LONDON - Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Liz Yelling will join a big field at the home of British motor racing on Sunday in the official warm-up race for next month's Virgin London Marathon. The adidas half marathon will see 10,000 runners head to Silverstone for the 13.1 mile race just six...

NEW YORK - The chances of Tiger Woods making his comeback in two weeks' time improved on Thursday with a report claiming that he has been talking with a former presidential advisor. Contact between the world number one and Ari Fleisher, who since working for George W Bush has set up a sports...

SAKHIR — Former champions Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and current champion Jenson Button joked, teased and laughed with each other ahead of Sunday's season opening Bahrain Grand Prix. But things are likely to heat up and the smiles fade once the racing gets under way with...

DOHA — After her debacle at the world championships last year, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva is sensing she'll redeem herself with a gold medal at the world indoors which open on Friday. Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang is happy just to be competing again, two years after an ankle injury at the...

TULSA  — Former sprinter Marion Jones signed with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock on Wednesday, hoping to launch a new career after losing five Olympic medals for using steroids and doing jail time for lying to federal prosecutors. Jones was a star at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney but admitted two years...

ABU DHABI — Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won his second straight Laureus Sportsman of the Year award Wednesday and American tennis player Serena Williams won the women's prize for the second time. Bolt won three gold medals at last year's athletics world championships and set world records in the...

LONDON - Eventing star Zara Phillips has underlined her desire to be part of Great Britain's Olympic medal bid at London 2012. And Phillips is developing such a promising string of young horses at her Gatcombe Park yard in Gloucestershire that she appears to be firmly on course. While she has a...

PARIS - Former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi insists Michael Schumacher can be a success on his Formula One comeback this season. Schumacher retired at the end of 2006 after winning the drivers' title seven times, but has returned to the sport at the age of 41 with Mercedes. "If he is...

PARIS - Greg Henderson mastered testing windy conditions to claim victory for Team Sky on the opening stage of the 2010 Paris-Nice race in France. The New Zealander triumphed in a sprint finish into Contres after a combination of cross- and head-winds took a punishing toll on the...

MALAYSIA - Consistent Dane Soren Hansen joined Angelo Que in a share of the clubhouse lead midway through the second round of the Maybank Malaysian Open at Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club. Hansen, who last missed a cut at the 2009 Masters, and Que joined overnight leaders Rhys Davies and...