Colombia became the first side to book a spot in the Copa America Centenario quarter-finals on Tuesday after beating Paraguay in Pasadena, while the United States kept their hopes of advancing alive by thrashing Costa Rica 4-0. Colombia's 2-1 win put them top of Group A on six points, with the United States on three and the other two teams on one point each. After losing their opener 2-0 to Colombia, the United States were in clinical form against the Costa Ricans in Chicago and scored three times in the first half through Clint Dempsey, Jermaine Jones and Bobby Wood. Substitute Graham Zusi added a fourth in the 86th minute to cap the win and improve the hosts' goal difference.
Sri Lanka picked a four-man pace attack with all rounder Farveez Maharoof taking the place of injured spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said the deadline for receiving applications is September 15 after which they will be scrutinised.
Dr Ravi Prakash's 250 vintage car collection includes J R D Tata's 1940 Buick Limousine and a Sunbeam-Talbot used by Lord Mountbatten.
Graham Thorpe discusses India's series win in England and his career.
The commerce ministry has allowed the technical expert group headed by former Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Chief R A Mashelkar to correct the "technical inacuracies" in the patent law report and re-submit it within three months.
'This is a historic juncture when the US is in great need of an alliance with India to strengthen its hands in the fierce struggle with China in the Asian theatre,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah says there is no national pride attached when you play or work for something like the ICL.
In a series of votes on Tuesday, lawmakers rejected a no-deal Brexit by 318 votes to 310, undermining the government's argument that Britain would be willing to crash out of the EU without an agreement.
Almost three weeks after Graham Ford turned down the offer to coach the Indian cricket team, the Board of Control for Cricket in India added a new angle to the embarrassing episode with Board president Sharad Pawar disclosing that the South African w
Liverpool's chief executive says the 60-70-million-pound cost of redeveloping the Anfield Road end of the club's iconic stadium is difficult to justify as a business deal. Ian Ayre told a meeting of Liverpool Supporters' Committee (LSC) that it could take 15 years to pay back, which he said was "not a smart investment for the business". Liverpool opened their redeveloped Main Stand earlier this season, raising seating capacity to more than 54,000, and have outline planning permission to extend Anfield Road by a further 4,800.
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The president of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpischev has been fined $25,000 and banned from the women's tour for a year after referring to Serena and Venus Williams as "the Williams brothers" on a television chat show last week.
The Board's Working Committee meeting in Delhi will consider the situation arising out of Ford's rejection.
Graham Ford and Duncan Fletcher are the latest names linked to the Indian coaching post.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have faced lot of flak for his team's embarrassing ODI series defeat against Bangladesh but Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi is "not happy" in the manner the Indian ODI captain was being targeted.
Dara Singh, serving a life sentence for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, and 12 others were acquitted on Monday in a case relating to the burning of a truck and murder of its helper.
Caroline Wozniacki has revealed what really happened during her unexpected breakup with fianc, golfer Rory McIlroy.
Alastair Cook is now England's leading Test match run-scorer.
'If the factors there are right for me, then I would surely consider it,' the Leicestershire coach said.
The former England captain says the ace batsman is in good form and should score his maiden hundred at the hallowed ground in the first Test against England.
The India captain said it was not right for anyone with doubts to take up the demanding job.
Besides being an experienced player, former India captain Chandu Borde is also quite a seasoned hand at cricket administration.
'After the unfortunate experience with Graham Ford, we've decided to tread carefully with regard to the selection and appointment of the chief coach,' said the BCCI secretary.
South Africa's Graham Ford has turned down the post of India's new national cricket coach and has decided to stay with Kent, his county club said on Monday.
The letter is now said to have been written by Thomas W Graham, an academic working on non-proliferation matters who was active on issues pertaining to India.\n\n
BCCI has invited the former England bowler for discussions in Chennai on June 9.
'I thank Sachinpaaji for taking me to Coach Gary Kirsten and telling him that 'Sreesanth should play' (in the World Cup final against Sri Lanka) and thanks to Dhonibhai for giving me that opportunity.'
With business worth billions of dollars to be gained from India, American groups are working overtime to facilitate the United States' participation in the Asian powerhouse's nuclear sector, says a Washington Post report.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
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IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
While Dara had filed an appeal challenging his conviction and the life sentence awarded to him, CBI has sought enhancement of the life sentence.
Which film should have been selected as India's entry to the 2006 Oscars?
Western investors are keen on investing in the shares of growing Indian companies, a senior official of London Stock Exchange said on Thursday while inviting more domestic firms to raise capital from the world's premier bourse.
He expressed hope that it will also benefit a large number of Hindi-speaking umpires and those giving training in this field, to whom the rules in English are hard to understand.
The veteran fast bowler was named in a 30-man provisional squad for the ICC Champions Trophy in India but there was no place for Monty Panesar
West Indies batsman Chris Gayle smashed fifty from 12 balls for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League on Monday to match India's Yuvraj Singh's record for the fastest half-century in Twenty20 cricket.
