A series of recent scandals engulfing officials working on the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Games
Mountaineer Bachendri Pal was, on Friday, conferred with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, while Gautam Gambhir, BajranG Punia and Sunil Chhetri, among others, received the Padma Shri.
Pooches great and small put their best paw forward at the Common Woof Games. The Melbourne Dog Lovers Show -- running from May 4 to May 6 -- is celebrating the year of the dog by testing their speed, strength, agility, and endurance in a series of 11 events -- from high jump to hurdles, and barrel racing to basketball.
Several Australian Olympic athletes were taken for questioning by Brazilian police late on Friday for entering the basketball arena without proper accreditation to watch a semi-final game between Australia and Serbia, an Australian team official said.
The departing directors had criticised the club's handling of a social media scandal and expressed doubts about the board's ability to handle the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a 70% players' pay cut.
A bus carrying journalists at the Rio Games was hit by gunfire on a highway between Olympic venues on Tuesday, witnesses said. No one was seriously injured in the incident. The bus was making its way from the Games basketball venue to the main Olympic park when, according to passengers, two shots were heard hitting the vehicle. Windows shattered and flying glass left two people with minor lacerations.
India has famously been a one-sport country, with sponsors and audiences obsessed with cricket. Robust economic growth and greater exposure, however, have recently encouraged commercial and consumer interest in sports from soccer to Formula One motor racing and the Olympics.
Real Madrid's playing and coaching staff have voluntarily agreed to take a wage cut of between 10 and 20 percent this year to help the club deal with the stoppage caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the La Liga side said in a statement on Wednesday. While Bundesliga club Schalke 04 have asked season ticket holders to waive their right to a rebate and help the cash-strapped club through the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Hall of Famer Michael Jordan has agreed to buy a controlling interest in the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, majority owner Bob Johnson said on Saturday. Johnson said further details would come from the NBA. Owners of the NBA's 29 other franchises must approve the sale.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Monday there will be no decision on ending the league's coronavirus shutdown until May at the earliest. In mid-March, with five weeks remaining in the 82-game schedule, the NBA suspended its season until further notice after a player tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Riding on the success of the just-concluded FIFA World Cup 2010, Satyam Computer Services Ltd (rebranded Mahindra Satyam) is gearing up to provide its technology backbone solutions to two more world sporting events.
Simanta Roy looks beyond Sim Bhullar's 7'5" tall, 360-pound frame to the player who became the first athlete of Indian descent to secure an NBA contract.
Andy Murray said he hoped the players and their family members who tested positive recovered soon and added that the tournament should not have gone ahead in hindsight.
Roger Federer launched his bid for an 18th grand slam title with a workmanlike 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) win over Marinko Matosevic to ease into the second round of the US Open on Tuesday, with NBA great Michael Jordan leading the cheering.
'If I make content for my 16-year-old son, I have to keep in mind that the timelines are not too long.' 'To make someone sit and watch an episode for 20-25 minutes or 45-50 minutes, I have to ensure that the plot is always on the move.'
Pau Gasol, a two-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion and a three-time All-Star, will travel to Mumbai and Delhi next week to further the growth of basketball and the NBA in the world's second-largest nation.
On his maiden trip to India, American basketball star Dwight Howard on Friday said he would be happy to share his knowledge of the game with the country's cagers, if asked, and also emphasised the need to train coaches for the development of the sport.
Some young and healthy people in the United States who have contracted the new coronavirus are becoming seriously ill, the top US official on infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, told NBA star Stephen Curry in an interview on Thursday. Many falsely believe the virus, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States, is only a threat to the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, Fauci told the basketball player in a live interview aimed at reaching a younger audience via social media.
US Ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer, was in Mumbai this week to pay tribute to 26/11 victims and to lay out a path for future US-India relations.
Dia Mirza will appear in Kaafir, which will be streamed on ZEE5.
Joe Root is a doubtful starter for the first Test in July as he will be required to undergo seven days of self-isolation after attending the birth of his second child.
NBA legend AC Green launched the Mahindra-NBA Challenge in Mumbai on Saturday.
Rookie New Orleans Pelicans basketball player Bryce Dejean-Jones died after being shot early on Saturday when he broke into a Dallas apartment, authorities said.
Charlotte Hornets and owner and former NBA great Michael Jordan and golfer Tiger Woods, who rarely speak out on social issues, have also called for change.
We're back... Round Two of the line up of Miss India 2017 contestants.
Model Akshara Balakrishna, 21, tells us what it is like to be a dark skinned model in India.
India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the sole Indian sportsman to figure on Forbes' list of the world's most valuable athlete brands, a list that has been topped by American basketball player LeBron James and includes golfer Tiger Woods and tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
New Zealand's towering new all-rounder Kyle Jamieson provided a second consecutive match-winning performance in the second Test against India at Hagley Oval on Monday as the home side clinched a 2-0 series win. He took Player of the Series honours after taking 5-45 in India's first innings followed by 49 batting at number nine as India's pace bowlers fought back on a green pitch offering extravagant movement off the seam.
All five teams from within a division will play all five teams from one other intraconference division twice at home, and all five teams from the remaining intraconference division twice on the road.
The 1992 basketball "Dream Team", alpine skier Picabo Street and sprinter Michael Johnson headlined the list of inductees into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday.
Baseball is one of several sports seeking a slice of the huge Indian market and its similarity with cricket, often called a religion in the country of 1.4 billion, could give it a head start, Major League Baseball (MLB) officials hope. MLB spent a decade and half studying the market before opening a sixth international office in New Delhi last year and was encouraged by the throwing, hitting and catching techniques that link America's pastime and India's obsession.
Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant, arguably the best player of his generation, announced on Sunday he will retire after the 2015-16 National Basketball Association season.
Kyle Jamieson said he believed he was capable of rapid improvement in both speed and general performance.
Japan's Mima Ito took the bronze medal after beating Han Ying of Germany in straight games.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar will be among the many high-profile guests gracing the premier Laureus World Sports Awards Ceremony, scheduled to be held in Shanghai on April 15.
'There are times when you give an audition and it doesn't even reach the director.' 'In such a scenario, what can I do? 'More than nepotism, it's about favouritism.'
Former NBA star Lamar Odom was hospitalized on Tuesday after he was found unresponsive at a Nevada brothel, law enforcement officials said.
'These reports of cases being very low in other states, is it true? Are the numbers believable?'
"My next goal is to own a basketball team, buy a basketball team, not coach," the five-times NBA most valuable player said.
Initially, it is targeting locations such as upmarket malls in major cities, such as Delhi and the surrounding region, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
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