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The Sports Xchange reports Capitals C Boyd Gordon is out until early April with a broken finger. He has not played since Tuesday and has missed the last two games.

LESS than a year after taking up archery, the NT's Lyndon May heads to the World Cup this week to mix it with the sport's finest exponents.

After posing for a Sports Illustrated photo shoot last month, Cole Hamels insisted he didn't believe in the magazine's notorious cover jinx.

Ryan Colburn has not had this opportunity before. He's been on the Fresno State football depth chart the past three seasons, but expectations that coaches would pencil his name into the starting quarterback slot were thin as spaghetti -- if not nonexistent.

On the cutting edge of the world figure skating championships, we're looking at a sport searching for rave reviews and the exalted place it once occupied in the North American consciousness.

The Associated Press (AP) has posted an article on the ever widening match fixing scandal in Europe. The article highlights several of the allegations and notes that the IHF is setting up an independent committee, under Playing Rules and Referees Commission Chair, Christer Ahl to review subject matches for evidence of foul play. The article also quotes German Bundesliga General Manager, Frank Bohmann, who doesn't mince words in stating that, "There seems to be a massive corruption problem". The latest development in the German media is that there appears to be evidence of a money trail in regard to funds being transferred to a third party shortly before suspect matches.Editor's Note: As Handball is not followed closely in any English speaking country, the fact that the Associated Press (AP) has deemed the story as newsworthy is a notable development. Typically, the Associated Press will write one or two articles a year on the sport briefly highlighting the World Championship result

Launch the scorecentre for the latest from Sunday's action, including London Irish v Northampton live on Sky Sports 3.

Next month's Indian Premier League cricket tournament will be played outside India because of election security concerns, sport officials said Sunday.

Hawaii-born Akebono, first foreign wrestler to reach highest rank in Japan's ancient sport of sumo wrestling, announces retirement

BBC SportHume resigns as water polo chiefBBC Sport, UKNick Hume has resigned as British Swimming's national performance director for water polo, citing the shortfall in funding through to 2012. Water polo was one of eight Olympic sports affected by the UK Sport cuts, announced last year in December. ...