March 12, 2010
NEW DELHI: Lucas Vila scored two goals as Argentina downed hosts India 4-2 to take seventh place in the 12-nation men's field hockey World Cup on Friday.
The South Americans, who had not lost a World Cup match to India since 1978, continued their domination of the former champions in the play-off for the 7th-8th positions.
Argentina led 1-0 at half-time through a fourth-minute goal by Tomas Argento, before Sandeep Singh convered a penalty stroke to draw level seven minutes into the second session.
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March 12, 2010
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Standing atop the mountain, Lindsey Vonn already knew she was the best skier in the world for the third year in a row.
She didn't have to make her last run, but she raced anyway and won Friday's super-G to become the most accomplished U.S. skier with 33 World Cup victories, one more than Bode Miller.
Vonn captured her third straight overall World Cup title when rival and friend Maria Riesch finished out of the top two.
"I said 'Let's go for the American record,'" Vonn said. "I'm so happy — it's over, the season is over and I'm ecstatic."
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March 12, 2010
KARACHI: The 15-man national cricket team has been announced for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, beginning from April 30 in the West Indies.
Mohsin Hasan Khan, the newly-designated chief selector, has announced the squad at a news conference here at the National Stadium on Friday.
Squad: Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez, Khalid Latif, Misbah-ul-Haq, Fawad Alam, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Yasir Arafat, Hammad Azam, Kamran Akmal, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer, Saeed Ajmal.
Reserves: Shahzaib Hasan, Mohammad Sami, Raza Hasan, Naveed Yasin, Sarfraz Ahmed.
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March 12, 2010
HYDERABAD: Asif Baloch of the Sui Southern Gas Company won the tenth stage of the 15th Tour de Pakistan here on Friday.
In all, 40 cyclists left Moro for Hyderabad, this morning, for the tenth stage of the race.
Asif Baloch crossed the distance of 150 km in four hours eleven minutes and eleven seconds to win the tenth stage.
Haroon Rasheed of WAPDA came second while Hashmatullah of Afghanistan finished third in this stage.
The participants have so far crossed 1,531 km from Peshawar to Hyderabad.
Zahid Gulfam has overall dominance followed by Nisar Ahmed and Hashmatullah.
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March 12, 2010
AIX EN PROVENCE: Liquigas racer Peter Sagan won the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Friday, a 157km ride from Pernes-les-Fontaines to Aix-en-Provence, as the 20-year-old notched his second success of the week.
Astana star Alberto Contador retained the leader's yellow jersey after Sagan attacked two kilometres from the line to edge out Italian Mirco Lorenzetto by two seconds.
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March 12, 2010
NEW DELHI: Australia defeated the Netherlands 2-1 on Thursday to qualify for a third successive final against defending champions Germany in the men's field hockey World Cup.
The Kookaburras recorded their 10th win in a row over the Dutch in major competitions to set up Saturday's title clash between the top two teams in the sport.
Luke Doerner and Glenn Turner scored once in each half, before Taeke Taekema converted a penalty stroke 12 minutes from the end to narrow the margin.
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March 12, 2010
LILLE, France: Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez praised his side's attitude despite seeing them fall to a 1-0 defeat at French side Lille in the away leg of their Europa League last-16 tie on Thursday.
The five-time European champions have fallen off the pace in the Premier League and face a struggle to qualify for next season's Champions League after a 1-0 defeat at Wigan on Monday left them in sixth place.
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March 12, 2010
LAS VEGAS – Jimmer Fredette wanted to be aggressive and get to the free throw line.
"I know I could make it from there," the junior point guard said after sinking 23 of 24 foul shots and setting a Mountain West Conference tournament record with 45 points in No. 14 BYU's 95-85 win over TCU on Thursday night.
Fredette's fantastic performance, which helped the Cougars (29-4) break their school record from 1950-51 for wins in a season, was the highlight of three thrillers in the MWC quarterfinals.
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March 12, 2010
NEW DELHI: New Zealand has defeated South Africa 5-4 on penalties in the playoff for ninth at the field hockey World Cup.
Andrew Hayward's third penalty corner goal with no time left at the end of regulation made it 4-4 and sent Friday's match into extra time, where the teams could not produce another goal.
Then they went to penalty strokes, and both teams missed one early.
At 4-4, Lloyd Madsen missed for South Africa but Dean Couzins caught South Africa goalie Erasmus Pieterse diving the other way to seal the marathon win.
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March 11, 2010
NEW DELHI: Admitting their poor performance in the FIH World Cup, all players of the national hockey team have announced their retirement from the game here on Thursday.
Captain Zeeshan Ashraf, while talking with Geo News, said that he and his boys apologise with the nation on the team’s dismal performance in the World Cup.
He said that never in the history of Pakistan, such disappointing performance was displayed and the whole team is sad on today’s defeat. This is why all the players have decided in a meeting to quit hockey.
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