A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
As the year 2016 draws to a close, vote for the best Indian sportsperson of the year.
'Mary just stopped talking to me. Maybe she did not like the fact that she was the gold medallist, but it was me (Sarita), not her, who was getting all the attention.'
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign at the Bilbao Final Masters with a crushing win over former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in Bilbao, Spain.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
Here is a fact-box on Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died on Thursday. He was 25.
BCCI's decision to not send Indian teams for the Asian Games drew sharp criticism from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Saturday, which accused the influential cricket board of treating the sport just as a business venture.
The first Test between India and Australia will be rescheduled, as three senior cricketers of the home side -- Shane Watson, David Warner and Brad Haddin -- are among those who have said that they are not in perfect state of mind to return to competitive cricket.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
Indian chess diva Tania Sachdev holds forth on women in the sport.
