ZURICH, (AFP) - FIFA leader Sepp Blatter said Saturday he was "shocked" at the way the US judiciary has targeted football's world body and slammed what he called a "hate" campaign by Europe's football leaders.In an interview with Swiss television, Blatter said he suspected the arrest of seven FIFA officials on Wednesday under a US anti-corruption warrant was an attempt to "interfere with the congress" at which he was elected Friday.Commenting on the fact that it came only two days before his ele

South Korean club FC Seoul crashed out of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League following an away loss on Wednesday.The K League Classic club lost to Gamba Osaka 3-2 in Osaka in the second leg of their round of 16 series. The Japanese side reached the quarterfinals on the 6-3 aggregate.Last week, Gamba Osaka had prevailed 3-1 in the South Korean capital.FC Seoul needed to win by at least three goals Wednesday to reach the quarters but Gamba Osaka had other ideas. Brazilian forw

Police said Tuesday they're investigating an active professional basketball coach over match-fixing allegations.   Seoul police said the coach, Chun Chang-jin of the Anyang KGC in the Korean Basketball League (KBL), allegedly bet against his own team and inserted bench players in the second half of games to ensure the team would lose.   Police said they suspect Chun, 52, of placing illegal bets on five games between February and March while he was coaching another KBL team, the Busan KT Sonicboo

The torch for the 2015 Summer Universiade has arrived in Seoul, an organizer said Monday, as South Korea prepares to launch a relay across the country for the competition.The torch arrived in Seoul on Sunday after being carried through such French landmarks as the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower as well as Taipei, the host of the 2017 Summer Universiade, according to the organizing committee.The torch, lit in Paris, will travel some 3,700 kilometers in South Korea before reaching Gwangju for the ope

South Korea will face its archrival, Japan, to open an inaugural international baseball tournament this fall, officials said Wednesday.  At a press conference held in Seoul jointly with the Korea Baseball Organization, the World Baseball Softball Confederation unveiled groupings for the new 12-nation competition called the Premier 12. The countries were chosen based on their world rankings as of November last year, and the first edition will be played from Nov. 8 to 21 in Chinese Taipei and Japa

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Minjee Lee shook off a three-putt bogey on her first hole with two finishing pars and won the Kingsmill Championship by two shots Monday, her first victory on the LPGA Tour.Lee, an 18-year-old Australian, finished at 15-under 269. She surged into the lead on Sunday with a round highlighted by a five-hole stretch that she played in 5 under and returned to the Kingsmill Resort's River Course on Monday morning with a four-stroke lead. She three-putted her first hole, the 1

The world's largest mixed martial arts promotion company announced Sunday it will make its South Korea debut later this year.The Ultimate Fighting Championship tweeted that it will head to South Korea for the first time on Nov. 28 with UFC Fight Night. Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul will be the venue.The UFC, which held its first event in 1993, has since bought out and absorbed rivals, including Pride and Strikeforce, to grow into the biggest player in the field. It opened its Asian office in

South Korean outfielder Choo Shin-soo of the Texas Rangers has now hit safely in 14 straight games, the longest such streak in the American League this year.Choo went 3-for-4 against the Kansas City Royals at home, Globe Life Park in Arlington, for his second three-hit game of the week.He has recorded at least two hits in each of his past five games.Choo currently leads all major leaguers with 12 extra-base hits -- eight doubles and four home runs -- in May. Despite Choo's hot bat, the Rangers l

Serving a lengthy doping suspension, Park Tae-hwan has been left to train on his own with his future as murky as ever.The former Olympic swimming champ was slapped in March with an 18-month ban by FINA, the international swimming governing body, after testing positive for testosterone the previous fall.The suspension began retroactively on Sept. 3, 2014, when FINA collected Park's samples, and is set to end on March 2, 2016.It marked a low point in the otherwise decorated career of the 25-year-o

Three South Korean Olympic skating champions were named honorary ambassadors for the 2018 Winter Olympics on their home ice Thursday.The organizing committee for the PyeongChang Winter Games unveiled speed skaters Lee Seung-hoon, Mo Tae-bum and Park Seung-hi as new goodwill ambassadors for the first-ever Winter Olympics in South Korea.They will be formally introduced Saturday during the celebrations of the 1,000-day countdown to the Olympics.The organizers said they expect the three to drive up

ZURICH (AP) – FIFA has banned former vice president Reynald Temarii for eight years for taking Qatari powerbroker Mohamed bin Hammam's money to pay legal costs in a corruption case linked to the 2022 World Cup vote.FIFA says its ethics committee ruled that Temarii accepting 305,640 euros ($343,000) from Bin Hammam in January 2011, breaching five sections of its ethics code.Temarii was then appealing a one-year suspension by FIFA which barred him from voting in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup contest

As the clock ticks down on the major international multisport competition for university athletes in South Korea this summer, the host country counts on Olympic medalists for strong performances.The countdown will reach 50 on Thursday for the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, a metropolitan city located some 330 kilometers south of Seoul. The competition will go on from July 3 to 14. Gwangju is the third South Korean host of the Universiade, after Muju and Jeonju, both in North Jeolla Province