Tyler Zeller had 18 points and seven rebounds Saturday as the Boston Celtics ended Indiana's seven-game NBA winning streak with a 93-89 victory over the Pacers.

Avery Bradley, Jae Crowder and Brandon Bass added 16 points apiece for the Celtics, who have won four in a row and six of their last seven games.

Sergey Kovalev stopped former champion Jean Pascal in the eighth round on Saturday to retain his trio of light heavyweight world titles.

The unbeaten Russian improved to 27-0 with one drawn and 24 knockouts, retaining the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization and International Boxing Federation crowns.

World champion Lewis Hamilton grabbed pole position for the Australian Grand Prix by six-tenths of a second from Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg on Saturday.

Hamilton set the pace with 1min 26.419sec midway through the final qualifying shoot-out and he lowered the time to 1:26.327 in the final seconds.

Serena Williams won her first match at Indian Wells since 2001 on Friday, beating Monica Niculescu in straight sets to end her 14-year self-imposed exile from the California desert event.

World number one Williams earned the 7-5, 7-5 victory in two hours, three minutes in front of a crowd of about 14,000 on center court of the Tennis Garden stadium.

Louis van Gaal admitted on Friday that he has no answers to explain Radamel Falcao's failure to make his mark at Manchester United.

Falcao's troubled spell with van Gaal's side hit a new low in midweek when he lasted just 71 minutes of an under-21 game against Tottenham, a demotion that was intended to improve the on-loan Monaco striker's fitness and sharpness.

A judge in the northern province of Navarre indicted the five, who were named as Jorge Molina and Jordi Figueras of Betis Seville, Sergio Garcia, the captain of Espanyol, Patxi Puñal, formerly of Osasuna, and Antonio Amaya, a former Betis player who now plays for Rayo Vallecano.

"They've all been charged over possible match-fixing," a court spokesman confirmed to AFP.

Crisis-hit Serie A club Parma have been docked a further two points and seen former president Tommaso Ghirardi and club official Pietro Leonardi handed four-month bans by league disciplinary officials on Friday.

Parma, who could be declared bankrupt at a hearing scheduled for March 19, were docked a point in December in relation to unpaid salaries from July, August and September 2014.

Joachim Loew has extended his contract as coach of world champions Germany until the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the German football federation (DFB) announced on Friday.

The 55-year-old Loew's previous contract took him through to Euro 2016, but he said the chance to extend the deal was not one he was going to allow to get away.

Jose Mourinho launched a passionate defense of his Chelsea team on Friday, two days after elimination from the Champions League in acrimonious circumstances by Paris Saint-Germain.

The Premier League leaders, who are at home to Southampton on Sunday, were knocked out on away goals after extra time despite the fact that PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic had been sent off as early as the 31st minute.

A Spanish judge has indicted Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu and his predecessor, Sandro Rosell, for tax fraud and fraudulent administration in a probe centering on the signing of Neymar.

Investigative magistrate Pablo Ruz accused the club and its management of fabricating a labyrinth of contracts to hide the real cost of signing the Brazil striker in 2013.