Spain's double Formula One world champion left McLaren in a mutual split after an acrimonious and controversial season with the Mercedes-powered team.
Claude Arpi captures the fan's passion for football in these entertaining e-mails to Ivan Crasto,Rediff.com's Sports Editor.
Ron Dennis's revelation will only fuel speculation that the world champion will move on at the end of the season, with a return to Renault the most likely.
Andy Roddick blasted 19 aces to defeat Sweden's Thomas Johansson 6-2, 6-2, 6-0 in the third round.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by GM Peter Heine Nielsen in the blindfold game of the 9th round at Amber
Tottenham Hotspur beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 to boost their bid for the Champions League berth
The Indian GM is now only 0.5 points behind the combined leader Alexander Morozevich at Amber chess
The Italian fencer won the men's individual sabre beating Hungarian Zsolt Nemcsik 15-14 in a thrilling final.
The Indian ace regained joint lead in the combined standings after beating Peter Leko of Hungary
Alonso was given a five-place demotion for unnecessarily impeding his team mate and championship leader Lewis Hamilton in the pitlane in the final seconds of qualifying
Formula One leaders McLaren have accused rivals Ferrari of running an illegal car at the start of the season and making 'grossly misleading' statements in a spy controversy overshadowing the championship.
The Indian ace drew his second round match against Peter Leko at the Dortmund Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The discus thrower made the grade after finishing third with a throw of 63.29 meters in an IAAF meeting, in Szombathely, Hungary, recently.
Ana Ivanovic was unceremoniously tossed out of the US Open on Thursday by an obscure Frenchwoman who had never played a tour-level match before arriving at Flushing Meadows. Julie Coin set alight the Arthur Ashe Stadium court when she produced the match of her life to shatter the world number one's title hopes in the second round 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
The Indian had mixed luck, losing yet another blindfold game, but then crushed Lev Aronian in the rapid game to extend his lead to a full points in the section after nine rounds.
He drew his 14th round game against Peter Svidler of Russia.
The Indian ace won her first round singles and doubles matches at the Thailand Open.
The survey, carried out across 30 nations, found that only those living in Australia, the United States and Egypt are more upbeat.
Shikha Uberoi carved out a fluent 6-1, 6-3 victory over Ryoko Fuda of Japan in the first round of the Sunfeast Open.
The Indo-Japanese pair was beaten by the Hungarian-Ukrainian combination of Melinda Czink and Yulian Fedak at the Sunfeast Open.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway stole day one honours in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after putting it across Alexander Morozevich of Russia to emerge early sole leader
Points rather than a podium finish may be the best Ferrari can hope for from their home Italian Grand Prix this weekend, said the Formula One champion.
Schumacher says his years of experience should stand him in good stead for Sunday's first Turkish Grand Prix.
The European champions are likely to play CSKA Sofia in the Champions League third qualifying round.
The Indian driver said his team aimed to keep up with their rivals who have shown improvement in performance
Five of the seven Michelin-contracted Formula One teams have approached rivals Bridgestone about a possible switch in 2006.
Formula One safety talks between drivers and Max Mosley will go ahead as planned on August 1 despite a lower than expected turnout.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran was held to a draw by Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the third round.
The Indian GM's flag fell in a rook versus Bishop endgame after 100 moves against top seed Emil Sutovsky
The very, very rich were very, very generous this year.
The FIA said that the hearing will be held in Paris, and the decision will be announced in a week's time.
The Indian ace drew with Peter Svidler in the penultimate round and took an unassailable lead over his nearest rivals.
The world champion played out a draw with Israeli Boris Gelfand to improve to joint third after the ninth round of the Corus International Chess tournament.
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