Bangladesh ended their losing streak and kept their hopes alive of reaching the final of the Triangular Twenty20 tournament when they handed Zimbabwe a six-wicket defeat in Harare on Thursday. Full story
Germany are planning to bide their time and eventually wear down defensive-minded Greece when they meet in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals today.
The Germans advanced through Group B with three wins from three games...Full story
Airtel, a local telecom operator, will provide 12 young Bangladeshi footballers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of training at the Manchester United football club for one week as part of ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ campaign.
Quinton Fortune, Manchester United’s former South African...Full story
Pakistan’s stand-in captain Mohammad Hafeez is confident his young side will regroup after the one-day defeats to challenge Sri Lanka in the Test series starting today.Full story
Pakistan’s disgraced former Test captain Salman Butt has been released early from a British prison, his lawyers said Thursday, after serving less than a quarter of his sentence for spot fixing.Full story
Veteran shooter Sabrina Sultana won gold in the women’s 50-metre rifle prone event of the IFIC Bank National Shooting Championships on Thursday. This was her second gold medal in the competition.Full story
MS Dhoni, the India captain, has proved to be just as successful off the field as he has been on the field. Forbes magazine has ranked him as the highest-paid cricketer, as well as the highest-paid athlete in...Full story
Controversial Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar is to travel the country, playing cricket in the streets in a bid to talent spot young players and groom them for success.Full story
A three-member Bangladesh chess team will leave for Sri Lanka on June 24 to participate in the Asian Youth Chess
Championship starting on June 25.Full story
The Olympic Day 2012 will be observed throughout the country on Saturday.
The Bangladesh Olympic Association secretary general Kutubuddin Ahmed revealed this at a press conference at the Dutch-Bangla...Full story
An exhibition Twenty20 cricket match between Walton and Bangladesh Sports Press Association will be held at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium today.
Walton’s senior deputy director Udoy Hakim said sports...Full story
Bangladeshi ace golfer Siddikur Rahman had a terrible first day as he finished at 31st position with a one-under-par 71 at the inaugural Volvik Hildesheim Open J Golf Series in Korea on Thursday.Full story
Indian police in Goa said Thursday they had arrested two teenage males on suspicion of killing their grandmother and taking her money to gamble on Indian Premier League cricket games.Full story
Germany midfielder Thomas Muller has said any talk of their Euro 2012 elimination at the hands of Greece in today’s quarter-final is unheard of in the German camp.
Germany are the only team at Euro 2012...Full story
England will step up their penalty-taking practice as they enter the Euro 2012 knockout rounds desperate to atone for repeated failures in shoot-outs, manager Roy Hodgson has revealed.Full story
England defender Joleon Lescott is determined to quell the threat of Italy striker Mario Balotelli when he comes up against his Manchester City team-mate on Sunday.Full story
Germany coach Joachim Low has insisted defending champions Spain remain the favourites to win Euro 2012 as the Germans prepare to take on Greece in today’s quarter-final.Full story
French football legend Zinedine Zidane said on Thursday there was nothing wrong with the tactics deployed by Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque at Euro 2012 despite growing criticism back in Spain.Full story
Germany coach Joachim Low has said he will watch his language ahead of today’s Euro 2012 quarter-final with Greece after learning a deaf German lip-reader is tweeting his pitch-side comments.Full story
The agent of Pep Guardiola told Kicker on Thursday that the former Barcelona coach ‘has not spoken to any club’ amid speculation in the German press that he has been approached by Bayern Munich.Full story
Arshavin gets heat from club owner
Russia’s captain Andrei Arshavin came under attack from the owner of his domestic club Thursday after he had dismissed the national...Full story
In 2010, it started with a headline in L’Equipe. Two years on, France’s leading sports newspaper has lifted the lid on fresh tension in the French squad at Euro 2012.
Thursday’s edition of the widely read paper claimed to document what....Full story
Daniele De Rossi has never played against England before but he has sour memories of a number of unhappy meetings against English clubs in European competition.Full story
Saturday’s showdown in the Euro 2012 quarter-final between France and Spain will be a throwback to old times for several rising stars, who faced off when the countries met in the European Under-17 championships...Full story
Greece are in fighting mood ahead of their crunch Euro 2012 quarter-final today against tournament favourites Germany, aiming to conjure up the spirit that helped them win the trophy eight years ago.Full story
World’s largest
lasagne marks Italy visit
A Polish restaurant in Krakow has set a Guinness World Record for cooking the biggest ever lasagne in honour of the Italy soccer team staying...Full story