Djokovic gives match-winning racquet to boy 'with right tactics'

Novak Djokovic said he gave away his French Open winning racquet to a young boy watching courtside for 'giving me the right tactics'

P.T Usha urges Kerala CM to vaccinate athletes taking part in National Championships

National Inter-State Champioships, to be held in Patiala, will be the last chance for the Indian athletes to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics

Yes. Tokyo Olympics are 'a go' despite opposition, pandemic

IOC Vice President John Coates has said the games will open on July 23 - state of emergency, or no state of emergency

10,000 Olympic volunteers quit ahead of Games: Organisers

Some of the volunteers are likely also to be among the approximately 80 percent of people in Japan who oppose hosting the Games this year

‘Olympics, the driving force during pandemic’

Badminton player Sai Praneeth who won bronze in the 2019 World Championship, expresses confidence of an impressive show in Tokyo Olympics

Suspended IPL to be finished in United Arab Emirates

BCCI to ask the global governing body for more time to make a decision on whether the Twenty20 World Cup should be held in India

Stinking HCA scrap rises to the top

The former Indian captain is in a tight corner and outnumbered

BCCI served notice to transfer IPL-14 earnings to relief funds

In a 8-page legal notice, the copy in possession of this reporter, Nair has demanded an apology from IPL chairman and BCCI president

BCCI blinks, IPL suspended

A rampant Covid-19 infects many players leaving BCCI with no choice but to call off the tournament indefinitely

IPL players chip in for covid relief

Individual cricketers are contributing generously. But will that silence the critics of the IPL?

Messi surpasses Pele’s 643 goals record

The easy win puts Barca two points behind Sociedad and fourth-placed Villarreal, who drew 1-1 at home with Athletic Bilbao

Real Madrid, Atletico into Champions League last 16 as PSG win suspended game

Neymar scored a hat-trick as Paris Saint-Germain beat Istanbul Basaksehir

SC East Bengal suffer third loss on trot, beaten 0-2 by NorthEast United

The win took the Highlanders to the second spot with eight points as they remained unbeaten from four matches.

Ronaldo scores twice as Juve crush Messi’s troubled Barcelona

Both sides, tied on 15 points, were assured of qualification before kick-off, but Juve’s victory handed them a superior head-to-head record

Manchester derby fires blanks, Newcastle’s Almiron scores in 20 seconds

Miguel Almiron scored in 20 seconds as Newcastle beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1

Saina lashes out at Badminton World Federation

In a series of tweets Saina expressed her displeasure at the restrictions imposed by BWF as part of its Covid-19 protocols

Badminton star PV Sindhu slams scribe for false report

The newspaper reported that Sindhu “left the country in a huff apparently after tensions in her family,”

When Sindhu thought one more day at All England will make no difference

In England, no one was wearing masks except us, once we were outside the hotel and in the stadium

'Silver Sindhu' tag made me go desperately for world title

I had won seven to eight silvers in a row in 2017, people started telling me 'you have a final phobia' and you always lose

Uncertainty continues over hosting of Thomas and Uber Cup

The tournaments are scheduled for August 15-23 in Denmark, but fresh doubts arose with Danish govt placing a ban on "larger gatherings"

I am excited to start a new chapter of my life: Gagan Narang

Gagan Narang talks about his approaching wedding with the Commonwealth Games gold-medallist, Annu Raj Singh

Athletics coach Nikolai Snesarev found dead at NIS Patiala hostel room

The dead body of the 72-year-old Snesarev has been sent to a government hospital for post mortem

Olympic-bound Chopra shatters own javelin throw national record at IGP

Neeraj hurled the spear to a distance of 88.07cm in his fifth attempt to obliterate his earlier national record of 88.06m

Tiger Woods in hospital after major crash

Tiger underwent surgery for multiple leg injuries following the early morning wreck near Los Angeles

Harden reigns as Rockets hit target

Wall tallied 22 points and nine assists for the Rockets, who was also playing his first game