Golf News
At Northern Trust Open - Second Round

T34 Jeev Milkha Singh 69 70 -3
T52 Daniel Chopra 73 67 -2
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T88 Vijay Singh 72 71 +1

Jeev started with birdie on the first hole then had another birdie on 11th hole ... But he had 2 bogeys in last 4 holes, on 15th and 18th holes with birdie on 17th hole ... But this 1 under round helped him to stay where he was after first round.

Today Daniel fired when he requires most ... He declared his intention scoring eagle on first hole, then birdie on 3rd hole ... On 8th hole he scored his first bogey of the day on 8th hole but then managed back to back birdies on 9th and 10th holes ... Had bogey on 13th hole but managed another birdie on 17th hole to finished on 4 under for the day ... And also gurantee of making cut for weekend.
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 2 - Friday, 20 February 2009

Teimour Radjavov ½.½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Alexander Grischuk 1-0 Wang Yue
Magnus Carlsen ½.½ Lenier Domínguez
Viswanathan Anand 0-1 Levon Aronian

Anand was almost certain for victory against Levon Aronian ... But he made blunder on 33rd move and then Aronian took the full advantage of it to scored shocking victory in 53 moves ... Alexander Grischuk defeated Chinese GM Wang Yue in a Slav ... Other two games were drawn, now Aronian and Grischuk lead.
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Tennis News
At $500K Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Florida, USA

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,154) vs Donald Young (USA,133)
[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,321) vs John Isner (USA,137)
[Q1] Rajeev Ram (USA,210) vs Dusan Vemic (SRB,272)
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At Barclays Dubai tennis championships

[Q1] (6) AMRITRAJ, Prakash (IND,198) l DASNIERESDE VEIGY, Jonathan (FRA,337) 0-5

Prakash pulled out of the match after 12 minutes citing injury ... :-(
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Hockey News
At the four-match Hockey Series, Wellington

India dw New Zealand 1-1

Goal Scored - Phil Burrows (NZL) 3' and SV Sunil (IND) 55'

In the first half Black Sticks played excellent hockey but in second half Indians changed their tactics to switch to short passes to build attack and that helped them to equalise.