Colin McRae Dies in a Helicopter Crash
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Formula 1 champion Colin McRae died in a helicopter crash on Saturday. McRae was piloting the helicopter when it crashed. All four people on board died including McRae’s five year old son. McRae is very famous for his popular series of racing games, including DiRT, which was just released for PS3. Codemasters, who developed DiRT, [...]
Australia Faces Harsh Defeat
Posted on September 13, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
The Australian team who have been the World Cup holders suffered one of cricket’s great shocks on Wednesday night. Zimbabwe triumphed by five wickets in a World Twenty20 match at a rain-drenched New lands. Brendan Taylor was declared as the man-of-the-match. He guided the Zimbabweans home from the last but one ball, the rain lashing [...]
Sri Lanka Misses Muralitharan
Posted on September 12, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Sriyan Samararatne the team manager of Sri Lanka told BBC Sinhala: “It is a big blow to us. I think in this format a spinner is more effective than a fast bowler.” Muralitharan who had injured his bicep while playing for Lancashire in August will not be playing. Samararatne added that “If a batsman edges [...]
Harper to Quit As Coach
Posted on September 11, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Kenya has started to search a new coach for the national cricket team as Roger Harper is stepping down at the end of September after one and half years. The former West Indies spinner is keen to return home in the Caribbean to be close to his wife and two school-going teenage sons. He has [...]
Justine Henin wins the U.S. Open
Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Justine Henin has undoubtedly dominated the US Open this year. She made it to the finals without much trouble and went on to win the finals on Sunday at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. She played with Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia in the finals. In the semi-finals Henin was up against Venus Williams. Venus played well [...]
Justine Henin Defeats Venus Williams
Posted on September 8, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
The audiences at the Arthur Ashe Stadium were spellbound when Justine Henin and Venus Williams both traded forehands, service breaks and shifts of momentum even in the middle of points. However, it was the top seed who windswept the American’s rage to win 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 and advanced to her second consecutive Open final at [...]
Chan Yung-Jan and Chuang Chia-Jung Enter Finals
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Sports, Tennis | Leave a Comment
After a straight-set semi-final triumph on Thursday Taiwan’s Chan Yung-Jan and Chuang Chia-Jung will try to claim their homeland’s first Grand Slam tennis title at the US Open on Sunday. Chan and Chuang defeated Hungary’s Agnes Szavay, a singles quarter-finalist, and Czech Vladimira Uhlirova 6-2, 7-6 (7/5). This win has pushed them to book a [...]
Roger Federer in the Semi-Finals
Posted on September 6, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Roger Federer kept up his dominance over Andy Roddick to reach the semi-finals of the US Open on Wednesday. He is keen to win four titles in a row in New York. The top seed and champ defeated the home favorite 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 in an extreme night-time encounter. It ended up in [...]
Jamie Murray and Liezel Huber Out of U.S. Open
Posted on September 5, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Jamie Murray and Liezel Huber lost the semi-final battle against India’s Leander Paes and American Meghann Shaughnessy, eventually going down 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (5-7) 5-10. The first set went with serve all the way to a tie-break. It continued until the ninth point when Shaughnessy suffered a mini-break. This allowed Murray to serve out to [...]
Jamie Murray and Liezel Huber enter semi-finals
Posted on September 4, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Wimbledon champion Jamie Murray and world doubles number one Huber have entered the semi finals of the mixed doubles in the U.S. Open. They beat Poland’s Agnieska Radwanska and Mariusz Fyrstenberg with 6-1 6-2. In the last four they will face Meghann Shaughnessy of America and Leander Paes of India. Murray stated that the match [...]
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