FOOTBALL: Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has signed a new four-year deal with the Premier League newcomers.

The Denmark international was an ever-present for Nigel Pearson’s side during the 2013-14 league season, playing all 46 matches as Leicester stormed to the Championship title with a club-record 102 points.

Schmeichel was set to be out of contract in the summer.

FOOTBALL: A disciplinary hearing into allegations Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths sang a racist chant in a packed Edinburgh pub has been postponed “indefinitely” until police conclude their own investigation, the Scottish Football Association has announced.

It is the third time that the SFA has been forced to cancel a Hampden hearing while it waits for Police Scotland to announce what course of action it will take.

BOXING: Olympic champion Nicola Adams suffered her first defeat in almost two years as she crashed out of the European Championships at the quarter-final stage in Bucharest yesterday.

Adams was made to pay for a slow start as she dropped a tight verdict against Bulgaria’s experienced Stoyka Petrova.

Adams said: “Although I was not at my best today, I felt I had done enough to go through.”

FOOTBALL: Chelsea have moved a step closer to signing Diego Costa after the striker completed a medical yesterday.

The deal for the  Atletico Madrid player is almost complete, with the striker currently with the 25-year-old currently with the Spain squad before the World Cup.

Costa was a key part of the Atletico side which won the Spanish league and reached the Champions League final but came off injured in the opening 10 minutes due to an injury.