Draymond Green is speaking up for all the backups and role players of the NBA world. While Green insists he has more than enough money – and if he fails to use it wisely over his lifetime that’s his own fault – he is determined to dish out another key …

Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray is the new world number one and it could prove beneficial to back the British athlete to go all the way in the first major of the calendar year in 2017. Murray has been there or thereabouts in the Melbourne-based event, losing in five …

Olly Sadler of Tawa-Lyndhurst beat Thorndon’s George Stoupe in the No 1 match but Thorndon took the overall contest on a count-back. Rulings won’t affect the top half of draws, however, after Thorndon finished strongly in the final round to beat defending men’s champions and rivals Tawa-Lyndhurst on count-back. It …

Two new tennis courts, which gathered protests from nearby neighbors, will be back before City Council next week with a new location and price tag nearly double the cost of the original. Neighbors declared victory in August after the council decided to stop construction of the courts at the Pleasanton …

Djokovic was the world No 2 behind Rafael Nadal when he signed Becker as his coach before the 2014 Australian Open. Uncertainty abounds, however, and Becker had to downplay rumours that complications in Djokovic’s marriage were behind his slump. At the 2013 Australian Open, Djokovic was serving at 7-8, 30-40 …

After winning seven Grand Slams and playing and commentating on the sport for over four decades, tennis legend John McEnroe believes that 17 time Grand Slam Champion Roger Federer is the greatest of all time, except while playing Spaniard Rafael Nadal. John McEnroe ranked Federer, Nadal, Laver, Pete Sampras and …

Former English soccer players who were subjected to years of sexual abuse by youth team coaches entrusted with their care are breaking cover to expose the game’s dark secrets. The abuses were first uncovered two decades ago with the conviction in the United States of English coach Barry Bennell, who …

The plane that crashed in Colombia virtually wiping out an entire Brazilian soccer team was running out of fuel, had no electrical power, and was preparing for an emergency landing, according to the pilot’s final words. Only six on board the LAMIA Bolivia charter flight survived, including three of the …

Ten people were treated in hospital for knife wounds after hundreds of Dynamo Kiev and Besiktas fans clashed in the Ukrainian capital before Tuesday’s Champions League match, local media reported. Around 600 fans were involved in clashes near the Olympiyskiy stadium, which will host the 2018 Champions League final, before …

Connection between football and gambling Recently, scientists have found out that popularisation of poker, as well as online slot machines, is strongly connected with footballers’ success. The whole range of experiments has demonstrated that card games negatively influence on the players’ results. Additionally to that, there was an anonymous survey …