Ivanovic beats Zhang and nears grass court ‘dream’
AFP, Birmingham :Ana Ivanovic, a Grand Slam winner and seven times a season-end top 20 player reached the first grass court final of her career...
Football
Messi, Ronaldo duel for Cup stardom
AFP, Rio De Janeiro : One is the world’s best known footballer, the other the most valuable. They have scored the same number of Champions...
We need to avoid Brazil: Van Hooijdonk
When Group B gets underway on Friday, with the eagerly anticipated tie between Spain and the Netherlands in a rematch of the 2010 FIFA World...
O’Neil wants clarity over Keane job
Ireland manager Martin O’Neill has said he will not stand in the way of his assistant Roy Keane taking on a role at Aston Villa,...
FIFA are honest in eyes of sponsors : Valcke
FIFA’s major sponsors do not doubt the integrity of football’s governing body in the light of the allegations of corruption over the controversial Qatar bid...
Brazil avert subway strike on eve of World Cup
A subway strike in Sao Paulo that threatened to disrupt the opening of the World Cup was averted Wednesday night even as airport workers in...
Blatter ready for new term as FIFA president
Sepp Blatter is ready to seek a new term as FIFA’s president, he announced Wednesday, ignoring calls from top European officials to stand down as...
This is our World Cup : Scolari
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has issued a passionate rallying cry on the eve of his team’s FIFA World Cup™ opener, telling an expectant nation:...