Karnataka hope to topple Maharashtra The script at any National swimming championship hardly changes. The 25th Sub-junior National aquatic championship at the Subash Sarovar swimming pool, beginning here on Thursday, too will be a contest for supremacy between Karnataka and last year's champions Maharashtra...
Russia look up to classy Arshavin Spain hammered Russia 4-1 in the group stage of Euro 2008 but it should be a very different game when they meet again in Thursday's semifinal after the latter's fortunes were transformed by the return of Andrei Arshavin.
HOCKEY / India deny charges raised by tabloid in Kuala Lumpur, MHF begins probe
Fixing cloud over India-Malaysia tie In a sensational allegation, several unnamed Malaysian hockey players have been accused by their own governing body of fixing a match against India in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup here last month.
Djokovic falls to sizzling Safin Third seed Novak Djokovic became the highest men's casualty at Wimbledon on Wednesday when Marat Safin rolled back the years with a crushing 6-4, 7-6, 6-2 victory, even as his Serbian compatriot Ana Ivanovic, the women's top seed, narrowly avoided a similar fate...
CRICKET / Kaif latest arrival
Camp gathers momentum Middle-order batsman Mohammad Kaif joined the Test specialists' camp on the second day at the Chinnaswamy stadium here on Wednesday.
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, himself a centurion, watches Suresh Raina celebrate after scoring his maiden one-day ton in the Asia Cup tie against Hong Kong in Karachi on Wednesday. AFP
