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Fans stand to greet Norway’s men’s national soccer team at Slottsplassen after returning to Oslo, Norway, from the United States. | Photo Credit: AP More than 100,000 fans flooded the streets of the Norwegian capital Oslo on Monday (July 13, 2026) to give their football team a heroes’ welcome, turning the heartbreak of their FIFA…
Over the weekend, a strong north-easterly breeze brought some much-needed respite to many parts of the United Kingdom reeling under an intense heatwave. On Tuesday (July 14) at Edgbaston here, the Indian cricket team will be hoping for the winds of change to blow in its direction too when it takes on England in the…
When the 2026 World Cup kicked off on June 11 in Mexico City, the air was filled with cautious optimism. This being the first 48-team World Cup, there were apprehensions that the group stage would be low on quality and feature many one-sided games. But hope stemmed from sport’s innate ability to adjust, evolve and…
Every expansion in football history comes with the same warnings, and 48 teams were no different. Critics lined up early: bigger groups would mean more filler, more blowouts, a World Cup stretched thin. Then Cape Verde drew Spain 0-0 in their tournament opener, and didn’t stop there. The Blue Sharks followed it up with a…
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Yastika effortlessly mixed caution with aggression. | Photo Credit: BCCI Yastika Bhatia had never scored an international century. She chose the best possible venue, or occasion, for that. Her maiden hundred became sweeter as it helped India score a massive win in the first-ever Women’s Test at Lord’s. Her 113 off 158 balls in the…
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Mbappe has scored eight goals so far in the ongoing edition. | Photo Credit: AFP France has turned consistency in World Cups into an art form, lifting the ultimate prize in 2018, finishing runner-up four years later and securing another semifinal qualification in ongoing tournament. Since conquering the football world eight years ago, Les Bleus have set…
Indian players celebrate the win against England in the one-off Test at Lord’s. | Photo Credit: Reuters It is not often that a coach gets to see just about everything so right. The historic Women’s Test at Lord’s was one such match. “It was almost a perfect match,” said Amol Muzumdar, shortly after India’s 270-run…
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Duckett was all praise for skipper Brook. | Photo Credit: Reuters The hardest thing to do in modern-day cricket is to shift gears when you are already cruising. Fresh off a 4-0 dismantling of reigning World T20 champion India in the shortest format, England will face a different kind of test from Tuesday. Awaiting the…
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Bernadette Szocs. | Photo Credit: Butterfly UTT Bernadette Szocs showed why she is such a revered and feared player. The Romanian dished out a superb game against Zeng Jian to win 2-1 under immense pressure in the fifth and deciding singles match and seal the tie in Dempo Goa Challengers’ favour against HVR Kolkata ThunderBlades in the Ultimate Table Tennis Season-7 at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium…
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Hyderabad e-Champions completed an almost flawless campaign by lifting the trophy. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Some lessons in cricket are learned the hard way. Telangana’s first attempt at a State-run T20 league (Telangana T20 League) disappeared after just one season in 2018. Eight years later, the Hyderabad Cricket Association returned with TG20, not merely…
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