OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin returned to the San Francisco Bay area for a warm welcome and a 116-107 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday. L in had 14 points and 10 assists on the Asian Heritage Night just across the bay from his home town of Palo Alto in his first Oakland appearance since triggering a mass hysteria last year. The "Linsanity" may have faded since his knee injury last year and a move from New York Knicks to Houston, but the humble Taiwanese-American was happy to be back in the Bay Area to celebrate Chinese New Year. … Poulsen: We have chance of making Europa final in Amsterdam
The Ajax midfielder believes his side can make it to the Europa League final held at the Amsterdam Arena, ahead of their game against Steaua Bucharest in the last 32 Barca's Villa back in hospital due to kidney stones
MADRID (Reuters) – Barcelona forward David Villa has returned to hospital after failing to recover from kidney stones and is out of Saturday's league game at Granada, the La Liga leaders said on Thursday. The 31-year-old Spain international, who was first admitted on Monday and released a day later, was still in pain and would undergo more tests, Barca said in a statement on their website (www.fcbarcelona.es). "The player is unavailable for the Granada game," they added. … USA drops four spots in FIFA rankings, Mexico holds at 15
The Americans' loss to Honduras sees them drop to 32nd in the monthly FIFA rankings, while El Tri's draw with Jamaica did not impact their standing. Threat of racism casts gloomy shadow over Liverpool and Zenit clash
The Reds face a tricky game in St Petersburg on Thursday evening in a game that has already been swamped with talk of off-field problems Arrested Singaporean reveals match-fixing secrets
PARIS (AP) -- When police arrested Wilson Raj Perumal in Finland, it didn't take long for him to realize that his criminal buddies had ratted him out. Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches
ZURICH (AP) -- It was in the final minutes o f a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started to change color. Timbers make trades for Zemanski and Nanchoff, send Bornstein's rights to Chivas USA
Portland coach Caleb Porter is reunited with two of his former Akron charges, while the Goats grab the rights to their former left back. 
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