Manchester City drew 1-1 at Swansea City to finish fourth in the Premier League and Arsenal overhauled their arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur to come second on a dramatic final day of the season on Sunday.

The Cleveland Indians placed outfielder Michael Brantley on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday due to right shoulder inflammation.

Keenan Reynolds cleared the first hurdle toward the NFL when Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus recommended Friday that the Navy quarterback-turned Ravens receiver be allowed to play in 2016 while fulfilling his military obligation through service in the Naval Reserves.

Nothing lasts forever, and one of these days Jake Arrieta is going to lose a game again. “Obviously he’s human,” catcher Miguel Montero said Saturday morning at Wrigley Field. “He’s going to be off sometimes.

Club Bruges claimed the Belgian championship for the first time in 11 years when they produced an emphatic display to thump closest challengers Anderlecht 4-0 yesterday for an unassailable lead in the standings.

Champions Celtic capped off their season in style with a 7-0 thrashing of Motherwell at Parkhead before they were presented with the Scottish Premiership trophy.

Barcelona’s celebrated ‘MSN’ strike force of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar had La Liga defences at their mercy for much of the campaign but as Barca swept to the title by winning their final five games it was Suarez who led the three-pronged attack.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic headed home a minute from time to break Paris Saint-Germain’s single season Ligue 1 scoring record in a 4-0 rout of Nantes on Saturday.

HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani crowned the winners of the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at the Newbury Racecourse in England yesterday.

Round 3 of the 2018 World Cup campaign will kick off in September and it will be time for reality to meet the huge expectations that Qatar will carry into that phase of the qualifying campaign.

A few steps from the entrance to Mexico City’s imposing Presidente Hotel, where FIFA delegates are staying during this week’s Congrees, a boy of around 10-years-old sells tamarind balls covered in chilli powder from a cart for 10 Mexican pesos ($0.55) each.

FIFA’s new secretary general Fatma Samoura yesterday vowed “to help football restore its tarnished image” following a spate of scandals within the game’s world governing body.