Former European Tour chief executive Ken Schofield has called for players not to forget their roots in the search for more money in America.

Ryder Cup hero Darren Clarke has emerged as the bookies' favourite to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for 2006.

Darren Clarke’s English caddie Billy Foster insists he has not been approached to start working full-time with world number one Tiger Woods next season.

First, it was his hand. Then, his teeth. Luis Suarez’s feet and football ability are yet to take centrestage for Uruguay at a World Cup.

Keith Earls has travelled to New Zealand with the ambition of becoming a "superstar" of the World Cup.

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Nicolas Anelka’s France career could be at an end after he was today hit with an 18-match suspension by the French Football Federation.

The European Union justice and interior ministers today agreed to organise campaigns to fight forced prostitution and racism during the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany.

Ireland will be out to justify their lofty standing in world rugby next month as they head for the World Cup in third place in the latest International Rugby Board rankings.

The International Rugby Board have pledged to set up a working party to try and find a solution to the ‘unacceptable’ loss of key players by some of the emerging nations.

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European Ryder Cup player Henrik Stenson did his best to overshadow world number one Tiger Woods in the Target World Challenge in California last night.

Seeking The Dia will bid to emulate the feat of compatriot Agnes World and give Japan a second success in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket tomorrow.

Jose Mourinho’s determination to bring a problematic season to an historic end means the Manchester United manager will pull out all the stops to secure a place in the Europa League final.

Less than half an hour had passed following Ireland’s World Cup quarter-final defeat to New Zealand before Mike Ross took to Twitter.

INCENDIARY tweets, guerrilla gum shields and mean-spirited old farts – kind of makes you yearn for the innocent pleasures of dwarf throwing and bungee jumping doesn’t it?

WITH Irish rugby’s finest already safely ensconced in base camp in picturesque Cape Town, thoughts of an historic first test victory on South African soil are closer to reality than ever before.

This is Ireland’s ninth time to be involved in a play-off for the right to participate at a major tournament.