Manchester City came from behind twice to earn a 2-2 draw with Liverpool in a breathless and pulsating Premier League encounter, at Anfield, on Sunday. All four goals came in the second half.
The Fernando Llorente and Carlos Tevez double act struck again on Sunday with both players scoring to give Juventus a 2-0 win at AC Milan which strengthened their grip on Serie A.
Gaganjeet Bhullar put himself in a fine position for a top-10 finish as he carded a seven-under 65 to move to tied ninth place at the halfway stage of the Tshwane Open in Centurion.
IMAGES from the EPL matches played on Sunday.
A dominant Brazil made a strong statement of their top title contender status with a 2-1 victory over Spain in a Group D marquee clash of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, in Kochi, on Saturday.
Wriddhiman Saha's century went in vain as Maharashtra crushed Bengal by a convincing margin of 10 wickets to storm into the final of the Ranji Trophy, in Indore.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema took Real Betis apart to give Real Madrid a resounding 5-0 win on Saturday that put them level on 50 points with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga.
India beat Malaysia 4-1 in their opening match of the Four-Nations Challenge hockey tournament in Australia.
Manchester City went top of the Premier League after securing a controversial 2-0 win at Newcastle United on Sunday with an early Edin Dzeko goal and a stoppage time effort from Alvaro Negredo.
The victory saw the Indian wild card enter the second round in the Mother's Recipe-ITF Women's Futures tournament.
A round-up of Saturday's action in LaLiga, Ligue 1 and Serie A.
World number five Juan Martin del Potro began his 2014 season with a win, albeit a scrappy one over Frenchman Nicolas Mahut to advance to the quarter-finals of the Sydney International on Wednesday.
The 1-1 draw left both teams in the relegation zone in the National Football League.
IMAGES from the 1st T20I played between India and South Africa at the Wanderers on Sunday
Punjab Police beat Punjab and Sind Bank 10-9 in sudden death tie-breaker to lift the DDA Invitational Hockey title.
Travis Brooks scored a brace as Australia beat Pakistan 4-3 in the final.
Fellow Serie A sides Atalanta and Lazio also won while Portugal's Vitoria Guimaraes began their match against Salzburg with not a single European player in the team.
The Grandmaster from PSPB has 7.5 points and is followed by five players on 6.5 in the National A chess championship.
India kept themselves in the hunt for the knock-out stage after eking out a hard-fought 3-2 win over Canada in a Pool C match of the Hero FIH Junior Men's hockey World Cup in New Delhi.
The top-30 golfers in the Final Stage Qualifiers would earn a direct entry into the US PGA Tour.
In another Group 'A' match, Bharat Petroleum defeated Dinamo Kazan hockey club of Russia 4-3.
The top seven teams from the qualifier will join South Korea, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Egypt in the Athens Games.
A 6-0 victory over Ghana gave the Proteas their third straight victory in the women's hockey tournament at the Afro Asian Games.
The United States closed in on their third world title by beating perennial rivals Norway 1-0 in the quarter-finals.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
They will now face winner of the East Bengal-Ever Ready tie in the final on September 28.
Ruud van Nistelrooy and Paul Scholes gave them a 2-1 win over Newcastle United in the English Premiership.
The two Indians have a half point lead over second placed S Vijayalakshmi in the Asian women's chess championship.
India's premier management institute IIM-A has failed to make it to YouthIncMag's top ten list of best business schools in the world this year.
National champion Abhinn Shyam Gupta meets third seed Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia in the first round.
The former beat Karnataka, while the IHF juniors got past Air India in the semi-finals of the Murugappa Cup hockey tournament.
Zimbabwe looked doomed after collapsing to 15 for four in the 10th over.
A 2-1 victory over Goa gave them a slot in the semis of the National women's football championship.
The No. 1 player on the Hero Honda Indian Golf Tour shot a four-under 68 on the opening day of the London Myanmar Open.