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Pop star CYNDI LAUPER and rock matriarch SHARON OSBOURNE will be among the contestants fighting it out to win praise from property tycoon DONALD TRUMP in upcoming U.S. reality TV series THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE.
The pair will be joined by 12 other stars for the new series, including Olympic gold medal winner Michael Johnson, baseball [...]
New York, Dec 17(ANI): Scandal-hit American golfing superstar Tiger Woods has been named Athlete of the Decade by the Associated Press (AP).
The honour would have been another jewel in the King of Golf’s crown, but at the time when he is under intense media scrutiny since being involved in a car accident on November [...]
Hyderabad Dec 12 (IANS) Saina Nehwal, India’s top badminton player and one of the nation’s brightest hopes for an Olympic medal, signed a three-year contract with Olympic Gold Quest, a ‘Not for Profit’ sports foundation until the 2012 London Olympics.
Saina’s career has witnessed a meteoric rise in recent years. She became the first Indian to [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 10 (ANI): Olympic gold medal winner Abhinav Bindra flagged off a cancer awareness walkathon here on Wednesday to educate people about the disease.
The event was organized by a volunteer organization, ‘Cancer Sahayta Sahyog.’indra stressed on the need to create awareness about the dreaded disease.
“Awareness is everything in prevention. So awareness is very, [...]
Hamburg, Nov 18 (DPA) Olympic 1,500-metre champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after testing positive for the banned blood-booster CERA.
Ramzi, who won Bahrain’s first ever Olympic gold medal in Beijing last summer, now faces a two-year ban. In addition, under IOC rules, the Moroccan-born Ramzi [...]
Chennai, Nov 12 (IANS) Defending champion Marin Cilic, the 21-year-old from Croatia, ranked 13th, has confirmed his participation in the 2010 ATP Aircel Chennai Open tennis to be held January 4-10 here.
Also in the main draw is 24-year-old Stanislas Wawrinka from Switzerland, who is currently ranked 21 but had achieved a career-high of nine last [...]
Victoria (Canada), Oct 31 (DPA) Olympic gold medal winners Catriona Le May-Doan and Simon Whitfield have led off the longest domestic Olympic torch relay in history which will end in Vancouver before the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
The flame arrived from Greece later than expected in the capital of British Columbia on a Canadian Forces jet [...]
Zurich, Sep 25 (DPA) Roger Federer has a tough decision to make in early 2010 as he debates the merits of fighting to continue his current ATP domination or trying to fill an empty space on his bulging trophy shelf.
Switzerland are drawn away to mighty Spain in the Davis Cup first round. The opening weekend [...]
Paris, Sep 18 (DPA) The first French female swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, Laure Manaudou, has announced her retirement, French media reported Friday.
‘I have all the titles. I have had everything I wanted, even more than I had dreamed of,’ the 22-year-old Manaudou told the daily Le Parisien.
Manaudou was only 17 years old [...]
Washington, August 14 (ANI): Michael Phelps escaped uninjured after being involved in an auto accident in downtown Baltimore.
The Olympic gold medal swimmer was behind the wheels of a Cadillac Escalade when it collided with a Honda Accord in an intersection.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Baltimore police spokesman, said the star along with other two passengers in his [...]
