Yaya Touré racist abuse incident was an overreaction, says CSKA coach

David Moyes has demanded greater protection for Adnan Januzaj and told the Manchester United teenager he must learn from Lionel Messi

Attacker hoping to return from a troublesome abdominal injury to boost Arsène Wenger's attacking options

Scotland's manager backed Neil Lennon's men to win in the Amsterdam ArenA and continue to help the national side's development

Heurelho Gomes has told Júlio César he needs to leave QPR if he is to salvage his hopes of playing in the World Cup

Andy Wilson: England prepare to face Australia A in Hobart, with Swann, Pietersen, Broad and Cook expected to make their first appearances of the trip

Alastair Cook's England team-mates have spoken up for their captain after Shane Warne hit out at his 'boring' and 'negative' tactics

Australian cricket is embroiled in a civil war just over a fortnight before the Test team goes into battle against an England side attempting to make Ashes history

Geoff Lemon: Australia and India descend into madness; and George Bailey steps up to the plate

Shane Watson said he is confident of playing in the Ashes opener against England despite straining a hamstring in India

South Africa's coach Heyneke Meyer is keen for his players to acclimatise to autumnal British weather with the 2015 World Cup in mind

Stuart Lancaster was grateful for good fortune as England showed character to get over the line against a lacklustre Australia XV

Veteran Hodgson was back in action for Sarries after an achilles injury and scored the opening try in 40-3 victory against Newcastle Falcons

Stephen Myler's kicks gave the Saints a sliver of a lead as James O'Connor makes an impressive debut

Paul Weaver: If Lotus, fighting to be second in the constructors' championship, can struggle financially, it shows F1 teams have to be less wasteful

Sebastian Vettel equalled Michael Schumacher's 2004 record of seven straight Formula One wins in the same season at Abu Dhabi

Formula One's chief executive has backed Kimi Raikkonen in his battle with Lotus over unpaid wages worth millions of pounds

Mark Webber equalled Sir Jack Brabham's Australian record of 13 F1 pole positions as he and Sebastian Vettel made it a Red Bull front-row lock-out

Roger Federer said he is happy with his form as he arrived in London for the ATP World Tour Finals

Novak Djokovic will be aiming to regain the world No1 spot from Rafael Nadal at the ATP World Tour finals in London

Sara Errani wrapped up a fourth Fed Cup title for Italy with a 6-1, 6-1 hammering of Russia's Alisa Kleybanova

Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer advance to the final of the Paris Masters after big wins over the weekend

Andy Murray believes that he will return from back surgery faster, stronger and able to play shots that were beyond him in the past few years

Ewan Murray: Ernie Els has pulled out of the DP World Championship in Dubai as the European Tour faces a dilemma over the burden of player schedules

Ernie Els has described as 'farcical' the European Tour's increased playing demands and will skip this week's season-ending event in Dubai

American Dustin Johnson edges out Britain's Ian Poulter to win the HSBC Champions in Shanghai

Paul Campbell: Featuring Xabi Alonso in training, Tiger Woods ignoring a rodent, a flopping baseball player and Gareth Bale arriving in Madrid

Despite claiming to be not much of a tipster, the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, is backing Fiorente

Greg Wood, Chris Cook and Tony Paley: All the latest news as Tony McCoy bids to reach his goal of 4,000 winners

Steve McNamara has accused the media of trying to disrupt England after they questioned why Zak Hardaker missed the 42-0 World Cup defeat of Ireland

Wales were knocked out of World Cup on Sunday after losing to the United States in Wrexham

Australia's Luke Lewis will miss the rest of the Rugby League World Cup after dislocating his shoulder in the victory over Fiji

Ryan Hall scored a hat-trick as a ruthless England thrashed Ireland in Huddersfield

New Zealand scored eight tries and racked up a tournament-high score as they beat France 48-0 in Avignon

Offensive lineman Richie Incognito suspended after Jonathan Martin and others complain of bullying and paying for luxuries

Five things we learned in MLS playoffs: Seattle's first leg woes worsen; Real Salt Lake close down Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan; could this be New York's year?

Thom Loverro: 75 years ago a match race at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course took US minds off the Depression and impending war

Elliott Turner: David Beckham is keen to launch an MLS franchise in Miami, but the failure of the Toros and the Fusion should give pause for thought

Steve Busfield and James Dart: After the obstruction call and walk-off pickoffs ended World Series Games Four and Five we look at weird endings to sports events

Welterweight Kell Brook set up a world title shot after he beat Vyacheslav Senchenko but promoter Eddie Hearn would 'love' him to fight Amir Khan

Boxing: 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins defeats Karo Murat by unanimous decision to hold IBF light heavyweight title

Kell Brook stopped Vyacheslav Senchenko in the fourth round to set up shot at the IBF world welterweight title

XIX Entertainment has announced that Bradley Wiggins has become a client of the management company used by David Beckham, Andy Murray and Lewis Hamilton

GB's Laura Trott has clinched the ominium gold in the cycling World Cup but Jason Kenny suffered early elimination in the match sprint

Joanna Rowsell won gold in the individual pursuit with youngster Katie Archibald third at the track cycling World Cup but there was disappointment for Jason Kenny

Joanna Rowsell won the women's pursuit at the track cycling World Cup but it was pink-haired Katie Archibald, 20, who captured attention with a bronze medal

The men in Great Britain's sprint team missed the reassuring presence of the retired Sir Chris Hoy at the World Cup in Manchester