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Basketball
Assam off to a good start
NAGAON (ASSAM), MAY 16. Host Assam got off to a good start in the 30th sub-junior National basketball here at the multi-purpose Nurul Amin Stadium on Friday. Both its girls and boys' teams won comfortably on the opening day of the group league ...
ICF, Southern Railway triumph
VIRUDHUNAGAR, MAY 16. Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, lifted the Hatsun Agro Product Trophy defeating Loyola Academy (Chennai) 69-57 in the last match of the semi-final round robin league of the State-level basketball tournament at the ...


Cricket
Ponting ready to lead in one-day series
KINGSTON (JAMAICA), MAY 16.Yet another West Indies player came up lame Thursday, while Australia captain Ricky Ponting declared he was over a virus ahead of their limited-overs series starting Saturday. Not long after middle-order bat ...
Other Stories

  • ICC releases India's World Cup prize money
  • Sri Lanka's home winning record under threat
  • Formation of IPCA is a welcome sign
  • Gooch 50 and still fit
  • Vermeulen hits 194 as tourists warm up for Test


    Football
    Southampton's desire could tip FA Cup balance
    LONDON, MAY 16. The FA Cup final has been restored to its traditional slot as the final game of the English domestic season but only one of tomorrow's Cardiff combatants regards it as the pinnacle of the year. Southampton, with the 1976 FA ...


    Golf
    Goosen finds his rhythm
    ALVESLOHE (GERMANY), MAY 16.Retief Goosen moved into prime position to claim his first win in over a year when he carded a three under-par 69 to set the early pace in the second round of the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open here today. The European No. ...
    Late birdies give Sluman first-round lead
    IRVING (TEXAS), MAY 16.Jeff Sluman birdied the final three holes to cap a seven-under-par 63 for a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Byron Nelson Championship on Thursday. The 1988 U.S. PGA champion finished ahead of Jim Furyk, ...


    Hockey
    Nellamakkada to meet Konerira in final
    MADIKERI, MAY 16. Nellamakkada will meet Konerira in the final of the Kalianda Gold Cup hockey festival, contested only by the Kodava families, at Napoklu in Kodagu district on May 18. In a keenly contested semifinal on Friday, Konerira ...


    Racing : Motor
    Schumacher sets the pace
    SPIELBERG, Austria, MAY 16. Michael Schumacher continued his success with the new Ferrari by posting the fastest time in on Friday's pre-qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, as the team's drivers looked to put last year's turmoil behind ...


    Tennis
    It's Liza vs Ankita
    NEW DELHI, MAY 16.The favourites bit the dust, as they failed to put on their best form, in the semifinals of the $ 5000 ITF women's tennis circuit second leg at the DLTA Complex here on Friday. The third-seeded Liza Pereira downed the ...
    Nalbandian in semifinals
    HAMBURG, MAY 16. David Nalbandian reached his first semifinal of the year when he rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third set to beat Fernando Gonzalez 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 at the Hamburg Masters on Friday. The eighth-seeded Argentine is the ...
    Sampras pulls out of Wimbledon, French Open
    LONDON, MAY 16. Pete Sampras has declined invitations to play at this year's Wimbledon tennis championships in London SW Courts, thus ending a 14-year sequence of glorious achievements at the All England Club and also from the French Open, ...
    Meghna, Punam set up final clash
    HYDERABAD, MAY 16. It was Meghna Paritala's happiest moment in recent memory when the qualifier knocked out top-seeded, Kommireddi Pooja 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the girls' singles semifinal. And, soon after that match 12th seeded J. Vishnuvardhan ...



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