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Australian Open organizers have increased prize money to a record 30 million Aussie dollars ($31.1 million US) for the first tennis major of 2013 in response to player concerns about compensation at Grand Slam tournaments. Tournament director

West Ham piled on the misery for QPR with a 2-1 win at Loftus Road on Monday night that left their London rivals rooted to the bottom of the English Premier League. Sam Allardyce's side moved up to seventh after first half goals from Matt Jarvis

Sri Lanka sent defending champions England packing at the World Twenty20 as they reached the semi-finals along with the West Indies after a dramatic night of action in Pallekele. Sri Lanka's 19-run win over England, thanks in large part to

The inaugural one-million euro Nelson Mandela Championship will be played at Royal Durban in early December and NOT at the Humewood links in Port Elizabeth. Metro offcials say a clash of dates with the Nelson Mandela sevens and an over

18-year-old Bianca Buitendag from George won the ASP 6-Star SATA Airlines Azores Pro on Saturday and has qualified for the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT), the pinnacle of women's surfing competition. Buitendag was on a rampage all-day

It was a weekend worth celebrating for the EP Kings who completed the group stages of the Absa Currie Cup first division unbeaten after a hard-fought 23-20 win over the Leopards in Potchefstroom. The Kings will meet the Leopards again on Friday

India crushed arch-rivals Pakistan and Australia put on another Shane Watson show as the race to the World Twenty20 semi-finals heated up yesterday. Virat Kohli hit an unbeaten 78 off 61 balls as India, who would have been knocked out had they

The Chevrolet Warriors got their Sunfoil Series campaign off to a winning start by claiming a convincing 161-run victory over the defending champions Nashua Titans at Axxess St. George's Park yesterday. Centuries by openers Davy Jacobs and

Australia face a race against time to bring in fresh players for the final Rugby Championship match in Argentina this weekend after five Wallabies were forced off the pitch by injury in Saturday's 31-8 defeat at the hands of South Africa at Loftus