Category: Sports

Sports

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…

Sports

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…

Sports

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…

Sports

Formula One | A fortnight of fine margins: How Austria and Silverstone reset the tussle for the title

July 8, 2026 admin

Formula 1’s back-to-back swing through the Red Bull Ring and Silverstone has reshaped the 2026 championship in ways few saw coming a fortnight ago. At Spielberg, George Russell converted a controversial pole — set under yellow flags — into his second win of the season, holding off a fast-recovering Max Verstappen. The result pushed Russell…

Sports

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,…

Sports

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…

Sports

Heimirich and Royal Legacy impress

July 8, 2026 admin

Heimirich and Royal Legacy impressed when the horses were exercised here on Wednesday morning (July 8). Inner sand: 600m: Agrador (R. Pradeep) 38.5. Strode out well. Agrima (Guruprasad) 40. In fine trim. Outer sand: 600m: Ice Of Fire (Asbar) 45.5. Easy. Starzella (Antony) 44.5. Shaped well. 1000m: Fine Silver (Antony) 1-15, 600/42.5. Pleased. Royal Legacy…

Sports

UTT SEASON-7 | Title holder U Mumba TT to take on two-time champion Dempo Goa Challengers in opening tie

July 8, 2026 admin

Players from different franchises pose ahead of the Ultimate Table Tennis to be held in Panaji at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The first six editions of Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) have been an eventful, and at times chequered, journey: one marked by world-class competition and the sport’s growing…

Sports

FIFA World Cup 2026 | Egypt coach Hassan calls out ‘unfair’ refereeing after loss to Argentina

July 8, 2026 admin

Hassan accused referee Letexier of being biased towards Argentina. | Photo Credit: AFP Egypt coach Hossam Hassan emerged from one of the World Cup’s wildest games furious with the refereeing, convinced his side had been denied a famous result and openly suggesting that the defending champion had been carried by favourable treatment. Egypt, he said,…

Sports

Financial sustainability in focus as ISL moves to club-led model

July 8, 2026 admin

AIFF office-bearers and club CEOs at a press conference. | Photo Credit: ANI The All India Football Federation (AIFF) announced on Wednesday that the commercial rights of the Indian Super League (ISL) have been handed over to the 14 participating clubs ahead of the 2026-27 season. The agreement between the AIFF and teams will see…

Sports