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London, Aug.29 (ANI): England fast bowler Stephen Harmison believes the current England attack possesses greater firepower than the one that regained the Ashes in 2005.

London, Aug 29 (ANI): Michael Chopra, 24, the English footballer currently playing for the Premier League side Sunderland, has decided to go into rehab for his wife's sake.

HONG KONG (AP) _ The Chinese gold medal-winning gymnast at the center of an Olympic age dispute said Friday that she wasn't upset by the controversy.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) _ China wasn't the first Olympics to cheat a little on the authenticity of its opening ceremony, Australian media reports revealed Friday.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) _ Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene won the toss Friday and chose to bat first in the fifth and final one-day international against India, a day-night match at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

Washington, August 29 (ANI): Olympic golden boy Michael Phelps is looking forward to the days when he will do nothing else but relax.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) _ Mistakes by his rivals helped American Michael Phelps win eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, world record-breaking Australian swimmer Eamon Sullivan said Friday.

Frank Lampard has warned Chelsea's Premier League rivals that the Blues' combination of style and substance is potent enough to regain the title.

New York, August 29 (ANI): Olympic golden boy Michael Phelps left children at the New York YMCA spellbound when he swam with them, and taught them some tricks to be a champ.

Washington, Aug 29 (ANI): Olympic golden boy Michael Phelps is set to make a cameo appearance in the hit HBO series 'Entourage'.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) _ China isn't the only country to fake a musical performance during an Olympic opening ceremony.

Ace Indian pro Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knwoles scored a comfortable straight sets win to advance to the second round of the US Open even as Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani teammate Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi bit dust to crash out of the men's doubles event.

DARWIN, Australia (AP) _ Stand-in Australia captain Michael Clarke says his team will not make the mistake of taking Bangladesh lightly in their three-match limited-overs cricket series starting Saturday.

HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) _ World championship leader Sebastien Loeb slid off the road on the first special stage and incurred a 30 second penalty on the sixth to trail rival Mikko Hirvonen by 27.8 seconds after the first day of Rally New Zealand on Friday.

New York, Aug 29 (PTI) Ace Indian pro Mahesh Bhupathi and his Partner Mark Knwoles scored a comfortable straight sets win to advance to the second round of the US Open even as Rohan Bopanna and

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) _ The West Indies will play two tests, two Twenty20 matches and five limited-overs internationals during tour of New Zealand in December and January.

JCT started their campaign with a convincing 3-1 win over Sporting Club De Goa in the quarter-finals of the 121st Osian Durand Cup which began at the Ambedkar Stadium here on Thursday. Both teams were seeded into the round of eight.

One week after Vijender Kumar and Sushil Kumar ensured more Olympic medals than ever, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's boys did a first in Sri Lanka. With it, India completed a year of august performance in sport, the cycle beginning on August 29 last year when our footballers shone brightest at New Delhi's Ambedkar Stadium.

India A opener Shikhar Dhawan hurt his thumb at nets on Thursday, effectively being ruled out of the upcoming series against Australia A. Dhawan was facing up to a bowling machine when he was struck on the hand.

IT'S A script that's gone horribly wrong. The Indian Senior Masters was meant to be a novelty but lack of transparency allowed "negative factors" to take centrestage and kill the event. Well, almost.