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Cricket
England goes 3-0 up, clinches series
MANCHESTER, AUG. 16. In the age of retro there was bound to be an old-fashioned Test like the third of the England-West Indies series at Old Trafford. England spent the final afternoon counting down the runs slowly, knowing that it had only to ...

BCCI okays graded payment system
KOLKATA, AUG. 16.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday approved the restructured graded payment system for players, renewed the contracts of coach John Wright, physiotherapist, Andrew Leipus, and fitness trainer, Gregory ...

Nadeem, Indrashekar Reddy in the limelight
CHENNAI, AUG. 16. Two left-arm spinners held the centre stage on the second day of the league matches in the Sahara-Buchi Babu all-India invitation cricket tournament here on Monday. S. Nadeem came up with a dream spell (seven for 20) to help ...

Other Stories

Six-wicket win for Indian Airlines

ESPN-Star Sports' offer to BCCI

Big win for Pykara CC

Vinoo scalps seven

Kartik scalps five

India `A' drubs Pakistan `A'

Tennis

Vaidisova triumphs

Hockey

ASC `B' runs riot

SBI blanks Delhi Audit

Football

IAF posts win

Athletics

Gebrselassie could miss 10,000m

Badminton

Siddarth bags double

LIC retains women's title

Basketball

Good day for VMJ School

Billiards & Snooker

Mixed luck for Merchant

Chess

Double for MU campus team

Kidambi surprises Iuldachev

Ramavarma triumphs

Three share title

Golf

The one that mattered most for Vijay

PGAI pact with TSM

Top stars for Bangalore leg

Olympic Games

Ian Thorpe wins Race of the Century
ATHENS, AUG. 16. Ian Thorpe won the most anticipated duel at the Olympic pool, taking gold in the 200m freestyle on Monday night and ensuring that Michael Phelps won't match Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals. Defending Olympic champion ...

Kanetkar makes a winning start
ATHENS, AUG. 16.Last minute entry, Indian shuttler Nikhil Kanetkar made a winning start as he overpowered Spaniard Sergio Llopis 2-1 to move into the second round of the badminton singles competition in the Olympic Games here on Monday. ...

Leander-Mahesh lift India's sagging spirits
ATHENS, AUG. 16. They were up against the world's No. 2 player, but Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi proved that they were second to none in the world of doubles with a 7-6(5), 6-3 triumph over Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish of the U.S. in the first ...

Holland beats India
ATHENS, AUG. 16. The Olympic campaign for India, under the foreign coach, Gerhard Rach of Germany began on the wrong foot with the Netherlands, the defending champion, asserting its supremacy in the last quarter of the Pool B hockey competition ...

Hat-trick for Halil Mutlu
ATHENS, AUG. 16.Halil Mutlu of Turkey won his third consecutive Olympic weightlifting gold medal in the 56-kilogram category on Sunday, ignoring his biggest rival's prediction that the `Little Dynamo' was ready to lose, with yet another ...

Aussies bounce back
ATHENS, AUG. 16. Shrugging off the blues that set in after the humiliation suffered at the hands of Germany in the opening fixture, defending champion Australia, in quest of a hat-trick of gold medals in the Olympics, gathered full points with a ...

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Back to birthplace

Spectators stay away

Bindra falters in the final

Americans slam-dunked

Majhi takes a beating

Mixed day for India

Abhinn ousted, Kanetkar advances

Satyadev moves up

Golden day for China

Racing : Motor

Coimbatore Rifle Club emerges on top

Swimming

One more meet record by Rohit

Table Tennis

Manav Sthali School triumphs

Weightlifting

Vellore boys dominate

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