New Delhi: Six-time Indian champion, Saurav Ghosal added another feather to his cap on Monday after he registered a comfortable victory over his Pakistani rival Yasir Butt 3-1 to become the new 'Windy City Open Squash 2012' champion. In the finals, Indian top seed and ranked 27th in the world, Ghosal overhauled Pakistan's number 2, Butt 11-8, 15-13, 10-12 11-5. Earlier, Saurav signalled the end of the road for title-holder...
11:03:29 PM Feb 13, 2012
Not of the three demands of Sahara India: 27 percent cut in franchise fees, an open auction pool and five foreign players in the team were met by the BCCI. ...
06:54:29 PM Feb 13, 2012
The BCCI has put the ball in the Sahara Group's court, saying no exception would be made for them, while reiterating that Pune Warriors would be allowed to seek a replacement for Yuvraj Singh within the rules. ...
04:27:56 PM Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: India's long-serving boxing coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu expects two more of his wards to make the cut for London Olympics from the Asian qualifying event in April after four of them booked their berths in last year's World Championships. Four Indian boxers - L Devendro Singh (49kg), Jai Bhagwan (60kg), Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Vikas Krishan (69kg) - qualified for the Games by making the quarterfinals of the...
01:48:20 PM Feb 13, 2012
BCCI president N Srinivasan hopes their differences with Sahara will be sorted out in Sunday's meeting. Earlier this week, Sahara ended its sponsorship deal with the cricket board. ...
09:40:49 AM Feb 12, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai Fighters gained a quarter-final berth in the World Series Boxing (WSB) after getting a walkover from Los Angeles Matadors in their last Group A league fight. The fight was scheduled for Monday in the US but was cancelled due to a re-structure of the home team's management. "Our fight against LA Matadors in The Music Box at Hollywood next Monday has got cancelled as their team management has...
11:24:41 PM Feb 11, 2012
In his video blog Directly Rajdeep Sardesai, the CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief says the jury is still out on who's better. ...
08:43:37 AM Feb 10, 2012
CNN-IBN's sports correspondent Meha Bhardwaj visits Bowral, a small town in the New South Wales, where Bradman started playing cricket. ...
09:37:15 AM Feb 09, 2012
Former chairman Lalit Modi Tuesday admitted of IPL auction rigging. But CNN-IBN was the first to report it in 2010. ...
10:30:11 AM Feb 08, 2012
Sahara chief Subrata Roy is, however, still hopeful of an amicable solution after snapping all ties with the BCCI. ...
01:58:47 PM Feb 07, 2012
Geneva: Three days after US prosecutors dropped their investigation of doping claims against Lance Armstrong, fellow Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 title and banned for two years when sports' highest court rejected the Spanish cyclist's story that contaminated meat caused him to fail a drug test. The 29-year-old Contador, who also won the Tour in 2007 and '09, tested positive for clenbuterol during a...
08:40:06 AM Feb 07, 2012
BCCI president N Srinivasan is hopeful of resolving all issues with Sahara India through dialogue, after the latter backed out of sponsorship of Team India and the Pune Warriors on Saturday. ...
10:27:58 PM Feb 06, 2012
The malignant tumor is in the space between Yuvraj Singh's lungs, which is known as the mediastinum. ...
06:32:43 PM Feb 06, 2012
Yuvraj Singh's recent cancer diagnosis " "mediastinal seminoma", a germ-cell tumour located between his lungs " has come as a major setback for the Indian batsman. However, the 30-year-old can seek inspiration from a host of athletes who have battled cancer to return to the sports arena, some even going on achieve historic landmarks. Here, we take a look at famous athletes who battled adversity to make stirring comebacks to...
12:51:13 PM Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Star Indian pugilist Vijender Singh expects boxing to get bigger in the country after the London Olympics as he feels men in the ring will deliver more than one medal in the quadrennial extravaganza this July. Vijender won a bronze in the 2008 Beijing Games, the lone Olympic medal in India's boxing history, and he said the country would better that in London which will further raise the...
04:01:09 PM Feb 05, 2012
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