A new study entitled “Using Football for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa”, has found that football-based programmes aiming to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS has proved to be very successful.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter confirmed today that FIFA has launched an official inquiry into allegations that North Korea mistreated some of its players and officials following their poor performance at this year’s World Cup.

Indian weightlifters remain unsure of their participation in this year’s Commonwealth Games, as the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) struggles to cover an unpaid doping fine.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) is now being criticized by former WADA president Dick Pound because of the donations it has received from Lance Armstrong.

Japan Sumo Association Chairman Musashigawa will step down over the scandal involving illegal betting on professional baseball and sumo's alleged ties with the yakuza, sources said yesterday.

Lawyer Tim Herman has taken issue with the way the U.S. anti-doping agency (USADA) is running its doping investigations against his client, offering deals to cyclists who dish steroid dirt on Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner.

There is hope yet for Indian middle-distance runner Santhi Soundarajan, who failed a gender test in 2006 and was subsequently stripped of the silver medal she won at the Asian Games in Doha and barred from racing.

The trouble keeps on brewing for the Organising Committee of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games as it is urged to fire two senior officials amid a developing corruption scandal just two months before the opening of the Games.