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England batsman Harry Brook has been banned from the Indian Premier League for two years after he pulled out at the last minute to focus on international cricket, local media reported Friday.
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry became the first NBA player ever to score 4,000 three-pointers on Thursday, extending his runaway lead as the greatest long-range shooter in basketball history.
Lando Norris fired a warning shot to outpace world champion Max Verstappen and top the timesheets in first practice for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Friday, with Lewis Hamilton 12th on his Ferrari debut.
Luka Doncic scored a game-high 45 points but could not prevent the Los Angeles Lakers from slumping to a third straight defeat in a 126-106 pounding by the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA on Thursday.
Defending champion Iga Swiatek beat Zheng Qinwen 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday, avenging her Olympics semi-final loss to the Paris Games gold medallist to reach the last four at Indian Wells.
Lionel Messi came off the bench and scored as Inter Miami eased into the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup with a 2-0 win at Jamaica's Cavalier earning them a 4-0 win on aggregate.
A France side brimming with confidence host Scotland on Saturday with a second Six Nations title of head coach Fabien Galthie's rollercoaster tenure on the line.
Hansi Flick used an expletive to describe Barcelona's poor performance during November, and December was equally bad, with Atletico Madrid's win before Christmas helping them usurp the Catalans at the top of the table.
Manchester City face a crucial clash with Brighton as the pressure mounts in the race to finish in the Premier League's top four.
Marseille travel to Paris Saint-Germain this weekend for French football's biggest fixture, which threatens to remind them of the enormous gulf now separating the two great rivals.
England head into their Six Nations finale against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday knowing a bonus-point win will give them their best chance of a first championship title in five years.
Mirra Andreeva's rise in the WTA rankings has accelerated so quickly that the 17-year-old Russian can't keep track.
Rory McIlroy kept quiet on Thursday about a practice-round incident at The Players Championship in which he took a heckler's phone, a critic who later apologized to the four-time major champion.
Colombia's Camilo Villegas and Americans Lucas Glover and J.J. Spaun each fired six-under-par 66s to share the lead on Thursday at the darkness-halted opening round of the PGA Players Championship.
Jack Butland was the hero as Rangers held their nerve in a penalty shoot-out to dump Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce out of the Europa League and reach the quarter-finals on Thursday.
Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim praised the sportsmanship of Patrick Dorgu after the Danish full-back told the referee he had made a mistake in awarding the Red Devils a spot-kick in Thursday's 4-1 Europa League win over Real Sociedad.
Two-time finalist Daniil Medvedev rallied from a break down in the final set to beat Arthur Fils 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (9/7) on Thursday to reach the semi-finals of the Indian Wells ATP Masters.
Bruno Fernandes netted a hat-trick as Manchester United beat Real Sociedad 4-1 in their Europa League last-16 second leg on Thursday, while Tottenham bounced back to edge AZ Alkmaar 3-2 on aggregate.
Jack Butland was the hero as Rangers held their nerve in a penalty shoot-out to dump Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce out of the Europa League and reach the quarter-finals on Thursday.
Wilson Odobert scored his first two Tottenham goals to book a place in the Europa League quarter-finals by beating AZ Alkmaar 3-1 on Thursday and 3-2 on aggregate.
Bruno Fernandes led Manchester United into the Europa League quarter-finals with a hat-trick to beat Real Sociedad 4-1 at Old Trafford on Thursday and 5-2 on aggregate.
Pole vault superstar Armand Duplantis was unable to further improve his own world record in front of his adoring home fans on Thursday, failing three times to clear an imposing 6.28m.
Gareth Anscombe has hit back at former Wales coach Warren Gatland's assertion he might struggle to make the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
Defending champion Iga Swiatek beat Zheng Qinwen 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday, avenging her Olympics semi-final loss to the Paris Games gold medallist to reach the semi-finals at Indian Wells.
Ben Earl says playing at pace will underline England's bid to be crowned Six Nations champions on Saturday when they face Wales in their final match of the tournament.
Athletic Bilbao beat 10-man Roma 3-1 in their Europa League last-16 second leg on Thursday, while Eintracht Frankfurt put four past Ajax to book their place in the quarter-finals with a 6-2 aggregate win.
Matt Sherratt says Wales will need to find the "balance between heart and brain" when they face Six Nations title contenders England in Cardiff on Saturday.
Gregor Townsend believes Scotland's recent record against France entitles them to travel to Paris with optimism for their daunting Six Nations finale against the title contenders on Saturday.
World MotoGP champion Jorge Martin will sit out the Grand Prix of the Americas after failing to recover from injury, having already been forced to miss the opening two races of the season.
The Tampa Bay Rays have dropped plans for a new stadium in St. Petersburg, principal owner Stu Sternberg said Thursday, leaving the Major League Baseball club's long-term future in the area in doubt.
French rider Lenny Martinez sprinted to an uphill victory in the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Thursday, with Jonas Vingegaard losing the overall lead to US teammate Matteo Jorgenson after a nasty fall.
Frankie Dettori said he felt "embarrassed" after filing for bankruptcy following the celebrated jockey's failure to reach an agreement with British authorities regarding a long-running case of tax avoidance.