| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
LONDON — UEFA says its executive committee has agreed to introduce a 10-match minimum ban for racist abuse by players or officials.
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial slurs and throwing bananas at his team. Or a game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls halted because of unrelenting race-baiting from the crowd.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW YORK — A day after New York City FC was born, Claudio Reyna became the team's first employee.
|Tuesday, May. 21, 2013
STOKE, England — Stoke says Tony Pulis left as manager by mutual consent Tuesday, ending his seven-year tenure at the Premier League club.
| |Tuesday, May. 21, 2013
NEW YORK — Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City to own a Major League Soccer expansion team in New York that will start play in 2015.
| |Tuesday, May. 21, 2013
MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea surged to the top of the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll after winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League for the 11th straight season.
| |Monday, May. 20, 2013
MEXICO CITY — The owners of the 18 Mexican first-division soccer clubs voted Monday to bar one person or one company from owning more than one team.
| |Monday, May. 20, 2013
MADRID — Jose Mourinho will leave Real Madrid after three years as coach, paving the path for his return to England and a second stint as Chelsea's manager.
| |Monday, May. 20, 2013
SOCHI, Russia — The cost of the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi now stands at $51 billion, making it the most expensive Olympics in history. More than half of the bill is being footed by Russian state-controlled companies and business tycoons. A look at what the major players are building in Sochi:
| |Monday, May. 20, 2013
SOCHI, Russia — The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses.