2011 SEA Games Women¹s Singles Gold Medalist Fu Mingtian will be teaming up with one half of the 2012 Olympic duo Shinta Mulia Sari at the Li-Ning Singapore Open 2013. (Li-Ning Singapore Open 2013 Photo)

[UPDATED 9 May: China's multiple Olympic gold-medallist Lin Dan; world No. 1 female Li Xuerui and reigning Li-Ning women's champion Juliane Schenk have been added to the lineup.]

Singapore’s biggest badminton event is back, with its usual promise of top-drawer athletes from around the globe – and more.

For the first time ever, the Li-Ning Singapore Open, to be held from 18 to 23 June at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, will offer a “Badminton Carnival”, “Corporate League” and corporate box seating.

The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) announced these new attractions on Thursday as it aims to up the entertainment value for fans, on top of the stars in attendance at the country’s most prestigious badminton tournament.

By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

Former Liverpool hero John Aldridge has claimed that Luis Suarez should have won the PFA Player of the Year Award rather than Tottenham's Gareth Bale, because the latter is one of the league's 'biggest cheats'.

Bale won both the Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards at Sunday night's ceremony, while Suarez, who was in the PFA's Team of the Year, was booed by his peers during the course of the ceremony.

Aldridge's description of Bale as a cheat was based on his reputation for diving, a charge which has also been laid at Suarez's door during the season.

More infamously, of course, Suarez is now serving a 10-match ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic.

"It was no surprise that Suarez didn’t win the PFA award after what’s gone on but he would have been my pick ahead of Gareth Bale," Aldridge wrote in his column in the Liverpool Echo.

"Some will say I’m biased, but over the course of the season I believe

By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

The Atlanta Falcons of the NFL are building a new $1 billion stadium and it looks like they are going all out to create something unique.

The company selected to design the stadium, 360 Architecture, have released two potential design concepts call the "Pantheon" and the "Solarium."

They both feature incredibly funky-looking retractable roofs and a bevy of unique features that range from 360 degree giants screens to "impact seating" – which will see fans' seats vibrate whenever a big hit occurs on the pitch.

We're just going to say that bit again: the seats vibrate whenever there's a big hit on the pitch! How cool is that?

Seats that vibrate whenever a big tackle goes in. Amazing!

The Pantheon to us looks a bit like Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium from the 2008 Olympics, though perhaps a Mk II version of that design created by an evil super villain in need of a new lair.

Whereas the other option, the Solarium, looks like a giant greenhouse of the future built to protect

By The Rundown (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

David Beckham's sending-off in the closing moments of Paris St Germain's match on Sunday night saw him earn headlines across the world for all the wrong reasons.

Considering that "Goldenballs" is usually held in the sort of reverence usually reserved for the Queen Mother, it was actually quite refreshing to see Beckham as a bad boy for a change.

But it's not the first time that the former Manchester United and Real Madrid superstar has had his reputation tarnished.

Here's our pick of the worst moments of Beckham's career, on and off the field - though it has to be said, even at the worst of times he still managed to have perfect hair throughout.

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June 1998 - Beckham becomes a national figure of hatred after a petulant kick at Diego Simeone during a World Cup match against Argentina in France. The kick earned him a red card and helped England out of the tournament on penalties.

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June 2000 - Beckham finds

By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

A striker in the Dutch women's top flight has perpetrated a miss that will surely never be bettered (or should that be 'worsened'?) as long as the game of football is played.

Nicoletta den Ridder was lining up for AC Beerschot against Ajax Ladies this weekend, and as her team trailed 2-0 she looked certain to get them back into the match.

A shot off the crossbar left the keeper stranded on the turf, with the ball falling straight to den Ridder - who was on-side and literally four feet away from the gaping net.

We'll leave the video to speak for itself as to what happened next. Suffice to say that even several of the Ajax players looked genuinely shocked and - dare we say it - sympathetic to den Ridder's plight.

By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

Brazilian star Wagner Ribeiro showed his very best and very worst during an Asian Champions League match this week.

The 25-year-old had already scored a goal to put El Jaish 1-0 up against Al Shabab when he decided to get involved in an on-pitch altercation just before half-time.

The trouble had kicked off when El Jaish's Anderson Martins got into an argument with Al Shabab's Waleed Abd Raboh, with both players accusing each other of shoving each other in the face.

As the two defenders went forehead-to-forehead big trouble seemed imminent, and Ribeiro stepped in to try and mediate.

His rewards from Raboh was a mild shove in the forehead, the lightest of touches and something which Ribeiro barely appeared to have felt at first.

The ref didn't seem interested at Ribeiro's immediate protests - so after looking around for a few seconds he upped the ante by falling to the turf as if he'd been battered over the head

By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

Cristiano Ronaldo has described himself as ‘deeply outraged’ by reports that he had an affair with a Brazilian woman known by the nickname ‘Miss Bumbum’.

The Real Madrid star, who is in a long-term relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk (pictured together, above), took to Twitter to deny the story, which appeared in The Sun.

Ronaldo also suggested that the revelations had been deliberately timed to knock him and his team on the eve of a major game for his side against fierce rivals Atletico Madrid.

“I was informed,” Ronaldo wrote, “that The Sun, faithful to its editorial line, will publish an article where is given voice to a so called Andressa... someone seeking the limelight on my account. And I wonder why this happens one day before a very important game for my team...”

Real Madrid’s hold on second place in La Liga was dependent on avoiding defeat to their city rivals on Saturday night. Radamel Falcao

By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

In one of the more extraordinary pieces of Sunday speculation, the Sunday People claim that Manchester City are looking at hiring Brendan Rodgers.

Never mind that they already have a manager – Roberto Mancini – one who has already won a Premier League and FA Cup title during his tenure and is 90 minutes against Wigan away from bagging another trophy.

The paper says second place in the top flight just isn’t good enough any more, and accordingly they are looking elsewhere for a boss.

Rodgers, despite not convincing everyone in his first season at Liverpool, is a popular choice at the Etihad, where his ‘willingness to blood young players early, media skills, and European experience – and the ace in his pack is that he is fluent in both English and Spanish’ are highly prized.

The fact that the 40-year-old is under contract at Anfield would not be a deterrent for City’s owners, who apparently had him high on their