South Korea's Park Tae-Hwan won the 100m and 400m freestyles Friday at the Santa Clara Grand Prix swimming meeting, taking his gold tally to three in two days.

Park, who opened the meeting on Thursday with a victory in the 800m freestyle, surged to the lead in the final 25 meters to win the 100m free in 48.85sec.

Cyber-minded fans heading to Euro 2012 in Poland are set to find life easier at the championship after organizers launched smartphone applications to help them navigate their way around.

The free Polish Guide and Check-in Poland apps, rolled out on Friday, were billed as a landmark by Marcin Herra, boss of PL.2012, the body supervising Poland's preparations for the tournament, which kicks off next Friday.

The Lebanese interior ministry allowed Lebanese fans to attend Lebanon’s FIFA World Cup qualifier against Qatar in Beirut on Sunday, after an earlier government decision to hold the game without spectators.

The game is scheduled to be held at the Camille Chamoun stadium in Beirut on Sunday.

Cristiano Ronaldo and nine other Portuguese international players were subjected to random doping tests at their Obidos training camp Friday, local press reported.

The tests were carried out by anti-doping officials from European football's ruling body UEFA.

Brendan Rodgers was appointed the new manager of Liverpool on Friday, the Premier League club announced, after joining from Swansea.

The 39-year-old Northern Irishman succeeds Anfield great Kenny Dalglish, who was sacked last month after his second spell in charge ended with Liverpool finishing the season a massive 37 points behind champions Manchester City.

The Lebanese government has reached an agreement to hold the Lebanese national team’s FIFA World Cup qualifier against Qatar without spectators.

The game is scheduled to be held at the Kamil Chamoun stadium in Beirut on Sunday.

Grimacing in pain with almost every step, Andy Murray nearly had to call it quits Thursday because of a bad back at the French Open.

Instead, the fourth-seeded Brit rebounded from an awful first set to beat Jarkko Nieminen 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 and reach the third round.

LeBron James scored 34 points and Dwyane Wade added 23 as Miami withstood a stellar performance by Boston's Rajon Rondo to beat the Celtics 115-111 in over-time in game two of the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

With Wednesday's victory, the Heat took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series that will send the winners into the NBA Finals against either San Antonio or Oklahoma City.

It used to be that Venus Williams was the one who was highly ranked, the one considered a title contender, the one who would dominate foes so thoroughly that matches would be tidily wrapped up in an hour.

Now 31, and figuring out from day to day how to handle an illness that saps her strength, Williams was on the wrong end of a lopsided 60-minute defeat in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday.

Liverpool were poised to wrap up their two-week search for a manager later Thursday by completing the signing of Brendan Rodgers from Swansea.

Rodgers, 39, was offered the Anfield job on Wednesday and his employers at the Welsh club have agreed to release the highly rated coach from his position at the Liberty Stadium.