Sports News: General

AC Milan were imperious in attack but woeful defensively in a 4-3 home win over Cagliari on Sunday which summed up their topsy-turvy season.

England striker Jermain Defoe scored five second-half goals as an irresistible Tottenham Hotspur demolished Wigan Athletic 9-1 to go fourth in the Premier League on Sunday.

Hyderabad, Nov 22 (PTI) Kamal Chawla kept India afloat by advancing to men's quarter-finals of the IBSF World Snooker Championship while Pankaj Advani, Yasin Merchant and all women players crashed out of the elite event here today.

London, Nov 22 (DPA) The future of the British Grand Prix is to be decided by December, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said Sunday.

Hamburg, Nov 22 (DPA) A betting expert of football's controlling body FIFA, Wolfgang Feldner, has described match fixing as dangerous as doping.

Hyderabad, Nov 22 (PTI) Pankaj Advani suffered a shock defeat to crash out of the IBSF World Snooker Championship even as three others Indians including seasoned Yasin Merchant advanced to the pre-quarterfinals here today.

Hyderabad, Nov 22 (IANS) The last of the Indian challenge, represented by Chitra Magimairajan and Meenal Thakur, went up in smoke in the women's World Snooker championship here Sunday as both were beaten comprehensively in the quarter-finals.

Chikmagalur, Nov 21 (IANS) Gaurav Gill (co-driver Musa Sherif) of Team MRF Sunday clinched the Speed Indian National Rally Championship for the year 2009 by winning the Coffee Day Rally of Chikmagalur, the fifth and final round of the series that saw MRF achieving a 1-2-3 finish.

New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Putting behind all controversies, the Indian men's hockey team Sunday left for a week's camp in Spain to prepare for the Champions Challenge in Argentina from Dec 6.

Hyderabad, Nov 22 (PTI) Padmanabhan trained +Celestial Way+ ably ridden by C D Hayes claimed the Golconda 1000 Guineas 2009 in 7th day of Hyderabad Winter Races held here today.

Dubai, Nov 22 (IANS) A trip into the water on the very last hole saw Jeev Milkha Singh miss out on a chance to make the top-10 in the inaugural Dubai World Championships at the Earth Course here Sunday.

Bargarh(Orissa), Nov 22 (PTI) JCB Brothers, Bhilai defeated Chand Club, Cuttack 2-0 in the East Zone qualifying round of the inaugural 31st All India Federation Cup Football tournament here today.

Shillong, Nov 22 (PTI) The fifth edition of the Indo-Nippon Golf Cup 2010 will be held in Shillong, which is expected to attract over a hundred golfers to the picturesque place.

Dubai, Nov 22 (IANS) Lee Westwood outplayed the field with a stunning course record of eight-under 64 and took home Europe's biggest prize, winning both the Dubai World Championships golf and the Race to Dubai.

Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), Nov 22 (PTI) Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran will have to fight it out in the tiebreaks after the Indian played out his second successive draw with GM Erwin L'Ami of Holland in the second game of the first round of the World Chess Cup here.

Chandigarh, Nov 22 (PTI) Haryana government has decided to soon open a Wrestling Academy in Jhajjar district to promote traditional sports among the enthusiastic youth of the state.

Dubai, Nov 22 (PTI) A top-10 finish slipped through his grasp as seasoned Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh carded an eventful two-under 70 in the final round to end tied 13th at the Dubai World Championships here today.

Lee Westwood won the season-ending Dubai World Championship and the European Tour money-list title on Sunday.

New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Suresh Kalmadi, the chairman of the 2010 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC), has vehmently denied that he has given in to the demands of Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief Michael Fennell and said that there was 'give and take' from both the sides.

Siem Reap (Cambodia), Nov 22 (IANS) A costly double bogey on the seventh hole of the final round left Shiv Kapur just short of what would have been his first Asian Tour title since 2005 as he finished third at the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open here Sunday.