Avram Grant

WEST Ham United sacked manager Avram Grant today, less than an hour after being relegated from the Premier League."The club can confirm that Avram Grant is no longer the manager of West Ham United," said a statement" released on the club website."First-team coach Kevin Keen will take charge of the team for the final home match of the season against Sunderland on May 22."The east London club's

Rome Masters 2011

Novak Djokovic maintained his unbeaten record in 2011 and landed his seventh title in an already astonishing year by defeating Rafael Nadal in the final of the Rome Masters on Sunday evening.The Serb has now won 39 consecutive matches – 37 this year – and will head to Roland Garros for the French Open in a week's time as overwhelming favourite to add to the Australian Open crown he won in

Maria Sharapova

Women's tennis desperately wants Maria Sharapova to do well – never more so than on the eve of the French Open – and, need it be repeated, not exclusively for reasons to do with the clean swing of her racket.She played competently enough at the Foro Italico to beat the Australian Sam Stosur for the ninth time in a row and take the Rome Masters title, but it was a grinding performance in a dull

Jorge Posada

David Ortiz [stats] knows something about being a franchise icon, and he believes the New York Yankees are disrespecting one of theirs.When the Yankees dropped longtime catcher Jorge Posada to the bottom of the lineup before last night’s game, Posada told manager Joe Girardi he didn’t want to play. General manager Brian Cashman met the media during the game and said Posada isn’t injured. Posada,

Manchester City

Manchester CityAs Saturday afternoon beckoned, both Manchester Unitedand Manchester City were on the verge of glory as thePremier League and the FA Cup came to a head.United needed just a point at Blackburn Rovers to seal their 19th league title at lunchtime, whilst City went up against Stoke shortly after the United game ended at Wembley Stadium.Sir Alex Ferguson's side looked like making hard

WAC

Utah State senior distance runner Eric Larson won the 1500m with a time of 3:49.95 on Friday, the final day of the 2011 WAC Outdoor Championships in Honolulu.The scores remain tight with a little over a handful of events for each the men and women to claim the 2011 WAC Outdoor Championship title. With 13 events scored for the women and 14 for the men, Nevada leads the women with 91 points

Stoke

Almost three years after Sheik Mansour's takeover transformed City into one of the richest clubs in the world, his £300million investment has now produced Champions League qualification and an FA Cup triumph in the space of a week.It was somehow fitting that semi-final hero Yaya Toure - reportedly the highest paid player in the Barclays Premier League on £185,000 a week - was the match-winner

Maria Sharapova

Caroline Wozniacki was dumped out of the Rome Masters by Maria Sharapova after a bruising semi-final encounter.The seventh-seeded Sharapova edged an enthralling first set but looked to be fading as the world number one Dane hit back to lead 3-1 in the second set.With both struggling to hold serve, it was the Russian, 24, who produced a brutal and relentless response.Five games in a row stunned

FA Cup Final

Joe Hart 7Limited in his involvement as Manchester City dominated possession, but was still alert to smother a second-half shot when Kenwyne Jones got behind the defence.Micah Richards 6Missed an early headed chance and, with Matthew Etherington offering only a very limited threat down the left, was able to frequently push forward in support of David Silva.Vincent Kompany 7Made an important

Brock Lesnar

Yesterday, the UFC announced that Brock Lesnar was once again suffering from diverticulitis, the swelling of abnormal pouches called diverticulum in the intestinal wall. The disease's return has forced Lesnar to withdraw from a showdown with Junior dos Santos at UFC 131 in June.Shane Carwin has stepped up on roughly 30 days notice to maintain a solid main event match-up on the card, but it's far

Bryce Harper

On the day Bryce Harper walked into the eye doctor’s office, he was, he would say later, “blind as a bat.” Keith Smithson, the Washington Nationals’ team optometrist, asked Harper to read an eye chart, then looked at him with astonishment and said, according to Harper: “I don’t know how you ever hit before. You have some of the worst eyes I’ve ever seen.”That was on April 19. The next night,