Chelsea remain on course for their third FA Cup triumph in four seasons after a 2-0 victory at Preston on Saturday secured their place in the last 16 of the competition. Nicolas Anelka's 11th goal of the season set Carlo Ancelotti's team on their way before Daniel Sturridge added the second, the 20-year-old's third goal in his ...

Chelsea and Ghana midfielder Michael Essien will be out of action for up to six weeks after returning from the African Nations Cup with a knee injury, his club announced on Friday. The 27-year-old damaged cartilage while training in Angola and although the injury has not proved as serious as first feared, he is unlikely to return before early March ...

Tammy and Ted Plevretes don't need more research to link football concussions to devastating brain damage. They need only look across the kitchen table, where their 23-year-old son Preston sits mostly silent in a wheelchair, a home-health aide at his side. Four years ago, Preston took the field for La Salle University a month after an earlier concussion. He ...

Like hundreds of small towns across rural America, Preston has boarded-up storefronts lining its Main Street. The roof has fallen in at the long-abandoned high school, while peeling paint and broken windows disfigure once stately, now vacant homes. This central Kansas farming town of 170 people ...