A look at celebrities who have gone naked for a good cause.
World champion P V Sindhu was on Friday ousted from the All England Championship after being outplayed by a determined Nozomi Okuhara of Japan, who rallied her way to a thrilling three-game win in the quarter-final of the women's singles in Birmingham. Sindhu's defeat ended India's campaign at the Super 1000 tournament.
China's Premier Wen Jiabao has urged the men's national basketball team to "win honor for the motherland" during the Beijing Olympics. Wen turned up at a team practice session on Sunday, shaking hands with coaches and players, including China's favorite sportsman Yao Ming, who plays for the NBA's Houston Rockets.
Many or sometimes all the teachers are pulled into administrative and other non-teaching duties, says Anjuli Bhargava.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat will open the 2013-14 National Basketball Association season at home against the Chicago Bulls, the NBA announced on Tuesday.
Here is a round-up of results from the European League matches played on Wednesday
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Formidable Tamil Nadu XI will lead the men's challenge, while women's winners Southern Railway will defend their title, in the All India Ramu Memorial Basketball Tournament.
Former world number one Kim Clijsters will come out of retirement to play on the tour during the US hardcourt season later this year, the Belgian said on Thursday. According to her plans, Clijsters will make her comeback in the Cincinnati Open which begins on August 10 and continue her build-up for Flushing Meadows the following week in the Toronto Cup.
The government of Switzerland and the NBA want to use Sachin Tendulkar and other top cricketers for furthering social causes through advertisements.
Nadal's comments follow media reports this week that Novak Djokovic, the president of the Players' Council, had urged players to unionise at a pre-Australian Open meeting and revolt over the way the revenues from the four grand slams are distributed.
After spending two seasons with the team as player, Australia's two-time World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting will take over as head coach of Mumbai Indians for the eighth season of the Indian Premier League. He will replace John Wright, who was the team's coach for Season 6 and 7.
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Euphoric crowds chanting "Go Olympics, Go Beijing" cheered the Olympic flame through Tiananmen Square on Wednesday.
While Aishwarya Rai enjoys a small part in "Asterix at the Olympics", what has us really excited is the charioteer and patron combination of Michael Schumacher and Jean Todt.
'I do think, though, that Twenty20 cricket should become franchise dominated'
The newly-launched All Sports Magazine promises to provide innovative coverage and analysis of both international and Indian sport.
'They cannot use firearms.' 'They have to be restrained.' 'It is a game of patience and chess board moves.' 'It is not like India and Pakistan where bullets get fired and people get killed.'
The Australian government has demanded the country's most funded sports rein in gender discrimination for travel arrangements to major events or risk having their support cut.
The Hollywood-based football star is starting to feel the pressure of the paparazzi.
International Cricket Council Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Speed on Wednesday admitted that it will be a huge challenge to integrate Twenty20 cricket with the existing formats of ODIs and Test cricket. The veteran administrator said there is no rush or demand as of now to create a window for the IPL and the BCCI has still not approached the ICC for the same.
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Hot favorites the United States won Olympic men's basketball gold by beating Spain 118-107 in a final. Athens champions Argentina took bronze by outmuscling Lithuania in a 87-75 victory earlier on the final day of the Games.
Sixteen years after being an unused reserve at her home Sydney Olympics, Australian rider Sue Hearn will finally make her Games debut at the age of 60 in Rio.
A chest-thumping Yao Ming relentlessly powered Olympic hosts China to their first victory in the men's basketball competition on Thursday.
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino promised that the tournament would leave a lasting legacy and there are "concrete plans" to make sure the stadiums are used in the future.
Australian swashbuckling all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has slammed the amended rule that deemed his spectacular catch during the fourth ODI against England as legal at Headingley.
Senthamarai, 65, and P Shanmugavel, 70, became an Internet sensation after beating back armed robbers.
The unfortunate thing is that the film will leave a poor impression of the IAF's and indeed of the armed forces's ability to handle sensitive social matters within their professional space, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
Eva Longoria's 3-week honeymoon is over, and she's back at work.
Trinidad native John Mitchell dabbled in basketball and baseball after arriving in the United States at the age of 9. But it took the introduction of cricket at his New York school to find a sport he felt at home with. "I never got the hang of it," the 17-year-old says of baseball, even though, like cricket, it involves hitting a ball with a bat.
It was a day of role reversal as Jose Mourinho's often cautious Chelsea thumped Everton 6-3 in a thriller on Saturday while champions Manchester City's attacking talents were blunted in a shock 1-0 home defeat by Stoke City.
Organisers have urged athletes in Australia for the Commonwealth Games to respect the terms of their entry visas after Cameroon reported that a third of their team had gone missing on Wednesday.
Trump quipped that it was a 'tough decision' to make his voting choice.
The San Antonio Spurs dispatched the Cleveland Cavaliers 85-76 in Game 1 of the NBA Championship finals.
American Frances Tiafoe celebrated his 21st birthday by stunning Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 7-6(6), 6-7(1), 7-5 in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday.
The skipper and wicket-keeper star in Reebok's new global campaign.
