Paul Scholes celebrates after scoring a goal for Manchester UnitedPaul Scholes guided home a stoppage time header to give keep Manchester United’s title hopes alive after the visitors beat Manchester City 1-0 at Eastlands. With the game look dead set for a draw, Scholes popped up to score a free header beyond the diving Shay Given after he was left un-marked in the six-yard box. Patrice Evra provided... 

Olympic champion Dayron Robles of Cuban has won the 60-meter hurdles at the Pas de Calais meet, beating Yevgeniy Borisov of Russia. Robles finished in 7.45 seconds Friday on the indoor track in Lievin, France. Borisov was 0.08 seconds behind and countryman Igor Permota finished third in 7.67. Robles is scheduled to run at next week’s world indoor championships in Doha, Qatar. He holds the world... 

Veronica Campbell-Brown hoped for more. The opportunity was there. Sheri-Ann Brooks pressed her the entire way but Campbell never let her close enough. Campbell-Brown, the Jamaican Olympic gold medalist, won the womens’ 60 meters at the NYU Fasttrack Invitational in 7.14, the third-fastest time in the world this year and a season-best. Campbell was disappointed afterward. She hoped to faster than... 

Sprint ace Veronica Campbell-Brown won the women’s 60-meter dash in 7.15 seconds at the Tyson Invitational Friday night at the University of Arkansas. The three-time Olympic gold medalist from Jamaica ran the 10th-fastest time in the world this year and earned her first indoor victory of the season. Campbell-Brown, an Arkansas alum, ran the event for the second time this season after finishing... 

Mo Farah of Great Britain and Ukraine’s Sergiy Lebid, the silver and bronze medallists at Sunday’s European XC championships will have a rematch up at the 35th edition of the BOclassic on New Year’s eve. In the women’s race, Aniko Kalovics, the 2006 winner will be racing in Bolzano. The 35th edition of the BOclassic will be celebrated this New Year’s Eve run with Lebid and Farah,...