Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

2008 Morelia-Linares tournament is started yesterday, its schedule is from February 15th to 23rd February in Morelia, Mexico, and from 28th February to 7th March in Linares, Spain ... Viswanathan Anand is defending champion ... This year two players are different from last year's edition, Morozevich and Svidler are substituted by Radjabov and Shirov.

Morelia/Linares 2008 field -
1 Vishwanathan Anand 2799
2 Veselin Topalov 2780
3 Alexei Shirov 2755
4 Peter Leko 2753
5 Vassily Ivanchuk 2751
6 Levon Aronian 2739
7 Teimour Radjabov 2735
8 Magnus Carlsen 2733

Round 1 - Friday, February 15th
Alexei Shirov 0-1 Vishy Anand
Magnus Carlsen ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Peter Leko 1-0 Teimour Radjabov
Veselin Topalov 1-0 Levon Aronian

The Mexican half of the Morelia-Linares tournament has started with a bang ... Anand beat Alexei Shirov with the black pieces, Peter Leko and Veselin Topalov won their games against Teimour Radjabov and Levon Aronian respectively with white ... Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk drew in 39.

Good positive start for Anand, in second round he is playing Levon Aronian with whites.
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Athletics News -
At 3rd Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, Doha

Sinimol Paulose produced another scintillating performance to win women's 800m and qualify for the World Indoor Athletics Championship in Valencia … She clocked timing of 2:03.43s, that was a new championship record and well below qualifying mark for the World Indoor Athletics Championship, i.e. 2:04.00s.

Sushma Devi won silver with timing of 2:04.66s, but was unlucky to miss the qualifying mark by less than a second.

Now India won three gold, six silver and four bronze in this tournament.
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Football News -
At I-League 2007-2008, India

Air India l Mahindra United 0-1

Goal Scored - Yusuf Yakubu (MU) 82'

MoM - Yusuf Yakubu (MU)
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JCT dw Mohun Bagan 1-1

Goal Scored - Sunil Chhetri (JCT) 58' and Habibur Rehman Mondal (MB) 28'

MoM - Sunil Chhetri (JCT)
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Sporting Clube de Goa dw Churchill Brothers 1-1

Goal Scored - Fredy Mascernahas (SCG) 73' and Odafa Onyeka Okolie (CB) 12'

MoM - Chandrashekhar Minta (SCG)