World Sports

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt Wednesday won the Laureus sportsman of the year award for the second successive year, while the women's prize went to US tennis player Serena Williams.

The 2010 draft in unusually deep on the defensive side of the ball, including at the DE position. While five DE were taken in the first 50 picks in the 2009 draft, it seems that anywhere from five to eight could go in the first two rounds of the 2010 NFL Draft. While one of the top ten has major questions being asked about him, all in all this is a pretty good class. Here is my Top Ten ranking of the DE prospects for the upcoming NFL draft:

English golf is riding high with 10 players ranked among the top 70 in the world and Paul Casey thinks the current situation can be traced back some two decades or so.

Steven Whittaker's impressive goalscoring form continued as Rangers restored their 13-point advantage at the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League with a 2-0 win at Kilmarnock.

Several sources are reporting that former Red Sox star Nomar Garciaparra will sign a one-year, minor-league contract with Boston today so that he can retire as a member of the team.

Twenty20 specialist Tillekeratne Dilshan will play for the Sussex Sharks this summer.

TALLAHASSEE - Chris Singleton isn't a rare breed, he's his own breed. There's never been another player in the Atlantic Coast Conference like the Florida State sophomore, who was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday.

Jason Vargas pitched into the fourth inning in another impressive outing but the Seattle Mariners lost 6-4 to the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday.

Rubens Barrichello : I'm delighted to be entering my eighteenth season. I'm so motivated and I'm in a much better physical condition than I have been at any other time.

The competition has begun in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska.