A 72nd-minute goal by veteran striker Claudio Pizarro gave Peru a 1-0 victory over 10-man Venezuela on Thursday, leaving the four teams of Group C in the Copa America exactly even going into the last games of the round-robin stage.

The Bayern Munich forward scored on a left-footed shot that was tipped by Venezuela goalkeeper Alain Baroja but still went in off the underside of the crossbar.

Even after guiding a team wrecked by injuries to the NBA Finals in his first season, Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt can't escape a narrative that's shadowed him for months.

His relationship with superstar LeBron James remains a touchy topic.

Lionel Messi will play his 100th match for Argentina on Saturday against Jamaica in the Copa America but it will be a century marked by too many tears and no titles.

"I'm very happy to reach this record. Hopefully I can celebrate another victory and once and for all lift a cup," the Barcelona striker said in an interview published on Thursday by Argentinian daily La Nacion.

Brazil captain Neymar faces a nervous wait to discover his Copa America fate after getting sent off in a post-match fracas as the five-time world champions crashed to a 1-0 defeat against Colombia on Wednesday.

Neymar risks a two-match suspension -- ruling him out of Brazil's final group game and the quarter-finals -- after appearing to aim a headbutt at Colombia goalscorer Jeison Murillo following the final whistle.

Britain's double Olympic champion Mo Farah missed two drug tests in the run-up to the 2012 London Games, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.

The Mail's story comes at an awkward time for the 32-year-old Farah following recent doping allegations against his coach, Alberto Salazar.

Clint Dempsey's bout of ref rage could see the USA captain miss the Gold Cup, if U.S. Soccer determine his ripping up of a referee's notebook warrants a three-month ban.

Dempsey was sent off after snatching referee Daniel Radford's notebook and tearing it up in extra time of his Seattle Sounders' 3-1 loss to bitter regional rivals Portland in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup on Tuesday.

Critics and audiences panned it, and now the man who directed the $30 million FIFA film flop has admitted: "It's a disaster."

"United Passions," directed by Frederic Auburtin, came out in U.S. theaters earlier this month -- just as a massive corruption scandal erupted at football's world governing body.

Chilean football star Arturo Vidal made a tearful apology Wednesday after he saw his driver's license suspended for crashing his Ferrari while driving under the influence, but he remained on the national team.

After spending the night in jail, the Juventus midfielder appeared in court in Santiago, where the judge freed him from custody but suspended his license and ordered him to report to the Chilean consulate in Milan every month under the terms of his release.

Chelsea will start the defense of their Premier League title with a home game against Swansea when the 2015/16 season gets underway on August 8.

Next season's calendar released Wednesday gives Liverpool a chance to banish memories of their 6-1 drubbing at Stoke on the final day of last season, as they return to the Britannia on day one of the new campaign.

Rafael Nadal insists his shock defeat in the first round at Queen's Club won't damage his chances of a strong challenge for the Wimbledon title.

Nadal's disappointing 2015 campaign suffered another setback on Tuesday when the 14-time Grand Slam winner was dumped out of the Wimbledon warm-up event by unheralded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov.