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Galaxy of stars at Princess event
Sports, Published on 19/12/2019
» Some of the world's leading players, including Chinese legends Lin Dan and Chen Long and local star Ratchanok Intanon, will take part in the Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters next month, organisers said yesterday.
Basketball looks for NBA rebound in cricket-mad India
AFP, Published on 03/10/2019
» NEW DELHI - The NBA sets foot in India for the first time this week as basketball struggles in a country where cricketers are treated like gods and the ancient sport of kabaddi is a hot television property.
Bike riding courses offer Finland's immigrants new freedom
AFP, Published on 01/10/2019
» HELSINKI - It's a skill you never forget once learnt, as the saying goes: Now immigrants to Finland can receive free cycling lessons to help them better integrate into life in the bike-loving nation.
Home Swiss Home as Lausanne 2020 looms
Sports, Wanchai Rujawongsanti, Published on 06/04/2019
» Dubbed the "Olympic Capital", Lausanne is the home of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and some 50 world sports governing bodies.
Worrying time for Reed, Leadbetter
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 31/03/2019
» Reigning Masters champion Patrick Reed is taking lessons from veteran swing coach David Leadbetter. This news made me slip back down memory lane, of me arriving at his academy in Florida many years ago. I was just starting my career as a coach and had this idea of asking my students to sponsor me to go over, from Australia, to take some lessons from him. After much deliberation, I called my regulars who, upon hearing my anguished proposition for funds, agreed to pay upfront for several David Leadbetter inspired lessons that I would give them upon my return.
Irish rugby schooled for success
AFP, Published on 31/01/2019
» DUBLIN: Ireland's rise to number two in world rugby on the back of a Six Nations Grand Slam, and a historic home win over world champions New Zealand, is no accident but the fruit of a perfect storm of factors coming together, starting in the nation's schools.
It's results that really matter
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 23/12/2018
» I was thinking what football managers and those who teach golf have in common.
LeBron just what doctor ordered for lowly NBA Lakers
AFP, Published on 31/07/2018
» LOS ANGELES - LeBron James says he is looking forward to the challenge of turning around the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, who are coming off the worst five-year period in franchise history.
A trip to remember for young Red Champion stars
Sports, Ravipan Pavasuthipand, Published on 25/03/2018
» Thiti Boonchoen just lost a game against a Leicester City academy team on a chilly afternoon at the club's training ground but the young Karen boy isn't about to let anything dampen his spirits as he trudges off the pitch alongside his teammates.
Cheers as N. Korea rookies finish last in Paralympics debut
AFP, Published on 11/03/2018
» PYEONGCHANG, South Korea: Two North Korean rookie skiers finished last as they made their country's Winter Paralympics debut in the South Sunday, but a flag-waving crowd cheered enthusiastically at the latest sign of an Olympics-fuelled rapprochement.