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Indian chess Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli exited the World Women’s Chess Championship on Tuesday, losing the crucial semi-final tie-breaker to Ukraine Woman GM (WGM) Mariya Muzychuk. The tie-breaker scores stood at 3.5-2.5 in favour of Muzychuk. In the final, Muzychuk would face Russian WGM Natalija Pogonina who defeated Swedish GM Pia Cramling in another tie-breaker. The day saw fortunes swinging between Muzychuk and Dronavalli. But in the end, some simple errors and a blunder cost the Indian the final berth....

Singhraj bagged a bronze medal with a score of 216.8. Whereas, the Chinese shooters Yang Chao and Huang Xing scored 237.9 and 237.5 respectively to win gold and silver medals in the finals. Manish scored 135.8 to finish 7th. Singhraj started the better of the two Indians. He was placed in the top 3 after four shots. Narwal shot a 8.7 with his 4th shot. In this sport, even one second matters and can cost players their rankings during the match....

Chess legend Vishwanathan Anand took to his Twitter handle in order to make his opinion on the matter known. The usually calm and composed champion Anand was pretty outspoken through his Tweets, expressing great pride in how the people of Tamil Nadu have come together to protest against something that is a threat to their culture. Cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin, on the other hand, expressed how peaceful protests are going to help in communicating the cause....

Mumbai, Mar 24 (PTI) Easily beaten in the tournament opener by Australia, India will hope for a reversal in fortune when they take on England in the women’s T20 triangular series here tomorrow. The hosts will need to improve in all three departments if they are to avoid a repeat of the six-wicket defeat to the Aussies at the Brabourne Stadium. India’s middle and lower middle order have not been among the runs and that is an area of concern for the team management....

What followed is something no experts had projected out of the ill-equipped Pacers ball club. With the run for a playoff berth growing more intense down the stretch, the Pacers held their own and finished as the fifth seed alongside a respectable 48-34 (0.585) record next to their name. Their first-round series against the deeply talented Boston Celtics ended in a sweep, but it was never that close throughout the four games....

The fourth seeded Srikanth had lost to the in-form Momota in the semi-finals of the Malaysia Open in straight games. He did put up a much better account of himself against the Asian champion at the Super 1000 event in Jakarta. However, it was still not enough to overcome the challenge of the Japanese, who pulled off a 12-21, 21-14, 21-15 win in exactly an hour. Last year, the Indonesia Open was the first title for Srikanth in an absolutely stunning season, that saw him triumph at three other Superseries tournaments....

Gattuso’s side are missing a glut of first-team players, with Lucas Biglia, Mattia Caldara, Davide Calabria and Giacomo Bonaventura having been joined on the sidelines by leading scorer Gonzalo Higuain. However, the head coach has insisted Milan, who sit second in Group F with six points from their opening three games, have enough quality to come good away to a Betis side who top the standings but are struggling for consistency domestically....

It was presented by the gold medallists of 1980 Moscow Olympics – the hockey stalwarts who led us to glory in Russia, and we have been waiting for the Olympic glory ever since. Where have we gone wrong? I remember my early childhood days when my father used to follow hockey with immense passion. I was in my early teens and after Cricket & Tennis, hockey was the only sport which I saw on the tube then....

The Asian Games start just 35 days after the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. The decision to prioritize the Asian Games was taken by Indian Olympic Association President Narinder Batra. This was done to ensure and enable the Indian hockey teams to hit their peak performance at the Asian Games. Narinder Batra conveyed the decision to the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Director General Sandip Pradhan during a formal meeting. Also Read: Winning gold medal in Asian Games is next priority, says Savita Punia...

The Netherlands caught the Indian team’s defense off-guard early in the match with Marlon scoring the first goal in the first minute. The Dutch team’s early 1-0 lead put India on the back foot and recovering from this deficit was further affected when Jip Jansen scored in the 11th minute, making it 2-0 by the end of the first quarter. But India clawed back into the game in the second quarter....

Second seed Momota, 21, moved past Danish fifth seed and 22-year-old Viktor Axelsen 21-15, 21-18 in 45 minutes to extend his superior head-to-head record to 6-2. In the women’s singles final, former world champion Ratchanok got the better of Olympic champion Li Xuerui from China 21-17, 21-18 in 43 minutes. With this win at the Siri Fort Sports Complex, world No.5 Ratchanok bettered her head-to-head record to 5-7 against the world No....

The quality of football has only gotten better with time since the tournament’s inception in 2014. The last four years of the tournament have witnessed some of the greatest footballing stars like Dimitar Berbatov, Elano and Roberto Carlos. And there has been no scarcity of world-class goals in the tournament as all of us witnessed some unforgettable goals from Bernard Mendy, Iain Hume and Sushanth Mathew. As the recent ISL season 5 promo conveys, the tournament is continually closing the gap of the quality of football between India and European nations and all it needs now is the support and love from the football fans....

The Indian team performed very well with Vikash Malik and Abhinav Jha finishing together in 8 hours and 27 minutes. This is the second fastest time ran by Indian nationals for that distance. Team member Anjali Saraogi, Sandeep Kumar, Lallu Lal Meena, and Binay Sah finished strong. The Indian team finished at position 19 out of 38 countries. Vikash Malik has stood tall in the Indian Ultra Running community with impressive performance for 50 kilometers or longer distances....

Deep Grace Ekka (8th) and Navneet Kaur (26th) scored for India, while Lucia Jimenez (35th) and Clara Ycart (39th) sounded the board for the hosts. With this draw, the two teams levelled the four-match series 1-1. Spain had registered a narrow 3-2 win in the opening match with the second match ending in a 2-2 draw. India won the third match 5-2. India will now face 2018 World Cup silver medallists Ireland on February 2....

England captain Heather Knight won the toss and decided to bat first. The Indian new ball bowlers Shikha Pandey and Jhulan Goswami got off to a great start, reducing the visitors to 14 for 3. Beaumont and Nat Sciver added 30 runs for the 4th wicket but Shikha Pandey struck again, dismissing Beaumont for 20 runs. Sciver and Winfield then steadied the England innings with 49 runs for the 5th wicket....

Holt committed to the Hoosiers last week, but coach Tom Crean couldn’t make the announcement until Tuesday. The 6-foot-7, 225-pound freshman was a finalist for New York’s Mr. Basketball Award. He averaged 19.8 points, 14.6 rebounds and 5.0 blocks last season at Webster Schroeder High School last season, and Holt has a 7-foot-3 wingspan. Holt is sixth freshman in this year’s recruiting class. Crean already has signed James Blackmon, Jr....

As such, the first shot of the NBA season came from that game. Lucky for the league, one of it’s better players scored the first bucket to kick off the season. Here’s video of Indiana All-Star Paul George knocking down the first shot of the 2013-14 NBA season.

This race sees a lot of chopping and changing in the pecking order as we wave goodbye to Forward Racing, after their team owner Giovanni Cuzari was arrested for allegations of money laundering, leaving Stefan Bradl and Loris Baz without a ride. Luckily for Bradl he secured a last minute seat at Aprilia Racing Team Gresini alongside Alvaro Bautista, after they fired Marco Melandri for his results (or the lack of them!...

In case you didn’t know… Aries was released by WWE after stints in NXT and on the main roster as part of the Cruiserweight Division. Other than being a part of the Cruiserweight Division on Raw and 205 Live, Aries also worked as a commentator whilst suffering from an eye injury. When Austin’s eye healed in March, he began feuding with then-Cruiserweight Champion Neville leading up to WrestleMania 33. The two faced each other on the kickoff show of WM 33, but Neville retained his title....

In case you didn’t know… Velvet Sky made her professional wrestling debut in 2003 and has been a fixture for Impact Wrestling since 2007. She is a two-time TNA Knockouts Champion, as well as a Knockouts Tag Team Champion one time with The Beautiful People. For all those who don’t know, the 36-year-old wrestler is currently dating WWE Legend Bubba/Bully Ray Dudley. The heart of the matter… According to Sky, the reason behind the move is so that she can go back to college in Connecticut....