Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he illegally transferred nearly $17 million (€15 million) from the Japanese's bank account to pay off sports betting debts.

Serbian centre Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets has been named the NBA's Most Valuable Player for the third time in the last four seasons in the world's top basketball league.

FIFA has extended an invitation to Pedro Rocha, recently appointed President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation to replacethe controversial Luis Rubiales, to attend the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, from 13-17 May.

The IOC has a premise: to reach a wider audience in order to prolong the life of Olympism in the face of today's digital dynamism. The focus is increasingly on urban sports, which are being included more and more frequently. Flying Disc leads the way, followed by TeqBall and Dodgeball.

Xabi Alonso's unstoppable Bayer Leverkusen will have an added incentive when they take on Roma at home in Thursday's Europa League semi-final: the chance to break a 59-year-old European football record.

Kylian Mbappe, the leading figure in French football, will not be able to say his farewell in a Champions League final after being beaten by German side Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday, depriving him of playing his final game before leaving PSG on June 1 in next month's final at Wembley.

A number of South American footballers, who have enjoyed success abroad and planned to return to their home countries, are now reconsidering their decisions due to the risk of kidnapping, extortion and violent robbery.

As the days go by, it's becoming clear that the impression left on the visitors from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Future Hosts Commission after their tour of 13 sites last April was a very positive one, further boosting the prospects of Utah hosting the Winter Games for the second time this century.

The Frenchman confirmed all the predictions and was unanimously voted the top rookie of the year, beating Chet Holmgren and Brandon Miller in the voting.

USA Baseball has unveiled its 2024 Collegiate National Team schedule, featuring highlights such as the International Friendship Series with Chinese Taipei and the Summer League Tour.

With the arrival of the Olympic flame in Marseille on Wednesday, France is entering a period of heightened security and tension that will culminate in the Opening Ceremony on 26 July in Paris and continue for days after the end of the thirty-third Olympic Games of the modern era.

A unique gathering of the Czech Republic's top Olympic athletes took place in Poděbrady to prepare for Paris 2024 and Cortina-Milano 2026.

The WBSC turns 10 years old as the international governing body of baseball/softball on 10 Friday, and is marking the occasion with a massive celebration, the first ever World Baseball Softball Day, and an innovative campaign inviting National Federations and the wider baseball/softball community to get involved.

César Luis Menotti, the coach who led Argentina to victory at the 1978 World Cup and a central figure in Argentine football, has died at the age of 85. Menotti, who held the position of director of the national team within the Argentine Football Association (AFA), has died.