Besiktas clinched the Turkish Super Lig title with a game to spare on Sunday, topping the league for the first time since 2009 and claiming Turkey's sole automatic Champions League spot.
Driven on by over 40,000 fans inside their new stadium on the Bosphorus, Besiktas thrashed Osmanlispor of Ankara 3-1 to gain an unassailable advantage over local Istanbul rivals Fenerbahce going into the coming week's final round of games.
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Police ordered Manchester United to abandon their final Premier League game of the season against Bournemouth on Sunday after a suspicious package was discovered at Old Trafford.
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World 100- and 200-meter record holder Usain Bolt of Jamaica opened his 2016 season Saturday with a 100m victory in 10.05 seconds at the Cayman Invitational.
Making his fist strides on the road to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, Bolt crossed the finish line .07 of a second ahead of American runner-up Dentarius Locke.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic headed home a minute from time to break Paris Saint-Germain's single season Ligue 1 scoring record in a 4-0 rout of Nantes on Saturday.
With the title long wrapped up and a French Cup final against bitter rivals Marseille to come a week later, the night was all about Ibrahimovic and his quest to break the 37-goal single season PSG record at the Parc des Princes.
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In little under two years with Barcelona, Luis Suarez has won six trophies, silenced his critics with almost impeccable on-field behavior and now, most remarkably of all, left Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in his shadow.
Suarez fittingly scored a hat-trick as Barca retained their La Liga title on Saturday with a 3-0 win at Granada to take his tally for the season to a remarkable 59 allied to 26 assists.
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Fatma Samoura, FIFA's first-ever female secretary general, may be an outsider in the football world but she is hoping her two decades of experience as a U.N. diplomat will help her restore the sport's "tarnished image".
"My goal is to support the program of president Gianni (Infantino) and to help football restore its tarnished image," the Senegalese U.N. diplomat, named Friday as the second-in-command of football's ruling body, told AFP.
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Gonzalo Higuain was in high spirits after a hat-trick in a dramatic 4-0 rout of Frosinone set a new all-time record of 36 goals in a single Serie A season and fired Napoli into the Champions League.
"I feel immense joy at overtaking this record," Higuain told Mediaset at the San Paolo stadium.
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World number one Novak Djokovic overcame a self-inflicted ankle injury to battle into the Rome Masters final after a thrilling 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/5)win over Kei Nishikori on Saturday.
It means Djokovic will meet Britain's Andy Murray, the second seed, in a second successive Masters final on Sunday a week after beating the Scot in Madrid.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic confirmed on Friday that he will leave Paris Saint-Germain at the end of this season, but the French champions said the Swedish star will eventually return in a "management" role.
"My last game tomorrow at Parc des Princes. I came like a king, left like a legend," wrote Ibrahimovic, ending speculation that he could extend his contract with PSG beyond this season.
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Troubled tennis star Bernard Tomic said Friday he will not be available to represent Australia at this year's Rio Olympics, citing a busy playing schedule.
It follows Tomic and fiery compatriot Nick Kyrgios being warned that their on-court behavior could threaten their places on the Australian team for the Games in August.
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