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Juniors set for Mahul event

Monday, January 02 2012
Two outstation teams -- Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association and Maharashtra Cricket Association -- will take part in the Ultratech Cup for the U-14 and U-16 boys, organised by Ultratech-Vengsarkar Cr

Ancient Wonder will stake claim for Sprinters' Cup: Haresh Mehta

Monday, January 02 2012

Bopanna enters Round II in Chennai Open qualifiers

Sunday, January 01 2012
Rohan Bopanna moved into the second round in the 32-man singles qualifying draw of the Chennai Open 2012 at the SDAT-Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium on Saturday.The main draw of the 17th editi

Young guns Tanaay, Arfat to train with QPR

Sunday, January 01 2012
Mumbai lads Tanay Shah and Arfat Ansari have been selected to train with English Premier League side Queens Park Rangers.

Haryana lift national U-14 title

Saturday, December 31 2011
An unbeaten 92 by skipper Prashant Dalal helped Haryana beat Delhi by eight wickets and clinch the National boys U-14 cricket trophy yesterday. Put into bat, Delhi ro

Robin Hasse pulls out of Chennai Open due to visa issues

Saturday, December 31 2011
Robin Hasse of the Netherlands has withdrawn from the Chennai Open tennis. The reason given by the organisers was an injury while player tweeted yesterday that he had to cancel his trip to India du

Deccan Gymkhana in Nagpada basketball quarters

Saturday, December 31 2011
Defending champions Deccan Gymkhana, Pune won back-to-back pool games to seal their berth in the men's quarter-finals, in the 9th Nagpada Basketball Association Invitational Tournament at the Bac

Nivedita Rao wins badminton title

Saturday, December 31 2011
Nivedita Rao overcame some early jitters to upset favourite Kalpita Sawant 21-17, 21-19 to win the girls under-13 final in the ASA-Maharashtra state junior open badminton tournament, hosted by

AVS enter junior basketball semi-finals

Friday, December 30 2011
Agradneya Vyayam Shala beat St Anthony's, Chembur to storm into the junior girls' semi-finals in the ninth Nagpada Basketball Association Invitational Tournament, at the Bachookhan Municipal Playgroun

IES' Varun bags nine in losing cause

Thursday, December 29 2011
Left-arm spinner Varun Joijode's nine-wicket haul helped IES Modern English (Dadar) restrict IES V N Sule Guruji to 306 in the first innings.

Chennai Open: Wild cards for two Indian pairs

Thursday, December 29 2011
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and N Sriram Balaji along with Ramkumar Ramanathan and Mohit Mayur have been given wild card entries into the doubles main draw of the ATP Aircel Chennai Open to be held here fro

Delhi enter U-14 National School semis

Thursday, December 29 2011
A quick-fire knock of 139 runs by Kunal Dabas (103b, 17x4, 4x6) helped Delhi beat IPSC by 61 runs and enter the semi-finals of the 57th National School Games U-14 boys' cricket tournament at the PJ Hi

India lose out, China claim world women's chess title

Tuesday, December 27 2011
India squandered an opportunity to win the women's world chess team championship losing 1-3 to Georgia while China won the title despite losing to Ukraine 1.5-

Somdev Devvarman now focussing on an Olympic berth

Tuesday, December 27 2011
The ATP Aircel Chennai Open commencing here on January 3 will serve as a stepping stone for Indian Davis Cupper Somdev Devvarman, ranked 84, as he begins the long haul to break into top-50 of the tenn

Sania Mirza to lead India in Fed Cup

Tuesday, December 27 2011
Sania Mirza will lead the four-member Indian team in the Fed Cup Asia-Oceania Group to be held in China from January 30 to February 4, All India Tennis Association (AITA) announced yesterday.

Mahesh Gawli retires from international football

Tuesday, December 27 2011
Defender Mahesh Gawli yesterday announced his retirement from international football after a career lasting more than a decade. The Goan, however, will continue to play for his local cl

Sourabh ends runner-up at India Open GP

Monday, December 26 2011
Giant-killer Sourabh Varma played his heart out but had to be content with a runner-up finish at the Syed Modi Memorial India Open Grand Prix Gold as he lost t

Ishpingo claims MiD DAY Trophy honours

Monday, December 26 2011
Abhishek Bachchan watches as MiD DAY Trophy is won in style Ishpingo, who had narrowly missed the winner's circle in all three earl

Gujarati MiD DAY TEN10 cricket begins with a bang

Monday, December 26 2011
Defending champions Charotar Rukhi's skipper Khimji Makwana celebrates after scoring a half-century against Sattargam Shwetambar Murtipujak Jain in the Gujarati MiD DAY TEN10 cricket tournament, spons

Will Ishpingo get lucky on Sunday?

Saturday, December 24 2011
Abhishek Bachchan to give away MiD DAY Trophy

Dope-tainted Akkunji and six others banned for a year

Saturday, December 24 2011
India's leading six women quarter-milers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, were banned for one year by the national anti-doping disciplinary panel yesterday and their

Akendra aims for new racquet

Saturday, December 24 2011
Shuttler Akendra Darjee hopes to end the year by winning the PSA-NIA Maharashtra State Open badminton title and till yesterday he was right on track. Darjee comfortably advanced to the U-15 boys'

Paes to partner Tipsaveric in Chennai Open

Saturday, December 24 2011
Leander Paes will partner World No 9 and the highest ranked singles player in the main draw, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic in the Aircel Chennai Open to be held here January 2-8. Pae

Menon wins US Open squash

Saturday, December 24 2011
Battling against all odds, two Mumbaikars, both afflicted with polio, will be competing in the 2012 London Paralympics. The duo -- Prakash Nadar, 35, and Bhushan Kasekar, 34, --

Two Mumbaikars to participate in London paralympics

Saturday, December 24 2011
Battling against all odds, two Mumbaikars, both afflicted with polio, will be competing in the 2012 London Paralympics. The duo -- Prakash Nadar, 35, and Bhushan Kase

Two handicapped Mumbaikars for London Paralympics

Friday, December 23 2011
Battling against all odds, two Mumbaikars, both afflicted with polio, will be competing in the 2012 London Paralympics. The duo - Praka

Akkunji among six Indians banned for doping

Friday, December 23 2011
Six Indian women athletes, including ace 400 metre runner Ashwini Akkunji, were each handed one-year bans Friday for doping violations, leaving little hope of

Viswanathan Anand not to lobby for Bharat Ratna

Friday, December 23 2011
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand Thursday endorsed the government's decision to consider sportspersons for the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civili

India to start campaign against Italy in Olympic hockey qualifiers

Thursday, December 22 2011
Eight-time hockey Olympic champions India will start their campaign against lowly-ranked Italy in the men's Olympic qualifiers for the 2012 London Games that w

Saina pulls out of Syed Modi GP, Jayaram knocked out

Thursday, December 22 2011
Top seed and local favourite Saina Nehwal Wednesday pulled out of the Syed Modi Grand Prix badminton tournament citing fever while world number 29 Ajay Jayaram

Abhinav Bindra recommended for Bharat Ratna

Tuesday, December 20 2011
India's only individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was recommended for the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, by the National Rifle Associati

i1 Super Series great for young drivers, not me: Karthikeyan

Tuesday, December 20 2011
India's first F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan says his bitter experience with A1GP has left him wiser which is why he's not too keen on being part of the i1 Super

Badami wins maiden State snooker title

Tuesday, December 20 2011
Cricket Club of India's (CCI) Hasan Badami clinched the senior snooker title in the Malabar Hill Club-Maharashtra State Selection billiards and snooker tournament.

Pronto Pronto turns crispy at Mahalaxmi

Monday, December 19 2011
Pallon Mistry & DR Thacker's Pronto Pronto acted quite contrary to his name when he chose to languish at the wrong end of the field until the half-way mark in the Casino Royale Indian 2000 Guin

Mixed emotions for Gopi Chand; Saina loses, Sindhu wins

Monday, December 19 2011
Mixed emotions for coach Gopi Chand -- star ward Saina falters in World Superseries final while teenager Sindhu wins Tata Open crown

Speed Six for Indian 2000 Guineas

Sunday, December 18 2011
Ten three-year-olds, one of them a filly, are in the final line up for the grade 1, Casino Royale Indian 2000 Guineas, the second Classic of the Mahalaxmi season 2011-12, which will be run as ninth

Dhyan Chand, Sachin top contenders for Bharat Ratna

Saturday, December 17 2011
Sachin Tendulkar and hockey wizard, Major Dhyan Chand are top contenders for the Bharat Ratna award in the sports category, sports minister Ajay Maken said here yesterday. The Government has mod

No 1 Lee showed me the way: Misbun after Tata Open Rd 1 win

Friday, December 16 2011
Misbun Ramdan credits World No 1 and training partner for improved form Malaysia's Misbun Ramdan Mohmed Misbun showed why he is highl

Children's Academy win three in a row

Friday, December 16 2011
Children's Academy (Malad) beat KM Rustomji 5-1 to record their third straight win in the MSSA U-14 inter-school hockey tournament being played at St Stanislaus Ground (Bandra) yesterday.

Shroff storms into last 16 of Malabar snooker

Friday, December 16 2011
Former champion Sarang Shroff defeated Arun Agrawal 3-0 in a best-of-five frame round-robin Group-B league match to enter the pre-quarter-final of the senior snooker event of the Malabar Hill Club-Ma

Saina through to Super Series knock-outs

Friday, December 16 2011
Saina Nehwal moved into the elimination round at the season-ending Li Ning BWF World Superseries Finals with a 21-16, 21-13 victory over Sayaka Sato of Japan in Liuzhou, China yesterday.

Boycott Olympics if Dow is sponsor: Aslam

Thursday, December 15 2011
India should not participate in the London Olympics-2012 if Dow Chemicals was retained as the event's sponsor, newly elected Olympian Association of India (OAI) president Aslam Sher Khan said yesterda

Novice Daya takes on champ

Thursday, December 15 2011
Kerala's Daya Elsa Jacob qualified for her maiden women's singles main draw defeating Egypt's Asmaa Badie Tawfeek 21-6, 21-16 during the Tata Open India International Challenge at the National Sport

Shubhankar, Tanvi clinch U-19 titles

Wednesday, December 14 2011
Shubhankar Dey of Maharashtra lifted his first ever All-India ranking title at the Bombay Gymkhana courts yesterday, beating beat Abhishek Yelugar in straight sets.

Marin Cilic ruled out of Chennai Open

Wednesday, December 14 2011
Two-time ATP Chennai Open singles champion Marin Cilic of Croatia has been ruled out of the 2012 edition due to a tendon injury.

Hirose to miss Tata Open badminton

Wednesday, December 14 2011
World No 19 shuttler Eriko Hirose, who was to be the top seed at the Tata Open India International Challenge that gets underway today at the National Sports Club of India (NSCI) badminton courts, has

Rituparna credits coach Gopichand for success

Tuesday, December 13 2011
Rituparna Das' (15) laziness while training earns her a lot of flak from coach Pullela Gopichand. But she's thankful to him for his strict ways nevertheless as it has helped her reach not just one

Gopi Chand releases his biography

Monday, December 12 2011
Pullela Gopi Chand has achieved a lot in life. But it is through badminton that he has achieved most of it and so his life revolves around the sport. His biography, Pullela Gopi Chand: The World Be

Karishma Wadkar reaches semis after coming back from injury lay-off

Monday, December 12 2011
Karishma Wadkar makes semi-finals at Bombay Gymkhana after injury lay-off Wild card entrant Karishma Wadkar (14) of Maharashtra stage

Alma will get longer trips: Jockey Prakash

Monday, December 12 2011
Alma Mater, carrying the silks of Shyam Ruia, who owns her in partnership with his son Ameya & friends PK Singhania & SS Jhaveri, unleashed an incredible burst of energy to move from the 15

 


 
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