Madrid: Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise doping test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was at the center of jokes made by a French TV programme about his country's alleged ties to doping. Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: "8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a surprise antidoping test...it was expected after everything...but I'm happy it's like this!" The Spanish sports ministry...
06:04 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Yuvraj Singh's treatment for cancer has dominated headlines over the last week or so. In a cricket crazy nation, it is not surprising the kind ...
01:48 PM, Feb 10, 2012
London: The dominant forces in tennis and football were honoured on Monday, with Novak Djokovic winning the top individual prize and Barcelona capturing the team trophy at the 2012 Laureus Sports Awards. The top-ranked Djokovic won sportsman of the year at the ceremony in London, one week after the Serbian triumphed at the Australian Open to become the fifth man in the Open Era to win three Grand Slam titles...
08:23 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Kolkata: Giant-killers Prayag United scored an injury-time goal to register a dramatic 1-0 win over East Bengal in their return leg I-League fixture at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan on Tuesday. Kayne Vincent cashed in on a rare counter in the third minute of stoppage time, helping his team to climb to third spot in the league standings. East Bengal goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh committed harakiri when he decided to join his...
07:45 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: A wild, top-of-the-table celebration is set to cost the new table tennis champion A. Amalraj a quarter of his winner's purse, the national federation has said in a statement. Pitted against six-time national champion Achanta Sharath Kamal in the final of the men's event at the 73rd Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships on Sunday, Amalraj had a difficult job at hand. The 25-year-old paddler conjured up...
03:37 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Jamshedpur: Unhappy with her current form, the country's top archer Deepika Kumari said she is working hard to get her touch back to be India's medal prospect at the forthcoming London Olympic Games. "I am not in my best shooting form but am working to change the form," said the 18-year-old World Cup silver medalist. Deepika emerged as the champion in the women's recurve individual Olympic round at the 32nd...
11:38 AM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Ending speculation over a sportsperson getting the highest civilian honour, the government on Wednesday made it clear that there will be no Bharat Ratna this year, the PMO sources said. The government on Wednesday announced the Padma awards. Music maestro Bhupen Hazarika has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan along with cartoonnist Mario Miranda and both have been honoured with the coveted title posthumously. Meanwhile, actors Shabana Azmi, Dharmendra...
02:55 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar's name has not been recommended for the Bharat Ratna award. Sources have said that the BCCI did not send any names, not even Sachin's. They say that the Sports Ministry has recommended the names of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay for India's highest civilian honour. The criteria for Bharat Ratna was recently broadened to include sports because of the huge demand. Infact,...
09:17 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Kolkata: United Sports Club dealt a big blow to Mohun Bagan's title aspirations by notching up a 2-1 victory in their return leg I-League fixture at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Sunday. Kayne Vincent (16th) gave United SC the lead but Bagan hit back within three minutes courtesy an Anwar Ali strike as both the teams, in race for the title, made their intentions clear right from the...
07:07 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Dutt announced his 'Super Fight League' venture but the actor was asked if he could broker peace between the warring Khans. ...
02:37 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: After Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty, the latest actor to join the business of sports is Sanjay Dutt. Dutt, 52, will collaborate with Shilpa Shetty's businessman husband Raj Kundra to start a sports venture. "Sanjay and Raj will start a different kind of sports league together. The league will have various sports like karate, wrestling and others. The league will have local and international people competing with...
04:18 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Hyderabad: The Yash Birla Group will set up a world-class sports university near Hyderabad with an investment of Rs 2,000 crore. The university, spread across 450 acres within 100 km radius of Hyderabad, will train sportspersons from childhood. The group signed three MoUs with the Andhra Pradesh government for total investment of Rs 13,000 crore in three different projects, during the Partnership Summit 2012. Yash Birla, Chairman, Yash Birla Group,...
06:35 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Saina Nehwal's struggle for form summed up a disappointing year for Indian badminton, the rare high point of which was Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's World Championships bronze medal. After a highly successful 2010, during which Saina won a hat-trick of Super Series titles besides the Commonwealth Games gold medal, 2011 turned out to be a disappointing one for the Indian as she could win only the Swiss Grand Prix...
12:48 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Seasoned campaigner Alok Kumar was the cynosure of all eyes with his Asian Billiards title, but overall it was an average year for Indian cue sports as success eluded the country at the major international events. Alok blanked Praput Chaithanasukan of Thailand 6-0 to win the coveted Asian Billiards title in April at the Olympic Stadium of Kish Island in Iran. He thus became the first player to achieve the...
08:39 PM, Dec 30, 2011
A 17-year-old Deepika Kumari shone with some outstanding performances as the women's recurve team emerged as strong contenders for an elusive Olympic medal in archery, during a year that was witness to the dramatic fall of the fancied men's team. Stunning world champions Korea in the semi-finals of the biennial World Championships, the trio of Deepika, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro not only grabbed the full quota berths for...
06:20 PM, Dec 30, 2011
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