Sport

A football Club named as SALU RIJU has formed with 70 young boys as its members at Oriental Colony, Dimapur and inaugurated today by MLA Shri. S.I Jamir. The club is all set for its maiden participation in the...

Three-time Grand Slam champion Lindsay Davenport struggled through one of the worst games of her career in a frustrating third-round US Open loss that could mark the end of her career. The 32-year-old American mum, a former world number one...

Former champion Andy Roddick withstood a barrage of winners from young Ernests Gulbis in the first two sets before fighting back for a 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5 second-round victory at the US Open. Gulbis was near perfect in the opening...

Striker Jermain Defoe’s brilliance enabled Portsmouth to register a 3-0 win over Everton in the Premier League match at Goodison Park on Saturday. Portsmouth who lost both their matches in the Premier League against Chelsea and Manchester United prior to...

Tottenham Hotspur have reached an agreement to sign Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow. The 26-year-old arrives at White Hart Lane for a reported fee of £14m. Pavlyuchenko, who had already confirmed the deal was “practically settled”...

A match at the 2006 World Cup involving five-time world champions Brazil may have been rigged by an Asian betting syndicate, an investigative journalist claimed in an interview with a German magazine. In the report to appear in the Monday,...

India’s Olympic champion shooter Abhinav Bindra has hit out at the nation’s sports coaches and officials, saying they “know nothing” about sport. “Indian athletes have no respect for most officials,” the 26-year-old told the Times of India. India won...

Manchester City avoided a tragedy of Hamlet proportions against Denmark’s Midtjylland on Thursday after a last-gasp penalty shoot-out gave the English side a UEFA Cup lifeline. It took until the 89th minute for this second qualifying round, second leg...