Van Persie wants to bow out with dignity

By Reuters,

To finish with dignity is how Robin van Persie wants to end his playing days on Sunday when he hangs up his boots after an 18-year career. "The goa...

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Buffon should watch his mouth, says Italian ref chief

By AFP,

Italian referees' chief Marcello Nicchi said Monday that Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon should think before lashing out at officials as he did d...

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Pistorius injured in prison brawl over phone

By AFP,

Former Paralympic champion and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius has been injured in a prison brawl over the use of a public phone, a South African o...

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Mexican girls fight violence with boys’ own game: football

By AFP,

Guadalupe Garcia, an indigenous Mexican woman, was working as a maid when she fell in love - not with her boss, like a hackneyed telenovela plot, but ...

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Argentina’s murderers and robbers try rugby for redemption

By AFP,

They were jailed for murder, armed robbery and other violent crimes. But the inmates of a maximum security prison in Argentina are now seeking redempt...

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Ex-NFL star, murder convict commits suicide in prison

By AFP,

Former American football star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez was found dead in prison on Wednesday after hanging himself with a bedsheet in hi...

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US doesn’t plan to let up in Ryder Cup singles

By AFP,

  The Americans are hoping a murderers' row of heavy hitters in Sunday singles can finally put the brakes on Europe's win streak and deliver t...

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Muhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest’, dead at 74

By Agencies,

Muhammad Ali, the eloquent, colorful, controversial and brilliant three-time heavyweight boxing champion who was known as much for his social conscien...

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Bolivia’s soccer boss Carlos Chavez sent to violent prisons

By Agencies,

Carlos Chavez, the arrested head of Bolivia's soccer federation, was sent Tuesday to one of Latin America's most violent prisons to prevent him from f...