BEIJING - CHINA is ordering its basketball players to stop faking their birth dates, local media reported on Friday, turning the spotlight back on allegations of systematic altering of athlete's ages.

Sports authorities have sometimes been accused of altering players' ages to show them as being younger, mainly to qualify them for youth tournaments.

THERE is a happy problem in the Singapore football squad as they have two agile cats - Lionel Lewis and Hassan Sunny - challenging for the job of keeping goal.

Lions goalkeeping coach Lee Bee Seng, an international in the 1970s, cannot recall a time when the Republic boasted two crack goalkeepers.

SHINJI Mizushima's manga series 'Yakyukyo no Uta' (A Song for Baseball Freaks), which depicts Yuki Mizuhara, a female pro baseball pitcher who manipulates a magic 'dream ball', caught the eye of Eri Yoshida, 16, when she was a first-year high school student.