Sports Shorts: Women's recurve team tops qualification

IMAGE: Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari, who have won many international medals together in the past, will take on France in the World Cup mixed team quarter-finals in Guatemala City. Photograph:......

Maradona has facial surgery after pet dog bite

Argentina's World Cup coach and soccer great Diego Maradona was bitten on his face by one of his pet dogs and plastic surgeons have repaired his upper lip, doctors and team officials said on......

McGrady, Wesley help Rockets crown Kings

Tracy McGrady recorded 22 points and David Wesley added 21 as the Houston Rockets ended an 11-game losing streak in Sacramento with a 111-96 victory over the Kings Sunday.Mike James scored 20......

Jordan stops the bleeding for Wizards

Michael Jordan started for the second successive game and performed like his old self to inspire the Washington Wizards to a 103-78 pasting of the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday."We needed to stop the......

Mavericks sunk by late Lakers blitz

The Los Angeles Lakers woke up after a couple of lackluster quarters, riding a 44-15 final period to a 105-103 win over Dallas to hand the Mavericks their second loss of the season Friday.It was......