LONDON (AFP) ― Maria Sharapova will attempt to complete her long journey back from the wilderness at Wimbledon on Saturday when she takes on Czech eighth seed Petra Kvitova for the women’s singles crown.The 24-year-old Russian fifth seed is the overwhelming favorite to reclaim the title that she won for the first time in 2004, when as a fresh-faced teenager she took the All England Club by storm.S

Local professional football teams whose players are implicated in match-fixing in the future will face expulsion from their league, a senior sports official said Thursday.“If players in (the first-division) K-League are caught trying to throw matches from this July and on, their teams will be forced out of the league,” said Park Sun-kyoo, vice minister of culture, sports and tourism. “We will also

Just one week before the International Olympic Committee’s selection of the host of the 2018 Winter Games, PyeongChang successfully held its final presentation on Tuesday before African officials in Togo, according to the PyeongChang 2018 Bid Committee. During a 20-minute presentation, PyeongChang, led by bid committee chairman Cho Yang-ho, highlighted how its bid would help National Olympic Commi

To mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the country has held the Communist Olympics in Qingyang, Gansu Province between June 26 and 28, said the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper.Each team wore uniforms and performed in a series of dramatic events including grenade chucking, model explosive carrying and "shoulder pole carrying." A race named “Storming the blockhouse”

When the match-fixing scandal engulfed the K-League in May, Incheon United head coach, the man who took South Korea to the second round of the 2010 World Cup, Huh Jung-moo said: “As a football devotee, we’re facing a problem that should never have happened. Once everything is exposed, we should scrutinize it to make sure everything will be cleared up, so that we can turn this to our advantage.”Huh

North Korea is youngest team in tournament with 14 players 20 or youngerDRESDEN, Germany (AP) ― After meeting in the first round at the last three Women’s World Cups, the United States should know everything it needs to about North Korea.Not even close.Then again, nobody knows much about the North Koreans.There’s a definite air of mystery surrounding the Americans’ opponent in their World Cup open

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ One of baseball's proudest franchises is in tatters, its future to be decided not on the field but in the courtroom.The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court Monday, blaming Major League Baseball for refusing to approve a multibillion-dollar TV deal that owner Frank McCourt was counting on to keep the troubled franchise afloat.McCourt, upset tha