As the European football season enters its climax, the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer saga returns.

Sell? Buy? Hold?

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Belying expectations that the relocated Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament would be a washout, Cricket South Africa (CSA) has sold about 70 per cent of the tickets in the eight venues at which the 56-match Twenty20 tournament will be played.

70 per cent of stadium tickets for IPL sold out

The most prestigious of PGA tournaments is a wholesome sporting event.

No slowdown handicaps this competition!

Thecontroversy between the Indian cricket board-promoted Indian Premier League (IPL) and Essel group's Indian Cricket League (ICL), is likely to see a repeat in Maharashtra in the domestic level of the tournament, this one involving two of the state's most powerful media groups.

Now, a new T20 controversy in Maharashtra

Winners are impossible to predict in this tournament.

Who'll stay the course for the Green Jacket?

Superstition has sprung up around the fact that the person who wins this pre-tournament contest has never won the championship that same year.

The Par 3 course 'bogey' and living legends

Tiger Woods has officially played just 10 rounds of competitive golf in the past nine months, yet enters the Masters Tournament as an overwhelming favourite to claim his 15th career major title.

Woods is Masters 'favourite in first major, since surgery

The world&rsquo;s two leading makers of golf carts like to refer to their slow-moving, four-wheeled vehicles as cars.

Golf-cart industry suffers as courses, players drop

Disregarding any superstitious thought that he who wins the par 3 contest cannot win the Masters in the same year, Tim Clark, the one who often makes provocative but not rude, remarks about Tiger Woods, was the clubhouse leader early in the day.

Let the battle begin

Industrialist Vijay Mallya&rsquo;s top filly, Set Alight, is all set to take on real-estate developer Jaydev Modi and corporate lawyer Zia Modi&rsquo;s colt, Autonomy, this Sunday at the Mahalaxmi Race Course here. Both horses, hot favourites among punters, are competing at the Royal Western Turf Club (RWTC) in the most watched racing event, the McDowell Indian Derby.

Mallya&#39;s &#39;Set Alight&#39; among hot favourites in McDowell Derby

Consulting during a chess game is illegal under normal conditions. It hasn&rsquo;t worked well in experiments. In Kasparov Vs Rest of the World for instance, the RoW made sub-optimal moves at crunch moments. The most popular move was chosen and by definition, those choices were mediocre at inflection points.

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Given the T20 format, KKR should avoid having multiple captains.

One too many

Children of 60 nationalities team up to play, and their parents volunteer their time each year for the Delhi International Football League.

In a league of its own

If it wasn&rsquo;t for prize money, horse racing would be dead. It is the winnings that help in training and grooming the fabulous horses that compete in races.

Money makes the derby run

Theoretically, it is possible that the entire field of 96 plays over the weekend but that would mean that all the players would be within 10 shots of the leader. This has not happened so far and probably will not and, in any case, at the Masters they would have a cut-off at the lowest 44 plus ties. Therefore, there have to be excellent, and favourite, players who will not make the cut.

Course corrections and dramatic swings

Relocating the second edition of the Indian Premier League to South Africa won't throw team owners into the red, thanks to a lucrative new broadcasting deal.

Padding up for profit

Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman Lalit Modi claims 90 per cent of the tickets for the cash-rich Twenty20 event starting tomorrow have been sold at the eight venues.

90% tickets sold: Modi

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There&rsquo;s never a minute when Ramola Bachchan isn&rsquo;t thinking about her brand Manre. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s more than just a restaurant,&rdquo; she says, touring Manre in the morning hours, instructing her staff with a polite smile, and enjoying the sunlight streaming in generously through the large windows of her Italian restaurant that&rsquo;s housed in New Delhi&rsquo;s Select Citywalk.

A Birkin bag and Gucci glasses

Mumbai Indians defeat Chennai Super Kings by 19 runs in the opening match of the Indian Premier League here today.

Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by 19 runs

As the Indian Premier League (IPL) got off to a spectacular start yesterday afternoon, India had plenty to celebrate, other than the fact that the second edition of this lucrative domestic tournament is finally underway against formidable odds, and appears to have defied the Cassandras. To relocate a massive domestic tournament involving players from around the globe to another continent in short order represents an innovative leap of faith, not to mention enormous logistical challenges.

Indian Premium League?

Until six months ago, Rahil Shaikh was a part-time cricketer who used to work as a physical trainer for a local school in Mumbai&rsquo;s Kurla area. This was apart from doing other odd jobs which included repairing air-conditioners. As you can imagine, they weren&rsquo;t the ideal circumstances to play cricket in.

Not just cricket

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