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 World Moto GP champion Casey Stoner won the Spanish Grand Prix for the first time in Jerez on Sunday after holding off Jorge Lorenzo in a close race. The Yamaha rider - chasing his third straight Jerez Circuit victory -stayed on Stoner's

 The Lions were dealt a further blow ahead of their tour of Australasia when veteran Springbok flyhalf Butch James was banned for four weeks by a Sanzar tribunal. James was banned from all forms of the game after charging into a ruck in

Tottenham Hotspur revived their bid for Champions League football by returning to the top four of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over relegation-threatened Blackburn Rovers on Sunday. Spurs have got a better goal difference than Newcastle

 Maria Sharapova earned her first WTA title of the year on Sunday as she blasted her way past world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Stuttgart claycourt tournament. This was the 25-year-old Sharapova's 25th title of

 Jason Dufner two-putted from 60 feet for a birdie on the second playoff hole to defeat Ernie Els and win his first PGA title in 163 attempts by capturing the Zurich Classic on New Orleans. There was heartache for the Big Easy who closed

Wallabies scrum-half Will Genia has re-signed with the Queensland Reds until the end of the 2015 Super Rugby season in a dramatic turnaround after the club said he had joined the Western Force. Genia said he changed his mind several times over

 The Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) believes the special remission of sentence announced by President Jacob Zuma is a tactic to free his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik. Azapo says it believes the blanket remission is only

 A woman was killed and a man injured when their light aircraft crashed at Margate airport in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday morning. Netcare 911's Chris Botha said the plane crashed soon after take-off. The woman died at the scene and the man who

 A body believed to be that of a missing chokka fisherman has been found floating in the ocean at King's Beach, Port Elizabeth. National Sea Rescue Institute, PE station commander Ian Gray said the body was discovered about 1km out to sea