Adriano unfit for Sao Paulo championship, says coach
Tweet Rio de Janeiro: Corinthians coach Tite has announced that striker Adriano will not be fit for the upcoming Sao Paulo state football championship. After missing four team practices, Adriano was given a warning and a fine from the club. The player has promised that he would not miss another practice without permission and said [...]
Tweet Moscow: The Czech Republic won the Fed Cup for the first time as an independent nation Sunday after Kveta Peschke and Lucie Hradecka won a deciding doubles to edge Russia 3-2. The pair came back from a breakdown in the first set to defeat Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-2 at Moscow's indoor [...]
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Tweet Madrid: Valencia moved into third place in the Spanish La Liga football after winning the city derby 2-0 away to local rivals Levante. The win sees Valencia leapfrog Levante in the table. Levante have now lost their last two matches after a nine-game unbeaten start to the campaign and drop to fourth in the [...]
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Tweet Quito (Ecuador): Ecuador beat Venezuela 2-0 while Argentina thrashed Chile 4-1 in the opening matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Playing at home here in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans, the Ecuadorian side took an early lead by Jaime Ayovi in the 14th minute and extended the lead in the 27th minute [...]
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Tweet Paris: World 5,000 metres champion Mo Farah of Britain and 800m champion Mariya Savinova of Russia have been named European male and female Athlete Of The Year. The 28-year-old Somalia-born Farah, who also won the silver in the 10,000m at the World Championships in Daegu in August, won the award ahead of last year's [...]
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Tweet London: England fast bowler James Anderson is disappointed to be left out of the England squad for the ODI against India as he feels he has a point to prove on the slow wickets. Anderson will not travel for the forthcoming five One-day series against India after England selectors chose to rest the fast [...]
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Tweet London: Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has stripped Carlos Tevez of captaincy for trying to quit the club. The Italian gave the captain's arm band to Vincent Kompany for the first three games while Tevez was regaining to fitness, The Sun reported. "The captain is Vinnie Kompany. It is simple. Carlos wanted to leave [...]
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Tweet Southampton : England defeated India by seven wickets in the rain-hit second One-day International of the NatWest series at the Rose Bowl here Tuesday. The match had been reduced to 23 overs a side after a delayed start due to rain. Put to bat first, India scored 187 for eight with the help of [...]
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Tweet New York: Ninth seed Samantha Stosur advanced into the fourth round at US Open tennis with an epic 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 7-5 victory over 24th seed Nadia Petrova in Friday's night session. The big Russian pushed hard and forced a tense clash lasting three hours and 16 minutes, the longest women's match at the event [...]
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Tweet Daegu (South Korea): Veronica Campbell-Brown turned the tables on Americans Carmelita Jeter and Allyson Felix in one fell swoop, winning the women?s 200 metres gold medal Friday at the World Championships. The Jamaican sprint darling clocked a season?s best time of 22.22 seconds in the Final at the Daegu Stadium. Jeter, the newly-minted 100 [...]
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