Terry helps Chelsea secure draw against Everton; Bournemouth beat Norwich

John Terry scored in the eighth minute of stoppage time to prevent Chelsea losing for the first time under Guus Hiddink on Saturday, recovering a 3-3 draw against Everton to complete an engrossing second half. The captain saved the ailing Premier League champions, having scored an own goal at the start of a second half that produced all...

How Messi and Ronaldo changed football in the last decade

The Messi vs Ronaldo debate can finally take a break after the Argentine won his fifth Ballon d’Or title on Monday. Lionel Messi has now extended the record he already held with no other player having won the FIFA World Player of the Year award more than three times. Year 2015 was not really one of the best...

Lionel Messi produces truly awful trash talk during Espanyol vs Barcelona

Though some might not like to admit it (read: Real Madrid fans), Lionel Messi is surely the best player in the world at the moment. A treble-winner last season, the Barcelona superstar has nabbed 9 La Liga goals this season despite two months out injured. Likewise, his imperious performances have just inspired Barca to victory in their two-legged Copa del Rey clash with Catalan rivals Espanyol. However, as the...

Flyers Notebook: Bruins aren’t special, except on special teams

PHILADELPHIA — The Boston Bruins? Not that good anymore. Maybe even a shadow of that team the Flyers beat after being down 3-0 in a Stanley Cup playoff series a few years (OK, more than that) ago, and the one that came back and won the Stanley Cup the very next year (2011). True, the Bruins have several...

Curry scores 38 but Warriors lose to Nuggets, 112-110

DENVER (AP) -- Stephen Curry was just about unstoppable in the fourth quarter, except near the very end. Curry scored 20 of his 38 points in the final period but lost the ball under defensive pressure from Danilo Gallinari in the game's final moments, and the Denver Nuggets hung on to hand the Golden State Warriorstheir third loss of the season, 112-110 on Wednesday night....

Luis Enrique: Messi would be a decisive center back

Lionel Messi would be the same decisive player in any position for Barcelona, his coach Luis Enrique has said. Luis Enrique says newly-crowned Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi would be decisive even if he played at center back for Barcelona. The Argentina international collected the individual accolade for the fifth time in Zurich on Monday, beating Cristiano Ronaldo and teammate Neymar...

Ballon d'Or voters are lazy to ignore the Premier League

Superstars of Real and Barcelona get all the recognition but English game has important qualities that the La Liga giants lack Out came the sticks when the Premier League suffered another shut-out in football’s global awards. Best league in the world? Thwack, take that. The English game was every bit as excluded as Sepp Blatter as the industry...

Lionel Messi wins 2015 Ballon d'Or ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar

Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi was awarded the 2015 Ballon d'Or at Monday's gala event in Zurich. Messi, 28, had finished behind long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo in both 2013 and 2014, but was a clear winner of FIFA's top individual honour for a record fifth time in his career. After a year in which Barca won five...

Griz come back to beat Celtics, 101-98

The Grizzlies have searched most of this season for a magical win to provide momentum toward stringing together a significant winning streak. Perhaps their 101-98 come-from-behind victory over the Boston Celtics Sunday evening in FedExForum will do the trick. Memphis (21-18) erased a 21-point, second-half deficit and improved its record to three games above .500 for the first...

Elton Brand wants to give back, signs with 76ers to be mentor

Elton Brand signed a contract with the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday, with the hope he can be a mentor to rookie Jahlil Okafor. Brand writes in a first-person piece for Sports Illustrated's "The Cauldron" that he's not coming back because of financial considerations or to win championships, but instead to repay "what's owed, about making sure that the young men who follow in...