Maria Sharapova fought back to defeat Simona Halep 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday to win her second clay title of the season at the Madrid Open.

The Russian eighth seed, who also claimed a third straight victory last month in Stuttgart, improved to 3-0 over Romanian fourth seed Halep and 16-4 at the event where she lost the final a year ago to Serena Williams.

Manchester City won the Premier League for the second time in three seasons on Sunday, completing its campaign with a comfortable 2-0 victory over West Ham that lacked any of the drama of its previous title.

Unlike the stoppage-time comeback required in the 2012 title decider, goals either side of halftime by Samir Nasri and Vincent Kompany provided a more serene end to what had been an exhilarating season.

Mercedes pair Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg sped away to their fourth straight one-two finish at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday in a dominant performance that does not bode well for the rest of the Formula One field.

Hamilton took off from pole position and stayed ahead of Rosberg — despite the German closing to less than a second in a tense final lap — to record a fourth consecutive victory and move ahead of his teammate in the overall standings.

Ferrari drivers and staff have gathered to send a message of hope to Michael Schumacher and commemorate his first Formula One victory at the Spanish Grand Prix with the team he led to five world championships.

Drivers Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen flanked new team principal Marco Mattiacci among about a hundred team members in front of a sign saying "Remembering your first win with us #forzamichael."

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has claimed that Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is an unworthy choice as this season's Premier League player of the year.

"Luis Suarez is a very good player. They're not voting for a player who has no quality," Mourinho said, in comments carried by several British newspapers on Sunday.

The lack of English players in Manchester City's first-choice team is "pretty depressing", according to Football Association chairman Greg Dyke.

"It's been a great league this year. I think the Premier League has been brilliant," Dyke told several British Sunday newspapers.

Move over vuvuzela. A compact, Belgian-made trumpet dubbed the "diabolica" is gearing up to replace the South African horn as the noisemaker of choice at the next World Cup games in Brazil .

Its young designers said they are "overwhelmed by the flood of orders coming from all over the world", and predict that a million models will be sold by the time the month-long tournament starts on June 12.

Cameroon have brilliant players like Samuel Eto'o but keeping them together holds the key to 2014 World Cup success as the team makes a record seventh appearance by an African country.

Squad cliques were blamed for a disastrous 2010 tournament in South Africa with the “Indomitable Lions” losing all three matches they played. The same cannot happen in Group A this year against hosts Brazil, Croatia and Mexico.

Four years after leaving one World Cup finals as a new football hero, Mexican striker Javier Hernandez returns to the sport's greatest stage desperate to reignite a spluttering career.

From the moment Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson plucked Hernandez from the obscurity of FC Guadalajara just before the 2010 finals started in South Africa, the diminutive striker enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame.

Croatia coach Niko Kovac is intent on challenging golf legend Walter Hagen's claim that 'no one remembers who came in second' at the World Cup.

Kovac's Croats, who made the Brazil finals through the play-offs, have the dubious honor of opening the 2014 football showcase against the hosts in Sao Paulo on June 12.