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Athletics
Inter-State meet from today
BANGALORE, MAY 31.Big guns will have a point to prove! In the midst of a busy National and international schedule, the stars will have to prove a point and none should be better off than an - inter-State performance. The 42nd edition of the ...


Cricket
Confident India takes on determined West Indies
PORT OF SPAIN, MAY 31. The cricketers fly into Trinidad on Indian Arrival Day, which is to commemorate the day when the first boat came to Port of Spain carrying Indian labourers 157 years ago. The town is agog with festivities to mark the ...
Trescothick slams century
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 31 While the noise of the first World Cup tie reverberated to all corners of the planet — watched by perhaps a half a billion souls — the most important cricket match on earth today continued pleasantly in the greenest ...


Football
Diop's strike sinks France
SEOUL, MAY 31.Senegal pulled off one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history on Friday, stunning defending champion France 1-0 in the opening match of football's biggest show before a 64,640 sellout in the South Korean capital. Papa Bouba ...
Germany cast in unfamiliar role
TOKYO, MAY 31. Ireland is not only up against a fast, strong team when it takes on Cameroon in its opening World Cup match on Saturday at Niigata. It also faces the challenge of re-inventing itself on short order after the tumultuous departure of ...
Players to be fined for red and yellow cards
SEOUL, MAY 31. Players will be fined for the first time if they receive red or yellow cards at the World Cup finals, soccer's world governing body FIFA said today. Anybody caught ``diving'' — faking a foul — and players who are ...
Referees will make or break World Cup: Pele
SEOUL, MAY 31. Soccer legend Pele has warned the success or failure of the 2002 World Cup lies in the hands of the men in black. The Brazilian great says the part played by referees has never been so important in a World Cup as it is this year. ...


Hockey
India takes on Malaysia today
ADELAIDE, MAY 31. It may look odd to give the teams a rest on day two of a competition but the prospect of leaving an evening fare-free on a week-end for the hockey enthusiast here obviously weighed with the South Australian Hockey Association ...


Racing : Motor
Court permits MAI to hold car rallies
MUMBAI, MAY 29. All speculation about the status of the Motorsports Association of India (MAI) with regard to the conduct of motor car rallies in the country was put to an end when the Delhi High Court allowed MAI to hold motor car rallies in the ...


Sports : General
Subhash Gupte is no more
MUMBAI, MAY 31.Subhash Gupte, one of the finest exponents of leg spin bowling, died early morning on Friday in Trinidad, West Indies. He was 72 and is survived by his wife and a son and daughter. Gupte passed away just when his wife was ...
Kapil appointed Sony's brand ambassador
MUMBAI, MAY 31. India's 1983 World Cup winning cricket captain Kapil Dev has been appointed brand ambassador by Sony Television network. Sony CEO Mr. Kunal Dasgupta, describing Kapil as one of the game's greatest allrounders and India's best ...


Tennis
Sheethal at her crafty best
CHANDIGARH, MAY 31. Sheethal Goutham's magic continued to mesmerise opponents as the Bangalore girl clinched the title with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Ankita Bhambri in the final of the $ 5,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament at the CLTA ...
Clijsters' campaign curtailed
PARIS, MAY 31.Kim Clijsters, last year's French Open runner-up, was knocked out in the third round on Friday by the 87th-ranked player in the world. Clarisa Fernandez, a left-hander from Argentina, stunned the fourth-seeded Clijsters 6-4, 6-0 ...

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