Cycling: Perez wins consecutive stages after two-year drought
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GRENADA, Spain : Spain&#39;s Santiago Perez, of the Phonak team, won his second consecutive stage on the Tour of Spain here following a two-year victory drought after the death of his fiancee.
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Lewis Hamilton produces another incredible performance in Indianapolis to claim his second successive Grand Prix victory.
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Tom Boonen of Belgium won Friday's 12th stage of the Tour de France, his second stage victory this year, and Michael Rasmussen of Denmark retained the overall lead.
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Ãscar Freire of Spain, a three-time world champion, won the second stage of the Vuelta a EspaÃ±a in a sprint finish yesterday and took the overall lead. Freire, who rides for Rabobank, captured the 92-mile leg in 3 hours 31 minute 3 seconds. Erik Zabel of Team Milram trails Freire for the overall lead with the same time.
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Tomas Perez tied a major league record with four doubles, going 5-for-5 and leading the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to a 19-6 rout of Randy Johnson and the New York Yankees on Saturday.
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Spain's Oscar Freire won the road race at the cycling world championships for the third time Sunday in a sprint finish. He joined Belgium's Eddy Merckx and Rik Van Steenbergen and Italy's Alfredo Binda as the only three-time winners.
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Fin RDD driver Kovalainen scored a new podium and a new victory last weekend in Barcelona. He now increases his lead in the World Series championship. Looking good!
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Sport: Tour de France: Gert Steegmans wins stage two with sprint finish after huge crash.
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Overall leader: Michael Rasmussen (Denmark), Rabobank, by 43 seconds over Linus Gerdemann (Germany), T-Mobile. Inside the peloton: Team CSC veteran Jens Voigt of Germany, on the Tour's first long time trial Saturday: "It's only important for 25 riders. For me, it's 'ride as slow as I can and still make the time cut.' It's half of a rest day." His ...
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After three races without a win, the world champion cruised to his 13th victory of the season and a record of 146 championship points for the season yesterday.
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Luis PÃ©rez of Spain won the 18th stage of the Vuelta a EspaÃ±a yesterday, and Denis Menchov of Russia retained the overall lead. The 19th stage today is an 83.9-mile race from Avila to Alto de Abantos. The race ends Sunday in Madrid.
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Fernando Alonso, the two-time defending Formula One champion, outdueled Felipe Massa on a slippery track yesterday, passing him late in the race to win the European Grand Prix at the NÃ¼rburgring in Germany. Alonso moved 2 points behind the leader, Lewis Hamilton, in the standings. Hamilton, a rookie, was ninth, finishing out of the top three for the first time in 10 races.
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Striker Miguel Angel &quot;Mista&quot; Ferrer scored twice Wednesday to earn Valencia a 3-0 victory over a nine-man Espanyol and lift the defending champion into second place in the Spanish league.
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BRIANCON, France  - Juan Mauricio Soler of Colombia won the 159.5-km ninth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.
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Felix Cardenas of Colombia won the 17th stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race Wednesday, while defending champion Roberto Heras held onto the overall leader&#39;s jersey for the sixth day in a row.
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Makoto Tamada has recorded his second win of the MotoGP season with victory in his home grand prix in Japan. Riding a Honda in the warm and dry conditions, 27-year-old Tamada covered 24 laps in 43 minutes
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VALENCIA, Spain -- Italy&#39;s Alessandro Petacchi of the Fassa Bortolo team ran out the comfortable winner of the seventh stage of the Tour of Spain, a 170km ride from Castellon to Valencia.