Smacking ban 'will be unworkable'
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New smacking laws may prove too ambiguous for doctors to make judgements on, an expert warns.
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Supporters say 250 hunts will meet legally the day after the ban in England comes into force. Is the hunting ban enforceable?
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A football supporter who racially abused Dwight Yorke, the Premiership striker, was banned yesterday from every soccer stadium in England and Wales for five years.
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BIRMINGHAM have announced they will not be appealing the three-match violent conduct ban handed to Robbie Savage by the Football Association.
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Indiana's Ron Artest is banned for the rest of the season after the brawl involving fans and players at Detroit.
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John Terry faces an extra one-match ban after being charged with improper conduct by the Football Association (FA) over his comments about a red card he received during his side's 2-1 defeat at Tottenham earlier this month.
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Sports minister Richard Caborn wants the fourth official to suspend matches if there is racist abuse from the crowd during games. He believes FIFA, football&#39;s governing body &quot;missed an
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Blackburn, England (Sports Network) - Three Blackburn Rovers fans were banned from attending any matches for the next five years after racially abusing Birmingham City&#39;s Dwight Yorke on November 21.
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Manchester United&#39;s teenage star Wayne Rooney faces a three-match ban after being cited on a charge of violent conduct in the Boxing Day fixture against Bolton.
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Sheffield United's Keith Gillespie received an additional one-match ban after admitting a charge of violent conduct and will now miss four games in total following his red card for a clash with Reading's Stephen Hunt on January 20.
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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is banned from the touchline for two matches by the Football Association.
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NEW YORK: The National Basketball Association and the playersâ union were at loggerheads on Friday over who has jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the record suspensions meted out in the wake the ugly brawl at a Pacers-Pistons game last month.
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The government confirms it is to review the laws banning parents from smacking their children.
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The NBA will challenge a decision to  reduce by 10 games a 25-match ban on Indiana Pacers Jermaine  O'Neal for his part in an ugly brawl during a clash with the  Detroit Pistons last month.
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LONDON - The 20-man scuffle that saw Andrew Cole throwing punches has sparked the biggest Football Association crackdown since the Manchester United-Arsenal fracas at Old Trafford last season.
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SIR ALEX FERGUSON slammed the FA&#39;s disciplinary procedure last night as Wayne Rooney faces a three-game ban today. Manchester United decided not to appeal against the violent conduct charge against their striker
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Two fans involved in the brawl at last month&#39;s Pacers-Pistons game at the Palace in Auburn Hills have been banned from all events at the arena according to a spokesman for the Detroit Pistons.