Andy Lee believes if he holds onto his belt, that a fight with middleweight kingpin Gennady Golovkin is inevitable.

Football sometimes seems like politics in disguise but in Greece, the opposite is also true, writes David Shonfield.

Michael Phelps has been handed a six-month suspension by USA Swimming following his arrest for allegedly drink driving last month.

As Premier League transfer activity intensifies, armies of sports lawyers are poised for an orgy of t-crossing and i-dotting on complicated contracts.

Eleven times Olympiakos and their fans have journeyed from Athens to England since 1965 and 11 times they have lost.

When Michael Phelps walked into the press room at the Aquatics Centre on Saturday August 4, 2012, he left no-one in any doubt that his decision to retire was final.

The bond between a boxer and his coach is one forged in sweat and blood over countless training sessions.

The 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award has been won by former Tour de France rider Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle with “The Secret Race”, which exposes the culture of doping in professional cycling.

Ireland’s troubled Star crew Peter O’Leary and David Burrows have had a day to reset their gauges and hopefully come out fighting for the second half of their Olympic regatta.

“I am up for it now more than ever.”

Show jumper Cian O’Connor’s bid for Olympic redemption hangs in the balance after Denis Lynch made a dramatic last-ditch bid to be reinstated in the Games.

Syrian security forces opened fire in the central city of Hama injuring an Olympic boxing champion and at least 20 others as the government drive continued to crush pro-democracy uprising activists.

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has made furious attacks on former team-mates, the broadcaster CBS and a federal investigator after the latest drug claims against him.

ALL ON its own, a list of Sonia O’Sullivan’s achievements would fill this article.

THE eldest grand-daughter of Britain’s queen, Zara Phillips, is to wed her rugby-playing boyfriend Mike Tindall, Buckingham Palace has announced, in a marriage of world-beating sports stars.

FORMER priest Neil Horan, 63, who has earned international notoriety for his publicity stunts, had caused upset to his family but he had also done many good things, his brother said at the weekend.

A DEFROCKED priest, noted for his outrageous publicity stunts, is expected to return home this weekend for the first time in many years — for the launch of his biography.

The International Olympic Committee has called a halt to the short-lived experiment of relaying the Olympic torch around the world.

SHOW JUMPER Cian O’Connor says proposals put forward to eradicate the use of improper substances and practices in equestrian sport are “unworkable” and says Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) is out of touch with the equestrian community.

Roger Federer came from two sets to love down to see off Tomas Berdych and reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.

PAUL REVINGTON has been appointed Irish senior men’s hockey coach.

FOR the second Olympics in a row Ireland’s reputation in world equestrian competition lies in tatters.

Middleweight Darren Sutherland will bid to become the third Irish boxer to make it through to the semi-finals of the 2008 Olympics Games at the Workers Indoor Arena in Beijing at around 1pm today.

EILEEN O’KEEFFE has withdrawn from the featured hammer throw at tonight’s Brother Ireland Morton Memorial Meeting at Morton Stadium, citing a knee injury.

IRISH boxers will be targeting half a dozen gold medals at the European Union Championships in Poland today.

Controversial Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has been awarded a 100m silver medal from the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton after the disgraced Marion Jones was stripped of all her medals having admitted use of the banned steroid THG.

Polls opened at dawn today as Greeks began voting in snap general elections that will determine the fate of governing conservatives who have been hurt by deadly wildfires and a challenge from the far right.

PAUL HESSION is set to rejoin the top 200m runners in the world at the Van Damme Memorial Golden League Meeting in Brussels on September 14.

All five Irish boxers have made this mornings weigh-in for this afternoons European Union Championships finals at the National Stadium in Dublin.

UEFA’s head of communications William Gaillard has blamed the behaviour of Liverpool fans for ticketing and disorder problems in the Champions League final against AC Milan last night.

Athletics Ireland have today announced Max Jones as its new director of athletics.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN will be looking for the performance of a lifetime when he faces double European champion, Francisco Fernandez, in the 5,000m walk at the Irish Indoor Championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast tomorrow, with Gillian O’Sullivan also looking for something special.

HALF of all mainstream Irish TV stations are in breach of an EU directive for failing to broadcast a majority of programmes made within Europe.

Olympic boxer Amir Khan will appear in court today charged with dangerous driving.

Boxer Amir Khan has been arrested and charged with dangerous driving.

David Davies surged to a convincing victory in the 1500 metres freestyle to win Wales’ first swimming gold of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

James Gibson and Rebecca Cooke will attempt to defend their titles after being selected to represent England at the Commonwealth Games in March.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE is poised to become the star of the multi-nations boxing tournament in Ballybunion following another spectacular performance at the Tintean Theatre yesterday when he outpointed a teak tough Welshman, Matthew Edmonds, for a place in tonight’s finals.

EU ministers gave an official warning to Greece today to get its finances in order by the end of next year and bring its annual budget deficit in line with the union’s spending rules or face hefty fines.

Greece’s EU partners are giving Athens less than two years to bring its annual budget deficit under 3% of gross domestic product or face hefty fines for flouting the rules that govern the stability of the euro.

Television Corporation today said it was selling the outside broadcast unit that supports coverage of major sports events such as Premiership football.

Greece said it will reduce the corporate tax rate by 10 percentage points over the next three years to spur investments and offset a slowdown in government spending following the 2004 Olympics.