Berlin Jewish Olympics open in 'triumph over evil'
The Maccabi Games, dubbed the Jewish Olympics, opened at the Berlin site of the 1936 "Nazi Games" in what one community leader called "a triumph of good over evil".
Bernard Hopkins wants to face Golovkin for $50k
Former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs), 50, is interested in a possibility of facing the undefeated WBA Super, IBO and WBC Interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) from Kazakhstan.
No 'easy' way back for humiliated Brazil: Dunga
Exactly a year after their 7-1 World Cup humiliation by Germany, Brazil's once all-conquering football team appears as lost as ever and with no quick way back.
Hungarian supergranny closes in on world chess record
An 87-year-old Hungarian woman aims this weekend to set a world record by beating 1920s Cuban chess grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca at his own game: simultaneous play.
Olympics: Stadium row dwarfs Tokyo 2020 sports bids
Twenty-six sports, from sumo to surfing, have applied for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo organisers said amid a flaming row over who will pay for the main stadium.