Manchester United captain Roy Keane has warned the club’s under-performing stars that their Old Trafford careers are on the line after a series of poor results. Matters came to a head with last weekend’s 4-1 derby defeat against Manchester City.
Controversial Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has set his sights on creating a virtually unsurpassable Test bowling record, saying he is capable of taking more than 600 wickets. The off-spinner on Tuesday became the youngest and fastest to reach the magical 500-mark against Australia on his home ground in Kandy, Sri Lanka in his 87th Test.
World indoor 800 metres champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi is set to turn on the pace, and it will be no surprise if SA’s top 1 500 metres men follow, in a bid for Olympic qualification, at the final ABSA Series meeting of the season at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town on Friday night.
Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier claims it is the men in black and not Michael Owen’s lamentable form which is ruining the club’s English Premiership challenge. The Frenchman says he has been appalled by some of the refereeing this season.
Adam Gilchrist replaced injured skipper Ricky Ponting at number three and shook off poor batting form to post his 10th Test hundred as Australia rallied on Wednesday for a 130-run lead over Sri Lanka in the second cricket Test.
Athens’ main Olympic stadium will not be finished before July 20 — just three weeks from the opening ceremony on August 13, Olympic organisers said on Wednesday. Dimitris Kallitsantsis, chief executive of Greek constructor Aktor, which heads the consortium in charge of the works, said the late deadline will not upset plans to hold Olympic test events in the stadium in May.
American tennis star Andre Agassi was told on Wednesday he must pay British tax on income earned from endorsements. A judge at London’s High Court said Agassi had to pay around £27 500 in tax on income paid by sportswear maker Nike and Austria’s Head Sports to his US-based company Agassi Enterprises Inc.
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Former president Nelson Mandela was completely shocked to learn about the shoot-out outside his Bishopscourt house in Cape Town on Tuesday that claimed the life of an attacker, said his spokesperson Zelda le Grange.
Chadian troops have successfully crossed into Darfur, western Sudan, to rescue cattle stolen by Sudanese militias known as Janjawid, according to UN sources. In the last couple of days, Chadian soldiers had crossed into Gogei to collect the cattle, following an agreement signed last week between presidents Idriss Deby of Chad and Umar al-Bashir of Sudan.