Football: Drogba double lifts Chelsea

Chelsea reclaim the lead in the English Premier League as Didier Drogba continues his hot scoring run against title hopefuls Arsenal with both goals in a 2-0 victory.

Birmingham City avenged their FA Cup quarterfinal defeat at Portsmouth on Saturday, beating the English Premier League bottom side 2-1 to nudge them closer to relegation on Tuesday.

American Bill Haas claimed a one-shot victory in the Bob Hope Classic on the final hole to join his father as a winner of the tournament.

Argentine striker Carlos Tevez scores twice against his former club as Manchester City beat West Ham 3-1 on Monday to move up to fifth position in the English Premier League table.

Police drop a probe into the clash between Manchester City striker Craig Bellamy and a supporter who ran on to the pitch at the end of last weekend’s English Premier League clash with rivals Manchester United.

Lance Armstrong fails by under a second to take the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, after the American’s Astana team powers to victory in the fourth stage team time-trial around Montpellier.

The third round of the Dunhill Links Championship scheduled for Saturday has been postponed after high winds forced organizers to call off play for the day.

Craig Levein has left Dundee United to take charge of the struggling Scottish national side.

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa tells CNN he is “100 percent motivated” as he prepares to return to Formula One less than a year after an horrific 200 kilometers-per-hour accident left him in a coma with a fractured skull.

Olympic champion Elena Dementieva becomes the latest seeded casualty at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo — losing 6-2 6-7 6-1 to Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine in the second round.

Scotland’s Martin Laird beat George McNeill and Chad Campbell in a three-way playoff to claim his maiden PGA Tour win at the Las Vegas Open.

Alinghi will defend the America’s Cup against U.S. challenger Oracle in the United Arab Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah next year, the Swiss syndicate announces on Wednesday.

Frank Lampard scores twice as Chelsea went back to the top of the English Premier League with a 5-0 thrashing of Blackburn at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will stay with Astana for the 2010 season, the Kazakh-funded team announced on Saturday night.

Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest is dead after being shot multiple times in a neighborhood southwest of downtown Atlanta, officials said Sunday.

Sri Lanka have sealed a historic first Test series victory against Pakistan after completing a crushing seven-wicket win on the third day of the second match in Colombo.