The six-time men’s champion survived a huge scare, while Djokovic recovered from being a set down to beat Radek Stepanek Dave James LONDON: Roger Federer kept his dreams of equalling Pete Sampras’s record of seven Wimbledon titles narrowly alive on Friday as top seeds Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova also reached the last 16. Six-time [...]
Tom Williams KIEV: Amid all the surprising criticism that they have attracted during Euro 2012, finalists Spain can at least reflect happily on the universal admiration shown for Andres Iniesta. In a team of compulsive passers, Iniesta is the one player who can be relied upon to provide the dribble or the sudden forward dash [...]
Barnaby Chesterman KIEV: His coach may not believe he has even an hour in his legs but however long he plays, Antonio Cassano could easily make the difference between Italy returning from Ukraine as heroes or nearly men on Monday. Back in October of last year the AC Milan forward’s very participation in the Euros [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Yohan Blake served notice he will be ready to challenge for the Olympic 100m title by upstaging world record holder Usain Bolt to win in 9.75 seconds at the Jamaican Olympic Athletic Trials on Friday. “Coach [Glen] Mills told me I can do it and I believed,” said an elated Blake. “The Olympics [...]
Rebecca Bryan OMAHA, Nebraska: Ryan Lochte came out on top in another semi-final tussle with Michael Phelps Friday at the US Olympic swimming trials as he set himself up for a tilt at a 200m backstroke-medley double. Lochte settled for bronze in the 200m medley at the Beijing Olympics behind Phelps and Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh, [...]
EUGENE, Oregon: Sanya Richards-Ross (pictured right) moved closer to a London Olympics 200-400 double while injured sprinter Walter Dix lost a chance for a sprint medal repeat at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials on Friday. Richards-Ross ran this year’s world second-best time of 22.15 to lead eight finalists into a women’s 200m showdown [...]
Trampoline: The Trampoline competition at the 2012 Game-s, the newest of the three Gymnastics discipl-ines on the Olym-pic progra-mme. Devised in the 1930s at the University of Iowa, the first modern trampoline was initially used as a training tool for tumblers, astronauts and athletes. However, it gre-w in popularity to such an extent that in [...]
Rains on Friday afternoon created a miserable situation for the travelling public and businesses along Prakash Nagar road. Despite claims of coordination among various departments, work is done on busy roads but rarely restored, causing avoidable trouble and accidents to the unwary “What would happen if a surgeon conducts an operation and leaves the wound [...]
Dirty clothes piled on the floor, torn and filthy socks, papers strewn all over and a stinking room, if you thought these are the only things a roommate is capable of, well — think again Neha Alluri feedback@postnoon.com “He was a normal kid in high school but something happened when we reached college. He was [...]
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About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
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