Phil Mickelson blocked out the distractions and kept his mind quiet in front of a raucous gallery to win the PGA Championship by two strokes on Sunday and become golf's oldest major winner at the age of 50.
The fast-rising Jemimah Rodrigues starred with the bat, after India's spinners wreaked havoc, to set up a series-clinching seven-wicket win over the West Indies in a low-scoring third women's T20 International, in Providence, Guyana, on Thursday.
Teenager Shafali Verma scored her second consecutive half-century after off-spinner Deepti Sharma starred with the ball as the Indian women's team registered an emphatic 10-wicket win against West Indies in the second T20 International.
India in their allotted 50-overs posted a target of 192 for the hosts. West Indies got off to a bad start
"The ebbs and flows of the game made it such a good one for the spectators. It was just unfortunate we came out on the other side of it."
World Cup-winning junior coach Harendra Singh is set to apply for the vacant senior men's team coach and feels he is best suited for the role.
The Indian women's cricket team has been knocked out of the World Twenty20 after suffering a narrow three-run defeat against the West Indies.
Multiple Grand Slam winner Martina Navratilova questioned the "silence" of the International Tennis Federation after one of its members described world number one Serena Williams and older sister Venus as "brothers".
The new Spider-Man film gets everything wrong except the girl, feels Raja Sen.
The trailer looks solid and promising.
the sensational new trailer from Sony Pictures is a a fanboy-pleasing little chunk of cinema that should rev us up in time for its July 3 release date.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, his South African counterpart Graeme Smith and Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara are taking part in an ICC-promoted AIDS awareness campaign in the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup in Barbados.
Student Holly Colvin came away with top marks as England easily accounted for title rival India by 10 wickets on the opening day of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 2009 tournament in Taunton on Thursday. The 19-year-old Colvin, bowling slow left arm, took 3-20 as the World Cup holders restricted India to 112-8 before captain Charlotte Edwards (61 off 53 balls) and fellow-opener Sarah Taylor (50 off 41) cruised home with 26 balls to spare in Group B.
Australia's Grant Schubert was adjudged Young player of the Year as Dutch players dominated the annual awards.
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