Veteran basketball player James Donaldson has advised sportspersons dealing with mental health issues to stay away from cell phones and social media.
As in all successful comebacks, strong leadership will be key for the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals.
For 2020, 13 brands are said to be on board already and advertising rates have been fixed at a premium of 10-15 per cent over 2019.
Improving performances across a range of activities, including sport, might be as simple as applying an established but little known psychological theory, according to a recent study.
New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham will miss the second Test against India in Kolkata due to the rib injury that kept him out of the first match in Kanpur, coach Mike Hesson said on Wednesday.
Ireland shocked former champions West Indies by four wickets in a Pool B match in the ICC World Cup at Saxton Field in Nelson.
David Beckham will take centre stage when the Olympic flag is handed to London at Sunday's closing ceremony in Beijing. Beckham, whose popularity in China dwarfs that of even record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps or sprint sensation Usain Bolt, will take part in London 2012's eight-minute slot in the Games finale designed to showcase the next host city.
The Olympics have come a long way since the first one in Athens where athletes alone mattered. Over a century later, technology too is helping athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics games to smash records.
Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian threw down his greco-roman bronze medal in protest on Thursday after his bid for Olympic gold was ended by a decision denounced by the Swedish coach as "politics". Abrahamian took the bronze from around his neck during the medal ceremony, stepped from the podium and dropped it in the middle of the wrestling mat then walked off.
Few people agree on what is the single most important factor but the general consensus is that it is partly technological, partly psychological.
Track and field world champion Tyson Gay and swimmer Katie Hoff have been named the US Olympic Committee (USOC) sportsman and sportswoman of 2007, the organisation announced on Thursday. The USOC also named wheelchair track and field athlete Jessica Galli its Paralympian of the year and the US women's world championships gymnastics squad its team of the year.
The good folks at Men's Health have very helpfully listed why they believe are the fittest men of all time.
In a major breakthrough, neuroscientists claim to have identified the areas of the brain that help us to be optimistic, stated an article in the Nature magazine. Knowing which regions of the brain are affected should help us understand the tendency of being optimistic and avoid being negative. It could also assist in unpicking the mechanisms of depression, which is related to pessimism and affects the same network of brain regions, the report noted.
The first gold of Olympics day nine went to Romania when Constantina Tomescu crossed the finish first in the Bird's Nest stadium after a marathon run that began in Tiananmen Square. Catherine Ndereba of Kenya took silver and Zhou Chunxiu of China the bronze, with Britain's world record holder Paula Radcliffe struggling with fitness and well back.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi on Wednesday inched closer to their first joint Olympic medal by reaching the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event.
The Indian challenge in the Olympics badminton competition ended on Wednesday when Saina Nehwal bowed out of the women's singles following a quarter-final loss to Indonesian Maria Kristin Yulianti. The 18-year-old Indian, playing in her first Olympics, was beaten 28-26, 14-21, 15-21 by the world No 16 after a thrilling contest.
Ask athletes what goes into Olympic gold medals, and they will likely say sweat and years of training. For Brazil's National Mint the answer is simpler: recycled silver.
With a jaunty victory dance, 101- year-old Man Kaur celebrated winning the 100 metres sprint at the World Masters Games in Auckland on Monday, the 17th gold medal in the Indian athlete's remarkable late-blooming career.
VVirat Kohli's franchise wants to unite fans on an innovative digital community platform.
The broadcast made an estimated Rs20 billion in ad sales revenues from the IPL this year
The Aussies won the women's Olympic 4x100 metres freestyle relay title for only the second time in nearly 50 years and broke the world record in a thrilling final.
Le Clos, however, was only able to clinch gold in the 50m butterfly in the first final of second day's programme and faded over the last leg to finish seventh in the 200m freestyle. South Africa finished sixth in the 4x100m relay.
The 21-year-old Aussie won in 3:43.10 seconds, just outside his own world record and just ahead of Grant Hackett and Klete Keller.
The 21-year-old is hoping to provide Japan with their first male Olympic champion since Daichi Suzuki won the 100m backstroke in 1988.
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has launched its daily services to Mumbai and plans to start thrice-a-week flights from Abu Dhabi to Delhi from December.
Pieter van den Hoogenband took silver while Michael Phelps collected the bronze.
History will tell you there is no such thing as a certainty in sport but there is at least one swimmer looming as a sure bet to win gold in Athens.
'It is very close to Puma's deal with Kohli in terms of yearly sponsorship.' 'Sindhu will get Rs 40 crore as sponsorship while the rest will be for equipment.'
Irrespective of demonetisation and GST blues, IIM Lucknow has been able to successfully place their batch of 459 students.
The 11th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) kicks off on Saturday with two reinstated teams and a new broadcaster in a fresh testament to its undiminished appeal to India's incurably cricket-obsessed masses.
New Zealand fast bowler Adam Milne has been ruled out of the remainder of the cricket World Cup after suffering pain in his heel and has been replaced in the squad by Matt Henry, the team said on Monday.
As many as 80 brands are riding the digital and television broadcast this year.
From soccer genius Lionel Messi to sprint king Usain Bolt, a shimmering array of the world's greatest sports stars are in the race for top honours at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards -- also called the 'Oscars of Sport' -- to be presented.
The United States won its 1,000th Olympic gold medal on Saturday when the American women's 4x100 metre medley relay team clinched victory at the Rio Games.
Australia will not apologise to China after Mack Horton called his rival and fellow Olympic swimming gold medallist Sun Yang a ''drug cheat'', delegation head Kitty Chiller said on Tuesday.
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