Cleveland pushed its winning streak to 12 games with an easy 105-94 win on Thursday over a Los Angeles Clippers team that lost both the game and its composure.

The Cavaliers took over the lead of the NBA Central Division, leapfrogging Chicago,

With riot police protecting the players from incensed rival fans and using tear gas to disperse troublemakers in the crowd, Ghana advanced to the African Cup of Nations final with a 3-0 win over host Equatorial Guinea on Thursday.

The semifinal descended into chaos after the third goal, and Gabonese referee Eric Otogo-Castane soon halted the match in the 82nd minute. It resumed after about a 40-minute delay, and finished soon after.

Former Manchester United manager David Moyes has confirmed he did ban players from eating chips during his brief stint at Old Trafford because he believed some of the squad were overweight.

Rio Ferdinand, in his recent autobiography '#2Sides', was severely critical of the way in which Moyes's management style after he took over at Old Trafford and highlighted the chip ban as an example of what was wrong with his approach.

Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez has been ruled out of this weekend's north London derby away to Tottenham Hotspur, Gunners manager Arsene Wenger said Thursday.

The 26-year-old Chile forward is still sidelined with the hamstring problem that saw him miss last weekend's 5-0 rout of Premier league rivals Aston Villa, even though he is now back in training.

Real Madrid's Colombian attacking midfielder James Rodríguez is set to undergo surgery on a fractured foot which could rule him out for two months, the Spanish league leaders said.

The club said scans have revealed a fracture of the fifth metatarsal in the right foot during a 2-1 league win over Sevilla on Wednesday.

Liverpool fought back to reach the FA Cup fifth round with a 2-1 victory over 10-man Bolton Wanderers to keep alive talismanic captain Steven Gerrard’s hopes of a Wembley swansong.

The Liverpool captain turns 35 on the day of the FA Cup final and Reds supporters had seemingly already penciled a trip to Wembley into their diaries.

The former chairman of Britain's professional footballers' union revealed in a newspaper interview published on Thursday that he tried to take his own life.

Clarke Carlisle, the former head of the Professional Footballers' Association, spent six weeks in hospital after being hit by a lorry near York, northern England, in December.

Jurgen Klopp admits relegation-threatened Borussia Dortmund deserve to be criticised after their own fans jeered their 11th defeat of the season to stay bottom of the Bundesliga.

Dortmund slumped again in Wednesday's 1-0 defeat at home to fourth-placed Augsburg, who played the last 20 minutes with ten men.

Qatar want Bayern Munich head coach Pep Guardiola to lead the country at the 2022 World Cup, according to reports in Germany.

Guardiola’s face adorns the front of Sport Bild on Wednesday morning, with the paper claiming that he could be the subject of a lucrative approach from the Gulf nation.

Hours after being named a suspect in a tax fraud case regarding the signing of Brazil star Neymar, Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu said the club was the victim of an "attack" involving fierce rival Real Madrid and the Spanish state.

Bartomeu said "all this comes from someone who did not want him to come to Barca. Neymar's father said that he had a better offer from Madrid, and that did not go down too well."