Murray retires with back pain; Nadal wins in Rome

Back pain forced Andy Murray to retire midway through his second-round match at the Italian Open on Wednesday. He may have to sit out the French Open, too.

Back pain forced Andy Murray to retire midway through his second-round match at the Italian Open on Wednesday. He may have to sit out the French Open, too.

Two-time Olympic host Los Angeles plans to bid on hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, according to mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and the city’s effort has some major celebrity backers.

Mike Krzyzewski says again he doesn’t plan to return as U.S. men’s basketball coach after leading the Americans to two Olympic gold medals.
THE COUNTRY’S finest cocker-breeders and their counterparts from the United States engage each other in the highly anticipated World Championship Derby of the National Cockers Alliance (NCA) which gets going on Tuesday at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City.

LOS ANGELES – The National Football League beat out Bundesliga Football for the honor of being the best attended professional sports league in the world, Sportingintelligence.com reported Friday. The NFL took the top spot with an average of 67,591 fans per game in 2012, an increase from 67,394 a year earlier. Germany’s Bundesliga [...]

The United States won a second straight Hopman Cup tie by edging winless France 2-1 on Tuesday.

The United States women’s team won the inaugural 3-on-3 world basketball championship by beating France 17-16 in Sunday’s final.
THE SEESAW battle between the United States and China in the just-ended 2012 London Olympics saw the American athletes eventually overtaking the Chinese by six gold medals in the overall tally, 46-38.

A second-straight volleyball gold inspired summersaults from Brazil. It brought tears to the United States.

Candace Parker scored a game-high 21 points and the United States won their fifth Olympic women’s basketball gold medal in a row by overpowering France 86-50 in Saturday’s championship game.

The U.S. men’s volleyball team learned there’s no relaxing against the Russians.

The red, white and blue is painting the Olympics gold, silver and bronze.

US NBA stars and European champions Spain each overcame slow starts to win their Olympic openers with ease on Sunday, serving notice they remain the teams to beat in the fight to reach the gold medal game.