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Athletics
Four more marks fall on final day
CHENNAI, JUNE 27. What embellished the final day of the Federation Cup athletics meet at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium were the four path-breaking performances that provided a fitting finale to the four-day competition at the Jawaharlal Nehru ...


Basketball
An unending problem
CHENNAI, JUNE 27.It is becoming an unending problem. Fielding over-aged boys in National sub-junior and junior sports meets has become a pastime for some States. The recently concluded National sub-junior basketball championship at Pondicherry ...


Cricket
Stewart holds fort
TRENT BRIDGETRENT BRIDGE, JUNE 27.JUNE 27. England captain Nasser Hussain won the toss and was elected to bat on a slow pitch in the first one-day international of the NatWest triangular series against Sri Lanka on Thursday. The England ...
ICC to have bigger role in tour programmes
LONDON, JUNE 27. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to play a more prominent and decisive role in tackling major issues affecting the game's future tours programmes, a move approved by directors at it's executive board meeting ...


Football
'Aristocrats' show that pedigree still counts
YOKOHAMA, JUNE 27. Brazil and Germany have won seven World Cups between them but before this tournament kicked off you would have got very long odds on them meeting in the final. The two countries, who astonishingly have never met even at an ...
Koreans still upbeat as ever
Two days after its storybook run at the World Cup ended in a loss to Germany, co-host South Korea was still glowing on Thursday with its feat — reaching the semifinals for the first time after going winless in five previous trips to ...
Turkey aiming to build on World Cup showing
YOKOHAMA, JUNE 27.An invigorated Turkish football team has every opportunity to extend its incredible progress during this World Cup to the 2006 finals in Germany and beyond. The core of the technically skilled side that lost to Brazil in the ...
I feel sorry for Ballack: Meier
BASLE (SWITZERLAND), JUNE 27. Swiss referee Urs Meier said in an interview on Wednesday he felt sorry that German international Michael Ballack will be missing Sunday's final due to his second yellow-card, but that he had no other choice in ...
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  • Overall a tournament to forget
  • Brazil goes bananas
  • Final will witness clash of cultures, says Parreira


    Racing : Horse
    Rare morphine case takes curious turn
    BANGALORE, JUNE 27.For the first time in the history of the Bangalore Turf Club, traces of a Class I drug have been found in the urine samples of a horse racing here. Trainer Dominic's charge Snow Deer ridden by Shakti Singh was a red hot ...
    Other Stories

  • Kolkata races cancelled


    Racing : Motor
    Naren Kumar sounds confident
    ROTORUA (NEW ZEALAND), JUNE 27. You must be aware of where you are, not where you want to be. Naren Kumar (co-driver D. Ramkumar) of Team MRF Tyres, the only Indian competing in the Parker Enzed Rally of Rotorua, which is the third round of the ...


    Tennis
    Hewitt makes third round, Ferrero crashes out
    LONDON, JUNE 27. The best thing that can be said about Lleyton Hewitt is this: he is a winner. And then, the worst thing that can be said about Lleyton Hewitt is this, too: he is a winner! The 21-year old from Adelaide, who became the first ...


    Boxing
    Mediocre display by Indians
    NEW DELHI, JUNE 27. Super-heavy Harpal Singh was the only deserving medal winner of India, rest all cracked in the face of stiff competition, in the 21st Asian boxing championship held at Selangor, Malaysia, from June 19 to 26. Planned as an ...


    Shooting
    Anjali prepares in earnest
    NEW DELHI, JUNE 27. While the rest of the Indian squad has been training here and going through the last-minute formalities, with a lot of anxiety, Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat has been preparing diligently with coach Laszlo Szucsak in Finaland, in ...
    National Games range: NRAI baffled
    NEW DELHI, JUNE 27. The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has been baffled by the unprofessional attitude of the organisers, handling the shooting event in the National Games to be hosted in Hyderabad from November 25. Despite the ...

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