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  • Corporates bid for aspiring cricketers in Kashmir League

    Corporates from across the Kashmir Valley bid on Wednesday for budding cricketers for a sporting extravaganza, a local cricket league. This is for the first time the corporate sector of Kashmir valley has come forward and is organising a cricket league on the pattern of the money spinning Indian Premier League. The bid would be made according to the performance of the players. Chairman of the ...

  • FIFA clears two Zambian players suspected of match-fixing

    World football governing body FIFA has cleared two Zambian players who were involved in a match-fixing scam in Finland. Erick Mwanza, communications officer of local governing body, the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ), said Nchimunya Mweetwa and Christopher Musonda had been issued with playing licences after completing their Transfer Marketing System process, reports Xinhua. He said the ...

  • DTrinidadamp Tobago doesnt want to figure in CPL name

    Cricket officials in Trinidad and Tobago are raising objection to a decision by organisers of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to name the Port-of-Spain based franchise after the twin island republic. Organisers have announced that the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel is among six franchises participating in the inaugural CPL, which starts July 30 in Barbados. However, the governing body for ...

  • Fenerbahce to submit match-fixing defence to UEFA

    Turkish football club Fenerbahce will submit its defence on match-fixing charges at the House of European Football in Nyo Thursday. In its defence, Fenerbahce will argue against being punished for the same crime twice and inconsistencies in UEFA's treatment of the club, reports Xinhua. The Istanbul-based team was summoned by the Control and Disciplinary Body of UEFA June 10 regarding charges ...

  • Brazil deploys elite force in Confederations Cup host cities

    Brazil deployed members of an elite security force in cities hosting international football matches, in the wake of massive anti-government protests that threaten to disrupt the FIFA Confedrations Cup. Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff ordered the deployment of Brazil's National Public Security Force (FNSP) to the cities of Fortaleza, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, the capital Brasilia and Rio de ...


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Reign of Fire

There is a lot of talk about ashes in Reign of Fire, which is appropriate because the movie looks like it was filmed through a perpetual haze of the stuff. This is not necessarily a criticism--after all, as a post-apocalyptic action flick in the which the apocalypse took the form of millions of napalm-breathing dragons that burned the world as we know it to a cinder, that is the intended l ... ...

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  • BCB chief Bangladesh may lose ICC membership if it doesnt follow guidelines

    The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) chief Nazmul Hassan has warned the board's officials that it may lose membership if the election guidelines are not followed as instructed by the ICC. The ICC had amended its election guidelines in order to reduce government interference in electing officials to the board and accordingly BCB had to amend its constitution in March 2012, the Daily Times ...

  • Li Na gets bye enters quarters at Eastbourne

    China's Li Na advanced to the quarter-finals of the Eastbourne International tennis tournament as her French opponent Marion Bartoli pulled out due to a viral infection. Li, the second seed, was told about the development by her coach barely 10 minutes before the match started Wednesday, reports Xinhua. Bartoli, ranked 15th in the world and the 2011 champion, said in a statement: "I'm really ...

  • Bosz is Vitesses new coach

    Dutch Eredivisie football club Vitesse Arnhem has announced that Peter Bosz will succeed Fred Rutten as head coach. The 49-year-old Bosz was coach of Heracles Almelo since 2010 with the team finishing 8th, 12th and 12th respectively in the past three seasons of the Dutch league. In 2012, he led Heracles to the Dutch Cup final, reports Xinhua. His assistant Hendrie Kruzen will also move with ...

  • Capello not to cancel contract as Russia coach

    Russia's national football team coach Fabio Capello is not going to cancel his contract as some media have suggested, the Russian Football Union (RFS) said. "Capello has a contract with the Russian Football Union, and he has repeatedly said about how happy he is with the Russian football and that he intends to go ahead," RFS chief Nikolai Tolstykh told a local media Wednesday, reports ...

  • Junaid Khan with ball is like Virat Kohli with bat says Bhogle

    Prominent Indian cricket analyst Harsha Bhogle has said that Pakistani left-arm bowler Junaid Khan had bowled like Indian batting star Virat Kohli performance with his bat. According to Bhogle, Khan might have taken three or four wickets out of the total wickets taken by Pakistan during their India tour, if he moved the ball both ways, despite having players like Kohli playing down the wrong ...

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