Former stars blame PHF for debacle: Asian Games
KARACHI, Oct 12: Pakistan’s miserable run in hockey drew harsh criticism Saturday as some former greats lashed out at top officials, saying fourth place at Asian Games is a disgrace....
Harbhajan catches Windies in spin-trap
MUMBAI, Oct 12: Harbhajan Singh exposed the West Indies batting limitations against spin with seven wickets to help India win the opening cricket Test by an innings and 112 runs here...
Salma Noorani tennis from 20th
KARACHI, Oct 12: The Sixth UBL Salma Noorani national ranking tennis championship begins next Sunday (Oct 20), on the hard courts of Karachi Club....
Clijsters and Hantuchova to clash in final
FILDERSTADT (Germany), Oct 12: Kim Clijsters saved a match point and swept the last five games to claim a place in the final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix with a...
Simpson eyes first title
MELBOURNE, Oct 12: Australia’s Gary Simpson closed in on his first tournament victory after firing a two-under-par 70 in the third round of the Victorian PGA Championship Saturday....
Jansher to participate in Qatar Classic
KARACHI, Oct 12: Pakistan squash legend Jansher Khan’s comeback bid has been given a further boost by an agreement with the board of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) that he be...
Scotland beat Iceland
REYKJAVIK, Oct 12: Scotland produced an assured performance to beat Iceland 2-0 in their Euro 2004 Group Five qualifier in Reykjavik Saturday and give Berti Vogts his first victory as their...
Gerard wins sprint finish
ZOLDER (Belgium), Oct 12: French rider Arnaud Gerard won the junior men’s road race title at the road cycling world championships Saturday....
Noman slams century
RAWALPINDI, Oct 12: Noman Aman scored a blazing century Saturday to help ARL pile up a massive 326 for eight on the first day of their three-day Kardar Trophy match against...
Perfect Timing set to clinch feature event
LAHORE, Oct 12: If all goes well, bay mare Perfect Timing may prove good to annex the feature event during the sixth Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse Sunday....
Raqeeb-i-Azam should gallop to fourth straight win
KARACHI, Oct 12: Syed Sadruddin Shah’s fashionably bred bay colt Raqeeb-i-Azam with a hat trick of wins already under his belt, is fancied in our column to win the main event...
GBR score second major upset
AUCKLAND, Oct 12: Britain’s GBR Challenge scored their second major upset in as many days in the America’s Cup challengers series when they beat rich U.S. syndicate Oracle BMW Racing by...
Footballer killed
CHICAGO, Oct 12: Gray Griffin, a member of the US Youth National Teams programme and a footballer at Furman University in South Carolina, was killed in a road accident Friday, US...
Schumacher on pole for 50th time
SUZUKA (Japan), Oct 12: Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher seized the 50th pole position of his Formula One career Saturday in a qualifying session for the Japanese Grand Prix interrupted by Allan McNish...
Aussies decimate Waqar’s men inside two days
SHARJAH, Oct 12: Australia inflicted on Pakistan the country’s first-ever defeat in less than two days by winning the second Test by an innings and 198 runs to take an unbeatable...
Controversies in boxing continue
BUSAN, Oct 12: Asian Games boxing headed into Sunday’s gold medal round following a black day for Thailand and a blackeye for the sport with two fighters left sobbing after losing...
Chinese athletes dominate
BUSAN, Oct 12: Sun Yingjie added the 5,000 metres gold to her 10,000 title at the Asian Games Saturday as her fellow Chinese women took top honours in volleyball and South...
How will PCB arrest this decline?
KARACHI, Oct 12: Pakistan sports took a hammering Saturday in the most humiliating fashion when sons of the soil betrayed the nation’s faith in them by losing to Australia in cricket...
Razzaq ruled out for six weeks
SHARJAH (UAE), Oct 12: Pakistan already beleaguered team suffered another blow when all-rounder Abdul Razzaq was ruled out for six weeks after his wrist X-ray revealed transverse fracture of left styloid....
No sympathy for Pakistan, says Waugh
SHARJAH, Oct 12: Australia’s captain Steve Waugh promised not to show Pakistan any mercy after a massive innings victory inside two days....
Hingis withdraws
ZURICH (Switzerland), Oct 12: Swiss former world no. 1 Martina Hingis said Friday she would play no more tournaments this year after withdrawing from her hometown event, the Swisscom Challenge....