Chelsea to appeal FIFA’s player-transfer ban

English Premier League side Chelsea have said they will mount the “strongest appeal possible” following the transfer ban placed on the club by world football’s governing body FIFA. The punishment, which would prevent any new member joining the squad until 2011, was dished out after the club were found to have “induced” Gael Kukuta to breach his contract in a transfer from French league side Lens in 2007

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Can Formula One Run Without Ferrari?

Formula One is all about twists and turns on the track. But now it’s the offtrack maneuvers that are revving up drama. Talks in London among the teams and authorities in motor sport’s blue-ribbon championship ended without agreement Friday, failing to settle an ugly row over plans by the FIA, Formula One’s governing body, to impose a voluntary $60 million budget cap on teams next year

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