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David Beckham's hopes of extending his England career into a fourth World Cup finals are in tatters after the veteran midfielder ruptured an achilles tendon in Milan's 1-0 Serie A victory over Chievo last night, an injury that will rule him out for the season and could curtail his illustrious 18-year career. The 34-year-old pulled up in the centre circle under no pressure from an opposing player with two minutes of the match remaining in San Siro and, after hopping from the pitch in obvious p...

Today marks 100 days until the World Cup.GRN correspondent Alex Duval Smith is on a media tour of the country's stadiums aiming to assert South Africa's readiness for the event contrary to reports such as the Independent's below.

Alex Duval Smith also has interview available to broadcasters with Danny Jordaan, chairman of the organising committee. It was recorded on the pitch in Port Elizabeth, his home town where, when young, he played for P.E United. The spot upon which th...

Look at it this way: Ski racers are generally injured so often that half their careers are spent in some combination of pain-management and rehabilitation. And even by those standards Lindsey Vonn is anoutlier, with a long and colorful medical history that has alternately compromised her career and elevated her personal mythology. She has ascar somewhere to match every title she's won. So when I spoke to Vonn by cell phone Wednesday morning shortly after the Today Show telecasting which she r...

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is "confident" of clearing his name after being accused of an estimated £40,000 tax evasion. The 62-year-old Londoner voluntarily attended Bishopsgate police station inthe capital on Thursday to be charged with two counts of cheating thepublic revenue. The move comes at the end of an exhaustive 26-monthpolice and tax inquiry into alleged corruption in English football. IanBurton, Redknapp's solicitor, said: "Harry has co-operated fully withinvestigators duri...