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People wave Vatican flags during a general audience with Pope Benedict XVI in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov.

It’s a year in which much has been written of age and of records, about powers reaching their peak and powers waning.

Knowing that they’re not likely to get them back once they’ve become the Big Thing, Tennis Auckland concentrates much of its recruitment drive on finding the Next Big Thing.

The WTA year is long over, and the ATP provided us with plenty of fodder for thought over the past few weeks.

A U.K. tax levied on endorsement income and appearance fees of foreign sports and entertainment figures working in the country yielded a mere 68 million in 2009-2010. While this might simply be accepted as another form of revenue for the United Kingdom’s government, the people of the country recognize the adverse effects that the tax has on … (more)

The eight singles finalists who qualified to compete at the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finalists have raised $57,261 through a unique worldwide player locker charity auction organized by the ATP.

The Spanish Olympic Committee will slash the cost of its bid to host the 2020 Olympics by up to 40 percent compared with the last time it tried to land the games.

Winning Wimbledon was nothing new to Borg in ‘79, but he did finish the year ranked No.

A trio of top stars made snicker-inducing headlines yesterday, but in this blip of an “off-season,” we’ll take it.

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 6. Here’s one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.

The ATP World Tour Finals event was a colossal letdown on many fronts, replete with injuries, dubious effort and the crystal-clear messages from Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal that the men’s Tour simply runs too long.

I’ve done my own piece here , where I break down their rivalry into periods of dominance .

Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns a ball during a training session for the upcoming Davis Cup final in Seville November 29, 2011.

Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal and American skiing Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn won the awards’ top honours last year, in Abu Dhabi .

Each day, MailOnline sports picture editor Dave Muir will choose his favourite photographs from around the world in the past 24 hours.