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Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s London Olympics bronze may turn into silver

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s London Olympics bronze may turn into silver

Sports August 30, 2016 at 4:45 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s bronze medal from the London Olympics may be upgraded to silver amid reports that the silver medallist from the 2012 Games– deceased Besik Kudukhov of Russia–has been stripped off his medal for using banned substance. As per Russian agency flowrestling.org, the four-time world championRead More

Spanish La Liga: Barcelona power on

Spanish La Liga: Barcelona power on

Sports August 30, 2016 at 4:44 pm 0 comments

Madrid: Ivan Rakitic’s first-half header maintained Barcelona’s 100 per cent start to the La Liga season as the champions withstood a wave of late pressure to win 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao. Rakitic finished off an excellent team move after 20 minutes, but with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez uncharacteristically waywardRead More

Happy with bowlers’ show on batters’ paradise: Dhoni

Happy with bowlers’ show on batters’ paradise: Dhoni

Sports August 29, 2016 at 5:31 pm 0 comments

Fort Lauderdale: They were hammered all over the park but Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels his bowlers were not all that bad on what was a “batters’ paradise” in the first Twenty20 against West Indies which his team lost by a run here. Put in to bat, West IndiesRead More

Women’s hockey team made to sit on train floor, probe demanded

Women’s hockey team made to sit on train floor, probe demanded

Sports August 29, 2016 at 5:31 pm 0 comments

New Delhi, August 29 Condemning the shocking incident of four Indian women hockey team players being made to sit on the floor of a train while returning home from the summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, women activists called on Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs VijayRead More

Bitter Manoj Kumar appeals for PM’s intervention in boxing mess

Bitter Manoj Kumar appeals for PM’s intervention in boxing mess

Sports August 29, 2016 at 5:30 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Bitter about the administrative mess which he feels cost him a medal at the Rio Olympics, pugilist Manoj Kumar says Indian boxing is on death bed right now and desperately needs intervention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I am sure that I would have won a medal ifRead More

Wozniacki, Djokovic, Nadal to kick-off their US Open campaigns

Wozniacki, Djokovic, Nadal to kick-off their US Open campaigns

Sports August 29, 2016 at 5:30 pm 0 comments

New York: Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal get their US Open campaigns under way, on Monday, in the shadow of Arthur Ashe Stadium’s spectacular $150 million retractable roof and alongside rock music legend Phil Collins. Defending champion Djokovic and fellow two-time winner Nadal come into the season’s final Grand SlamRead More

Sania, Niculescu win Connecticut Open

Sports August 29, 2016 at 5:29 pm 0 comments

New Haven (USA): Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning on Monday with a doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu of Romania here. Sania and Niculescu capped off their newly rekindled doubles partnership with theirRead More

Virat Kohli inspires me, says Sami Aslam

Virat Kohli inspires me, says Sami Aslam

Sports August 27, 2016 at 7:03 pm 0 comments

Karachi: Describing swashbuckling batsman Virat Kohli as ‘consistent’, Pakistan’s Sami Aslam has revealed that he looks to the Indian Test skipper for inspiration to perform at the highest level. The 20-year-old pointed out that the Indian cricketer takes nothing for granted and plays every innings with same determination as theRead More

Indian boxing is an orphan without effective national federation: Sandhu

Indian boxing is an orphan without effective national federation: Sandhu

Sports August 27, 2016 at 7:03 pm 0 comments

  New Delhi: He is ready to take “moral responsibility” for India’s medal-less boxing campaign in Rio Olympics but national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu says the four-year-long administrative logjam cannot escape blame for all that has gone wrong with the once flourishing sport. “I am personally hurt and I takeRead More

Emulate India, play more home Tests: Faf du Plessis

Emulate India, play more home Tests: Faf du Plessis

Sports August 27, 2016 at 6:57 pm 0 comments

Johannesburg: Twenty20 skipper Faf du Plessis on Friday backed the longer format of the game and said South Africa should emulate India, who will be playing as many as 13 Tests this season at home. World No 6 in ICC rankings, South Africa will be playing 11 Tests this season,Read More