London - The Football Association announced Friday that it will investigate newspaper reports that a player deliberately got himself sent off in order to clear a 50,000-pound (98,000-dollar) gambli

Hamburg - German tennis supremo Georg von Waldenfels hopes that the scenery around at the Rothenbaum tennis centre won't be as tranquil in mid-May 2009 as it was on Friday.

Johannesburg - Workers at a 2010 World Cup football stadium in South Africa were striking for a third day Friday over pay.

Frankfurt - The match fixing scandal that disrupted German football in 2005 is set to come to an end after disgraced referee Robert Hoyzer and Germany's ruling football body DFB agreed on a compens

Sakhir, Bahrain - Three-time Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart on Friday called on FIA president Max Mosley to quit in the wake of revelations that he was engaged in sex acts with prostitut

Hamburg- Orange bath robes have been mentioned as German athletes are exploring methods to express their protest over China's actions in Tibet within Olympic rules at the Beijing Games.