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...
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday endorsed Virat Kohli's complaint about cramped scheduling ahead of the important South Africa tour, saying the team needed time to prepare before heading off to such tough assignments. "He was talking about scheduling of cricket which is so correct. You got to give teams time to prepare w...
A South African court on Friday increased from six to 13 years and five months former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius's prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein increased the prison term after prosecutors argued that the six-year term for murdering Steenkamp in 2013, reports the BBC. Pisto...