"The top seeded pair of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy won their sixth match on the trot to advance to the semi-finals of the $869000 Japan Open in Tokyo on Friday. The Indo-Czech pair overcame a late challenge from Philipp Petzschner of Germany and Alexander Peya of Austria...
Indian hopes of a first boxing medal at the Olympics were battered as boxer Jitender Kumar lost to Russian Georgy Balakshin in the men’s 51 kg flyweight quarter-finals in Beijing.Read full story
Akhil Kumar has been knocket out of the Beijing Olympics 54kg bantamweight boxing competition. He lost the match 10-3 to Gijan Veaceslav of Rep. of Moldova.Read more
The big clubs are homing in on him now, funny that a Spanish Club should go for the Russian after todays semi final."Barcelona bid for Arshavin Reuters June 26, 2008...
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Spain win, and deservedly so, a poor game but Spain were the better team. So now a meeting with Russia, a pretty mixed bag in the last four."Spain beat Italy 4-2 on penalties to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2008...
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Spain coach Luis Aragones is likely to revert to his first-choice XI having fielded his reserves in the 2-1 win over Greece.Spain and Italy have played each other on 27 previous occasions. Spain have won eight, Italy nine and there have been 10 draws. In competitive matches,...
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"The second quarter-final of UEFA Euro 2008, is going to take place between Croatia vs Turkey at Ernst Happel, Vienna. Croatia is the champion of the Group B and Turkey is the runners-up of the Group A. From the first Quarter-final, Germany has acquired to play in the...
Turkey make it through and a good result for the Swiss even though it's academic."Turkey 3-2 Czech R & Switzerland 2-0 Portugal Basel/Geneva, 15 June 2008 606 debate |...
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Maria Sharapova has pulled out of the Italian Open semi-final after suffering a calf injury in a match against Jelena Jankovic."The Russian, set to top the new WTA rankings on Monday, was due to face the Serb...
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A friend of mine in Sydney wrote me in great distress over this one. "England move into the last four after defeating Australia 12-10 in the first quarter-final of the IRB Rugby World Cup at Stade Velodrome in...
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"Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Hungarian teenager Agnes Szavay 6-1 6-4 to reach the U.S. Open semi-finals on Wednesday and believes she is a better player than when she won the title in 2004.
The St. Petersburg native was too consistent for the 18-year-old Szavay, who was...
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The Cricket action continues..."New Zealand were too strong for an uncertain South Africa side, winning by five wickets with 10 balls left.
The result puts the Kiwis and Sri Lanka into the World Cup semi-finals, and means Tuesday's England v South Africa match is a virtual...