Rory McIlroy is happy with his game after the PGA Championship, and one unfortunate shot won't change that.

The defending champion tied for eighth, seven strokes behind winner Jason Dufner, by far his best showing at a major this year.

New York Yankees closing pitcher Mariano Rivera has condemned the defacing of a statue of Jackie Robinson outside a minor league baseball stadium in Brooklyn.

Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1947.

Roger Federer usually feels good when he arrives in Cincinnati for a tournament he has won more times than anyone else. This week, not so much.

Federer is trying to reconstruct his game and keep his back healthy at the Western & Southern Open, a Masters series tournament he won for an unprecedented fifth time last year. He likes the fast blue surface and the quiet time away from the courts.

Rafael Nadal beat Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday in the Rogers Cup final, spoiling Raonic's bid to become the first Canadian winner in the event in 55 years.

Robert Bedard, the last Canadian to win what was then called the Canadian Open in 1955, was in attendance to see Nadal claim his third Rogers Cup title. The Spanish star also won in 2005 and 2008.

Top-ranked Serena Williams breezed to her third Rogers Cup title Sunday with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea.

It was her eighth WTA title of the year and the 54th of her career.

His legs were hurting, the rain was pouring and he was trailing late in the race.

Doesn't matter. This is Usain Bolt.

Nikolay Davydenko retired in the first set, sending Vasek Pospisil through to the semifinals at the Rogers Cup on Friday.

Pospisil had a 3-0 lead when his opponent informed the chair umpire he could not continue. Pospisil will next play the winner of the afternoon quarter-final between Canadian Milos Raonic Latvian Ernests Gulbis.

Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling on Friday pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting his girlfriend.

Sterling is alleged to have attacked 19-year-old model Shana Ann Rose Halliday and he appeared at Liverpool's magistrates court to answer the charge.

Michel scored in the 53rd minute to give Valencia a 1-0 victory over Everton on Tuesday in the playoff for fifth place in the eight-team Guinness International Champions Cup.

Michel, returning to the club for the coming campaign after spending the last season at city rival Levante, controlled Aly Cissohko's cross from the left side with his chest, let the ball settle at his feet and fired his shot past Everton's Spanish goalkeeper Joel.

Vasek Pospisil of Canada ground out a 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) win over America's John Isner in the first round of the Rogers Cup on Tuesday.

Two-time defending Rogers Cup champion Novak Djokovic also moved on, cruising to a 6-2, 6-1 win against Florian Mayer.