Manchester City chief coach Pep Guardiola said it is important to suffer and still win in the English Premier League (EPL) after clinching victory by a slender 2-1 margin over Huddersfield Town. Forward Raheem Sterling's late winner on Sunday helped Manchester City go eight points clear after 13 matches in the EPL table. "We have to be in trouble because...

India declared their innings at 610/6, taking a massive lead of 405 against Sri Lanka in the second Test match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here on Sunday....
T. Gopi created history by becoming the first Indian man to clinch the gold medal in the Asian Marathon Championships here on Sunday....
Valencia coach Marcelino Garcia says he wants to take the "thorn from his side" when the team hosts FC Barcelona in the Mestalla Stadium on Sunday. The Valencia boss has never beaten Barcelona during all of his years as coach in the Primera Liga and Sunday would be a good time to start in what is arguably the biggest game of the Spanish season...
Serbia convincingly beat Austria 85-64 in the first game of the FIBA Basketball World Cup European qualifiers. The home team who won silver medal at the EuroBasket last summer, easily overcome much weaker guest team at the Aleksandar Nikolic hall on Friday, reports Xinhua news agency. Serbia started the match with a tight defense cre...
Opener Murali Vijay marked his return to Test cricket with a brilliant unbeaten half ton as India went to lunch comfortably placed at 97/1 on Day 2 of the second Test against Sri Lanka at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium here on Saturday. At the break, Vijay and his overnight partner Cheteshwar Pujara went undivided on the scores of 56 an...
Fresh from their Women's Asia Cup triumph, the India hockey team will assemble for the national camp to begin at the Sports Authority of India at Bengaluru from Sunday. Hockey India (HI) on Saturday named 33 players for the month-long camp, where the players will train under chief coach Harendra Singh. The team recently created history...
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly called it quits from Test cricket in 2008 because he had had enough of selection sagas, fresh from the Greg Chappell controversy which led to him being dropped from the Indian team, the southpaw revealed here on Friday. "I retired because at some point you've had enough. The reason is not because you have ...
Captain Steven Smith (64 not out) and Shaun Marsh (44 not out) helped Australia reach 165 for four after England posted 302 in their first innings on the second day of their opening Ashes cricket Test at the Gabba here on Friday. After overnight batsmen Dawid Malan (56) and Moeen Ali (38) took England's total from the overnight score...
Indian spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja wreaked havoc, sharing seven wickets on the opening day of the second Test to bowl out Sri Lanka for 205 in their first innings at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium here on Friday. Ashwin, who went wicketless in the first two sessions, broke the backbone of the Sri Lankan inning...