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VOL.27 :: NO.27 :: Jul. 03 - 09, 2004
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SLEEPLESS nights for the football fans in India, during Euro 2004, were worth the trouble.
THESE STRIKERS ARE SPECIALThierry Henry is a seasoned hand, while Wayne Rooney has just exploded on the big stage. But make no mistake, the duo can be more than a handful for any defence, writes S. R. SURYANARAYAN.
Baros and Smicer stun the DutchMILAN BAROS' 18th goal in 28 internationals — a strike rate that makes even that of his Liverpool colleague Michael Owen pale by comparison — dragged the Czech Republic back into the sensational match against the Netherlands and, with ... PORTUGAL V SPAIN Portugal packs off bigger neighbour A REVIVED and sometimes rampant hosts Portugal scored their first victory in a competitive international against their bigger neighbour Spain and moved into the quarter-finals topping Group `A'. Greece finished runners-up in the Group and Spain ... ENGLAND V CROATIA 
Rooney on the rampage againINSPIRED by the tornado that is Wayne Rooney in Lisbon at the Stadium of Sweetness and Light England breezed into the Euro 2004 quarter-finals to the unbridled joy of 40,000 impassioned fans present and an estimated 30 million watching spellbound ... CZECH REPUBLIC V GERMANY 
Humiliation for GermanyNOT even the encouragement of 11 topless girls on the front page of the daily scandal sheet, Bild, could save Germany from disarray against the Czech Republic. The beaten 2002 World Cup finalists traipsed out of Euro 2004 after losing ... GERMANY V LATVIA 
Dogged Latvia earns a pointTHEY came without a hope, these little Latvians with no football pedigree and lucky to be here, said those bereft of football romance. Germany, winners of World Cups and European champions, were supposed to send them back to their cold, ... ITALY V SWEDEN 
Heartbreak for Italy in the closing stagesTHERE are few football superpowers who understand better than Italy the importance of seeing out victory to the last minute, but Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic spoilt their plans. This has become the tournament of the late mugging, and as a ... Voeller resigns GERMANY coach Rudi Voeller said he was resigning after his side were knocked out of Euro 2004. Euro 2004 has been a dismal tournament for the three-times world and European champions who failed to survive the group stage for the second ... ITALY V BULGARIA Cruel exit for forlorn Italy ITALY bowed out of Euro 2004 despite beating Bulgaria in Guimaraes, the victory meaningless after Denmark and Sweden drew 2-2 in Oporto. A team almost overflowing with individual talent failed miserably in Portugal and while Italy will no ... GREECE V RUSSIA 
More than what Greece had bargained for IF Greece were expecting a comfortable passage into their first-ever quarter-final of a major competition, they were rudely awakened by Russia. They knew they were in for a difficult evening within the first 17 minutes when Russia had scored ... Vonlanthen's feat SWITZERLAND'S 18-year-old striker Johan Vonlanthen became the youngest-ever scorer in a European championships finals, beating the record set by Wayne Rooney, earlier the tournament, when he found the net against France in the league phase. At ... DENMARK V BULGARIA 
Tearful Gronkjaer gives Danes joyA TEARFUL Jesper Gronkjaer made a memorable return to the international stage as Denmark won the game and Bulgaria lost their heads with Celtic's Stilian Petrov sent off for a mindless act of dissent in a second half that was more spite than ... Emerging talent IT doesn't surprise me that Bolton Wanderers are said to have bid 2.5 million Euros for the Portugal and Porto left-back Nuno Valente. His price will, I think, have gone up substantially after his impressive and crucial display in the match ... Importance of wingers WINGERS live! That could be one of the catchphrases of this European tournament and all the better for that. For so many years now embattled coaches and managers have been telling us that wingers are an outmodelled luxury, that teams just cannot ... FRANCE V SWITZERLAND 
Henry back on targetFRANCE moved into the quarter-finals thanks to Thierry Henry's first international goals of the year. With Switzerland threatening to unsettle the reigning European champions with their speed in attack, substitute Louis Saha, with his first ... HOLLAND V LATVIA 
Van Nistelrooy has the Dutch in rapturesRUUD VAN NISTELROOY'S Dutch double sent Holland into the quarter-finals. While celebrating their place in the knock-out stages, the Holland supporters also paid tribute to what amounted to the Czech Republic's second string by chanting the name ... SWEDEN V DENMARK 
Jonson's sweet leveller for SwedesAS Sweden's Mattias Jonson walked back to the halfway line after his last-minute equaliser against Denmark, there was almost a sense of embarrassment about what had just happened. Two goals each was the only score that would guarantee the exit of ...
Defensive mistakes THE Netherlands v the Czech Republic game has been saluted as a classic and it was indeed supremely exciting.
IT continues to remain an enchanting spectacle. And just as the sequels keep running off the production line, the quality just keeps improving.
Titles for Parimarjan and SaheliPARIMARJAN NEGI and Saheli Nath emerged as the new National sub-junior chess champions at the Chess India Complex. They did so in contrasting styles. While Saheli won the title with a round to spare, Parimarjan came from behind to become the ...
Double for Prateek and AnushreeTHE AITA's annual junior circuit moves over to Karnataka during the months of June and July and at least half a-a-dozen tournaments are conducted during that period. The Century Club, held the Championship Series for under-18 and under-14 boys ...
Lance ArmstrongFIVE-TIME Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong's cycling team has a new sponsor — the Discovery Channel. Discovery Communications said it will replace U. S. Postal Service as title sponsor beginning next year. Armstrong's new team will ... 
Viv RichardsFORMER batting great Sir Vivian Richards said that he resigned from his position as the West Indies' chief selector due to uncertainty about the post and a change in policy that left him out of overseas tours. West Indies Cricket Board ... Shane Warne SHANE WARNE, who broke his left hand playing county cricket in England, is a definite starter for the two-Test series against Sri Lanka. Warne broke the hand playing for English county side Hampshire earlier this month. But a medical ...
QUIZ CORNER1. Name the legend, who came to the Olympics, aged 24, set the world record for every distance from 1500m to 20 kms in the next 10 years and picked up a dozen Olympic medals. 2. In billiards, how many points does a `cannon' score? 3. Who ...
Vincent Hogg resignsZIMBABWE CRICKET UNION (ZCU) chief executive Vincent Hogg ( 
Imran and Jemima splitPAKISTAN'S celebrity marriage is over. Imran Khan, cricketing legend turned-political crusader, said he had divorced Jemima. "I sadly announce that Jemima and I are divorced," Imran said in a brief statement issued by his Justice Movement ...
Alok Kumar shows his classJUST before our snooker team went to Aqaba (Jordan), for the 2004 Asian Snooker Championship, I was asked whether there was any clear favourite for the title.
Players blast USGA after baked greens leave many red-facedBILLY MAYFAIR pulled his putter blade from an invisible scabbard and slashed at the air above the seventh green, impaling the wind, stomping the ground, slaying all that was unholy at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
Need to promote the right stuffFITNESS camps are meant for players to get into proper shape, but cricket being a popular game, there has to be an interchange of ideas, especially when the stars of the Indian cricket team keep commenting officially about the way they would like to go about.
Chucking, sledging and bad umpiring decisions are all curable if only someone has the courage to refuse to put up with them. All might be nine-day wonders, but the game will certainly be better with a little honesty.
Attracted to the English honeypot?THE Players Associations want less cricket. Players say they also want less, but still hurry to the rewards of English county cricket whenever they can.
WE know this much about Retief Goosen: He can win on the road.
Michael Schumacher grandmaster at IndyA SHRILL blast of horns serenaded six-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher as he drove his sleek red Ferrari across the yard of bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to a repeat victory in the United States Grand Prix.
Delivering judgement before proper trialTHE controversy that generated from the camp at Bangalore had its roots in the last tour to Pakistan when Akash Chopra was sacrificed to accommodate an in-form Yuvraj Singh in the opener's slot.
JUICY QUOTES -- PAUL FEINShe is today technically innocent. But ultimately she has to ask herself something about the perception that people might have — that people might say, `Are you sure you are living with the right people?' — IOC ...
Manjit, Seema set new marksWHAT is competitive athletics if a new frontier is not reached as often as possible? Invariably, it underlines the endless endurance and efficiency of the human spirit, the passion for achieving something often reckoned as impossible.
Airlines ends Petroleum's winning streak A FORGETTABLE week for the mighty Petroleum provided Indian Airlines with memories to cherish for a long, long time.
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