track. Chasing 230 in Mumbai, Joe Root struck a composed 44-ball 83 after Jason Roy blitzed 43…

West Indies avoided an upset as they beat Pakistan by four runs in their Women's World Twenty20 opener. Skipper Stafanie Taylor (40) anchored the Windies' innings of 103-8 in Chennai, but lacked support as left-arm spinner Anam Amin took…

Chris Gayle's brutal unbeaten century sent England to a chastening six-wicket defeat by West Indies in their opening match of the World Twenty20 in Mumbai. Gayle struck 11 sixes in his 47-ball hundred, the joint-third fastest in T20…

Champion boxer Jamie Cox has been found guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend after breaking into her London flat. Victoria Gribovskaja was attacked by Cox at her home in Lambeth on 16 July when he tried to collect his belongings after…

India begin their World Twenty20 on Tuesday as clear favourites to become the first side to win the trophy twice and the first to triumph on home soil. MS Dhoni's side, champions in 2007, face New Zealand in the opening Super 10 game in…

Maria Sharapova "must accept responsibility" for failing a drugs test and serve her ban, according to Andy Murray. The five-time Grand Slam winner, 28, revealed on Monday that she tested positive for meldonium in January. Read more at:…

(ZIZ Sports) -- Senior Sports Officer in the Department of Sport, Vernon Springer has been appointed cricket operations officer for the Leeward Islands Cricket Board. During this week’s edition of “Action Sports” Springer said he was…

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed a bill that makes the state the first in the United States to regulate fantasy sports, a multibillion-dollar online business whose legality has been challenged across the country. The measure…

Maria Sharapova's failed drugs test was "reckless beyond description", according to former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound. Sharapova, 28, revealed on Monday that she tested positive for the banned substance meldonium in…

The Professional Footballers' Association believes there is "still much work to do" to educate players following Adam Johnson's conviction for child sex offences. The ex-Sunderland forward, 28, is facing jail after being found guilty of…