SD Crvena Zvezda

BELGRADE - Partizan defeated Crvena Zvezda 70-68 (22-17 20-18 16-13 12-20) on Wednesday to tie the Adriatic Basketball Association (ABA) League semifinal series at 1-1.

Milan Macvan scored the most points on the winning team, 14, followed by Josh Akoyon with 13, Aleksandar Pavlovic with 11 and Milenko Tepic with 10.

BERLIN - Crvena Zvezda lost their 12. round match in the Top 16 phase of Euroleague Basketball to Berlin's Alba 73-68 (22-9, 17-13, 20-27, 14-19) late on Thursday.

With nine losses in Group E, the team coached by Dejan Radonjic no longer has any chance to qualify for the quarter-finals, while the German team is still in contention with six victories.

ISTANBUL - Crvena Zvezda defeated Galatasaray 91-68 (21-16 31-19 15-16 24-17) in the 10th round of the top 16 stage of the basketball Euroleague in Istanbul on Thursday.

This was the third victory in Group E for the team coached by Dejan Radonjic, which means they still have a chance of getting through to the quarterfinals.

PM: There are "irregularities" in big football clubs

KOPAONIK -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday admitted there had been "thievery and irregularities" in the business dealings of Serbia's largest football clubs.

His comments came after B92 TV on Monday broadcast the first episode of its new investigative series, Reporter, dedicated to these issues.

BELGRADE - Crvena Zvezda defeated Alba from Berlin 86-69 (22-12 25-17 17-18 22-22) in the 5th round of the Euroleague Top 16 stage in Belgrade on Thursday.

BARCELONA - Crvena Zvezda lost their Euroleague basketball Top 16 Game 4 match to local Barcelona 92-77 (27-21, 22-17, 21-21, 22-18) late on Friday.

BELGRADE - Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda lost to Galatasaray 74-65 (21-19, 12-16, 18-12, 23-18) in their Game 3 match in the Top 16 phase of the Euroleague basketball tournament late on Friday.

BELGRADE - On behalf of the Serbian government, Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic Thursday appealed to Crvena Zvezda supporters to behave with dignity and to send out a strong message of fair play and good sportsmanship during the Euroleague basketball match against Galatasaray on Friday.

BELGRADE - Head of the basketball club Crvena Zvezda Nebojsa Covic has said that Galatasaray coach Ergin Ataman will not visit the grave of Marko Ivkovic, a Crvena Zvezda fan killed in Istanbul last November, when his team comes to Belgrade for a Euroleague match against Crvena Zvezda.

Turkish prosecutor seeks 18 years for killer of Serb fan

ISTANBUL -- The public prosecutor in Istanbul has asked for a guilty verdict and a sentence of 18 years in prison for a suspect in the case of the murder of a Serbian man.

Kadri Aktas is accused of stabbing to death Marko Ivkovic, who was in Istanbul to support the Belgrade-based Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) basketball club.