Category: Sports

The Washington Post came under fire Monday for its decision to suspend a reporter a day after she tweeted about the rape case against Kobe Bryant, only hours after the former basketball star and his daughter died with seven others in a helicopter crash. On Sunday afternoon, as the world was learning the news and initial […]

Switzerland’s Roger Federer was not going to go gently, of course, no matter how daunting the number of match points — his opponent accumulated seven — no matter how achy his 38-year-old legs, no matter how slow his serves, no matter how off-target his groundstrokes. Federer still plays for the love of these stages and […]

England fast bowler Stuart Broad has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for “use of an audible obscenity” during the fourth Test against South Africa. Broad was cited by the match officials after Monday’s incident in Johannesburg, when he approached South Africa captain Faf du Plessis and used “inappropriate language”. He was found […]

JOHANNESBURG: Joe Root made a patient half-century as England set South Africa a world record target of 466 to win the fourth and final Test at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. The England captain scored 58 and played an anchor role before he was last man out as England were bowled out shortly before the […]

IRRESPECTIVE of how they have played in this T20 series, the selection of Shoaib and Hafeez is not only tactically indefensible but thought provoking too. It is in a way admission of failure of the system. If two forty year old are still better than two twenty year old then God save our cricket. Or […]

MELBOURNE: It made sense to Sofia Kenin that Coco Gauff would be the one getting all of the attention and generating all of the buzz. That’s only natural when Gauff is 15 and making tennis history time and time again. “Yeah, I mean, the hype is for her. She’s obviously done great stuff, of course. […]

Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greatest players whose international stardom transcended basketball, was killed at age 41 on Sunday in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on board, officials said. Bryant rocketed to fame as an 18-year-old rookie and played 20 years for the Los […]

The third Twenty20 international between Pakistan and Bangladesh was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Monday because of bad weather in Lahore, giving the home side a 2-0 series victory. Murky conditions and drizzle delayed the scheduled 1pm toss at the Gaddafi Stadium pitch, but play was called off three hours later. The series […]

KARACHI: The lack of sports activity at the sprawling Customs Sports Complex in the city and the misuse of its premises due to the ongoing weddings and funfairs there have irked the sportspersons as well as the residents of the area who have asked the concerned authorities to urgently look into the matter and sort […]

AUCKLAND: Shreyas Iyer emerged as a new star of Indian cricket when his calm, unbeaten half-century clinched a six-wicket win for his team over New Zealand in a high-scoring first Twenty20 international at Eden Park in Auckland. Iyer scored his second Twenty20 international half century with 58 not out and finished the game with his […]