Tiger Woods stretched his lead to three strokes with another imperious display in the second round of the Australian Masters at Kingston Heath here on Friday.

U.S. PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang shot a 3-under 67 to share the clubhouse lead with Malaysia's Danny Chia halfway through the second round of the Hong Kong Open on Friday.

China's former world record holder Liu Xiang has easily won his third Asian 110 meter hurdle championship, posting a time of 13.50 seconds in a driving rain in the southern city of Guangzhou.

Pakistan overcame their one-day international series loss and maintained their world champion status in Twenty20 cricket with a convincing 49-run win over New Zealand at Dubai Stadium on Thursday.

Britain's Justin Rose fired a seven-under par 65 on Thursday to seize a one-shot lead after one round of the US$4.7 million US PGA Tour season-ending event at Disney World.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade put on a show in their first showdown of the season, as James scored 34 points to help the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 111-104 on Thursday.

Frank Gore ran for 104 yards and a touchdown, and Jay Cutler threw a career-high five interceptions as the San Francisco 49ers snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Chicago Bears 10-6 in the NFL on Thursday.

Niclas Bergfors had a goal and two assists as the New Jersey Devils beat the slumping Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Thursday to close within a victory of tying the NHL record of 10 consecutive road wins to start a season.

Instead of getting even with Rutgers, No. 23 South Florida didn't even get on the scoreboard Thursday for the first time in a regular-season game in its 13-year history.

Henri Serandour, the former president of the French national Olympic committee (CNOSF), died on Thursday at the age of 72 after a long illness, it was announced here.