Former India captain Sandeep Singh struck the winning goal from a penalty corner as defending champions Ranchi Rays rallied to beat Jaypee Punjab Warriors 5-4 in a pulsating match and jump to the top position in the Hockey India League, in Ranchi, on Saturday.
Sloppy defending cost India dearly as they conceded a late goal and went down 1-2 to higher-ranked New Zealand in their second league match on Day 2 of the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh.
India crashed to their third straight defeat, losing to China in the KT Cup women's hockey tournament at Seongnam, Korea.
India lost 0-3 to Korea in the six-nation K T Cup women's hockey tournament.
In another match in the Robobank four-nation hockey tournament Germany humbled Pakistan 6-0.
The arch-rivals scored easy victories over South Africa and Japan respectively in the four-nation junior hockey tournament in Karachi.
India made the grade in the four-nation tournament in Japan after the Koreans beat Japan in the last league match.
Spain won their maiden Champions Trophy title beating defending champions Holland 4-2 in the final.
Malaysian coach Paul Lissek feels that India's decision to play agressively would help his side.
The former champions drew with Andhra Pradesh and completed their league engagements with seven points, in the National Games' hockey competition.
The Indian Juniors drubbed Pakistan 5-0 to lift the Six-nation Junior Challenge Cup Hockey tournament in Poland.
"We played well in the first 25 minutes, but thereafter, our defence simply gave in," said Harendra Singh.
Johnson Ekka's hat-trick gave Andhra Pradesh a 4-1 victory over Bengal in the National Games hockey tournament.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Yi Chong Sin scored a hat-trick in a 6-1 victory in the four-nation tournament in Japan.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Meet first-time Indian athletes hoping to make an impression in Rio.
Australia and Belgium got day two of the Champions Trophy hockey off to a roaring start with a stunning 4-4 draw.
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Woods, who finished one stroke behind Casey, lamented a "couple of putts here and there" that could have led to his 80th PGA Tour victory.
Defending champions Australia and New Zealand continued their unbeaten run in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup by thrashing Korea 5-2 and lowly Canada 5-0 respectively in their league matches on the third day of the hockey tournament in Ipoh.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
Iran were banned from an Olympic football qualifying match against Jordan later that year after refusing to remove their hijabs before kick-off.
Rising Indian midfielder Manpreet Singh was named the 'Junior Player of the Year' by the Asian Hockey Federation in its Congress held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The Indian cricket legend said though he grew up playing cricket, not many know that he enjoys other sports as well.
Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Paris Masters ahead of the tournament's start on Monday for "personal reasons", the French Tennis Federation announced on Friday.
'Fantasy players create their own team, get phantom money and start playing the virtual game.'
India trounced Korea 6-1 in their penultimate round-robin match to virtually seal a place in the final of the Sultan of Johor Cup Under-21 hockey tournament, at the Taman Daya Hockey stadium in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on Thursday.
MS Dhoni all set for new innings.
Athletics continued to be India's achilles' heel in its anti-doping campaign, accounting for 21 of the 71 positive tests recorded by the National Anti-Doping Agency in the last one year, according to the latest WADA report.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
At a time when boorish players' behaviour is a cause of concern for cricketing nations, the man earned love, respect, plaudits with his sheer cricketing skills.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
India's defence crumbled in the bronze medal playoff as they crashed to a 1-5 defeat against Great Britain for a fourth-place finish at the World League Semifinals in Antwerp.
