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Woods claims 35th win of his career
 LA JOLLA (California), Feb 17: Tiger Woods marked his first tournament of 2003 by firing a closing four-under-par 68 to win the $4.5 million Buick Invitational by four strokes from Sweden’s...
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Ali Naqvi lights up rainy day
KARACHI, Feb 17: A captain’s knock of 82 by former Test opener Ali Naqvi helped Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) reach 157 for three on a rain-hit opening day of the Quaid-i-Azam...
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Europe’s elite eye League chances
LONDON, Feb 17: AC Milan, Inter, Barcelona and Manchester United will be looking to put one foot in the Champions League quarterfinals this week, as the world’s top club competition returns...
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Pakistan to host tournament
LAHORE, Feb 17: International Badminton Federation (IBF) has allocated an international circuit tournament to Pakistan which will be staged in Islamabad from Oct 13 to 18....
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Shahnaz joins, selectors absent from camp
KARACHI, Feb 17: While the chief coach Shahnaz Sheikh on Monday finally reached here after a two-day absence, selectors did not bother to visit the national hockey training camp....
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LCCA lacks security
LAHORE, Feb 17: Security arrangements at the Lahore City Cricket Association (LCCA) offices are inadequate....
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Indian govt urged to reconsider decision
NEW DELHI, Feb 17: President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Suresh Kalmadi appealed the Indian government on Monday to reconsider its decision of not sending the country’s contingent for SAF...
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PSF trials from Feb 22
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) plans to hold trials from Feb 22 for the forthcoming SAF Games....
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Bodybuilding
LAHORE, Feb 17: Quaid-i-Azam Inter-provincial bodybuilding championship will be held at Sardar Kaurey Khan Public School, Muzaffargarh on Feb 23....
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Australia may still boycott Bulawayo fixture
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: Australia, odds-on favourites to become the second nation to win back-to-back World Cups, are still unsure of playing in Bulawayo against Zimbabwe as done by England....
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We need spin back-up now: Aussie coach
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: Coach John Buchanan said on Monday that Australia needed a specialist spinner to join their World Cup squad as soon as possible....
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Shoaib bowls fastest ball of World Cup
 KIMBERLEY (South Africa), Feb 17: Pakistani tearaway Shoaib Akhtar recorded the fast delivery in World Cup history on Sunday, then said speed mattered little to him as long as he took...
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SA media blast Pollock’s flops
 JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: The recriminations were already underway in South Africa on Monday as Shaun Pollock’s team faced up to the prospect of early elimination from the cricket World Cup....
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Panel for Warne’s hearing named
MELBOURNE, Feb 17: The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) announced on Monday they had appointed a panel of three for the anti-doping committee hearing for Shane Warne....
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Canadians set to face Murali backlash
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: Canada may find themselves on the wrong end of a Muttiah Muralitharan backlash when they take on Sri Lanka in a World Cup Group ‘B’ match in Paarl...
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Lies, damned lies and Dizzy statistics...
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: Sadly but almost inevitably, Jason Gillespie’s World Cup bowling display for Australia against India is doomed to sink without trace....
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Axing won’t surprise Symonds
POTCHEFSTROOM (South Africa), Feb 17: Andrew Symonds admits he would not be surprised to be dropped by Australia despite his brilliant unbeaten 143 against Pakistan in the world champions’ World Cup...
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We can win World Cup, says Fleming
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming said his side now believed they could win the World Cup after beating South Africa in Group ‘B’ on Sunday....
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Welcome breather for battered bowlers
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: With the cricket World Cup taking a time out from matches on Monday, the tournament’s bowlers had a welcome chance to lick their wounds....
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Enraged Indians take to the streets
NEW DELHI, Feb 17: An effigy of India captain Saurav Ganguly was burnt in Kolkata as cricket fans vented their anger at their team’s poor start to the World Cup in...
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Australians look class above other title contenders
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: Although it is too early in the World Cup, one team that has emerged unscathed and actually enhanced its reputation from the nine-day skirmishes are holders Australia....
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English umpires withdraw from Zimbabwe World Cup matches
 JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17: English umpires Peter Willey and Neil Mallender reignited the Zimbabwe World Cup controversy on Monday when they refused to officiate in the strife-torn country, the International Cricket Council...
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Aussies offered shortest odds
LONDON, Feb 17: Defending champions Australia have been backed at 2,000/1 ON, the shortest odds ever offered for a sporting contest, to beat Holland in the World Cup Group ‘A’ match...
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Lara vows no mercy for poor Bangladesh
BENONI (South Africa), Feb 17: Brian Lara has pledged to pile on the misery for Bangladesh’s hopelessly outclassed team as the West Indies aim to get their World Cup campaign back...
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