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England midfielder David Beckham will return to AC Milan on loan in January after the Italian club reached an agreement with Los Angeles Galaxy on Monday.

Chris Gayle was reinstated as West Indies captain to lead a full-strength squad on a three-test tour of Australia later this month.

Japanese tyre maker Bridgestone Corp said on Monday it would quit Formula One next year, dealing a further blow to the sport after the recent withdrawal of other high-profile firms due to the global downturn.

It was 7 in the morning on October 25 and I was merrily biding my time at the hotel in Vadodara waiting for the clock to strike 8 am before leaving for the ground.

In an article in the November issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers Association for England, Sean Morris, has made a desperate call for action to protect international cricket from "unsustainable" fixture scheduling.

While Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi reiterated that Commonwealth Games Federation's chief executive Mike Hooper must be recalled from India, the New Zealander continued to work from the Organising Committee (OC) office and even held discussions with senior IOA officials on Monday.

He turned down the chance to play in Indian Premier League's first two seasons, but Michael Clarke has had a change of heart now and wants to be a part of IPL III to gain experience for his stint as Australia's Twenty20 captain.

Hampered by injuries to key players, the Australian cricket team took off for India to play a seven-match ODI series with skipper Ricky Ponting conceding that despite their Champions Trophy debacle, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men would be hard to beat in home conditions.

The turnout belied the insignificance of this match, with the crowds filling up the stands to primarily watch the cricketers more than the cricket.

As the inaugural edition Airtel Champions League T20 (CLT20) comes to the end of its second week, the tournament seems to be struggling to keep up with viewer expectation.

Argentina ended an embarrassing campaign by qualifying for the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay on Wednesday.

They might have won the hearts of fans with their free-spirited cricket, but Trinidad and Tobago (TandT) turned party-poopers on Wednesday.

Calling "every day pivotal and every hour vital", president of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Mike Fennell on Monday put the Suresh Kalmadi-led Organising Committee (OC) on a tight leash with the announcement that an "independent technical committee" of foreign experts would oversee preparations for the 2010 Games and report on a monthly basis.

Brendon McCullum's dream of replicating his knock in the opening match of the 2008 IPL at the Chinnaswamy stadium was shattered as Royal Challengers Bangalore reversed the script against his current Kiwi side Otago in their Champions League encounter on Monday.

Dhananjay Mahadik scored twice as India overcame a determined Canadian challenge to win 4-3 in the second hockey Test and go 2-0 up in the seven-match series at the University of Victoria Ground here.

In the build-up to this match, all talk revolved around the Delhi Daredevils needing to find a Plan B, having gone down to an embarassing seven-wicket loss in the opener.

Tiger Woods delivered the clinching point as the United States won the eighth Presidents Cup match play golf tournament.

He gave away nothing with the matter-of-fact look on the face, but the penalty drop was clearly blotting Gaganjeet Bhullar's agenda for the day.

There are two contrasting shades when it comes to India-Pakistan cricket. It's either the war-minus-guns rhetoric or the more romanticised brothers-separated-by-partition one.