In the countdown to the all-important Classico in the La Liga title race, news that Xavi Alonso is quitting as coach of Bayer Leverkusen will hang heavy in the air. A legend with Real Madrid and an ...

After a slow start in its debut season as Central Kentucky’s newest professional sports franchise, Lexington Sporting Club is beginning to hit its stride. LSC — the professional soccer franchise that ...

After coming off consecutive seasons where the San Diego Padres made the postseason, the club parted ways with some high-profile players over the winter. They will be without Dylan Cease, Luis Arraez, ...

Sporting Kansas City spent much of the past few years establishing its identity as a purveyor of a high-pressure, 4-3-3 system designed to expose the opposition and wrest control of the game from the ...

There is an ongoing debate about the sport of climbing and its potential health risks. As a discipline directly linked to weight and strength, with the natural effects of gravity at play, many ...

Births in a Catalan region of Spain increased by 16% nine months after FC Barcelona won three major football trophies in 2009, finds a study in the Christmas edition of The BMJ. The findings confirm ...

Jan 8 (Reuters) - Franz Beckenbauer, who has died at the age of 78, helped modernise soccer and came to personify Germany's post-war sporting success, captaining his country to the 1974 World Cup ...

With the Olympics underway, higher testosterone has often been linked to sporting success, and other kinds of success too. But beyond sport, new research has found little evidence that testosterone ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — As Major League Soccer has grown in size over the years, so have the standards and expectations for teams. The ability to establish a consistent, winning culture has been ...