Olympic champion Sally Pearson has withdrawn from the track and field world championships to be held in Beijing in August.

The 28-year-old Australian broke a bone and dislocated her left wrist after crashing over a hurdle in a race in Rome on June 5, and announced Monday she needs further surgery this week.

Cleveland sports fans have suffered so much heartache in 51 years without a champion that the most painful moments have their own names: The Shot, The Drive and The Fumble.

Now the Cleveland Cavaliers are on the verge of adding another chapter to that legacy of frustration as they face a must-win situation in Tuesday's sixth game of the NBA Finals.

Zito, the leader of Brazil's World Cup-winning teams in 1958 and 1962, has died, Brazilian club Santos says. He was 82.

The cause of the former Santos midfielder's death was not officially announced Monday, but Zito had been battling Alzheimer's disease and last year suffered a stroke that left him hospitalized for more than a month.

Rafael Nadal earned his second title of the season and his fourth on grass as he defeated Serb Viktor Troicki 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 on Sunday to become the first man to triumph on both clay and turf at the Stuttgart Open.

The Spanish top seed set another minor record, as he won the inaugural grass edition after taking clay trophies here in 2005 and 2007. Stuttgart made the switch to grass starting with this edition as part of the new Wimbledon pre-season.

A U.S. woman attempting to cross the Pacific by rowboat has ended her solo attempt because of expected bad weather.

Sonya Baumstein was rescued off the Japanese coast on Saturday after sending out a distress signal, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.

Nigerian defender David Oniya collapsed on the pitch and died after playing just a few minutes of a local friendly in Malaysia on Saturday, reports said.

Oniya, 30, went down about three minutes into the game for T-Team and was pronounced dead at hospital around half-an-hour later, the club's chief executive told The Star newspaper.

France's Socialist premier Manuel Valls admitted in remarks published Sunday to having made "a blunder" by using a government jet to fly to the Champions League final with his two sons.

The popular prime minister has sought to end the controversy by pledging to refund part of the cost of last weekend's junket, despite insisting he was on official business.

Brazil advanced to the last 16 of the Women's World Cup on Saturday with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Spain as France fell 2-0 to Colombia in the first upset of the tournament.

France's defeat threw Group F wide open as rivals England rekindled their campaign with a 2-1 win over Mexico in Moncton.

South America's biggest football tournament is in full swing but the sport's leaders are keeping a conspicuously low profile as the FIFA corruption scandal spreads fallout around the world.

Despite the presence of Lionel Messi and Neymar, a dark shadow hangs over the Copa America because of U.S. charges against 14 football barons from North and South America over the payment of bribes worth more than $150 million.

Aya Sameshima and Yuika Sugasawa scored early to hand reigning champions Japan a 2-1 win over Cameroon and a spot in the knockout rounds of the women's World Cup on Friday.

The Japanese benefited from early disarray in the Cameroonian defense with Sameshima opening after just six minutes and Sugasawa getting the second after 17 minutes.