Nyjer Morgan's wild week has landed him an eight-game suspension, one of nine punishments handed out Friday by Major League Baseball following a brawl between Washington Nationals and Florida Marlins.

Serbia basketball player Nenad Krstic, a center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, was released Friday after being held in police custody overnight following a chaotic brawl during a match with Greece.

With an emphatic sweep, the St. Louis Cardinals gave second baseman Brandon Phillips a different description to use.

Soccer's stars have converged on South Africa from across the globe, but on the eve of the World Cup it is the host nation - with all its flaws and all its wonders - that has seized the spotlight.

South African police say another Argentine soccer hooligan is being held at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo airport after being prevented from entering the country for the World Cup.

Every time that Miguel Cotto was asked whether he was finished, so many savage fights having taken their toll, he would answer simply that his training was going well and he was ready to step back into the ring.

Ten Argentine soccer hooligans said to be planning acts of violence at the World Cup have been deported to Angola after having been detained at South Africa's main airport.

Police regained control of the downtown core early Thursday after firing tear gas at hundreds of bottle-tossing youths who looted businesses following the Montreal Canadiens' Game 7 victory in Pittsburgh.

Former boxing champion Edwin Valero was addicted to cocaine and had grown increasingly violent before he was arrested in his wife's murder and hanged himself in a Venezuelan jail, his mother-in-law said Tuesday.

Greece is suspending euro40 million ($54 million) in state-controlled sponsorship for professional football leagues in reaction to extensive crowd violence - a move league organizers labeled on Tuesday as blackmail.

Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo go back to the 19th century. His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this southern Swedish city in 1945. His wife's parents fled to Sweden from communist Poland in the 1960s.

Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo go back to the 19th century. His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this southern Swedish city in 1945. His wife's parents fled to Sweden from communist Poland in the 1960s.