Resounding success against England in the first two one-dayers has propelled India to the third spot, while run-machine Yuvraj Singh’s consecutive centuries, has catapulted him among the top-10 in the latest ICC ODI rankings issued on Tuesday.
India routed England in first match by 158 runs and won the second match by 54 runs to move [...]
Jimmie Johnson moved inches closer to his record-tying third straight NASCAR title Sunday, trouncing the field at Phoenix International Raceway to deliver a knockout punch to Carl Edwards’ championship hopes.
Johnson needs to finish only 36th or better next week in the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway to join Cale Yarborough (1976-78) as the only [...]
The curator at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground, Radhey Shyam Sharma, today blamed the BCCI head curator Daljit Singh for the placid track on offer that could seriously affect India`s bid to wrap up the Test series against Australia here.
Radhey Shyam, the curator who prepared the Delhi pitch for the famous 1999 Test against Pakistan in [...]
India’s top two juniors - top-seed Saina Nehwal in the women’s and sixth ranked Gurusaidutt in men’s - were the sole survivors of a ruthless opening day for the Indian colts at the World Juniors Badminton individual event.
The rest of the team members in the singles event had faded off with the dimming light, as [...]
JCT played the away team’s game but it’s unlikely Sukhwinder Singh would be happy with only a point from the fifth round. One for which the JCT coach would have to thank goalkeeper Karanjit Singh who saved Dulal Biswas’s penalty in the 39th minute.
United SC emerged first among equals in this barren and mostly bland [...]
Buffalo Sabres captain Craig Rivet will miss at least two weeks after having successful arthroscopic knee surgery Wednesday morning.
General manager Darcy Regier made the announcement shortly before the Sabres (5-0-1) practiced to prepare for a two-game road trip that opens at Minnesota on Thursday. Regier did not say which knee Rivet hurt.
The injury, which wasn’t [...]
Look around this World Series and it’s easy to spot all the newcomers — Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Carl Crawford, B.J. Upton and David Price, eager to get a huge hit or throw a perfect pitch.
To Billy Reed, they’ve already made a big difference.
Reed coached Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield and many more future big leaguers [...]
Marcos Perreira was finally cleared by JCT to play for Mohun Bagan. On Monday, following a meeting between the clubs and Perreira in Ludhiana, JCT loaned the Brazilian whom Mohun Bagan have been wooing for over a month.
Debasish Dutta, Bagan’s convenor, said Perreira who returns to Kolkata on Tuesday morning will be signed by on [...]
WILL MONDAY be another “black” day for Vladimir Kramnik at the World Chess Championships? For Viswanathan Anand has drawn blood with black pieces in the third game and will have the same colour in the fifth. “Maybe I will be able to reverse the trend and get things going in the other direction from tomorrow,” [...]
VISWANATHAN ANAND and Vladimir Kramnik are set to create symphony in the city where Beethoven - one of the greatest Western classical composers - was born. However, Bonn, the federal capital of Germany, is apparently unaware of the most awaited match of the chess calendar - the World Chess Championship clash between Anand and Kramnik.
Somewhat [...]