Sampdoria shocked Serie A defending champions Juventus 3-2 in the 13th round of the Italian First Division football action here. Sampdoria's Colombian striker, Duvan Zapata, broke the scoreless deadlock seven minutes into the second half, while Uruguayan midfielder Lucas Torreira doubled the score in the 71st minute on Sunday, reports Efe. Eight m...
Valencia rose to the second spot in the Spanish La Liga football league after beating Espanyol 2-0 in the 12th round of action here. Although Espanyol was the better team during the most part of the game, the squad paid for squandering a number of scoring chances when the shot of Valencia's French defender Geoffrey Kondogbia found the back of the ne...
Werder Bremen reaped their first victory of the German football season as Max Kruse provided a hat-trick to beat Hannover 4-0 while Schalke extended their unbeaten run to six games after beating Hamburg 2-0 at the close of the 12th round in the Bundesliga. The "Green-Whites" showed a vital sign after securing the first victo...
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Sunday kept mum when probed about two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar's mysterious gold medal-winning comeback at the national championships in Indore last week....
Chennaiyin FCs battles with FC Goa in the first three seasons have produced plenty of drama and excitement. Think of the Indian Super League (ISL) final in 2015 when Stiven Mendoza produced magical goals in the dying minutes of the match or the last clash between these two teams in Goa when nine goals were scored, including an incredible 95th-minute winn...
Middle-order batsman Lahiru Thirimanne hit a composed 48 to steer Sri Lanka to a comfortable 113/2 and trail India by 59 runs at tea of the third day in the first Test at the Eden Gardens here on Saturday. After bundling out the hosts for a paltry 172 at lunch, Thirimanne, who was ignored in the last one year before being r...
The Indian cricket team will have a conditioning camp at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru ahead of the South Africa tour in January, a top BCCI official said here. "Before the South Africa tour, we may have the Indian cricket team have a conditioning camp at the NCA," a top BCCI official told reporters on condition of ...
ATK chief coach Teddy Sheringham asserted his side was better than Kerala Blasters in the inaugural fixture of the Indian Super League (ISL) season four. Both the teams failed to break the deadlock to settle for a goalless draw. "A lot of effort put into the game. It was all about keeping the ball. I thought we did it slightly better than Kerala. The wa...
Former Indian Captain Bhaichung Bhutia has written to the Jammu and Kashmir Football Federation offering a training stint to Kashmiri youth Majid Khan, a footballer who recently returned home after quitting the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). "I was very sad to read reports of Majid joining a terrorist organisation. Football has provided solace to...
Following is the scoreboard at stumps on Day-2 of the first cricket Test between...
