[caption id="attachment_88348" align="alignleft" width="206"] Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal celebrates after scoring a century during the third One-Day International cricket match against Afghanistan in Dhaka Saturday. — AP[/caption]DHAKA — Opener Tamim (...)
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Livorno's Piermario Morosini has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during an Italian second division game at Pescara Saturday, prompting the country's soccer federation to postpone this weekend's professional matches.
“We have done everything (...)
fixing probe Tuesday widened to league giant Besiktas, with the arrest of two club officials, Anatolia news agency reported.
Besiktas vice president Serdar Adali and technical director Tayfur Havutcu were summoned to appear at Istanbul police (...)
R) JCA president Mohammad Iqbal, chief guest Chris de Klerk, Aijaz Khan, Mohammad Sadathullah hand over the JCA Div-I winner's Natco Cup to Javed Ahmed of Zinda Tilismat.JEDDAH: Zinda Tilismat was handed the Division-I afternoon session Natco Cup at (...)
NEW DELHI: Teams at the World Cup appear to have reached a broad consensus that the best way to dismantle a rival batting order is to tie them in tangles, rather than subjecting them to a battery of bouncers.
Martin Crowe, captaining New Zealand in (...)
rivals India and Pakistan launched their Commonwealth Games campaign here Tuesday with thrilling victories in their Pool A matches.
The Indians pulled off a narrow 3-2 win over Malaysia while Pakistan defeated Scotland 3-0 at the Major Dhyan Chand (...)
Nicolas Mahut's first match since his record-setting exploits at Wimbledon saw the Frenchman beat Colombia's Alejandro Falla 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 at the Hall of Fame Championships Tuesday.
The loser of a marathon three-day contest against John Isner at (...)
South Africa beat West Indies by one run to win its two-match Twenty20 series 2-0 Friday after an exciting final over.
South Africa could only make 120 for seven on a tricky track at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium with 20-year-old debutant David (...)
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonzalo Higuain scored as Real Madrid beat Racing Santander 2-0 Sunday to ensure it stayed tied with Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league ahead of their match next weekend.
Ronaldo scored from the penalty spot in the (...)
Defending champion Victoria Azarenka won her opening match at the Sony Ericsson Open, beating Alexandra Dulgheru 6-3, 6-2.
Azarenka, seeded fourth, advanced Friday on the same court where she earned the biggest victory of her career a year ago, (...)
Vera Zvonareva successfully defended her Pattaya Open title, beating hometown favorite Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 6-4 in the final Sunday.
The top-seeded Russian collected her 10th career title and avenged her loss to the Thai in the second round at (...)
winning 117 runs off just 51 balls to power ACE Travel past Otex Cricket Club by 30 runs, Ghoshi hit a magnificent 83 in Pak Young's win over Saudi German Hospital by 47 runs and Kanoo defeated Sigma Paints Osfan-XI by 3 wickets in the third week (...)
anticipated potential quarterfinal between the back-from-retirement Belgians dissolved in 52 minutes Friday at the Australian Open.
That's the time it took for Kim Clijsters to lose, in embarrassing fashion, her third-round match at the season's (...)
Swede Robin Soderling returned to haunt Rafael Nadal on Monday with a 6-4 6-4 victory in their opening Group B round-robin clash at the ATP World Tour Finals.
Soderling, who ended Nadal's 31-match winning streak at the French Open this year, again (...)
round performance by skipper Zahid Khan enabled his team Ahmed Cricket Club (ACC) to win against King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) by 10 runs, Syed Irfan's 4-21 earned Deccan Knights a 7-wicket win against BUPA, Abdul Lateef Jamil (ALJ) (...)
Panama booked the last spot in the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals against the United States with a 4-0 victory over Nicaragua in Group C on Sunday.
Mexico takes top spot in the group after a 2-0 win over a Guadeloupe side which ended the game with (...)
South Africa's Bulls maintained their perfect record of not losing a Super 14 match this season when leading at halftime, beating the New South Wales Waratahs 20-6.
It was their sixth win of the season in eight matches. The teams wore black (...)
fixing charges against a European club within days, European soccer's governing body said on Wednesday.
“There are number of cases we have been looking at,” UEFA general secretary David Taylor told a news conference after the UEFA Congress.
“It's (...)
Australia, thirsting for revenge after its home defeat by South Africa, could include three debutants in the first Test starting on Thursday.
Opening batsman Phillip Hughes, all-rounder Marcus North and swing bowler Ben Hilfenhaus may all feature (...)
Second seed Andy Murray progressed to the second round of the Dubai Championships when Sergiy Stakhovsky retired with an ankle injury on Monday.
Murray was leading 6-7, 6-3, 5-3 and was 30-0 up on the Ukrainian's serve when, instead of trying to (...)
Lionel Messi helped Argentina to a 2-0 friendly victory over France on Wednesday and Germany lost to Norway for the first time in 73 years when it was beaten 1-0.
Fit-again striker Eduardo da Silva gave Croatia a timely boost by setting up the (...)
Captain Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan completed centuries to pilot West Indies to a first-innings lead over England on the third day Friday of the opening cricket Test.
Brendan Nash added an unbeaten 47 as the home team, resuming on 160-1, (...)
For two sets it looked like Roger Federer's run at a record 14th Grand Slam title was going to be derailed by Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open.
Then the 6-foot-5 (1.96-meter) Czech had a meltdown and Federer swooped, recovering for a 4-6, 6-7 (...)
Stuart Broad returned a career-best five for 23 to help England thrash South Africa by 10 wickets in the second One-Day International at Nottingham on Tuesday.
The visitors went 2-0 down in the five-match series after collapsing to 83 all out in 23 (...)