San Diego, with its famous beach culture, is the epitome of laid-back California. Now it has smart restaurants and hip hotels, while new flights make it easier to get to, says Jo Fernàndez... more
The Giants are finally celebrating victory in baseball's World Series more than half a century after moving across the United States to San Franciso... more
Liverpool Football Club looked certain to be sold to the owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team today after the lifting of a restraining order blocking the rescue deal... more
Transmitted live in HD to cinemas around Britain, a performance of Das Rheingold revealed that the new production vies with the old one for paucity of dramatic invention... more
It's obvious why Premier League football has been attractive to the international plutocracy: sport is one of the most powerful engines of globalisation, a supreme instrument of soft power... more
Football finance: Can John W Henry repeat his success with the Boston Red Sox at Liverpool? Sceptics are already arguing that the financial commitment required is too great... more
New England Sports Ventures announce intent to bring silverware back to Anfield, though legal battle with Hicks and Gillett for control of the club still unresolved... more
Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton expects the £300m sale of the club to be completed “in about a week” and heavily criticises the owners for trying to block it... more
Home-run record holder should be in the National Baseball Hall of Fame despite suspicions he used performance enhancing drugs, according to a survey of Major League stars... more
Hideki Matsui called it "the best moment of my life" and Alex Rodriguez savoured a joyous end to a year which began badly for him as the New York Yankees won the World Series... more
Pitcher A.J. Burnett was the hero for the New York Yankees on his World Series debut as he guided them to a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies last night.... more
The Los Angeles Angels withstood a late fightback by the New York Yankees to post a 7-6 triumph in game five and keep alive the best-of-seven American League Championship Series... more
Have credit-crunched stock markets reached the bottom and started heading up? Maybe, but it could be a long time before the losses sustained since last October are recouped. ... more
Nicollette Sheridan may have been keeping her eye on the ball as she opened an LA Dodgers game yesterday, but everyone else's eyes were on her wobbly arms.... more
The wife of baseball star Alex Rodriguez has filed for divorce - just days after Madonna denied being romantically involved with the New York Yankees star.... more
Madonna has been playing host to late night visits from a New York Yankee player amid mounting rumours her seven-year marriage to Guy Ritchie is on the brink of collapse, an American magazine has claimed.... more
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