Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale are usually the best guys to watch if you want to learn how to take a good football free-kick.

The Black Caps have beaten Pakistan by four wickets this morning in Sharjah to level their ODI series.

In this year of years for Brendon McCullum his boldest stand was not taken on the fields of Eden Park, the Basin Reserve or Sharjah, but in a room with anti-corruption investigators.

Lock Brodie Retallick, coach Steve Hansen and their All Blacks team are the big winners of New Zealand's rugby awards tonight.

Auckland City have progressed to the quarterfinal of the FIFA Club World Cup after beating Moroccan champions Moghreb Tetouan 4-3 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

American boxer Floyd Mayweather is reported to have witnessed the apparent murder-suicide of his friend, rapper Earl Hayes and his wife over a Facetime call.

There was a moment shortly after Brendon McCullum reached 300 when he looked genuinely bewildered.