Germany striker Mario Gomez's agent has hinted of a move away from Bayern Munich after a frustrating season spent mainly warming the bench at the Champions League semifinalists.

Gomez, 27, has still managed to score seven Bundesliga goals this season, despite coming off the bench for nine of his 15 league appearances as Bayern were crowned German champions for the 23rd time last weekend.

Lewis Hamilton roared to his first pole position for Mercedes in qualifying on Saturday for the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai, as the warring Red Bulls had a day to forget.

The Briton Hamilton, who has been struggling with an allergy and went home early from the track on Thursday, left it late in the final session to grab pole ahead of Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus, the winner last month in Australia.

Kobe Bryant declared his season over after scoring 34 points before leaving the game with a likely torn Achilles tendon, as the Los Angeles Lakers kept their playoff hopes alive with a 118-116 win over Golden State.

Bryant said he felt a "pop" as he tried to beat Harrison Barnes to the outside with just over three minutes left in the fourth quarter of Friday night's tight National Basketball Association contest.

LeBron James led with 20 points and nine assists in a 109-101 win over Boston as the Miami Heat benefited from having their big three reunited for the first time in two weeks.

James also had six rebounds, Chris Bosh finished with 17 points and seven rebounds and Dwyane Wade chipped in with 11 points on Friday for the Heat, who have a franchise record 63 wins on the season.

Argentine football icon Diego Maradona visited the tomb of his friend Hugo Chavez on Friday and urged Venezuelans to elect the late leftist leader's designated successor in this weekend's presidential election.

Wearing a white shirt and donning diamonds in each ear, Maradona called on Venezuelans to vote for acting President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday to continue the socialist leader's legacy.

Spanish and German teams were kept apart for the semifinals of the Champions League, as European football's governing body UEFA made the draw for this year's last four games.

Last year's beaten finalists Bayern Munich, who have already secured the Bundesliga title, take on Spanish league leaders Barcelona.

England coach Roy Hodgson on Thursday urged the football authorities to beware of neo-Nazi groups trying to cause trouble at matches.

UEFA has proposed new, tougher anti-racism sanctions from next season, including a partial closure of stadiums for a first incident of racist abuse by fans — rather than just a fine — and a full closure for a second offense.

Suddenly, Chicago is the place where long winning streaks go to die.

This time, it was Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks going down. Late last month, it was LeBron James and the Miami Heat.

The Chicago Cubs found a severed goat's head at Wrigley Field, and they're treating the cruel reference to a longtime curse as a crime.

Police were called in to investigate after a man stopped the white van he was driving, walked a box to a security entrance on Waveland Avenue and wordlessly put it down, Cubs spokesman Julian Green said. Security workers opened the box, addressed to team owner Tom Ricketts, and discovered the severed head. The team immediately called police.

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso has responded sarcastically to the qualifying edge currently enjoyed by his teammate Felipe Massa, saying he can't sleep and is losing his hair.

Massa has qualified ahead of Alonso in the past four races — the first two this season and the last two of 2012 — and if he does it again at Sunday's Formula One Chinese Grand Prix it will represent the first time in Alonso's career that he has been out-qualified by a teammate five straight times.