New Delhi: Around 62 per cent votes were polled amidst sporadic incidents of violence on Saturday for the seventh and final phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, marking the end of the month-long exercise recording an all time high overall turnout of around 60 per cent. The highest voter turnout so far was in 1993 when 57.13 per cent voters cast their ballots, while a turnout of only 46.07 per...
06:34 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Mumbai: Underdogs Mumbai Fighters rallied back twice to cause a huge upset as they handed over the unbeaten Baku Fires their first defeat of the season to gain an upper hand in the first leg of the World Series Boxing quarter-final match on Friday. The Azerbaijan-based team won the first and third bouts, but the Mumbai team, making its WSB debut this season, won the second, fourth and fifth bouts...
11:55 PM, Mar 02, 2012
LOS ANGELES: 'American Idol' is down to the top 13 singers. Smooth 21-year-old pawn shop worker Phillip Phillips of Leesburg, Ga., quirky 22-year-old nonprofit organizer Heejun Han of New York, and spunky 18-year-old country crooner Skylar Laine, from Brandon, Miss., were among the finalists revealed Thursday on the Fox singing contest. They and seven others received the most viewer votes after the 13 male semifinalists performed Tuesday and the 12...
08:16 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Sachin Tendulkar's ODI career is on its last legs, if they haven't folded already. Those on the inside track say he was to announce his ...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Wembley: Before heading up the Wembley steps to collect the League Cup on Sunday, Steven Gerrard made sure he sought out cousin Anthony, whose penalty miss gave Liverpool a dramatic victory over Championship side Cardiff City. The match had ended 2-2 after extra time and when the nerve-jangling shoot-out ended with Cardiff substitute Anthony firing his spot-kick wide of the Pepe Reina's post, it produced a stark contrast in emotions....
02:00 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Wembley: Barely into the second year of his second spell at the club he graced as a player and then manager, Kenny Dalglish has steered Liverpool to their first trophy in six years. Liverpool beat plucky Cardiff 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium on Sunday after the teams were locked at 2-2 following extra time, giving the club their first piece of silverware...
01:29 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Memphis: Jurgen Melzer capped his amazing run through the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships with a broken right big toe by beating Milos Raonic of Canada 7-5, 7-6 (4) on Sunday for his fourth career title and first since 2010. Melzer ran over and hugged his coach, Joakim Nystrom, in the front row after finishing off the victory. Back troubles knocked Melzer from eighth in the world last spring to 38th...
12:32 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Wembley, London: Liverpool's six-year trophy drought ended on Sunday by winning the League Cup final after beating Cardiff 3-2 in a dramatic penalty shoot-out when captain Steven Gerrard's cousin, Anthony Gerrard, missed the final spot-kick. "I've got mixed emotions," Steven Gerrard said. "Obviously I'm delighted to win the cup for our supporters, but I feel for Anthony and Cardiff. It doesn't matter what I say to him, he's going to...
12:47 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Marana, Arizona: Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood set up a mouth-watering duel in the last-four of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship when they each completed comfortable victories in Saturday's quarter-finals. Northern Ireland's world number two McIlroy never trailed before beating South Korean Bae Sang-moon 3&2, while third-ranked Westwood won 4&2 against fellow Briton Martin Laird at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Either McIlroy or Westwood can depose Luke Donald as...
10:33 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Even before Indias big boys had set off in search of an Olympic return, coach Michael Nobbs brain waves had started mapping his opponents. Singapore proved a far cry, Italy a rookie, Canada talented and Poland hostile. But in Frances case, Nobbs words have proved prophetic. They are the dark horses, he had said. And here they are " the Frenchmen " standing in Indias path of redemption....
08:30 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Dubai: India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina edged out Shuai Peng of China and Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh to book a place in the doubles final of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Tennis Championships. The second seeded Indo-Russian pair took an hour and 40 minutes to beat their opponents in the super tie-break, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 1-0 (13/11) here late Friday night. The duo converted five of...
11:58 AM, Feb 25, 2012
London: Victory for Liverpool in Sunday's League Cup final against second tier Cardiff City could help turn a difficult season into a success story, manager Kenny Dalglish said on Friday. The Merseyside club started the campaign brimful of optimism, having invested heavily in a squad overhaul. That early-season confidence has diminished, however, as seventh-placed Liverpool's form has become marked by a failure to turn on-pitch dominance into the hard currency...
11:17 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Rotterdam: Roger Federer dismissed third-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday to win the ABN Amro World Tennis for his first title of the year. The top-seeded Federer jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first set as Del Potro made an uncharacteristically error-prone start. The Argentine, who beat Federer in the 2009 US Open final, took a 2-1 lead in the second set before the Swiss...
10:31 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Rotterdam: Top seed Roger Federer battled past Russian Nikolay Davydenko in an entertaining 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 triumph on Saturday to reach the World Indoor Tournament final. The Swiss former world number one now faces third seed Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina who brushed aside second-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-1 in Saturday's first semi-final. Federer, who has admitted struggling with the surface and his rhythm, recovered after losing the...
09:14 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Rotterdam: Roger Federer extended his perfect record against Jarkko Nieminen to 13-0 as he reached the semi-finals of the ABN Amro World Tennis on Friday. The top-seeded Federer did not face a single break point as he won 7-5, 7-6 (2) for a 13th straight win over Nieminen of Finland in matches stretching back to 2002. The No. 3-ranked Swiss will face Nikolay Davydenko, who dispatched fifth-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet...
05:08 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Doha: US Open champion Sam Stosur reached her first semi-final of the year by overcoming the unorthodox Monica Niculescu 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 at the Qatar Open on Friday. Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka swept aside Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-0, 6-4 for her 15th straight win to set up a semi-final clash with fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who beat Christina McHale of the United States 6-1, 6-1. After crashing out of...
05:03 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Nyon: Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri has lost his appeal to UEFA challenging a two-match touchline ban, and is barred from the Champions League round-of-16 matches against Chelsea. UEFA increased Mazzarri's punishment for "improper conduct," after he pushed Villarreal forward Nilmar to protest time-wasting tactics during a group match in December. UEFA says its appeals panel added a third match to the sanction. The additional ban was deferred for a two-year...
03:47 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Leverkusen: After seeing his defenders thoroughly outclassed by Lionel Messi, Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Voeller was dismayed that his players squabbled over the souvenir when Messi gave the shirt off his back - at half-time. Messi scored one goal, set up another and hit a post in Barcelona's 3-1 Champions League win at Leverkusen on Tuesday night, when two of the home team's players were a little too keen...
02:14 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Doha: Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka swept aside Simona Halep of Romania 6-3, 6-1 to reach the Qatar Open quarter-finals while Lucie Safarova dumped Svetlana Kuznetsova out of the tournament. Third-seeded Sam Stosur took advantage of shaky serving from Petra Cetkovska to win 6-3, 6-2 in the third round and earn her first back-to-back victories of the year, while fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska saved two set points in the first set on her...
12:52 PM, Feb 17, 2012
