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IBL: Doubles players not being given importance say Jwala and Ashwini
Other Sports | Aug 14, 2013, 06:38 PM ISTNew Delhi: Top Indian shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa said here on Wednesday that the administrators of the sport give more importance to singles and doubles players are being ignored.India's singles shuttlers are doing
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Four more players sign up for IMG-Reliance League
Football | Aug 07, 2013, 04:40 PM ISTMumbai, Aug 7: IMG-Reliance, marketing partners of the All India Football Federation, has signed four more domestic players for its proposed IPL-style league early next year, it was learnt today.“Four more players have signed with
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New Zealand Cricket names 20 contracted players
Cricket | Jul 08, 2013, 08:44 AM ISTWelington, July 8: New Zealand Cricket has named six newcomers on its annual list of 20 contracted players as national coach Mike Hesson attempts to refresh a team plagued by under-performance.Promising all-rounder Corey Anderson, test
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Wimbledon: Kvitova 1st player into quarterfinals
Tennis | Jul 01, 2013, 07:34 PM ISTLondon, Jul 1: Former champion Petra Kvitova became the first player to reach the quarterfinals at this year's Wimbledon, beating Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday.She was joined minutes later by
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US football player taken from home in handcuffs
Other Sports | Jun 26, 2013, 06:48 PM ISTNorth Attleborough (Massachusetts),Jun 26: American football player Aaron Hernandez has been taken from his home in handcuffs after a Boston semi-pro football player was found dead in an industrial park a mile from his house.Family
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FIFA bans Basel, Ivory Coast player for 4 months
Football | Jun 07, 2013, 01:28 PM ISTBasel, Jun 7: FIFA has suspended Basel and Ivory Coast midfielder Geoffroy Serey Die for four months over a five-year-old contract dispute, the Swiss champion said Thursday.Basel said that Serey Die, who joined the club
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Liverpool player Suso fined for tweet
Football | Dec 19, 2012, 04:35 PM ISTLondon, Dec 19: Liverpool midfielder Suso has been fined 10,000 pounds ($16,000) for posting a tweet about teammate Jose Enrique.The Spaniard last month posted a photo of Enrique having his teeth whitened and wrote on
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Chelsea player Mikel banned for 3 matches for confronting referee
Football | Dec 07, 2012, 02:57 PM ISTLondon, Dec 7: Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel was banned for three matches and fined 60,000 pounds ($96,400) on Thursday for confronting an English Premier League referee in the official's changing room. The Nigeria international
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Mumbai player Javed Khan takes two England wickets hours after his father dies
Cricket | Nov 15, 2012, 04:14 PM ISTMumbai, Nov 4 : On Friday midnight Mumbai A player Javed Khan's father Mohammed Jayish Khan passed away in a hospital while undergoing open heart surgery, and the very next day Javed was to play
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Bollywood is killing Hindustani culture, says sitar player Imrat Khan
Bollywood | Oct 07, 2012, 10:52 AM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 7: Leading sitar exponent Imrat Khan of the Etawah gharana, who is one of the few surviving players of surbahar, a variation of veena, says that India should put clamps on "sleazy
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Chris Gayle is just another player, says Mahela Jayawardene
Cricket | Oct 06, 2012, 04:28 PM ISTColombo, Oct 6: He is the most talked about player ahead of the World Twenty20 final but for Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene, the explosive Chris Gayle is “just another player in a very good
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Ronaldo's decision to wait didn't help Portugal
Football | Jun 28, 2012, 08:07 PM ISTPoland, Jun28: Cristiano Ronaldo is the kind of player that can change a game with one moment of excellence, the kind of player every team wants to have when the game is on the line.Until,
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David Beckham no longer highest-paid player
Football | May 26, 2012, 03:59 PM ISTNew York, May 26: David Beckham is no longer Major League Soccer's highest-paid player after his salary was cut nearly 40 percent in his new contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy.The former England captain has
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Hockey Player Dilip Tirkey, 2 Others Elected To RS From Odisha
India | Mar 23, 2012, 04:56 PM ISTBhubaneswar, Mar 22: Hockey legend and former Indian captain, Dilip Tirkey was among the three persons who were today declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabja from Odisha.Besides Tirkey, BJD leader Rabi Narayan Mohapatra of Nayagarh
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Jelena Docik Reunites With Father After 8 Years
Tennis | Sep 28, 2011, 12:15 PM ISTMelbourne, Sept 28: Troubled Australian tennis player Jelena Dokic says he has reconciled with her father and former coach, Damir, after an eight-year rift.Dokic, 28, who was ranked as high as No. 4 as a
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Banned Bahrain Player Joins Australian Club
Football | Aug 16, 2011, 11:03 AM ISTBrisbane, Australia, Aug 16 : Banned Bahrain defender Sayed Mohamed Adnan has joined Australia's Brisbane Roar in a one-year deal.Adnan, a Shiite Muslim, was one of several players not included in Bahrain's World Cup qualifying
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BCCI Showdown With Lanka Cricket Averted
Cricket | Apr 21, 2011, 06:45 PM ISTColombo/New Delhi, Apr 21: The possibility of a bitter showdown between the BCCI and Sri Lanka Cricket appears to have been averted with the island nation's government hinting that the deadline for its players' return