Summer Sports News

The most powerful man in boxing is a Harvard-educated tax lawyer and a street-savvy businessman, a Talmudic scholar with a penchant for four-letter expletives.

After years of disappointments, Toronto has finally won a major international sporting event, beating two South American cities to host the 2015 Pan Am Games.

Mac Cone jumped a clean round aboard Ole on Friday to lead after the first round of the $100,000 Canadian show jumping championship at the 87th Royal Horse Show.

Australian swimmer Marieke Guehrer set a new shortcourse world record of 26.17 seconds for the women's 50-metre backstroke at the Moscow leg of FINA's World Cup series.

Melanie Oudin has the bright lights on her again. Oudin surged from nowhere to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in September.

Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills is to step down after 22 years in charge of the Jamaican athletics team.

Cadel Evans will wear the rainbow jersey as the reigning world champion at the Tour Down Under.

Canadian track and field athletes will race for gold at a new 15,000-seat stadium in Hamilton if Toronto is awarded the 2015 Pan American Games while swimmers will dive into a new pool big enough to host large-scale international events.

US Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer voluntarily withdrew from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal.

NET DUAL: Puerto Rican club Corozal's Fernando Morales beats the block of Egyptian club Zamalek's Mohamed Badawy during their Pool - A' match in the FIVB Men's Club Volleyball World Championship at the Aspire Zone indoor hall yesterday.

In this Aug. 23, 1999 file photo, Detroit Shock coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline, center, gives some instructions to the team in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Perth-based New Zealand cyclist Logan Hutchings had consigned himself to the role of water boy before a "lucky break" led to his victory in the third stage of the Tour of Southland yesterday.

Rhode Island Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel has announced that she plans to attend the University of Florida next fall.

A A Taylor Swift on - SNL' A A Taylor Swift chats about pulling double duty as host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" and which songs she will perform.

America's First Couple have eaten a meal prepared by Jamie Oliver and visited New York's high-ranking Blue Duck Tavern this year for their wedding anniversary, so it's only fiting that the local-food crusading Obamas are set to factor heavily in North America's favourite culinary pastime: Iron Chef America .

A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

Minutes after pedaling off the Olympic track in Beijing, American cycling standout Taylor Phinney was already talking about winning a gold medal at the 2012 London Games in the individual pursuit.

In this March 12, 2008 file photo, Chinese director Zhang Yimou clasps his hands to express hope for good weather while speaking about the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during a press conference held as part of the annual legislature meetings at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

As soon as Mebrahtom Keflezighi , better known as Meb, won the New York City Marathon on Sunday, an uncommon sports dispute erupted online, fraught with racial and nationalistic components: Should Keflezighi's triumph count as an American victory? He was widely celebrated as the first American to win the New York race since 1982.