Caged inside a Glassed Room, they resemble gladiators on a stage, separated from the outside world, as it were, by thick glass panels that keep noises out. When they get up and survey the board from a few feet away, they walk ever so slowly, like tigers on a prowl, circling their victim before going for the kill. But in reality, the generals, Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand, have neither...
11:17 AM, May 30, 2012
Florida: Matt Kuchar avoided the big mistakes that slowed so many other contenders to close with a 2-under 70 for a two-shot victory at The Players Championship on Sunday. That famous smile, which he first showed the golf world as an amateur in 1998 competing on the biggest stages, was brighter than ever as Kuchar tapped in for par on the TPC Sawgrass. He celebrated on the 18th green with...
08:43 AM, May 14, 2012
Ponte Vedera Beach, Florida: Kevin Na birdied the 18th hole to complete one of only three rounds without a bogey at The Players Championship on Saturday, giving him one-shot lead over Matt Kuchar as they chase the richest prize on the PGA Tour " a five-year exemption and a spot in all the majors. For all his practice swings and waggles, even purposely missing the ball so he could start...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2012
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida: After breaking 70 for the first time in seven weeks, Tiger Woods headed to the back of the practice range at the TPC Sawgrass to fine-tune his swing. That was much better than going to the clubhouse to clean out his locker. The Players Championship featured Matt Kuchar, Zach John and Kevin Na atop the leaderboard Friday. What it lacked was some of the golf's biggest...
08:26 AM, May 12, 2012
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida: Ian Poulter ran off four birdies around the turn and Martin Laird was the only player without a bogey on his card as the pair shared the lead Thursday in The Players Championship. Poulter birdied all of the par 5s on his way to a 7-under 65. Laird played in the afternoon and relied on his putting for some critical par saves to match Poulter. Laird,...
09:17 AM, May 11, 2012
Charlotte, N.C.: Tiger Woods is taking a three-week break before returning to golf at the Wells Fargo Championship. Woods announced on Wednesday that he will resume an up-and-down season from May 3-6 at Quail Hollow, where he won in 2007. He also committed to The Players Championship the following week. A year ago, he injured his left Achilles tendon and withdrew after nine holes at TPC Sawgrass. Woods missed the...
09:55 PM, Apr 13, 2012
CNN-IBN brings you the score card of films which hit the bulls eye and the ones which missed it completely in 2012. ...
08:52 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Mumbai: Director duo Abbas-Mustan, known for their thrillers like 'Baazigar', 'Ajnabee' and 'Race', say that they want to make TV shows but their busy film schedule is keeping them from doing so. "TV is a huge industry and reaches out to the entire world. Definitely we should make (a TV serial), we had thought about it as well. Currently it is tough to find time away from the films we...
11:12 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Raju Hirani's '3 Idiots' doesn't have many scenes where anybody other than Aamir Khan dominated, except some of the sequences where he had to face Silencer. The intensity of his acting was evident in the terrace scene where he challenges Amir Khan to come up with a more successful career than him in next ten years. Aamir was completely overshadowed in that sequence, in fact he looked clueless....
04:39 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Having witnessed 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team has come up with a new version of their VLC media player - VLC 2.0.0, codenamed "Twoflower". "With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC," said the company in a release. Also,...
02:10 PM, Feb 20, 2012
London: Under-fire Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas declared he doesn't need the support of the entire squad as long as he is backed by owner Roman Abramovich. A 2-0 loss at Everton on Saturday left Chelsea fifth in the Premier League and out of the Champions League qualification places. Villas-Boas hauled his under-performing players into the training ground on their day off on Sunday to discuss the team's misfortunes. Questioned on...
01:24 PM, Feb 17, 2012
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