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With the Masters looming in less than two weeks, Phil Mickelson pulled out of Saturday's third round of the US PGA Tour's Texas Open with a pulled muscle.
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Brazil's 2014 FIFA World Cup is set to kick-off in less than three months. Apart from the action expected on the field, stadiums that are using new technologies are also drawing people's attention.
Ronnie O'Sullivan suffers his first loss of 2014 against China's Yu Delu in the Players' Championship Grand Final in Preston.
Construction work at Porto Alegre's Beira-Rio stadium will not be complete until two weeks before the World Cup begins, the city's mayor said on Wednesday.
The seedings and draw mechanism for the Final Draw of the AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015 have been announced by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Football Federation Australia (FFA) said on Tuesday.
The underperformed Chinese national football team were drawn with three-time champion Saudi Arabia, and strong contestants Uzbekistan and DPR Korea in what appears the tournament's most competitive group.
A member of the Brazilian Army medical group trains people on how to act in the event of chemical weapon attacks as part of security preparations for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament, in Sao Paulo March 25, 2014.
There can be little doubt Major League Baseball hit a home run with its first visit to Australia in a century, as nearly 80,000 fans swarmed to the Sydney Cricket Ground over the weekend to get a taste of America's national game.
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Defending La Liga champ back in hunt after thrilling 4-3 win over Real Madrid
Tottenham coach Tim Sherwood praised his team's resilience after it rebounded from a 0-2 deficit to beat Southampton 3-2 in the Premier League on Sunday.