The New York Mets, a professional baseball team in America, have hired bench coach Jerry Manuel to be the team's new manager. Turns out, Manuel is also an active Gandhian, who reads the Mahatma's writings regularly!
There is new hope or rather a new weapon for India's fast bowlers, thanks to a new innovation by a cricket loving physicist, who has sepcialised in aerodynamics.
Rashid Latif has told PTI in an interview that it was the duty of the ICC to ensure that the quality of cricket and players was not reduced in a mad rush to make more money.
A group of 12 elite sports stars including Muhammad Ali, Andre Agassi and Lance Armstrong on Wednesday launched a charitable organization aimed at helping athletes do philanthropic work.
Each of FIFA's 211 member associations would receive $500,000 in the coming days as well as any remaining entitlements for 2019 and 2020, it added. The coronavirus outbreak has brought soccer to a standstill and clubs have struggled to cope with the loss of revenue.
Baseball star Alex Rodriguez's estranged wife Cynthia is threatening to release the text messages he sent to Madonna in a bid to prove that he was in love with her. The 34-year-old has hit the New York Yankee star with a whopping 50million pounds divorce suit, and claims that she has texts that will prove A-Rod's relationship with Madge.
Construction delays at two key Olympic venues could force Tokyo Games organisers into a reshuffle of test event schedules, the organising committee said.
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson made his maiden trip to India to launch the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) League in Mumbai on Friday.
Patrick Mouratoglou said he and Serena Williams had decided not to do any on-court coaching, even at the tournaments on the professional women's WTA circuit where it is permitted.
World number one Roger Federer suffered a shock 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 defeat by Chile's Fernando Gonzalez in his opening match at Tennis Masters Cup on Monday. The Swiss, who had never previously been beaten in round-robin play at the season-ending championships, is chasing his fourth Masters Cup title.
Barack Obama and Raul Castro vowed to set aside their differences in pursuit of what the US president called a "new day" for the relationship between the neighbours.
The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 to win the Major League Baseball championship in their second four-game sweep of the Fall Classic in four years.
Composer Mithoon does well with his first complete soundtrack.
Moments before Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and the seven others perished in a helicopter crash, the pilot had tried to climb out of layer of clouds, but the aircraft then banked sharply and lurched toward the ground. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) estimated Bryant's luxury passenger helicopter hit the ground at a speed of more than 2,000 feet (610 m) per minute.
George Gillett and Tom Hicks have pledged to keep Liverpool true to tradition after agreeing to pay $340 million to takeover the Premier League football club.
The Premier League football club has agreed to be taken over by US sports tycoons George Gillett and Tom Hicks for 174 million pounds.
But the music composer has done better before.
What was the most embarrassing prank someone managed to pull on you?
Inzamam suggested that he should be hired three to four weeks before the England tour.
It's official. Football has been the most exciting sport for the last 100 years, but baseball is catching up.
15 teams from across the country will participate in the June 22-25 tournament, in San Francisco Bay area.
Ram Puneet Tiwary, 27, beat Chow Lyang Tay and Poh Chuan Tan in the head several times and stabbed them in the neck to make sure they were dead, at their home in Kingsford in Sydney on September 15, 2003, the ABC online said.
Ben Stokes shares a hilarious picture of himself and Joe Root in fancy dress on his official Instagram account.
Panama and Tunisia have been the fall-guys in the two top-scoring matches of World Cup 2018, but both teams will hope to show they have learnt some lessons from their efforts in Russia before they head home after their Group G match on Thursday.
Billiards and snooker launched an unexpected bid to win a spot on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics sports programme, saying sharp global rise in popularity helped their case.
In the latest development to a case full of bizarre twists, the lead defendant in the BALCO global steroid case abruptly changed lawyers on Friday, two weeks before a key hearing.
If you think Pilates is similar to yoga and benefits only women, you are wrong, says Sheetal J Shah.
The world number one seems pretty comfortable with his new label
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