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

Round 10 - Saturday, March 1st
Anand ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Alexei Shirov ½-½ Peter Leko
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Veselin Topalov
Teimour Radjabov ½-½ Levon Aronian

Another quick draw in 22 moves for Anand before rest day ... All other matches also ended in draw so Anand managed to hold ½ pt lead over Carlsen ... On Monday Anand is playing with black-pieces against Teimour Radjabov.
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Golf News -
At Johnnie Walker Classic, New Delhi, India

T5 KAPUR Shiv 69 65 72 68 -14 € 59368.93
8 RANDHAWA Jyoti 70 65 68 72 -13 € 41458.75
T11 SINGH Jeev Milkha 68 70 70 69 -11 € 28578.90
T17 ATWAL Arjun 69 72 67 71 - 9 € 19775.82
T30 GANGJEE Rahil 68 71 70 72 - 7 € 14013.06
T44 KUMAR Mukesh 73 69 67 75 - 4 € 8955.09
T53 SINGH Arjun 69 70 73 75 - 1 € 5804.22
T58 BHULLAR Gaganjeet 72 69 73 74 PAR € 4726.30
63 SINGH Digvijay 70 70 73 78 + 3 € 4145.87
64 GANAPATHY, Rahul 73 69 74 77 + 5 € 3980.04
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Hockey News -
At 2008 Olympic Qualifier, Santiago, Chile

India bt Russia 8-0

Goal Scored - Dilip Tirkey (PC) 14', Prabhjot Singh 19' 29' & 65', Shivendra Singh 30', Tushar Khandekar 36', Sardar Singh 45', V.R. Raghunath (PC) 54'

Other matches -
Great Britain bt Mexico 11-0
Austria bt Chile 4-3

Ok we won ... But frankly I wasn't happy with our performance in this match ... Considering our whole dominance in the match we should won this match (atleast) with 20-0 scoreline ... But our forward line missed too many chances ... No variation in penalty corner drills on field but what was shocking 2 times our player couldn't manage to stop ball cleanly.

Then our usual problem of sloppy passing and unrequited fouls ... Also problem of player holding ball for extra time to give opponent chance of winning it back.

We need major improvement on all this issue if we r hoping to match and beat England.

It was interesting to see Sardara playing as defensive mid-field position and Raghunath was playing in left-flanks.
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Tennis News -
At US$769K Memphis Open, TN, USA

[SF] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) bt HAGGARD Chris (RSA)/ MELZER Jurgen (AUT) 76(9) 62

[F] (1) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) vs RATIWATANA Sanchai (THA)/ RATIWATANA Sonchat (THA)

Another straight sets victory for top seeds ... Now good match up against talented Ratiwatana twins for title.
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At US$436K Las Vegas Open, NV, USA

[Q1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND,265) l ANDERSON Kevin (RSA,179) 16 57