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Prime Volleyball League gets FIVB recognition; Season 5 from November 30

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The Prime Volleyball League has received world body FIVB’s recognition as India’s first division league for the sport and will return for its fifth season from November 30, the organisers announced on Wednesday (July 8, 2026). The season 5 players’ auction will be held in Goa on August 17 where franchises will assemble their squads…

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Ruthless Kostyuk packs off Paolini, sets up last-four clash with Noskova

July 8, 2026 admin

Marta Kostyuk didn’t allow Jasmine Paolini a single chance to break. | Photo Credit: AP Centre Court at Wimbledon barely sleeps. Less than 15 hours after Novak Djokovic and Felix Auger-Aliassime put on a five-hour, 15-minute classic, Marta Kostyuk and Jasmine Paolini were out there for their women’s quarterfinal. Wednesday’s fixture, much to the disappointment…

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Australia women’s cricket team: setting the gold standard

July 8, 2026 admin

One of sport’s great anomalies was resolved last Sunday. Australia’s women’s cricket team won a World Cup. After a gap of three years. For a team that was so used to winning and that too when it had so many match-winners, not having an ICC trophy for that long in the cabinet must have been…

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I want to fine-tune my game against spin: Sai Sudharsan

July 8, 2026 admin

Sai Sudharsan has made a strong case for himself by scoring heavily for India-A in Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu B. Sai Sudharsan has been in a rich vein of form over the last few months. The Gujarat Titans opener had a 700-plus run season for the second IPL edition in succession and…

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FIFA World Cup 2026 | Morocco looks to exact revenge on France

July 8, 2026 admin

France’s Mbappe and Morocco’s Saibari have been scoring goals for fun. | Photo Credit: AFP In Boston, a city built by successive waves of migration and layered loyalties, France’s quarterfinal against Morocco will be more than a meeting of two sides. It is a rematch, a footballing test and a reunion of friends, of shared…

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FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 | Will Argentina or Morocco buck the European push?

July 8, 2026 admin

The World Cup began as a sprawl — 48 teams, three host nations, heat, distance, noise and the promise that football’s centre of gravity might tilt somewhere unexpected. Two knockout rounds later, Europe has placed six teams in the quarterfinals, with Argentina and Morocco the only survivors from outside the continent. European nations — Spain…

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Aswath becomes India’s 98th GM

July 8, 2026 admin

Sealing it: Aswath claimed the title after winning the Pune International Round-Robin chess tournament. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Aswath S. needed to win his last three games to achieve the Grandmaster title, and he did so by winning it on demand at the Pune International Round-Robin chess tournament on Wednesday. With an awesome finish…

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ENG-W vs IND-W one-off Test | Test cricket is exciting and brings different challenges: Muzumdar

July 8, 2026 admin

Amol Muzumdar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Amol Muzumdar was playing in Yorkshire when Mohammad Azharuddin’s Indian team toured England in 1996. He travelled from up north to watch the second Test, in which two young batters made their debut: Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. Ganguly made 131 and Dravid 95. Muzumdar still remembers watching…

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Wimbledon 2026 | Of longevity and supreme fitness: Djokovic keeps redefining his career graph

July 8, 2026 admin

Tenacious: Djokovic showed why he is still one of the best tennis players going around. | Photo Credit: INSTAGRAM@djokernole In tennis parlance, 39 years is when your career is in its autumn. But for Novak Djokovic, it is proving to be a glorious second summer. History-making and record-setting are like second nature to him. Yet,…

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I am a coach for moments like this, says Argentina’s Lionel Scaloni

July 8, 2026 admin

Scaloni belts out instructions from the touchline. | Photo Credit: Reuters Lionel Scaloni had barely sat down before he admitted the obvious. Argentina had put its supporters through unnecessary “suffering”. Yet the manager was in no mood to apologise for the chaos. What he had witnessed, he felt, was something larger than a comeback win…

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