Germany team manager Oliver Bierhoff has backed both captain Bastian Schweinsteiger and defender Jerome Boateng to recover from injury to play for the world champions in June's European championships.

"I am 100 percent convinced that Jerome will manage it. He's very professional," Bierhoff said at a panel discussion in Mainz on Tuesday.

Leicester's unlikely Premier League title challenge faltered with a 2-2 home draw with West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday, offering Tottenham the chance to go top in another twist to the most unpredictable race for the championship in years.

Moving three points clear of the world's richest league was nothing to celebrate for Leicester's despondent players, who wasted a slew of late chances to put a provisional five-point gap over Spurs.

Draymond Green hit an off-balance 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with 40.2 seconds remaining in overtime, and the Golden State Warriors escaped with a 109-105 win against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday while Stephen Curry watched in street clothes with an injured ankle.

Andrew Bogut saved the ball from going out of bounds, and then Green got the shot off just in time while avoiding Kent Bazemore's diving steal attempt.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Michel Platini has appealed against his six-year ban by FIFA.

CAS says Platini is seeking to annul the sanction confirmed by the FIFA appeal committee last week.

French prosecutors have confirmed that they have widened their investigation into corruption in track and field to include the bidding for the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.

Franck Charon, the spokesman for the national financial prosecutions office in Paris, tells The Associated Press that a preliminary investigation has been opened "but at this stage we are just making verifications, we cannot prejudge the outcome of the investigation."

Alvaro Morata came off the bench to earn then score a late penalty as champions Juventus went four points clear at the top of Serie A on Sunday with a 2-0 win over hapless Inter Milan.

Days after rescuing their Champions League hopes with a 2-2 home draw with Bayern Munich, Juventus welcomed Roberto Mancini's visitors looking to steal a march on title challengers Napoli.

Arsene Wenger challenged Arsenal to respond in this week's crucial fixtures after watching his team waste a glorious opportunity to close the gap at the top of the Premier League in Sunday's 3-2 loss at Manchester United.

Arsenal, seeking their first league title in 12 years, were bidding to stay within two points of surprise leaders Leicester City ahead of a home fixture against Swansea on Wednesday and a crucial visit to Tottenham looming on Saturday.

Disgraced ex-Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness was released from prison on Monday after serving 21 months for tax evasion, Germany's national news agency quoted a regional official as saying.

The 64-year-old served half of his three-and-a-half year sentence after being convicted in March 2014 of having evaded paying at least 28.5 million euros ($31.5 million) in taxes.

Asian football leaders put a brave face on AFC boss Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa's FIFA presidential defeat on Saturday and pledged to work with the world body's new head Gianni Infantino.

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) head Sheikh Salman, gunning to become FIFA's first Asian leader, had been the pre-poll favorite but he lost out in the second round of voting.

Kyle Lowry nailed a clutch game-winning jumper en route to a career high 43 points as the Toronto Raptors edged Cleveland 99-97 in a showdown between the two top teams in the Eastern Conference.

Lowry drained a long range shot from just inside the three-point line with 3.8 seconds left as the Raptors moved to within two NBA games of the first place Cavaliers.