BAI sets Popat free for Sydney
National champion Aparna Popat was on Friday cleared for the Sydney Olympics by the Badminton Association of India setting at rest doubts over her participation.



We have the world's best made-field, says Baskaran
Having led the Indian team to the top of the podium at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Vasudevan Baskaran chases a Beckenbaurian dream as coach of the National hockey team to the Sydney Games.



ACB shames warne, hands reins to Gill Christ
Shane Warne was on Friday stripped of his position as Australia's vice-captain following revelations that he had bombarded an English nurse with lewd phone messages.



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