Beckham walks off in tears after last home game

David Beckham hugged his teammates with tears in his eyes, then walked off the pitch to a standing ovation — for the last time in front of a home crowd at a football game.

David Beckham hugged his teammates with tears in his eyes, then walked off the pitch to a standing ovation — for the last time in front of a home crowd at a football game.

SALT LAKE CITY — A teen accused of punching a Mexican-born football referee who later died was charged Wednesday with homicide by assault, a count issued when an attack unintentionally causes death. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill also said he will seek to try the teen as an adult in the death [...]

Former Leeds winger Robbie Rodgers admits the macho culture of football makes it impossible for gay players to stay in the sport once they have revealed their homosexuality.

Uruguay and Paraguay drew 1-1 on Friday in a result that helped neither team as they struggle to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Egyptian prosecutors have charged 38 members of a die-hard soccer fan club with belonging to an illegal group and other offenses, one of the first signs of a crackdown on the powerful sports organizations that have been at the forefront of the country’s protest movement, lawyers said Thursday.

Chelsea staged a thrilling comeback to beat Steaua Bucharest 3-1 and reach the Europa League quarterfinals, but Inter Milan failed to advance despite a second-leg recovery of its own on a breathless night of last-16 action on Thursday.

NBC’s network will televise the English Premier League under a $250 million, three-year deal that begins next season.
A Philippine side determined to be in the best possible form in the Suzuki Cup late this year lost a chance to test US Virgin Islands in an international friendly on Friday after the match was called off by the United States Soccer Federation.

BASKETBALL Women Group A China 66, Czech Republic 57 Turkey 72, Angola 50 United States 81, Croatia 56 Group B Russia 58, Canada 53 France 73, Brazil 58 SOCCER Women Group E Brazil 1, New Zealand 0 Britain 3, Cameroon 0 Group F Japan 0, Sweden 0 Canada 3, South Africa 0 Group G United [...]

Spain’s Olympic football players looked forward to a rest day Friday and the opening ceremony to get their minds off a surprise defeat to Japan in their first match.

By cruel irony, the day upon which France vaunted its footballing mediocrity by losing to Spain at Euro 2012 also happened to be the 40th birthday of Zinedine Zidane.

With smiles on their football-loving faces, Greeks will cast ballots Sunday in an election that could decide the crisis-hit country’s fate in Europe.

A series of friendly matches against powerhouse sides in the Southeast Asian region in June will be the next assignment for the Philippine Azkals, who are coming off a third place finish in the AFC Challenge Cup in Kathmandu, Nepal.