SAITAMA -- Oman! Or should that be: "Oh boy?" Japan midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura dribbles the ball deep into Oman territory during the first half of the World Cup Asian qualifying match at Saitama Stadium 2002. A nation with a population of less than three million, represented ...
Lindsay Davenport cruised to her fourth Toray Pan Pacific Open with a convincing 6-4, 6-1 victory over Bulgarian Magdelena Maleeva on Sunday. Davenport needed less than an hour to walk away with the $189,000 first prize, exhibiting a crushing display of groundstrokes behind a ...
It seems that after every World Cup, the losers all band together and call for rule changes. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is a concept alien in rugby circles. Over the last decade the game of rugby has undergone more changes than Michael ...
South American champions Boca Juniors added the Toyota Cup to their collection of trophies on Sunday with a victory over Champions League winner AC Milan after a penalty shootout in Yokohama. Andrea Pirlo, Clarence Seedorf and Alessandro Costacurta all missed their spot-kicks to hand ...
YOKOHAMA -- South Korea won the East Asian Football Championship on goals scored after a tame 0-0 draw with Japan at International Stadium Yokohama on Wed-nesday night. Japan midfielder Takashi Fukunishi shoots during the first half of the East Asian Championship final against South Korea ...
Remy Bonjasky of the Netherlands won the 2003 K-1 World Grand Prix and a $400,000 jackpot at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday, with a points victory over surprise finalist and home favorite Musashi. Bonjasky used an array of kicks to take out Australian Peter Graham ...
SYDNEY -- New Zealand outclassed a largely second-string French team 40-13 at the Telstra Stadium in Sydney on Thursday to claim third place in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. The victory will come as little consolation to a rugby-proud nation expecting nothing short of capturing ...
SYDNEY -- England set up a repeat of the 1991 Rugby World Cup final with a 24-7 semifinal win over France at a wet Telstra Stadium in Sydney on Sunday. France's Nicolas Brusque is brought to the ground by two England players during their Rugby ...
SYDNEY, Australia -- The All Blacks' World Cup bogey continues and they will have to wait another four long years before they can get another crack at the prized William Webb Ellis trophy for the tournament's winner. A record Rugby World Cup crowd of 82,444 ...
The question ahead of France's Rugby World Cup quarterfinal clash against Ireland in Melbourne on Sunday was which French team would turn up, the good one or the bad one. Unfortunately for the Irish, the good one turned up. For one half at least. Les Bleus ...
