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October 15, 2001 Monday Rajab 27, 1422 Italian Rossi crowned 500cc world champion PHILLIP ISLAND (Australia), Oct 14: Italy’s Valentino Rossi seized the lead on the final lap to win the Australian 500cc Grand Prix and clinch the world title Sunday.... Shahzad outwits Ashiq to bag title LAHORE, Oct 14: A fine display of ground strokes and anticipation enabled top seed Shahzad Khan to earn another crown by winning the boys singles ITF international junior ranking tennis championship,... Davenport holds nerves to overpower Henin FILDERSTADT (Germany) Oct 14: Lindsay Davenport held her nerve to outpower a combative Justine Henin 7-5 6-4 to win the Filderstadt Grand Prix on Sunday.... Woosnam rolls back years WENTWORTH (England), Oct 14: Ian Woosnam rolled back the years to capture his third World Match Play Championship on Sunday at the age of 43.... McCarron leads by three shots LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Oct 14: Scott McCarron’s nine-under-par 63 gave him a new 72-hole tournament record of 261 (26-under) Saturday and a three-shot lead going into the fifth and final round... England win but show sign of immaturity HOBART (Australia) Oct 14: England pounded South Korea 5-3 Sunday in the second round of field hockey’s Junior World Cup, but showed signs of immaturity in the process.... Schumacher ends season with victory in Japan SUZUKA (Japan), Oct 14: World champion Michael Schumacher underlined his season-long supremacy with victory in the Japanese Grand Prix Sunday, his ninth in 17 races which earned him an all-time points... Great Grandy bags feature event LAHORE, Oct 14: The fancied seven-year-old bay horse Great Grandy, showing vast improvement, clinched feature event of the sixth Lahore winter meeting at the racecourse on Sunday.... My Freedom sprints to another exciting win KARACHI, Oct 14: Abdul Raza’s three-year-old bay colt My Freedom, with jockey Shahzad in the saddle, registered another exciting victory at the Winter Gymkhana Meeting, cutting the rest of the field... Tyson stops Nielsen in 7th round COPENHAGEN, Oct 14: Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson marked his first appearance for a year by stopping Denmark’s Brian Nielsen at the start of the seventh round in their scheduled... $100m bout may be shunted COPENHAGEN, Oct 14: The prospect of a $100million super-fight between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis appears to have been shunted further into the future in the wake of Tyson’s demolition job... Red Wings escape defeat UNIONDALE (New York), Oct 14: The surprising New York Islanders were 10 seconds away from extending their season-opening streak to five winsbut instead the Detroit Red Wings snatched a 5-4 victory... Afghan cricketers arrive, promise to play for peace PESHAWAR, Oct 14: The Afghan cricket team began a tour of Pakistan Sunday hoping to be ambassadors for peace as US-led forces bomb the Taliban militia ruling their homeland.... Mudassar reminds players to be extra cautious at Sharjah KARACHI, Oct 14: Pakistan coach Mudassar Nazar Sunday said he would remind his players to be extra cautious on this month’s tour to Sharjah after four cricketers were summoned by the... Top stars ruled out of four rounds KARACHI, Oct 14: Several leading teams will be without top stars when the fifth round of the Patron’s Trophy Grade-I National Cricket Championship gets under way Monday.... World Cup ties were lost fair and square: Wasim KARACHI, Oct 14: Former captain Wasim Akram Sunday once again pleaded his innocence and maintained that his team lost the 1999 World Cup matches fair and square.... West Indies squad for Sri Lanka KINGSTON (Jamaica), Oct 14: Fast bowler Marlon Black was recalled by West Indies in a 16-man squad named for next month’s three Test tour of Sri Lanka and a triangular series... Zone-VI ‘W’ scoop title KARACHI, Oct 14: KCCA Zone-VI Whites clinched the KCCA Inter-zonal Under-19 championship defeating Zone-II Whites by seven wickets in a low scoring match at the academy ground in the National Stadium... Inzamam named Multan captain MULTAN, Oct 14: Pakistan vice-captain Inzamam-ul-Haq will lead Multan in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-II Tournament.... Blackburn thump West Ham LONDON, Oct 14: Blackburn Rovers crushed 10-man West Ham United 7-1 on Sunday as the London side’s Czech defender Thomas Repka was sent off for the second time in three matches.... Stewart faces elbow surgery LONDON, Oct 14: England wicket-keeper Alec Stewart said Saturday he is to have an operation on his elbows to try to correct a long-standing injury that has been affecting his cricket... New record SYDNEY, Oct 14: Veteran Australian Test batsman Mark Waugh scored a century as New South Wales set an innings record of 397 for four from their 50 overs in beating Tasmania...

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