New York: Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni is among Forbes magazine’s 100 highest-paid athletes in the world, the only Indian sportsman on the list that has been topped again by American boxer Floyd Mayweather and includes golfer Tiger Woods, tennis star Roger Federer and Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. Dhoni has been ranked 23rd on the […]
New Delhi, Jun 11: The Indian women’s hockey team today left for Antewrp, Belgium to compete in the Hockey World League Semi-Final 2015 from June 20 to July 5. India is placed in Pool B with Australia, New Zealand, Belgium and Poland and will be playing their opening match against Belgium on June 20. The […]
Bengaluru, Jun 10: An acid test awaits the Indian football team as it gets ready to host higher-ranked Oman in the second round opening match of AFC qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup here tomorrow. Though India have made progress under Englishman Stephen Constantine, beating Nepal in a two-legged preliminary qualifier in March, the […]
Port of Spain, Jun 10: Fallen FIFA executive Jack Warner has said that US authorities would be unable to give him a fair trial, while an Argentinian businessman indicted in the soccer body’s sprawling corruption scandal handed himself over to Italian police. Warner, a former schoolteacher and Trinidadian ex-minister of national security at the heart […]
Brasilia, Jun 9 : There is no reason Brazil’s hosting of last year’s World Cup should be probed as part of the FIFA scandal, President Dilma Rousseff insisted in an interview published on Monday.“I do not think the problem is here. But one must investigate all the consequences and relations between FIFA and all the […]