In the build-up to the much awaited Grand Prix in Delhi next month, Vodafone is bringing down Lewis Hamilton, ace driver of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, to Bangalore on September 27. Lewis is all set to burn rubber on NICE Road, near Bangalore in the real Formula 1 car. Racing enthusiasts in the city [...]
Kolkata: As it has been this year with almost all sporting events involving Olympic disciplines, London 2012 forms a bright backdrop for the 51st National Open Athletics Championships, which begin at the Salt Lake Stadium and the adjacent SAI Eastern Centre here on Saturday. While five athletes have already made the grade, many more from [...]
Auckland: The All Blacks got the seventh Rugby World Cup off to a winning start on Friday, defeating Tonga 41-10 in front of a capacity 60,000 crowd at Eden Park. It was not an entirely convincing opener from the New Zealanders despite the lopsided scoreline, but skipper Richie McCaw said it had been a good [...]
The rains have played havoc with matches at the 2011 US Open and the finals for women and men have now been rescheduled for tomorrow and Monday, respectively. The precipitation in New York in the second week of the Grand Slam has proved to be more disruptive than the projected fury of the Hurricane Irene [...]
Ordos (China): India staged a remarkable fightback to hold Pakistan to a 2-2 draw in their last league match before depending on Malaysia’s heroics to set up a summit showdown with their arch-rivals in the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Friday. While the 2-2 draw was enough to give Pakistan a berth in [...]
New York: Roger Federer got another chance at Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a Grand Slam quarterfinal — and beat him. Now Novak Djokovic gets another shot at Federer. Federer reached his eighth consecutive semifinal at the US Open by beating Frenchman Tsonga 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday night in a match delayed by nearly two hours [...]
Panaji: Club versus country will take an all new meaning when the All India Football Federation (AIFF) asks interim coach Armando Colaco to choose between returning to Dempo Sports Club or continuing for at least a year with the Indian football team. For years it has been the players who are perennially caught between their [...]
Ordos (China): Still not assured of a place in the summit clash, India will not settle for anything less than a victory when they take on arch-rivals Pakistan in the final group match of the inaugural Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Friday. On paper, the high-voltage Indo-Pak encounter might be just a group [...]
New Delhi: Gaurav Gill underlined his credentials as one of the top rally drivers from India by becoming the highest-ranked Asian in the international ranking. The Delhi-based driver with 896 points in the International Rally Drivers Association (IRDA) ranking is the top driver from Asia ahead of China’s Fan Fan (740 points) in second place [...]
Mumbai: Pre-game huddles almost always involve warcries invoking a victory. But when Don Bosco (Borivali) locked arms before their Ahmed Sailor Knock Out Tournament pre-quarterfinal game against St Xavier’s (Parle) at the Azad Maidan on Thursday, they silently fell back on a list of reasons why they must win this encounter. For starters, they were [...]