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Free agent defender Maynor Figueroa is signing for Hull on a three-year deal. The former Wigan star, 30, underwent a medical on Thursday night and will link up with manager Steve Bruce for a second time. It was Bruce who took the Honduran international to the DW Stadium in 2008 when he was in charge at Wigan. On the move: The Honduran is close to signing for newly-promoted Hull Figueroa, 30, is out of contract and was due to sign for West Ham in June. Manager Sam Allardyce was interested despite knowing he was due to sign another left back, Razvan Rat, from Shakhtar Donetsk. Figueroa was praised by former Wigan boss Roberto Martinez when his season was cut short with injury in April. Martinez said at the time: ‘He is Mr Reliable, someone who has never missed any sort of time during the time he has been at Wigan.' Rekindle: Bruce links up with Figueroa again after managing him at Wigan   More... Whelan plotting to bring promotion king Bruce back to Wigan for third tim

If he is to build upon his impressive showing of the last two weeks, Dan Evans will have to get used to walking in the land of the giants, and they do not come much bigger than Juan Martin Del Potro. Evans was giving away nine inches to the world No 7 in the third round yesterday, and despite a fightback in the second set, fell to a 6-0, 6-3 defeat against the Argentine. Having beaten world No 37 Jarkko Nieminen the previous day this was another step up in class, and the chasm of 270 ranking places could not be closed against the 6ft 6in 2009 US Open champion, who looked at ease on the slick turf. Loss: Dan Evans stretching for a shot in his defeat to Juan Martin del Potro Forehand: Third seed Del Potro is on the other half of the draw to Andy Murray Evans, who now tries to qualify for Wimbledon, said: ‘In the second set I was in all the rallies and I felt comfortable, it’s just that I gave him more free points than he gave me.’ Elena Baltacha reached the last eight in Notti

America's worst charities , The worst charity in America operates from a metal warehouse behind a gas station in Holiday, Florida. Every year, Kids Wish Network raises millions of dollars in donations in the name of dying children and their families. Every year, it spends less than 3 cents on the dollar helping kids. Most of the rest gets diverted to enrich the charity's operators and the for-profit companies Kids Wish hires to drum up donations. In the past decade alone, Kids Wish has channeled nearly $110 million donated for sick children to its corporate solicitors. An additional $4.8 million has gone to pay the charity's founder and his own consulting firms. No charity in the nation has siphoned more money away from the needy over a longer period of time. But Kids Wish is not an isolated case, a yearlong investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. Using state and federal records, the Times and CIR

Manchester City appear to have moved ahead of Chelsea in the  battle to sign Edinson Cavani after the player’s mother revealed he had already engaged in conversations with Etihad officials.  The Napoli striker has a £53million release clause in his contract and City are determined to secure his services for incoming manager Manuel Pellegrini. Jose Mourinho is keen to bring the Uruguayan to Stamford Bridge but no one at the club has yet spoken to the player, and Real Madrid are also in pursuit of one of Europe’s hottest talents. Here, there, everywhere: The Uruguayan is one of Europe's hottest targets this summer Cavani, 26, won the Serie A golden boot last season with 29 goals in 34 games, and also scored seven goals in the Europa League. His mother Berta Gomez told Uruguayan radio: ‘Edi is talking to Madrid and City. The Napoli president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, has spoken to Chelsea but there’s nothing concrete. In 15 or 20 days we’ll know his destination.’ She ad

Amido Balde has finally concluded his £1.5million move to Celtic — before training his sights on following in the footsteps of Parkhead strike legends Henrik Larsson and Jorge Cadete. The 6ft 4in front man had jetted in to Glasgow on Monday but the four-year deal was sealed only yesterday evening after the personal intervention of Vitoria Guimaraes chairman Julio Mendes, who arrived in the city to help Balde finalise his switch from the Portuguese side. Now Neil Lennon’s first summer signing — who says he models himself on Paris St Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Tottenham’s Emmanuel Adebayor and Bayern Munich striker Mario Gomez — can’t wait to start scoring the goals that could win him a place in the hearts of Celtic fans. Summer spree starts: Balde is Lennon's first signing of the summer ‘I’m very happy to get the paperwork completed and finally sign for Celtic,’ said the Guinea-Bissau-born 22-year-old, who was handed the No 17 jersey. ‘These delays can happen at big clu

Colourful New Zealand cricket umpire Billy Bowden was caught up in comedy moment at The Oval when almost did the splits when trying to dodge a Ravi Bopara shot. The England batsmen was in fine boundary hitting form at the end of the England innings hitting 33 runs off just 13 balls at the end of the innings against Sri Lanka in the Champions Trophy match. Off it goes: Billy Bowden ducks to avoid Ravi Bopara's shot and loses his hat in the process The chase is on: Bowden goes after his hat that flew off in the wind Nearly there: Bowden reaches for his hat Taking a tumble: Bowden does the splits as he falls Falling down: Bowden eventually catches up with his hat but not before falling over And one of the boundaries that he hit straight over the bowler's head and down the ground for four almost hit the eccentric Kiwi official. As he ducked to avoid the ball he lost his hat and after failing once to pick it up as it blew across the field, he then slip

So much for the suggestion Usain Bolt is ‘past it’, then. The Jamaican responded to his 100 metres defeat by Justin Gatlin in Rome last week by setting a stadium record and dominating the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo last night. Bolt ran 19.79 seconds at the Bislett Stadium, breaking Frankie Fredericks’ 17-year-old record by three hundredths of a second and posting the fastest time in the world this year. He drove around the track in a racing car before last night’s competition and performed a DJ set at an after-party, where he tweeted: 'You know what time it is...Dj Bolt'. Scroll down for video Still go it: Usain Bolt blasted away from the field to win in a time of 19.79, a meeting record Reaching for the line: Bolt will be happy to make up for his defeat at the hands of Justin Gatlin last time out He said he wanted Fredericks' record before his race and he duly claimed it despite the chilly, damp conditions and a poor start, accelerating