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(Photo: AP / NZPA, Ross Setford)Sachin to join Indian Air Force as Group Captain on Friday
India's Sachin Tendulkar acknowledges crowd before his team prepares to play New Zealand in the second twenty/20 international cricket match at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009....Full Story

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(Photo: AP / David Guttenfelder)We should be excited for Games: Sushil Kumar
India's Sushil Kumar shows off his bronze medal in the 66kg freestyle match at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. ...Full Story

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Isner Struggles to Put Marathon Match in Past
| On Wednesday, the last match at Louis Armstrong Stadium featured tennis’s tallest curiosity. There stood John Isner, yes, that John Isner, the really long man who at Wimbledon played that really long match. Andrew Gombert/European Pressphoto Agency | John Isner ...Full Story
Hurdle cleared, but jumps still on life support
| JUMPS racing lives on. Attached to a life support system. | The operation to keep the sport alive has been intrusive. The sport has had to lose one leg through amputation. Steeple racing appears finished, it has been severed and put on ice while racing authorities stu...Full Story
The End Zone: BGSU 09-02
With the start of Bowling Green's football season just days away, there's no more talk about who is starting or not starting, where the team will finish in the MAC or anything else. | The focus is where it should be: on Saturday's game at Troy. And the excitement is pal...Full Story
The End Zone: OSU 09-02
College football’s most-prized rivalry took a hit when the Big Ten put Ohio State and Michigan in different divisions as the conference moves to that format next season. They still will play each other every season, and that meeting takes place on the final week o...Full Story
Hushovd sprints to Vuelta stage six win
| Murcia, Spain - Norwegian sprinter Thor Hushovd clinched the sixth stage Thursday of the Tour of Spain, while Belgian's Philippe Gilbert defended his overall lead. | Cervelo rider Hushovd headed a group of around 70 in a sprint finish at the end of the 151-kilometre s...Full Story
Vuelta a España - Hushovd sprints to Vuelta stage six Eurosport - Thu, 02 Sep ...
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Isner, Mahut bond at US Open over marathon match
| John Isner of the United States, seen here at the US Open on September 1, s... | After working 11 hours and five minutes over three days to reach the second round in his prior Grand Slam opener, John Isner needed only one hour and 57 minutes to advance Wednesday night...Full Story
CWG medal prospect Saurav, another athlete caught for doping
New Delhi: Commonwealth Games medal prospect shot putter Saurabh Vij and Akash Antil flunked dope tests conducted by the National Anti-doping Agency last month, Athletics Federation of India said. | Delhi boy Saurav was named along with Om Prakash in India's Commonwealt...Full Story
 Caster aiming for Commonwealth gold
| Milan - World champion runner Caster Semenya says her main goal this season is to win the 800-metre gold medal at next month's Commonwealth Games in New Dehli despite a poor run of form in recent weeks. | The South African ran 2 minutes, 7.16 seconds at a meet in Rove...Full Story
Usain Bolt: Sprint rival Tyson Gay 'hates my guts'
| Tyson Gay of the U.S., left, wins the men's 100m race ahead of Jamaica's Usain Bolt at the IAAF Diamond League 'DN Galan' at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo / Maja Suslin / SCANPIX) | LONDON (AP) -- Olympic champion U...Full Story
Fit to sprint
  By Ben Kaplan, National Post May 2, 2009        National Post reporter Ben Kaplan in Toronto. | Photograph by: Tyler Anderson/ National Post, National Post | Imagine a race of people immune to cancer and heart disease. Men and women, near God-like super-athletes,...Full Story
The Dodge Brand Races to the Dodge Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon, Reveals the All-new 2011 Dodge Durango
  | , Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- All-new 2011 Dodge Durango to pace the race at the "Dodge Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon presented by SunTrust" Dedicated Dodge running team, including Ralph Gilles, Dodge Brand President and CEO, to compete in the half mar...Full Story
Sprint rival Gay 'hates my guts': Bolt
| Olympic champion Usain Bolt said American sprint rival Tyson Gay "probably just hates my guts" because he has dominated major championships. | Bolt won both the 100 and 200-meter titles at the 2008 Olympics in world-record times, and helped Jamaica win gold and set an...Full Story
Isner, Mahut bond at US Open over marathon match
| NEW YORK (AFP) – After working 11 hours and five minutes over three days to reach the second round in his prior Grand Slam opener, John Isner needed only one hour and 57 minutes to advance Wednesday night at the US Open. | The 18th-seeded American ousted Portuga...Full Story
NNOC Blames Poor Athletes On Inept Administrators
INCOMPETENT sports administrators are robbing the country of it's future stars, said the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) Secretary General Abner Xoagub, following the poor showing of Namibian athletes, at recent international competitions. | ...Full Story
Banner named in Sprint field
| Starspangledbanner has been named in the final field of 16 runners for Saturday's Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock. | Having moved from Australia, the Aidan O'Brien-trained chestnut has already won two Group One races on British soil, the Golden Jubilee at Royal Ascot an...Full Story
Starspangledbanner In Sprint Field
| Aidan O'Brien's Starspangledbanner features among a final field of 16 runners in Saturday's Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock. | The ex-Australian speedball has already won twice in Group One company on British soil, winning the Golden Jubilee at Royal Ascot as well as Ne...Full Story
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Mikitenko Heads North
Sporting Life | Two-time World Marathon Majors champion Irina Mikitenko has signed up for the Bupa 30th Great North Run on September 19. | The German, who switched nationality from Kazakhstan in 1998, has a personal best half-marathon time of 68 minutes 51 seconds...
Starspangledbanner in Sprint field
Orange News | Aidan O'Brien's Starspangledbanner features among a final field of 16 runners in Saturday's Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock. | The ex-Australian speedball has already won twice in Group One company on British soil, winning the Golden Jubilee at Royal...
No mere athlete; he's now a soccer player
The Boston Globe | BROOKLINE - He steps onto the turf at Parsons Field with a new air of confidence, an intangible that has made Mike Kennedy even more of a force for the men's soccer team at Northeastern University. | Kennedy put his blazing speed and sheer athletic...
Athletic Bilbao Suffer Injury Blows To Gaizka Toquero & Igor Gabilondo
Goal Athletic Bilbao pairing Gaizka Toquero and Igor Gabilondo give coach Joaquin Caparros injury headache. | By Paul Macdonald | Share Share Athletic Bilbao have suffered a double injury blow, with Gaizka Toquero and Igor Gabilondo ruled out of acti...
Banner Stars In Sprint Field
Sporting Life | Aidan O'Brien's Starspangledbanner features among a final field of 16 runners in Saturday's Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock. | The ex-Australian speedball has already won twice in Group One company on British soil, winning the Golden Jubilee at Royal...
Yankees 4, Athletics 3
Tulsa World Summary: Pinch-runner Darren Ford scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch and throwing error in the eighth inning. | Notable: San Francisco pitcher Tim Lincecum end a career-worst five-start skid that dated back to July 30. ... Ex-Driller Ubaldo Jime...
Commonwealth Games athletes warned over dengue fever
The Independent | A viral fever that spreads through mosquito bites is likely to be highly prevalent during next month's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, health officials in India said yesterday. | Dengue fever - whose symptoms include severe muscle pain, and can be...
Contra Costa Times - Oakland Athletics
Contra Costa Times Reliever James goes from T-Bones to filet mignonNEW YORK -- Justin James' season began with the independent league Kansas City T-Bones, where the schedule took him everywhere from Fargo, N. | ...
Bolt: Sprint rival Gay 'hates my guts'
China Daily 2010-09-02 09:52:07.0Bolt: Sprint rival Gay 'hates my guts'bolt, tyson gay, sprint, race, hate1159085Top News2@webnews/enpproperty--> | LONDON - Olympic champion Usain Bolt said American sprint rival Tyson Gay "probably just hates my guts" because h...
Sprinter Gatlin continues to improve in his comeback
The Star | ROVERETO (Italy): Former Olym­pic 100m champion Justin Gatlin continued to improve in his comeback from a doping ban when he ran 10.09 seconds on Tuesday but Caster Semenya endured an 800m race to forget. | Gatlin, 28, finished second be­­hind Jama...
Semenya defeat down to 'bad day'
The Independent | Caster Semenya's manager says the runner's surprisingly slow performance at a meet in Italy on Tuesday can be explained by fatigue and sickness. | Semenya finished a distant ninth at the Palio della Quercia in Rovereto. In her fifth race after an 1...
ANU to host athletics meet
The Hindu | VIJAYAWADA: The National inter-zonal athletics meet for boys and girls in the age segments of under-14, 16, 18 and 20 will be held at Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur District from September 3 to 5. | Over 1,000 athletes from all over the cou...
Two athletes lose appeals
The Hindu | K.P. Mohan | NEW DELHI: Two leading athletes, javelin thrower Om Narain and hammer thrower Madhu Kumar, have lost their appeals against the two-year suspensions imposed on them by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). | The athletes had appealed ...
Injured athlete makes it to CWG squad
Mumbai Mirror | Navneet Singh | Posted On Thursday, September 02, 2010 at 04:30:08 AM | Quarter-mile runner Manjit Kaur hasn’t really scorched the track in recent times. What’s more, she has been nursing an injury for a while. | But questions over her ...
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