Monday, December 29, 2008
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Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United celebrated the festive season with victories on Friday while Arsenal, the other member of the 'big four', squandered a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 at Aston Villa.
Liverpool beat Bolton Wanderers 3-0 at Anfield with Robbie Keane scoring twice to give the leaders 42 points, one ahead of Chelsea as the Premier League season reached the halfway point.
Manchester United won 1-0 at Stoke City to go third on 35 points, ahead of Villa on goal difference after they equalised in stoppage time in the evening match to hold Arsenal who remained fifth on 32.
Chelsea briefly went top when they beat bottom club West Bromwich Albion 2-0 at Stamford Bridge in an early kickoff with goals from Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard.
Double major winner Padraig Harrington was voted player of the year Monday by the Golf Writers Association of America, receiving 75 percent of the vote.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
New Zealand and the West Indies emphasize the positives as they dispensed with the whites and focused on a cricketing format they are clearly more relaxed with.
Attention now switches to the limited overs component of the tour, with a sequence of two Twenty20 matches and five one-dayers starting at Auckland's Eden Park on Boxing Day.
Those contests will ideally produce a dominant force after their two test series ended at McLean Park in Napier yesterday without a definitive winner.
The first match was essentially washed out in Dunedin, while a string of compelling individual performances ensured an outright result was never really in prospect in the decider.
News Source: www.nzherald.co.nz
Jacob Oram's comeback to test cricket is tardy until at least the Indian visit in March after the injury-prone allrounder was today ruled out of the second test against the West Indies.
The official sponsor of the English Premier League (EPL) Barclays sponsored the largest football fans’ survey of the world during October and November this year to better understand the attitudes and lifestyles of fans following the sport.
Kevin Wall from Barclays, said: “The 2008 Barclays Global Fans Report has attracted a fantastic response from over 32,000 fans from 185 countries, or over 90 percent of all countries around the globe, making it the biggest survey of its type ever undertaken. Football is a great unifying force and is really the world’s game, while EPL is its favourite competition.”
The results of the report show that more than half of the fans surveyed spend a staggering five or more hours a week following EPL action (51%). Most supporters keep up-to-date with the action via TV (95%), while 74% use the Internet to follow their team. Meanwhile, 66% of fans say that football is the most important activity in their lives and 83% state that it is the most common topic of conversation amongst friends.
News Source: www.dailytimes.com.pk
The Seahawks' backup quarterback Seneca Wallace replaced the injured starter Matt Hasselbeck and finished 18-of-25 for 175 yards for the Seahawks (4-11), leading a 13-3 upset over the Jets. Left, Wallace threw downfield in the second quarter. With wins by their A.F.C. foes New England and Miami, the Jets have all but lost their chance at a postseason bid.
News Source: www.nytimes.com
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
This is the question that "Sania will come back or not". In "The Hindu" Mahesh Bhupati says that Sania will come back.
Hyderabad (PTI): Notwithstanding the current fall in her WTA rankings, Sania Mirza will make a comeback and do well in women's circuit next year, ace tennis player Mahesh Bhupati said here on Sunday.
"She has been injured unfortunately. When you are injured and cannot play, anybody's rankings are going to fall. But the good sign is Sania is back playing," Bhupati said.
"Hopefully, she will have a good 2009. She will make a comeback," he told PTI on the sidelines of an event to announce the Tennis Scholarships of Apollo Tyres Mission 2018.
Sania has slipped out of the top 100 in the latest WTA singles rankings chart.
Now let You think yourself to make your opinion.
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Playing in his only second first-class match Dibendu Chakraborty grew in confidence in the company of Sourav Ganguly and took Bengal to a comfortable 257 for five in the first innings against Goa on the first day of the Ranji Trophy Plate semi-final here Thursday.At the close of play, Chakraborty was batting 75, his second consecutive half-century, and Ganguly 69 and together they stitched an unbroken 130-run partnership for the sixth wicket to resurrect the innings that wore a tattered look after a brilliant spell by medium pacer Saurabh Bandekar (4-51) at the Karnail Singh Stadium.
Former India captain Ganguly, who retired from international cricket last month, is playing his last first-class match to help 2006 elite group finalists Bengal to get back into the Super Division. A sizeable crowd gathered at the stadium to have a look at Ganguly’s last outing in the white dress. A win will help Bengal qualify for the elite group but even if they qualify for the final, Ganguly will not play.
Put into bat first, Bengal suffered the first jolt in the fourth over when Robin D’Souza rattled Avik Chowdhury’s (2)stumps with just five runs on board. But Anustup Mazumdar (39) and Wriddhiman Saha (54) played sensibly and added 96-runs for the second wicket as Bengal took lunch at 101/1.
Disaster struck for Bengal in the very first over after lunch when Saha failed to adjust to Bandekar’s late swing and edged to wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra. Manoj Tiwari’s woeful form continued and two balls later he walked back to the pavilion with a careless shot off Bandekar caught by Ratra as Bengal slumped to101/3.
Speaking in Japan, where Manchester United came through an eight-goal thriller to beat Gamba Osaka 5-3 in the Club World Cup semis, boss Sir Alex Ferguson reacted to the fresh rumours regarding Cristiano Ronaldo's future.
During the summer, repeated attempts were made by the media and, it's widely believed, by Real Madrid themselves to unsettle United's wing-wizard Ronaldo.
The Portuguese star has hinted in the past that he'd love to play in Spain at some point, prompting Madrid to launch an all-out transfer assault on the player. However, he returned to United's Carrington complex and is very much to the fore of their title push at present.
