The PGA Tour has released its entire schedule for next year, a fully sponsored program with a slight increase in purses despite the global financial crisis.
Lance Armstrong is going to be a father again.
Croat Ivica Kostelic won a men's World Cup slalom on Monday, almost five years since his last victory in the discipline.
While professional golf prepares to confront a bleak economic landscape in 2009, the biggest talking point in the game relates to the timing and immediate impact of Tiger Woods's comeback from injury.
The NFL wants an appeals court to reconsider a federal judge's order that blocked the suspensions of five players for violating the league's anti-doping policy, according to court documents filed Monday in US District Court in Minnesota.
Slovenian Olympic medalists Primoz Kozmus and Sara Isakovic were selected on Monday the best athletes of the tiny former Yugoslav republic for 2008.
South Korean teenager Choi Hye-yong wrapped up a sensational year by winning the Orient China Ladies Open yesterday in Xiamen, in southeast China's Fujian province.
Former world heayweight champion Evander Holyfield said on Wednesday he was ready to surprise everybody and regain the world title by becoming the oldest-ever champion at the age of 46 when he faces WBA titleholder Nikolai Valuev of Russia in Switzerland's cultural capital on Saturday.
The Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix was dropped from the Indy Racing League (IRL) schedule on Thursday because of the deepening economic crisis in the Motor City.
Britain's Luke Donald, frustrated after missing the last two majors of the year because of a wrist injury, is delighted to be back in action at this week's Chevron World Challenge.
Sport is less vulnerable than other industries to the highs and lows of financial markets but it has still suffered in 2008 and faces a tough future.
Tiger Woods has expressed disappointment over derogatory comments made by his long-time caddie Steve Williams about fellow American golfer Phil Mickelson.