BRASILIA, Brazil - Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home. The outage came two weeks after a mass
HONOLULU - Hawaii officials are appealing to the state's tourism authority for funds to restore part of world-famous Waikiki Beach. The officials want to pump sand from a spot offshore to an area from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel to the Duke Kahanamoku
LONDON - A teenage Liverpool fan who caused one of the oddest goals in English football history came out of hiding Sunday to apologise profusely for belting a beach ball onto the pitch. Callum Campbell, 16, told the Sunday Mirror it was he who whac
The Reds' dismal run of results continued when they succumbed 1-0 to the Black Cats thanks to a Darren Bent goal that deflected of a beach ball that was thrown onto the pitch by one of Liverpool's own supporters.
According to the laws of the game an
The Spain international was beaten when Bent's shot struck a beach ball, thrown onto the pitch by a Liverpool fan, and deflected past him.
The goal should have been disallowed with a drop ball given after the intervention of an 'outside agent', but
LONDON - A former Premier League match official has criticized referee MikeJones for allowing a goal that deflected in off a beach ball in Sunderland's 1-0victory over Liverpool.Dermot Gallagher said on Sunday that Darren Bent's fifth-minute goal o
Darren Bent's strike beat Reds goalkeeper Jose Reina with the held of a sizeable deflection off a beach ball which had been thrown onto the Stadium of Light pitch by an away fan.
Referee Mike Jones conferred with his assistant but decided the goal s
Buoyed before kick-off by news of Chelsea's 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa, the champions took the lead after only five minutes at Old Trafford when Michael Owen's header rebounded into the net off the body of centre-back Zat Knight.
Owen was also involv
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