France striker Karim Benzema helped Real Madrid to a 2-0 victory over Valencia in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey on Tuesday.
Benzema opened the scoring in the 37th minute of the first leg match, finishing off a rapid counterattack after Michael Essien had picked out Sami Khedira on the left flank.
Full StoryThe Los Angeles Clippers won again in the absence of the injured Chris Paul on Tuesday as Jamal Crawford scored a season-high 30 points, including 12 straight to start the fourth quarter, in a 117-109 victory over the struggling Houston Rockets.
Los Angeles used a big third quarter to take the lead, and Crawford extended the advantage to 20 by outscoring Houston 12-7 in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter.
Full StoryQueens Park Rangers is signing Marseille striker Loic Remy and midfielder Yann M'Vila is also set to join from Rennes to help the Premier League club's struggle against relegation.
The 26-year-old Remy was poised to join Newcastle at the weekend, but QPR manager Harry Redknapp said he had a medical examination and agreed personal terms with the west London club on Wednesday.
Full StoryPremier League struggler Sunderland was eliminated from the FA Cup by second-tier club Bolton on Tuesday as Fulham, Stoke and Wigan beat lower-league opposition in the third-round replays.
Marvin Sordell scored twice in the second half at Sunderland — the first from the penalty spot after Jack Colback fouled Darren Pratley — to give Bolton a 2-0 victory and fourth round meeting with Everton.
Full StorySerena Williams tumbled to the court and needed a medical timeout in the first set for treatment on her right ankle. Once she got up, it was all over for Edina Gallovits-Hall.
Williams routed Gallovits-Hall 6-0, 6-0 in the first round of the Australian Open on Tuesday despite the scary sequence in the first part of the match.
Full StoryNow that she's 42, Kimiko Date-Krumm is older than some of her opponent's parents.
Her memory is starting to get fuzzy, too. She can't remember whom she played when she last won a match at the Australian Open — but she remembers it was way back in 1996.
Full StoryThe Los Angeles Clippers easily downed the Memphis Grizzlies 99-73 Monday after reserves Jamal Crawford and Matt Barnes each scored 16 points.
The matchup between two of the best teams in the West wasn't close much of the way. As the Clippers' Chris Paul watched from the sidelines after missing his first game this season because of a bruised right kneecap, the Grizzlies were without their leading scorer: Rudy Gay was excused for his grandmother's funeral in Baltimore.
Full StoryLebanon's sports minister says the decision of basketball's governing body to strip his country of hosting rights for FIBA Asia Championship because of the conflict in neighboring Syria is "unjustified."
Youth and Sports Minister Faysal Karameh tells The Associated Press that Lebanon is safe and capable of hosting the biannual tournament, saying that "because of the Syria situation, the whole region has been declared unstable."
Full StorySwitzerland can count on Stanislas Wawrinka but probably not Roger Federer when it meets the Czech Republic for the first round of the Davis Cup in Geneva next month, the Swiss tennis federation said Monday.
Swiss captain Severin Luethi picked Wawrinka (ranked 17th best player in the world), Marco Chiundinelli (148th), Henri Laaksonen (291st), Michael Lammer (360th) and Sandro Ehrat (353rd) to help the central European country win the elusive cup.
Full StoryBarcelona defender Gerard Pique on Monday lashed out at critics of Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho who let him "get away with anything" when he was leading the team to victories.
In August 2011, for example, Mourinho jabbed his finger into the eye of Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova in full view of the cameras during a row in the final moments of Real Madrid's Super Cup loss to Barcelona, Pique recalled.
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