Former Dutch international Frank de Boer has been named new coach of the Netherlands on a two-year contract to cover the 2022 World Cup, the KNVB federation said Wednesday.

The Chicago Bulls landed one of the biggest names and most experienced coaches available Tuesday when they announced the hiring of Billy Donovan to fill their head coaching vacancy.

Manchester City made a winning start to their Premier League campaign on Monday as they came away from Wolves with a 2-1 victory.

Anthony Davis wanted the ball. He wanted the pressure, he wanted the moment and he wanted to show that he could handle it.

Naomi Osaka, the tennis world number three fresh from being crowned US Open champion a second time, is not going to play the French Open set to start in Paris later in September.

A Paris court on Wednesday sentenced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack to jail time for corruption linked to doping by mainly Russian athletes and for financial misconduct.

More than 150 member associations of football’s ruling body FIFA have applied for assistance from a 1.5-million dollar coronavirus relief fund, according to the chairman of FIFA’s Covid-19 steering committee, Olli Rehn.

Lionel Messi is still the highest-paid football player in the world according to this year’s Forbes magazine ranking.