Olympic great Michael Phelps settled for silver in the 100m butterfly at the U.S. Swimming Championships on Friday, falling by one one-hundredth of a second to Tom Shields.

Hours after throwing down the fastest time in the world this year of 51.17sec in qualifying, Phelps let the tension of the final -- and the pressure of trying to qualify for the Pan Pacific Championships -- get to him just a little.

Hearts start their quest to return to the Scottish Premiership on Sunday, but a poignant anniversary will cast a long shadow over the Tynecastle team's day.

The Edinburgh-based outfit, who face promotion rivals Rangers at Ibrox this weekend, are desperate for a successful campaign after being relegated to the Scottish second tier following an acrimonious season that almost saw the club go bankrupt.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has warned Joe Hart he has no room for error if he wants to remain the team's first-choice goalkeeper.

Hart suffered a dip in form last season which saw him replaced in goal for a month by Costel Pantilimon before the England international re-established himself as Pellegrini's regular number one.

Vindicated by their FA Cup triumph, Arsenal approach Sunday's Community Shield face-off with Manchester City buoyed by the belief that they are now credible challengers for the Premier League title.

May's 3-2 win over Hull City ended a long and painful nine-year trophy drought for the North London club, and as they return to Wembley Stadium, Arsenal are setting their sights on even bigger prizes.

Roger Federer marked his 33rd birthday by beating David Ferrer for the 15th straight time to reach the semi-finals of the ATP Tour's Toronto Masters tournament on Friday.

A sellout crowd sang Happy Birthday to the second seed early in the second set, and cheered post-match as the 17-time grand slam winner was presented with an oversized chocolate cake to mark the occasion.

Manuel Pellegrini has claimed Manchester City have done nothing wrong with the loan signing of Frank Lampard despite criticism from Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger that it was ploy used to get around UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules

Lampard left Chelsea in June after his contract at Stamford Bridge expired and the following month joined Major League Soccer club New York City FC, who are City’s sister club in the United States.

Germany, in a quirky twist of fate, face Argentina in a friendly on September 3 less than two months after seeing off the South Americans to be crowned world champions in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana.

Joachim Loew's world beaters meet Argentina in Dusseldorf in a Euro 2016 qualifier warm-up arranged back in March.

James Rodriguez hopes the scoring streak that earned him the Golden Boot award at the World Cup continues after his move to European champion Real Madrid.

Madrid paid Monaco a reported $108 million for the Colombia forward after he scored a tournament-leading six goals at this summer's World Cup in Brazil.

Serena Williams waited out a brief rain delay before beating Czech left-hander Lucie Safarova 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup.

Having won her fourth title of the season last week in Stanford, this week's progress continued Williams' recovery since withdrawing from Wimbledon because of equilibrium problems.

U.S. star forward Kevin Durant has pulled out of the 2014 FIBA World Cup, saying he is "mentally drained" from a long NBA regular season and playoff.