New Valencia coach Gary Neville will be a mere spectator as his side face the daunting task of halting European champions Barcelona's free-scoring form on Saturday.

Neville doesn't officially take charge at the Mestalla until Sunday leaving the caretaker team of his brother Phil and Voro in control this weekend.

Borussia Moenchengladbach captain Granit Xhaka says his side has a chance of proving to the German league on Saturday that runaway leaders Bayern Munich can be beaten.

Xhaka and Gladbach's stars are relishing the prospect of testing themselves against Germany's top team at Borussia Park with their side fourth in the table while Bayern are already eight points clear.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini admits he is delighted to have some of his key players back on duty as the Premier League leaders head to Stoke on Saturday.

City's injury list is gradually clearing up with goalkeeper Joe Hart and striker Sergio Aguero doubtful for the trip to the Britannia Stadium, but in line to play against Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Fond memories of Diego Maradona's enduring spell in Italy's top flight have resurfaced as Napoli savor their place at the top of Serie A after 25 years ahead of Sunday's trip to Bologna.

The year was 1990 and Maradona, who had helped Napoli to their first league title three years earlier, was in his pomp as Napoli strode towards their second and last “scudetto”.

Guard Dwyane Wade rattled in two game-winning free throws with 1.5 seconds left to lift the Miami Heat to a 97-95 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday.

"He somehow found daylight," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Wade's drive to the basket that drew a foul on forward Serge Ibaka. "I'm surprised he found energy to jump."

Michael Phelps easily won the men's 200 meter individual medley by holding off Chase Kalisz Thursday night at the 2015 U.S. Winter Nationals event.

Phelps, a record 18-time Olympic gold medalist, clocked a time of one minute, 57.61 seconds, which was 1.16 seconds faster than runner-up Kalisz at the King County Aquatic Center in Seattle, Washington.

British rock band Coldplay will be the headline act performing at Super Bowl 50 in February in San Jose, California, the National Football League announced Thursday.

The four-man group is expected to join several other international artists for the annual entertainment extravaganza on February 7 at Levi's Stadium. Coldplay has a new album coming out Friday called, "A Head Full of Dreams."

The multi-million dollar corruption scandal engulfing FIFA widened Thursday with 16 people indicted by U.S. justice officials who pledged an unremitting crackdown on an "outrageous" betrayal of trust.

The latest dramatic twist in a long-running saga began with a dawn raid on a luxury Zurich hotel where Swiss authorities arrested South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) president Juan Angel Napout, and Alfredo Hawit, head of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF).

When Wendell Lira soared through a rainy night sky to score the opening goal of a mid-season match in a Brazilian regional football league, there were 342 people in the stands.

None of them could have imagined that the unknown forward, who was released by his club, Goianesia, several months later, would end up competing with Lionel Messi for the Puskas Award, FIFA's prize for the best goal of the year.

Oscar Pistorius was convicted of murder on Thursday by South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal, which threw out his earlier conviction of the lesser crime of culpable homicide for shooting dead his girlfriend.

"Guilty of murder, with the accused having criminal intent," judge Eric Leach told the court in a dramatic legal reversal.