WSG, BCCI's marketing partner, in talks with three companies to sign $200 million deal for ground sponsorship.


Wanted: 3 sponsors for IPL

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Dhoni thinks older players are over the hill, but his boys may not be the solution. 


Bat out the old, bowl in the new

His columns take a partisan line, allegedly on behalf of "millions of Indians"


Little Master as master blaster

Now that five indians have qualified for olympic boxing, medal hopes are high.


Indian boxers make the upper cut

In a what seems to be a lucrative deal for the owners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, nearly 60-65 per cent of their costs have been covered through sale of television rights to

IPL deal seems sweet for franchise owners

Running a multi-billion dollar business is no mean task. It calls for immense energy. Veenu Sandhu lists five super-toned billionaires who know that to stay wealthy, they need to be both wise and healthySome years before he died, Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries, told his younger son, Anil:  "Look Son, you can buy any luxury you want in life  from clothes to food, from a home to a holiday  but you can never buy health. Do whatever it takes to make yourself feel good." The younger Ambani was touching 40 then. He weighed an uncomfortable 105 kg and could barely walk a kilometre in an hour, let alone run. Like his father, his fitness, or rather lack of it, also had his shareholders worried.There was only one option before Ambani: to cut into his busy schedule and take time out to shape up. The inspiration to run, Ambani revealed in UpperCrust, came from another extremely busy man  the then American president, George Bush, who, despite being in his mid-50s, would run at

Fit to lead

Carlsen's rating peak has focused attention on calculation methodology. Ratings have inflated since the launch in 1970.

Chess (#1034)

The leading men played overtime in Rod Laver Arena in the homestretch of the Australian Open this year, and often exchanged pleasantries with Laver. Rafael Nadal expressed his gratitude that Laver, 73, one of the greatest to play the game, was courtside for their matches. Roger Federer, who has an affinity with Australian tennis, sat next to Laver in a television studio and compared notes with him on rivalries and eras. Novak Djokovic called him &ldquo;Mr Laver&rdquo; after meeting him for the first time and then apologised because nobody serves and volleys anymore. &ldquo;We are running around the baseline,&rdquo; Djokovic said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry about that.

Djoko Slam

Levon Aronyan won his third Tata Steel with a 2891 performance and healthy one-point lead. His rating climbs to 2824, within shouting distance of Magnus Carlsen who should be around 2834. Aronyan scored 9 from 13 (+7,=4,-2). Carlsen shared second-fourth with Radjabov and Caruana (all 8). Radjabov was the only undefeated player. In Group B, Harikrishna scored 9 (+6,-1,=6) to hold first place and win a promotion to the 2013 A Group with a 2738 performance.

Chess (#989)

If there is a truly memorable moment in VVS Laxman&rsquo;s glittering career then it is not the magnificent 281 against Australia in that Test match in Kolkata in 2001 or even the 167 against Australia in Sydney in 1999. It was when India was playing &mdash; who else but Australia? &mdash; in 2010 at Mohali. India, chasing a modest target of 216, had collapsed to 124/8 but Laxman had an 81-run partnership with Ishant Sharma.

The curious case of Laxman

An hour and a half after we are to meet, I am still waiting at Pullela Gopichand&rsquo;s office. So are others: parents, vendors, guests. &ldquo;Saturdays are the busiest days for us,&rdquo; his secretary tells us.

Schooling aspiration

The first sight that greets you in Sansarpur is the hockey ground. And why not &mdash; after all, this small village a few kilometers from Jalandhar cantonment was at one time the hotbed of Indian hockey. The village of 6,000 has produced 14 Olympians, 19 internationals who played for India and over 150 players who played for various national-level teams over the years. That&rsquo;s not all. From 1928 to 1980, the Indian hockey team won 11 Olympic medals and in all but four occasions, a lad from Sansarpur was in the team. But that was in the past.

Hockey's lost ground

Aeroflot ended in a photo-finish with Polish GM Mateusz Bartel, and the Ukrainian duo of Anton Korobov and Pavel Eljanov tied with 6.5/9. Bartel had the best tiebreak and makes it to Dortmund. The best Indian performance came from Sasikiran who tied for 9th with 5.5. Among other notable performances, two 14-year-olds, Russian Grigoriy Oparin and Vaibhav Suri both scored GM norms while the 12-year-old Chinese FM Wei Yi managed an IM norm.

Chess (#990)

From bursting into tears to breaking racquets or turning abusive, tennis greats have been known to give in to emotional outbursts. A Seshan looks back at some such classic moments.

Tears and tantrums on the tennis court

The contours of the next two title cycles (until 2016) are becoming clear.

Chess (#991)

Risks dog sportspersons at every step of their career. 


SAI insures sportspersons, but that`s it

A morale-boosting win clinched in the opening Test, a confident India will look to consolidate their position by putting up another dominant performance in the second cricket Test against Australia starting here tomorrow.

Upbeat India aims at increasing lead in Hyderabad

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London Olympics bronze-medallist woman pugilist M C Mary Kom has finally been alloted the plot of land promised to her by the Manipur government to expand her boxing academy.

Mary Kom gets land promised by state govt for academy

India clinched the first cricket Test against Australia with a comfortable eight-wicket victory to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series here today with their spinners taking all the 20 wickets for only the third time in their Test history.

India clinch Chennai Test by eight wickets

Virender Sehwag and Munaf Patel were today recalled to the Indian squad for the first two one-dayers against Sri Lanka starting February 8.<BR><BR>Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina and Ramesh Powar were

Team India recalls Sehwag, Munaf

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Diabolical wins McDowell Indian Derby - Video

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