Key quotes by Lance Armstrong from the first part of his televised interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. ...
03:09 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Demonstrating true sportsman's spirit and enthusiasm, superstar Shah Rukh Khan backs sports as a profession. He says it should be considered a good job opportunity and that parents must be educated about how games can be a viable career option for their children. ...
08:57 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Citing shortage of state police personnel, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday asked the sporting clubs to arrange for their own security during games. ...
12:36 AM, Jan 12, 2013
P K Deb said the Ministry would have to see whether it is in consonance with the sports code. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The best Olympics medal haul ever by India was undone by IOA bosses who led to the association's suspension. ...
12:59 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Doha: Pakistan hockey captain Mohammed Imran hailed the Hockey Indian League (HIL), saying it will help players from both the nations to learn from their European counterparts. As many as nine of the 15 players who came under the hammer at Sunday's HIL auctions were eagerly grabbed by the five franchises for the league that will be held in January-February in five Indian cities. Imran said that watching Pakistani players...
06:00 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Lucknow: Ace India shuttler Saina Nehwal on Wednesday conceded her first round match of the KL Garg-Syed Modi International badminton tournament to Russia's Ksemia Polikarpova, citing injury and fatigue. Saina, who had won the first game 21-17 and was leading 20-18 in the second, failed to continue further and gave a walk-over to her opponent. Saina later said she had some problem in the knee, which increased during the match....
02:34 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Top Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are among the athletes in the running for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards 2013. Bolt and Fraser-Pryce have been shortlisted along with the world's greatest Olympic and Paralympic stars. The list includes British lawn tennis player Andy Murray, Australian swimmer Michael Phelps and Serena Williams, the American lawn tennis star. Bolt is aiming for his third Laureus World...
01:15 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Bangkok: Germany, represented by Formula One world champions Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher, won the Race of Champions team crown for the sixth successive year in Bangkok on Saturday. The event, which pits winners from various motorsport series competing in identical cars and being held at the Thai capital's Rajamangala stadium for the first time, saw Germany comfortably beat the French pairing of F1 driver Romain Grosjean and rally driver...
08:56 AM, Dec 16, 2012
"Dr Maqbool Babri has been working with some of our players and he will also go with the team to India," PCB chief said. ...
09:35 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Can Mohun Bagan wriggle out of the mess they are in? They have got a short breather in the form of a court stay on the All India Football Federation's notice to suspend their I-League match against Pailan Arrows on Saturday. Can there be a compromise? Football commentator Novy Kapadia joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. East Bengal were playing well and Kabra scored a beautiful...
04:12 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry has given an ultimatum to under-fire Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to either hold new elections within 60 days or be prepared to get sanctioned by the ministry. The elections held by the AFI in April were found to have violated three clauses of the National Sports Code. The Ministry had set aside the appointment of the president, secretary and treasurer of the AFI and...
05:35 PM, Dec 11, 2012
The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has provisionally suspended the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF). Where does that put our boxers? CNN-IBN's sports editor Gaurav Kalra joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. What will be the impact of the ban on Indian Amateur Boxing Federation on the sports? Asked by: Sunil A. This is a wake up call...Indian sports administrators have now been rebuked on an...
12:37 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: The sports ministry on Monday clarified that they are reviewing all the sports bodies and have not decided to derecognised the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) as opposed to earlier reports. The sports ministry had earlier derecognised the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) and the Archery Association of India (AAI) for manipulation in their election process on Friday. The sports ministry has only issued notice to the Athletics...
05:50 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New York: A server in a US restaurant has been suspended after referring to three women customers as "fat girls" on their bill. Christine Duran, Christina Huerta and Isabel Robles say their enjoyable meal at Chilly D's Sports Lounge in Stockton, California ended painfully when the waiter plopped down the offensive receipt on their table. "I got the bill, and I was like 'Why does the receipt say 'fat girls'?'"...
04:54 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Monday derecognised the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) as per reports after it had derecognised the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) and the Archery Association of India (AAI) for manipulation in their election process on Friday. Earlier, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) provisionally suspended IABF for manipulation of its election, a move that came just two days after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had...
04:22 PM, Dec 10, 2012
The sports minister Friday took the bold decision to de-recognise India's amateur boxing and archery federations because of their faulty electoral process. ...
11:48 PM, Dec 07, 2012
The sports ministry de-recognised the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation and the Archery Association of India on Friday for their unclean electoral process. ...
11:37 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Indian sports ministry de-recognised the national boxing and archery bodies Friday for their faulty electoral process. ...
06:50 PM, Dec 07, 2012
