Valencia midfielder Jaime Gavilan will be out of action for six months after tearing the cruciate ligament in his right leg, his Spanish club said on Sunday.

Mario Ancic of Croatia won the St Petersburg tennis title, beating defending champion Thomas Johansson of Sweden 7-5 and 7-6 (2) in the final on Sunday.

West Ham beat visiting Blackburn 2-1 on Sunday to halt their nightmarish run of eight consecutive Premiership losses.

An ice hockey arena in Karlstad, western Sweden, was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after emergency services received a bomb threat, local media reported.

Nineteen-year-old Maria Sharapova of Russia won her fifth title of the season at the Linz Open tennis tournament in Austrian northern city Linz on Sunday.

Roger Federer savored his first title on home soil, beating defending champion Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in the final of the Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel, Switzerland on Sunday.

Kenya's most popular sport, football, has again been hit by fresh chaos as rival groups are now seeking FIFA's help to restructure the country's Premier League in a bid to comply with the governing body's conditions for lifting a suspension.

Roger Federer survived a third-set tiebreaker to beat Thai Paradorn Srichaphan on Saturday before reaching the final at the ATP Swiss Indoors Open.

Red Auerbach, who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in the 1950s and 1960s, died Saturday at the age of 89, according to reports.

Aston Villa's unbeaten streak in the Premiership of the season was snapped on Saturday when they lost 3-1 to the awe-inspiring Liverpool who produced a scintillating performance in Anfield.