All Set For ICC Champions Trophy 2009

Champions Trophy 2009 held to begin from the 22 September to 5 October at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park in Johannesberg in South Africa. Two teams from two group of four will form the semi finals with the final played on 5 October. Last year tournament was supposed to be happen in Pakistan but was postponed until October 2009 due to security concerns after the attack on Sri Lankan teams. Group A consists of Australia, India, Pakistan and West Indies Group B consists of England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and New Zealand. Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen stars of England team will not play for ICC Champions. Australia defeated England in the recent 50 over series and England became the first team to lose a series by 7-0. After the beginning...

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Davide Grassi Injury Knocks Aberdeen

Davide Grassi has been discarded for three months from Aberdeen after experiencing a triple cheekbone fracture. This accident happened when Co-Operative Insurance Cup defeated Dundee, his head clashed with defender David Cowan. As a substitute to Sone Aluko on the left of midfield, Grassi was signed for this match. Sone Aluko will not play match for another month as he is in Nigeria squad for the Under-20 World Cup held in Egypt. This tournament will last for until the 16 October. Davide Grassi had signed a one-year contract with Aberdeen in the month of August. This injury happened just five minutes into the loss of 3-2 to the first division si...

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Salomon Kalau Signs A New Deal With Chelsea

Salomon Kalau Chelsea striker signed a new three-year contract with the Stamford Bridge club, which should keep him in west London until 2012. Carlo Ancelotti Blues Manager told at an official website that Salomon an important player for the club and he is pleased that Salomon has signed a new contract. Ivory Coast star £8m signing from Feyenoord in 2006 was set to become a free agent next summer. Chelsea was currently appealing against a transfer ban imposed by Fifa, which prevents them from registering new players until January 2011. Later punishment was cancelled after the club was found guilty of suggesting Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens in 2007. Kalou follows Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole and John Terry in vowing his future...

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Confident Pakistan leaves to face New Zealand

LAHORE: Pakistan's 16-man cricket squad left for Dubai early Friday with coach Intikhab Alam confident his team can beat New Zealand in the limited-over series. Pakistan will play three one-day internationals on November 3, 6, 9 in Abu Dhabi and two Twenty20 internationals on November 12 and 13 in Dubai, in a series relocated to the United Arab Emirates over security fears. 'Confidence is high and if we play to our potential we can win the series,' Alam told reporters at Lahore airport. 'We have been doing well in one-day cricket and I hope the good work will continue.' Younus Khan leads the one-day squad, while all-rounder Shahid Afridi will take over for the Twenty20 internationals. Also leaving the squad after the one-day matches...

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NEW YORK: Andre Agassi used crystal meth periodically for ‘a year or so,’ the eight-time Grand Slam champion revealed in an interview with People maga

In his upcoming autobiography, Agassi admits he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test _ a result he says was thrown out after he lied by saying he ‘unwittingly’ took the substance. ‘If you're going to tell your story, you owe it to yourself to tell it honestly,’ Agassi told the magazine in its latest issue. ‘Especially if you're going to call it 'Open.’' New excerpts published on Friday reveal Agassi wore a hairpiece that nearly fell off at the 1990 French Open, became jealous during ex-wife Brooke Shields' appearance on ‘Friends,’ and how Shields put a photo of Steffi Graf _ now married to Agassi _ on the fridge for motivation to get in better shape before their wedding. ‘It's a photo of the perfect woman, she says,’ Agassi...

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Brady starting to look comfortable again

Forget who the Patriots’ opponents were – Tom Brady has looked great the past two weeks. For the first five weeks of the 2009 season, Brady looked an awfully lot like a player that had major reconstructive surgery a year ago. He looked uncomfortable in the pocket, wasn’t accurate and was getting flustered by how he was playing. But in New England’s 59-0 win over Tennessee and its 35-7 rout of Tampa Bay in London, England today, Brady looks like the old Tom Brady again. He has thrown nine touchdowns in his last two games but more importantly than the numbers, he finally looks comfortable again. Earlier this season, Brady got into a bad habit of throwing off his back foot. But against the Bucs, he showed the ability to step into his throws...

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Bill Simmons lists the 33 most intriguing people of the 2009-10 NBA season

On the Blazers' acquisition of Andre Miller... 21. Andre MillerWe knew Miller was a bad fit when the Blazers signed him. It just didn't feel right. He's a moody loner; they had great chemistry last season. He needs the ball in his hands; so does Brandon Roy. He likes freelancing; Nate McMillan is hands on. But Portland felt obligated to spend its extra cap money, and nobody else was pursuing Miller, so what transpired was the equivalent of two single wedding guests going through the motions on the dance floor. I could use someone, and you could use someone. Unfortunately, I hate bald guys and I have a tiny butt; you're bald and you love bubble butts. We have no spark and are destined to fail. But crap, there's nobody better. Screw it, would you like to come back to my room? I get Portland's...

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Is it time for the Chiefs to dump Johnson?

Following the Chiefs’ embarrassing loss to the Chargers on Sunday, running back Larry Johnson took a couple verbal swipes at head coach Todd Haley via his Twitter page, then proceeded to use a homophobic slur to degrade another Twitter user.Here are LJ’s tweets• “my father got more creditentials than most of these pro coaches. … google my father!!!!!!!” • “My father played for the coach from “rememeber the titans”. Our coach played golf. My father played for redskins briefley. Our coach. Nuthn” Following those messages, an exchange appeared between Johnson’s account and another Twitter user, in which the other user made a reference to an incident in which Johnson pled guilty to disturbing the peace after allegedly spitting into the face of...

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PCB denies match-fixing allegations

Dasti told that Pakistan deliberately lost the game to Australia which ensured India were knocked out of the tourname...

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Younis wants captaincy guarantee from PCB: report

emand of captaining the side until World Cup 2011 if the PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) wants him to take back the resignat...

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Earpieces and trivia are spoiling the Champions League's great cricket

Please let me watch the cricket and let Harper concentrate on his job in the middle. Remember again this is supposed to be a life and death strugg...

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Flintoff speaks out about injuries

AP Andrew Flintoff says the injuries that hastened his retirement from Test cricket were so painful, he often needed his wife to put on his socks and sho...

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Comment: Cricket Copies Football; Why Can't It Be Vice Versa As Well?

At a time where you see the who's who of cricket find their inspiration from the people's game, it's time that those in the Indian FA learn a thing or t...

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Franklin puts hand up as Oram's replacement

6 role in New Zealand's lineup after Jacob Oram's retirement from test cricket. Franklin has returned to the capital after a long season with English coun...

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Times Online Resignation submitted by Pakistan cricket captain

Times OnlineResignation submitted by Pakistan cricket captain over query into ...‎ - 1 hour agoPakistan cricket captain Younis Khan has tendered his resignation in protest against a meeting called to investigate the team's defeats by Australia and Newzeala...

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Wayamba won by 15 runs

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Windies knock England out of T20

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Second chance

Ex-champ Jermain Taylor could be on track to punch his ticket back to the t...

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Major flop

Michael Vick's stint with the Eagles has been a gigantic d...

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For Danica, NASCAR doesn't make sense

Danica Patrick continues to flirt with NASCAR, but she'd be better served staying in the I...

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shahid afridi has a strong contender for captain

shahid afridi will become the captain of paki team after younis has gave resign to captain...

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younis declare his retirement from captaincy

pak captain younis khan gave his resignation letter to p....

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