29slide1 He is only the third Indian footballer to ply his trade outside the country; he took to football only to get entry into a good college, and never thought of earning a livelihood from the game.“I never knew I could make a profession out of football. I never thought I could make a career... [Read More]

29slde1 The paparazzi are still camped outside the gates of his home and helicopters still follow him each time he gets behind the wheel of one of his cars.But life for Tiger Woods is starting to get back to normal.The fascination about his personal life is starting to fade and the focus is returning... [Read More]

Chinese skiers and snowboarders compete in the Nanshan Bikini Ski Competition at a ski resort near Beijing on March 7, 2010. Skiers were judged on both costume, or lack thereof, and style. ski-winter-sports-beijing-1293843 Chinese skiers and snowboarders compete in the Nanshan Bikini Ski Competition... [Read More]

Mercedes will switch Michael Schumacher’s car for next week’s Spanish Grand Prix to try and get the seven times Formula One champion back up to speed, team principal Ross Brawn said Monday. It’s not a new chassis per se, it’s a chassis we used in testing,” Brawn... [Read More]

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp claims Manchester City used bullying tactics to stop him signing striker Craig Bellamy last season, turning up the heat on the teams’ Premier League clash at Eastlands on Wednesday. Redknapp, whose team will prevail in the battle to finish fourth and... [Read More]

Had he not jumped the start, Fernando Alonso might have won Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix and gone home with his second win in four races. As it was, in a chaotic race rich in incident, Spain’s feisty double world champion provided a talking point later on with a move full of significance... [Read More]

Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix and led a Ferrari one-two in a dream debut with the Italian glamour team on Sunday. In a strength-sapping race led for 34 of the 49 laps by Germany’s Sebastian Vettel before his Red Bull slowed and was reeled in, the... [Read More]

Hosts West Indies moved into the Super Eight stage of the Twenty20 World Cup after a rain delay helped them clinch victory over England in Group D on Monday. England will feel hard done by after making an impressive 191 for five in their 20 overs but then only getting six overs to bowl at West... [Read More]

Angry and frustrated after the Duckworth-Lewis system cost them victory over the West Indies  in the Twenty20  World Cup in Guyana on Monday, England  captain Paul Collingwood  has demanded that rain rules be revised for the shortest format of the game. - Scorecard Certainly, he is justified,... [Read More]

Angry and frustrated after the Duckworth-Lewis system cost them a win over West Indies in the Twenty20 World Cup in Guyana on Monday, England captain Paul Collingwood has demanded that rain rules be revised for the shortest format of the game. “There’s a major problem with Duckworth-Lewis... [Read More]

I just heard the Frank Duckworth interview on Cricinfo and one comment particularly caught my attention. “The scoring patterns in Twenty20 matches fitted in absolutely perfectly with the formula that we’d always used satisfactorily with 50-over games.” Okay, so Duckworth-Lewis (D/L)... [Read More]

Scott Styris and Nathan McCullum took three wickets each as New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by seven runs under Duckworth/Lewis method in a farcical rain-marred Group B match to qualify for Super Eight stage of the Twenty20 World Cup in Providence on Tuesday. -Scorecard: New Zealand vs Zimbabwe Styris... [Read More]

After scoring a match-winning 60-ball 101, Suresh Raina on Sunday credited his growth as a reliable batsman to a disciplined regime and inspiring atmosphere in the dressing room. Riding on Raina‘s knock, India posted a huge 186 for five and beat South Africa by 14 runs to qualify for Super... [Read More]

It is a young man’s sport, they said. The older players will struggle to make an impact, they predicted. The naysaysers had warned that the Twenty20 version in general, and the Indian Premier League in particular, will mark an end to the careers of veterans in the sport. Three years on, they... [Read More]

2656561278-edt-ph-7-20100324-224555 Despite the hectic IPL schedule, it wasn’t cricket as usual for these cricketers. While MS Dhoni & Irfan Pathan sought divine intervention for the success of their sides, KKR skipper Sourav Ganguly spent time with chefs. Sachin Tendulkar was seen in multiple... [Read More]

Whenever a Tiger Woods , a Jude Law , a Salman Khan or a Sania Mirza pleads with the media to respect his/her privacy, they have only to look into the mirror to see who is responsible for the camera crew crowding the driveway. How many of us have been caught with the nanny, sent raunchy text messages... [Read More]

It is a young man’s sport, they said. The older players will struggle to make an impact, they predicted. The naysaysers had warned that the Twenty20 version in general, and the Indian Premier League in particular, will mark an end to the careers of veterans in the sport. Three years on, they... [Read More]

Buying the Kochi Indian Premier League (IPL) team was more about passion for the game than actual business, say the owners. Rendezvous Sports World Limited won the bid for the Kochi franchise for a whooping US $333 million (Rs 1533 crores), sending the state of Kerala on cloud nine. The Kochi... [Read More]

Barcelona’s ace player Lionel Messi has overtaken David Beckham as the best-paid footballer in the world. Beckham, 34, had topped the annual rich list for the last two years because of his massive income from advertising endorsements. But the 3.6 million pounds bonus the 22-year-old Messi banked... [Read More]

Mumbai: If there’s one competition that features the brightest stars in the cricketing world, IPL has to be it. But we’d like to take excellence to a whole new level. It’s time to decide which IPL stars shine brighter than the rest. Which batsman can knock any game out of the park? Which bowler... [Read More]

Top industrialists and Bollywood stars rode the cricket bandwagon as big-ticket sport achieved a new meaning with unprecedented money pouring into the game that will be seen in a new professional garb called the Indian Premier League (IPL). The likes of Shah Rukh Khan and Mukesh Ambani, the reigning... [Read More]

India have been placed in Group B — along with England and South Africa — for the 2011 World Cup in the sub-continent, the International Cricket Council (ICC ) announced on Wednesday after a Board meeting in Johannesburg. “In Group A there will be Australia , Pakistan, New Zealand... [Read More]

The International Cricket Council (ICC ) on Wednesday rubbished match-fixing allegations against the Pakistan cricket team in the just-concluded ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa . ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat also gave a clean chit to Australian umpire Simon Taufel who was officiating the... [Read More]

ana-ivanovic-large Loud groans help make summoning all that power easier. Had five-year-old Ana Ivanovic not witnessed Monica Seles grunting her way through the French Open on television, the cover of the August 2008 edition of FHM wouldn’t have been graced by one of the sexiest and successful tennis... [Read More]