 | Doha out to wow IAAF team
THE talking time is over. It is
business time now.
The Doha 2017 Bid
Committee, headed by Sheikh
Saoud bin Abdulrahman al
Thani, will lay out its blue print
for an outlandish world athletics
championship when the
International Association of
Athletics.
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| | Warner smashes blazing century |
 NEW South Wales and
Mumbai Indians qualified for
the semi-finals of the
Champions League
Twenty20, on Tuesday.
David Warner belted a rollicking
135 not out in 69 balls
to power NSW to an imposing
46 runs against Chennai
Super Kings in the second
match of the day.
NSW finished the league
phase with three wins in four
matches to collect six points.
Mumbai was second in the
group with five points.
NSW posted a formidable
201 for two in 20 overs. CSK
could reply with 155.
CSK had needed a big win
to bounce back but Warner´s
pulsating century crushed all
the hopes that CSK had during
the match.
In just 6.4 overs, Warner
led NSW to 54, out of... |
| | Nadal, Ferrer
record Japan
Open wins |  THE Spanish duo of defending
champion Rafael Nadal
and former winner David
Ferrer crushed local hopes on
Tuesday to advance to the
second round of the Japan
Open.
World number two Nadal,
playing his first singles tournament
since finishing as
runner-up to Novak Djokovic
at last month´s US Open,
opened his bid in style,
thumping Japan´s Go Soeda
6-3, 6-2.
After taking the first set
with ease, Nadal took a 3-1
lead in the second set when
Soeda double faulted on a
break point, before taking a
5-2 lead and winning on his
first match point.
"I was playing well but the
ball was a bit heavy from the
baseline," said Nadal, 25, the
top seed in Tokyo... |
| | Napoli sparks Rangers to 4-3 victory over Rays |  MIKE Napoli ignited a fourrun
seventh inning with a tworun
homer as the Texas
Rangers held on to beat the
Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in game
three of their first round MLB
playoff series.
Pitcher Colby Lewis struck
out six batters and walked just
two for the Rangers, who have
a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five
American League series.
In the late game, Delmon
Young hit a tiebreaking home
run in the seventh inning off
Rafael Soriano to help the
Detroit Tigers take a 5-4 win
over New York on Monday.
The defending AL champion
Rangers can wrap up the series
with a win in game four on
Tuesday. "I think it has a lot to
do with the atmosphere that
he´s in," Rangers... |
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