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Sydney Roosters captain Braith Anasta says he has overcome an ankle injury and will lead his side out for their NRL opening round clash with South Sydney on Sunday.
Anasta has battled a fractured ankle he suffered in June last year and missed all the Roosters’ preseason trials.
“It’s going really well, I really tested it in [...]

NEW YORK — Negotiators for Major League Soccer players and owners failed to meet Tuesday, two days before the latest extension in their labor talks is due to expire.
With players failing to match management’s no-lockout pledge with a no-strike offer, the league’s first work stoppage appears possible, one that could postpone the first game [...]

DALLAS — Brendan Haywood tied a career high with 20 rebounds and the Dallas Mavericks improved to 4-0 with him as their starting center in a 91-82 victory against the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.
Haywood, who came over from Washington in a Feb. 13 trade, scored 13 points and added three blocks to anchor [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Jason Richardson connected on a floater from the foul line with 0.7 seconds left to complete the Suns’ rally from a 10-point deficit and Phoenix snapped the Oklahoma City Thunder’s nine-game winning streak with a 104-102 victory on Tuesday night.
Amare Stoudemire scored 30 points and Richardson had his first double-double of [...]

London, Sept 16 (ANI): Harraby Athletic, the worst football team in Britain, has finally tasted victory – after a losing streak of 90 matches.

The side has been on a losing spree since three years and was badly mauled in a 19-0 match in 2006.

The team concedes 10 goals a game on an average and their [...]

London, Aug 25 (ANI): Star defender Nemanja Vidic has vowed that he will prove his commitment to Manchester United with his performances in the coming weeks.

Vidic’s advisor Paolo Fabbri was quoted last week as saying that the centre-back would welcome a switch to Barcelona.

It set alarm bells ringing at Old Trafford, as Vidic [...]

Poojashree Venkatesh | Poojashree Venkatesh wins the $10,000 ITF Tournament
A four-hour rain delay gave enough time for India’s Poojashree Venkatesh to plan a strategy to outlast an impatient, erratic top seed Emily Webley-Smith of Britain 7-6(8), 6-2 and clinch the $10,000 International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament at the DLTA complex here Friday.
For the 19-year-old from [...]

London, June 26 (ANI): Britain’s No. 1 Andy Murray received the royal seal of approval from The Queen, and served up a tennis feast as he outclassed Ernests Gulbis to reach third round at Wimbledon.

Murray revealed he opened a letter of congratulations from [...]

Sydney, June 19 (ANI): Former Australian world No.1 Lleyton Hewitt is fired up for Wimbledon after beating world No.1 Rafael Nadal at an exhibition match in London.

Hewitt won 6-4 6-3 on Thursday, in what was meant to be an informal and relaxed match against the defending Wimbledon champion in west London.

Neither Hewitt nor Nadal would [...]

Ricky Ponting was at a loss to explain how his team had been bundled out of the ICC World Twenty20 following heavy defeats to West Indies and Sri Lanka.
“It’s disappointing to go out of the tournament and I can’t explain why.
“The training was spot-on and there was a good attitude, but in the big moments [...]

New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Rushmi Chakravarthi and Parija Maloo were the only Indians to advance to the quarter-finals of the $10,000 women’s International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament here at the DLTA complex Wednesday.
Among the Indian losers were top-seeded Ankita Bhambri and her sister Sanaa who were beaten by Chinese girls.
Rushmi, seeded sixth, overcame a [...]

Paris, May 26 (IANS) Sania Mirza crashed out of French Open first round, losing 4-6, 6-7(3) to Kazakhstan’s Galina Voskoboeva at Roland Garros here Tuesday.
Sania, ranked 91, fought hard but failed to measure upto her 95th ranked opponent in their second meeting. The two are now levelled 1-1 and had previously met in hard courts [...]

Mumbai/ Johannesburg, May 26 (ANI): Left- arm seamer Zaheer Khan is doubtful for the ICC World Twenty20, which is scheduled to begin from June 5 in England.

Zaheer, who was part of the Mumbai Indians team in the just concluded IPL, had injured his [...]

Melbourne, May 23 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is excited about his new look team for the Ashes series, and is also prepared to face the challenge of the Twenty20 World Cup.

Ponting, who is fresh after a break, got back into training a couple of weeks ago and feels good too.

The break well [...]

London, May 13 (ANI): England all rounder Paul Collingwood claims the team is bristling with confidence after hammering West Indies in the first Test at Lord’s last week.

The Durham all-rounder believes England is back on track.

“It has been a fresh start again for the summer and we have started off really well. Confidence at [...]

Kuantan (Malaysia), May 12 (ANI): Pakistan must win the ongoing Asia Cup Hockey tournament in order to secure a birth in the World Cup to be held in New Delhi next year.

Pakistan coach Shahid Ali Khan said that as per the International Hockey Federation (FIH) decision, only the [...]

Lahore, May 10 (ANI): Disappointed by 3-2 series loss against Australia in the Dubai one-day international tournament, Pakistan cricket chief selector Abdul Qadir has said that non-performers would not be tolerated in the team.

“I just want to say that those players who don’t perform up to the expectations of the nation will not be tolerated [...]

Abu Dhabi, May 4 (ANI): Australian cricket team coach Tim Nielsen believes that the selectors will be taking a chance on Brett Lee and Shane Watson when it comes to choosing the World Twenty20 squad on Tuesday.

Both Lee and Watson are planning to make their competitive bowling comeback in Australia’s Twenty20 match against Pakistan in [...]

Abu Dhabi (UAE). May 3 (ANI): Pacer Brett Lee could play his first game for Australia since last year’s Boxing Day Test in the final one-dayer against Pakistan tonight.

As Lee works his way back from ankle surgery, a decision will be made just before the match in Abu Dhabi, [...]

Sydney, Apr 25 (ANI): Troubled Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has found form he and his country badly needed to set up six-wicket win over Pakistan in Dubai.

Symonds scored 58 of 62 balls to help Australia reach 4-208 in 45.1 overs, chasing Pakistan’s total of 207 [...]