Despite finishing the 2013 to 2014 Barclays Premier League season in seventh place, Manchester United are still a top team. United fans need not worry; last season was an aberration, a blip in an otherwise thorough period of Premier League era domination. The regular pattern will soon resume. Here are four reasons to be optimistic. Mega sponsors on board Manchester ...

Filipe Luis’ move from Spanish La Liga champions Atletico Madrid to English side Chelsea is almost concluded after the clubs finally agreed on a 20-million pound transfer fee. The 28-year-old Brazil international was banished from Atletico’s first team to train with the reserves after he expressed a desire to follow former Brazil compatriot Diego Costa to Stamford Bridge. Diego Simeone’s ...

Monaco is set to demand 115 million euros from Real Madrid or Manchester United if any of the two clubs will keep on wanting to sign the French Ligue 1 side’s star James Rodrigez this summer. According to the Spanish sports newspaper Marca, Real Madrid have opened talks with Monaco over a possible transfer move to the Bernabeu for the ...

Have you ever wondered how it feels like to feature in the British Open? Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri almost missed the opportunity to feature in this year’s competition because he did not at first know he had made it for the tournament! The New York Times reports that the World Number 85 barely found out that he was playing in ...

Whether a football season or not in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach outside the iconic Maracana Stadium is meant to be fun, but last Saturday evening it wasn’t. A mammoth crowd – following the 2014 World Cup’s third-place play-off between the Netherlands and Brazil – witnessed the Dutch add to the hosts’ humiliation with a 3-0 beating to raise ...