Yaya Toure signs new 4-year deal at Manchester City

Manchester: Yaya Toure has signed a new four-year deal at Manchester City, keeping the powerful Ivory Coast midfielder at the English champions until 2017.

Barcelona contemplate life without Messi

Madrid: Lionel Messi's Barcelona team-mates will take on the rare challenge of coping without their talismanic World Player of the Year when the La Liga leaders host relegation-threatened Real Mallorca on

Alex Ferguson backs Robin van Persie to end goal drought

London: Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is backing Robin van Persie to end a nine-game goal drought as the Premier League leaders prepare for Monday's derby clash with champions Manchester City.

Chelsea beat Manchester United 1-0 to reach FA Cup semi-finals

Demba Ba sent Chelsea into the FA Cup semi-finals with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United on Monday, keeping his team on course for a cup double to make amends for a lackluster Premier League campaign.

Barcelona wary of PSG, Bayern Munich of Juventus

The Champions League quarterfinals get under way Tuesday with Barcelona visiting Paris Saint-Germain in a meeting between Europe's most dominant team of recent years and their latest challenger.

Knicks rout Celtics 108-89 for eighth straight win

NEW YORK (AP) -- Closing in on one goal of ending Boston's division title reign, the New York Knicks added another.

While they were finishing off their second victory over the Celtics this week, injured forward Rasheed

Crosby out indefinitely with broken jaw

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Sidney Crosby has a broken jaw and is out indefinitely after being hit in the mouth with a puck during a win against the New York Islanders on Saturday.

Ryan Harrow leaves Kentucky for Georgia State, a decision that may be good for everyone

Unlike most transfers in which one side wins and one side loses, Ryan Harrow's decision to leave Kentucky appears to be mutually beneficial.

Harrow will get a fresh start, plenty of playing time and the opportunity to be closer to his Atlanta home as a

Els phasing out belly putter but will use it at Augusta

British Open champion Ernie Els will use the belly putter for the last time at a major during the US Masters next week as he phases out the controversial club ahead of a proposed ban, the South African said.

Hockey is now more about power than skill: Olympian Jaswant Rajput

He was part of the hockey team which won independent India's first Olympic gold medal, but Jaswant Singh Rajput, who played both as a left-half and centre-half, dislikes watching the national team of which he once