Past Rugby Champions Look to Beat the Present Ones
By HUW RICHARDS
Leicester, which won European club rugby's grand prize in 2001 and 2002, will host Toulon, the current back-to-back champion, on Sunday.
The International Olympic Committee will meet in special session next week in Monaco to vote on 40 proposals that address issues like Olympic bidding and white elephant venues.
The men's team has only seven skiers, but Kjetil Jansrud is a contender for three titles, while Henrik Kristoffersen should challenge in the slalom.
Leicester, which won European club rugby's grand prize in 2001 and 2002, will host Toulon, the current back-to-back champion, on Sunday.
Instead of meeting the challenge on its home waters, the United States team elected to do so in Bermuda.
Hughes, 25, who was killed by a speeding cricket ball last week, was buried in his hometown north of Sydney at a ceremony that drew a global following.
The former Chelsea star was to help launch New York City F.C. in 2015, but he has proven a valuable cog in Manchester City, and it may need him to stay.
New York City F.C. officials still expect to have Lampard, their marquee signing, leave Manchester City and join the team in time for the 2015 M.L.S. season.
Balotelli faces a five-match ban after the latest high-profile incident involving racist language by a prominent Premier League figure.
Russian officials slammed a decision to ban clubs from the annexed peninsula of Crimea from playing in Russian leagues, calling it “inexplicable.”
Kjetil Jansrud had his third successive victory of the season, winning by more than half a second at the Birds of Prey course in Beaver Creek, Colo.
Woods’s body held up in his competitive return to golf at his event, the Hero World Challenge, but he expressed disappointment in his chipping and putting.
UEFA banned soccer clubs in the disputed Crimea region from playing in competitions organized by Russia.
The Olympic champion, Darya Domracheva of Belarus, won the women’s 15-kilometer individual race at the biathlon World Cup in Ostersund, Sweden.
When Bristol City demolished its East Stand, Ben Swift was granted one side of Ashton Gate, the club’s stadium, to himself. Now he has a free, mostly unobstructed view, at least temporarily.
The Women’s World Cup is six months away, and calls to FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association to change the artificial turf to natural grass are still largely unaddressed.
Since Woods won the 2008 United States Open, he has had two operations, become a father for the second time, been divorced and reached the cusp of middle age.
Béliveau, one of the greatest centers in N.H.L. history, was an icon in Canada, and he led Montreal to 10 Stanley Cups in his playing career.
More than 150 runners will compete on Wednesday in Austin, Tex., in the beer mile world championships, which combine sprinting with chugging beers, one before each quarter-mile.
Gabriel Medina, a 20-year-old from Maresias, Brazil, is hoping to win the World Championship Tour title in a sport dominated by Australians and Americans.
Belo Horizonte, the city associated with Brazil’s embarrassing 7-1 loss in the World Cup semifinals, has experienced an unlikely soccer rebirth.
The decline in the value of the Canadian dollar against the United States dollar could have an impact on the size of an increase, if any, in the N.H.L.’s salary cap next season.
When Lewis Hamilton won the world title at the year’s final race, most fans welcomed a fitting end to a season made exciting by the battle between two teammates.