With less than four months before the International Olympic Committee decides on the host for 2018 Winter Olympics, the bidding race is to heat up this week as all three candidate cities address their campaign at the annual gathering of international sports journalists in Seoul. The International Sport Press Association, or AIPS, is holding its annual congress at the COEX convention center in Seou

A long and a hard-fought season in the country’s top basketball league is nearing its final stage with the top six teams now heading into the playoffs, which start this week.The Korean Basketball League begins its playoffs Friday when the fourth-ranked Wonju Dongbu Promy faces fifth-placed Changwon LG Sakers in their best-of-three series. Starting Saturday, the third-ranked Jeonju KCC Egis meets t

South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na has taken her former agency to court to recover portions of her endorsement money. Kim Yu-naLee Kim & Partners, a Seoul-based law firm representing Kim, said Monday that the skater has filed a suit against IB Sports and that the first court appearance over their case was held last Wednesday.According to the law firm, Kim claims that IB Sports owes her 894 milli

South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na arrived home on Sunday, with the world championships initially scheduled for this week in quake-ravaged Japan in limbo, and said she will concentrate on other commitments during her stay."I had been prepared for the championships and it's disappointing that I didn't get the chance to show it," Kim said at a press conference at the Incheon International Airport

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Matt Howard made one free throw with 0.8 seconds left to cap a wild final sequence, and Butler added another amazing victory to its list of NCAA tournament upsets, eliminating top-seeded Pittsburgh 71-70 Saturday.Each team had a chance to win it from the foul line in the last 2 seconds. After Butler’s Shelvin Mack inexplicably fouled Gilbert Brown near midcourt with 1.4 seconds l

   Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco clinched victory in the 2011 Seoul International Marathon here on Sunday, the event's organizers said.   Goumri finished first with a record of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 11 seconds.   South Korea's Jeong Jin-hyuk came in second at 2 hours, 9 minutes and 28 seconds and Russia's Oleg Kulkov finished third in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 13 seconds, they said. (Yonhap News)  

South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan could square off against American great Michael Phelps in a California meet this June, swimming officials here said Friday.The Korea Swimming Federation and the sports division of SK Telecom, which manages Park, said the 21-year-old is set to enter the Santa Clara International Grand Prix in California starting June 16. The event is the seventh and final leg of t

South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na will come home this weekend with the world championships initially scheduled for next week in Japan still in limbo, her agency here said Friday.In a statement, All That Sports said Kim will arrive home on Sunday to continue training and also to serve as an honorary ambassador for the 2018 Winter Olympics bid for PyeongChang, an east coast alpine town. Kim is al

 An ice hockey team based in Gyeonggi Province announced that it is planning to hold a charity game to raise funds for disaster-ravaged Japan. Anyang Halla, the defending champions of the Asia Ice hockey League, were due to play Japanese side Tohoku Free Blades in a best-of-five championship final series in Japan last Friday, when the country was hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake.All five matches

(Yonhap News)Lee Si-young, a South Korean actress, isn't just a pretty face. She can now call herself a boxing champion. Lee took the national women's amateur boxing championship in the 48-kilogram division Thursday. At 28 years of age, she was the oldest competitor at the event, which was open to boxers from 17 to34 years old.After dominating Sung So-mi, a high school freshman, in the final, Lee

Korea’s first Ironman ready for new challengeHe is probably one of the fittest men in the world. Park Byung-Hoon, 40, is an Ironman athlete. An Ironman race is an extended version of triathlon sport. The athletes swims 3.8 kilometers, cycle 180 kilometers and then run a full marathon of 42.195 kilometers, without any break.As one can imagine, it is a very demanding sport, so not everyone can pull

INDIAN WELLS, California (AP) ― Rafael Nadal survived his strongest challenge yet at the BNP Paribas Open, beating qualifier Somdev Devvarman 7-5, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals.The world’s top-ranked player dominated his first two matches, dropping just six games while winning in straight sets. But he was challenged from the start by Devvarman, the first Indian ever to reach the fourth round at I

 The global governing body of gymnastics has opened disciplinary proceedings against a Chinese judge for altering scores to help a Chinese athlete share a gold medal with a South Korean gymnast at last year's Asian Games. The South Korean flag is projected on giant screens during the closing ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. The South Korean city of Inc