Cricket

Glenn McGrath, Australia cricket legend joins Cricket Hall of Fame The Sun McGrath, 42, holds the record for most Test wickets by a fast bowler with 563 at an average of 21.64. The induction ceremony will be held during lunch on the opening day of Australia's Third Test against Sri Lanka in Sydney on Friday. A key man during ... See all stories on this topic » The Sun

Tony Grieg: An adored and respected cricket statesman Saudi Gazette To the current generation, Tony Greig is not remembered as a cricket player but as one of the most accomplished TV cricket commentators. Like the sound effects of a movie, Tony's voice affected the viewers of cricket games in such a manner that many ... See all stories on this topic »

Bangladesh cricket team shelves Pakistan tour over security NDTV Dhaka: Bangladesh said on Monday it had shelved plans to become the first cricket team to tour Pakistan since a 2009 attack on Sri Lanka's bus, with the head of the board saying there were fears for players' safety. "Bangladesh will not visit Pakistan ... See all stories on this topic » NDTV

Beazley takes up USACA challenge ESPNcricinfo.com Darren Beazley, former general manager of business development with the Western Australia Cricket Association, has been confirmed as the new chief executive of the USA Cricket Association. He will take up the post in February and will be based in Florida. See all stories on this topic »

Pakistan team arrives for 2nd ODI The Hindu The Pakistan cricket team arrived here on Monday under heavy security cover for the second ODI against India, which will be held at the Eden Gardens on Thursday. Also arriving in the day were India skipper M.S. Dhoni and coach Duncan Fletcher with the ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

Worship the game, not money The Hindu Of late cricket in general has dropped in standards, the wickets are predictable, helmets and protection have neutralised the speedster, our spinners no longer spin the ball and our present day batsman continue to make batting such a challenge. Why? See all stories on this topic »

Bangladesh retreats from plan to send cricket team to Pakistan Deccan Herald Citing "security concerns", the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has again retreated from its plan to send its national team to Pakistan. "Its not good for us to visit Pakistan right this moment," BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon told reporters at a ... See all stories on this topic »

McGrath to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame Times of India DUBAI: Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath will be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame during the third Test between Australia and Sri Lanka starting January 4 in Sydney. McGrath will join Enid Bakewell and Brian Lara to become third inductee ... See all stories on this topic » Times of India

Delhi raises hopes of outright win as Vidarbha forced to follow on The Hindu A sense of relief was palpable in the Delhi camp after the side restricted Vidarbha to 257 in the first innings raising hopes of an outright win on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy Group 'B' match at the old VCA Stadium here on Monday. Victory ... See all stories on this topic »

Cricket: Williamson named skipper's understudy for test series New Zealand Herald McCullum has publicly raised the idea of seamer Tim Southee as a vice-captaincy candidate, a move that would not have been universally well received at New ZealandCricket HQ. Williamson is expected to be a test skipper at some point, but the argument ... See all stories on this topic »

India, Pakistan Cricket: Bitter Rivals Face Off In Bangalore In First ... BANGALORE, India — Four years after Pakistani gunmen laid siege to India's financial capital of Mumbai, South Asia's bitter rivals were meeting again on the ... www.huffingtonpost.com/.../india-pakistan-cricket-rivalry-bila...

Cricket - Pakistan beat India in T20 opener - Yahoo! Eurosport UK 'Cricket - Pakistan beat India in T20 opener' on Yahoo! Eurosport UK. Pakistan beat India by five wickets in a thrilling Twenty20 opener in Bangalore. uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/.../cricket-pakistan-beat-india-t20-op...

Tributes pour in for former England cricket captain Tony Greig | Sport ... The former England cricket captain and commentator, who has died at the age of 66, was 'magnificent and fearless' www.guardian.co.uk/sport/.../tony-greig-england-cricket-capta...

India-Pakistan Cricket Series Marks Detente Two South Asian rivals are working to rebuild ties after terror attack that targeted Indian financial hub four years ago. www.voanews.com/content/new-india...in.../1572966.html

India vs Pakistan: Game changers to look out for - Sports - NDTV.com Five years after their bilateral cricket ties snapped due to the Mumbai terror attack , India and Pakistan are set to slug it out in what promises to be the series of the ... sports.ndtv.com/.../201149-india-vs-pakistan-game-changers-t...

Tennis

Alex Ovechkin is engaged to Russian tennis star Maria Kirilenko USA TODAY Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin announced Monday that he and Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko are engaged. Ovechkin, 27, who has been dating Kirilenko for over a year, announced the news on Twitter. With the NHL in the midst of a ... See all stories on this topic »

Tennis umpire's husband had superficial head wound, report says Los Angeles Times When prosecutors decided to drop a murder charge against professional tennisumpire Lois Goodman, they gave no explanation. But a defense team pathology report by a former New York medical examiner reveals the head wound authorities had portrayed ... See all stories on this topic »

My New Year's tennis resolutions SI.com Another year has come and gone and I don't know about you, but 2012 flew right on by. It was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it year, thanks in large part to the London Olympics, which led to a compacted and hurried tennis schedule that was just as much a ... See all stories on this topic »

Svetlana Kuznetsova ousted early ESPN AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Svetlana Kuznetsova lost to unseeded Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 7-6 (6), 6-2, 7-5 in swirling wind Monday in the first round of the ASBTennis Classic. Kuznetsova, once ranked as high as No. 2, is a two-time Grand Slam... See all stories on this topic »

Keck's Exclusives First Look: Tennis Legend Chris Evert Guests on CSI Seattle Post Intelligencer Elisabeth Shue wowed me when I visited the CSI set to watch her character, Julie Finlay, interrogate Chris Evert, who plays herself in the January 23 episode. Shue held her own in an on-the-court rally with the tennis legend. But it was the actress' ... See all stories on this topic »

Another revolt in Indian tennis Hindustan Times Tired of the opaque manner of functioning of the national tennisfederation and its consistent inability to live up to its promises to them, eight Indian players have come up with a charter of demands. These are Somdev Devvarman, Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan ... See all stories on this topic » Hindustan Times

Wozniacki, Stosur out in Brisbane FOXSports.com BRISBANE, Australia (AP). Caroline Wozniacki's first trip to the Brisbane International ended in a 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1) first-round loss to Kazakhstan qualifier Ksenia Pervak on Monday. She quickly followed up by dismissing speculation about an engagement ... See all stories on this topic »

Tennis Coming to Crozet Park NBC 29 News New tennis courts are coming to Crozet Park this year but only if the park can raise the last few thousand dollars it needs to reach its funding goal. QuickStart Tennis of Central Virginia built courts for kids 8 and under at Crozet Park this summer ... See all stories on this topic »

Report Card: Djokovic, Tomic, Li off to hot starts, others not so much SI.com The Report Card hands out grades for the week in tennis. This week we look at the first exhibitions of the season and who aced the weekend. Novak Djokovic: A-plus. Djokovic successfully defended his title at the Mubadala World TennisChampionship by ... See all stories on this topic »

Tennis players unhappy with PTF secretary The Express Tribune KARACHI: Top tennis players including Aqeel Khan demanded changes in the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) administration as they missed out on the opportunity of competing in the Asian Championship at Thailand in December. The players said PTF ... See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune

Alex Ovechkin is engaged to Russian tennis star Maria Kirilenko The NHL MVP announced the engagement on Twitter. www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/12/31/.../1801057/

Tennis - Nadal pulls out of Abu Dhabi due to illness - Yahoo ... 'Tennis - Nadal pulls out of Abu Dhabi due to illness' on Yahoo! Eurosport UK. Rafael Nadal's comeback from injury has been put on hold after he pulled out of ... uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/.../tennis-tennis-nadal-pulls-abu-dhab...

Tennis contract loser sues Sandy Springs | www.ajc.com A tennis management firm is suing the city of Sandy Springs, hoping to block a contract it says was improperly awarded and will result in higher fees at the city's ... www.ajc.com/news/news/tennis-contract-loser-sues.../nThHc/

Tennis predictions for 2013 - Tennis - Jon Wertheim - SI.com In anticipation of the new year, SI.com's writers are predicting the stories they think will define the sports landscape in 2013. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/.../tennis-predictions-201...

Tennis umpire's husband had superficial head wound, report says When prosecutors decided to drop a murder charge against professional tennisumpire Lois Goodman, they gave no explanation. But a defense team pathology ... latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/.../tennis-umpire-husband.htm...

Baseball

Baseball Hall of Fame 2013: Why I didn't vote for PED users SportingNews.com It comes down to choices and by all accounts, Bonds, Clemens and Sosa simply did not make the right decisions when it came to performance enhancing drugs, although signs indicated that Major League Baseball itself was embroiled in a drug controversy ... See all stories on this topic »

Youth baseball coach busted by police 9NEWS.com PARKER - The youth baseball coach exposed in a 9Wants to Know investigation for raffling off prizes he didn't own is in trouble with the law. Parker Police cited Kyle Dodd with "fraud and deception prohibited," a misdemeanor charge that could carry ... See all stories on this topic » 9NEWS.com

Major League Baseball: 5 Things That Have to Change Today Bleacher Report With the end of the year upon us and the NFL season moving into their run for the Lombardi Trophy, our attention naturally turns to...baseball? Well, basketball is months away from their playoffs. There is no hockey. Why not talk about America's pastime? See all stories on this topic » Bleacher Report

Defining The Era In Red Sox Baseball Over The Monster Defining The Era In Red Sox Baseball. By Ben Buchanan on Dec 31, 1:30p 7. Jim Rogash. It's the end of the year. Is it also the end of an era in Red Sox baseball? Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Some might say that the Red Sox are at the end of an ... See all stories on this topic »

My baseball resolution is to improve my analysis of baseball players. The Crawfish Boxes I'm usually not the type of person that does New Years resolutions. When I make resolutions I tend to not follow through with them so this years resolution is embedded with an extra resolution layer. I'm also not making just one resolution I'm making ... See all stories on this topic »

'Sports Illustrated' Article Features Former UMBC Baseball Player Patch.com David Warrenfeltz played at UMBC from 2006-2009 and then went on to teach and be a high school baseball coach of his alma mater, Williamsport High School in Washington County. The story discusses how two people who were part of his life died in car ... See all stories on this topic »

Best of 2012: Baseball Stories Baseball Nation Maybe we shouldn't have been super-surprised when the San Francisco Giants won the World Series. But considering they did it with their $20 million starting pitcher struggling all season? And with their best first-half hitter suspended for most of the ... See all stories on this topic » Baseball Nation

Eddie Collins: From the Baseball Hall of Fame Library Player Files, Part 1 South Side Sox As I did last winter, I made a visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame's library to pick through the player files of notable White Sox. The Hall has a file on every player who appeared in the major leagues, and it's a lot of fun rifling through them. They ... See all stories on this topic »

2013 Topps Baseball Spring Fever Redemption Details The Cardboard Connection 2013 Topps Baseball Spring Fever redemption card 226x300 Image When Spring Training starts in February, baseball card collectors will have the chance to head to their local hobby shops and get some exclusive cards. The 2013 Topps Baseball Spring ... See all stories on this topic » The Cardboard Connection

The day that baseball died: Happiness was Roberto Clemente, and then he was ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette If you were a kid growing up in Pittsburgh 40 years ago, you probably feel a little different when New Year's Eve rolls around from the rest of the revelers out there. It was on Dec. 31, 1972, that Pirates Hall of Fame right fielder Roberto Clemente ... See all stories on this topic »

The Year in Worst: Baseball Writing - Baseball Nation It wasn't (completely) their fault, but the American League champions did inspire some of 2012's worst baseball writing. mlb.sbnation.com/.../worst-baseball-writing-year-2012-mitch-...

Baseball predictions for 2013 - MLB - Joe Sheehan - SI.com In anticipation of the new year, SI.com's writers are predicting the stories they think will define the sports landscape in 2013. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/.../2013-predictions-baseba...

Big moves place Halos among baseball's elite - MLB.com - Major ... After adding Josh Hamilton and Jason Vargas, have the Angels morphed intobaseball's top team? With few weaknesses showing, the Angels look like they are ... mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121229...

The best rosters in baseball heading into 2013 - Sports - The Boston ... One man's opinion of the 10 best rosters in Major League Baseball heading into the 2013 season. Of course, having the best roster doesn't always spell success ... www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2012/12/30/the.../story.html

Top 50 Baseball-Related Twitter Accounts - Baseball America A list of the 50 best Twitter accounts for baseball fans. A few of them are ranked because they frequently tweet breaking news, others provide insightful analysis ... www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/news/.../2614440.htm...

Rugby

Professional rugby player who lost testicle during match leaves wife and ... Daily Mail A professional rugby league player who famously lost a testicle during a match earlier this year has left his wife and two children for a porn star, it was reported today. Warrington Wolves prop Paul Wood was apparently seen moving his belongings into ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Isles becomes worldwide sensation in rugby Canton Repository A fateful flip of a channel transformed former Jackson High School track and football standout Carlin Isles from Olympic track hopeful to rugby's fastest man. Isles, a sprinter, discovered his new career while preparing for the U.S. Olympic Trials ... See all stories on this topic »

Rugby - Ospreys ground Dragons Yahoo! Eurosport UK The Ospreys kept themselves in the RaboDirect Pro 12 title mix with a second derby win in five days, this time a 14-3 win against a poor Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade. PA Sport – 2 minutes 1 second ago. Email 0; Recommend. Tweet. Print ... See all stories on this topic » Yahoo! Eurosport UK

Brooks Rehabilitation to hold 'Quad Rugby' at Jacksonville Ice and Sportsplex Florida Times-Union (blog) Twelve teams of athletes with disabilities will participate in the Brooks Rehabilitation Adaptive Sports and Recreation Program's 6th annual Southern Slam Quad RugbyTournament this weekend. Quad rugby is a full contact wheelchair sport played with a ... See all stories on this topic »

Super Rugby champs the Chiefs to tour Argentina Rugbyweek.com The Chiefs have a bye before the Super Rugby break which means that they won't play a match for four weeks and coach Dave Rennie is concerned about his players losing their match fitness. The finer details of the tour match are still being worked out ... See all stories on this topic »

Farrell will be given run at No.10 RBS 6 Nations And Sarries director of rugby McCall believes the 12-cap international will be raring to go by the time England launch their campaign in February. “Owen will play some rugby at ten over the next two or three weeks,” said McCall. “He'll get plenty of ... See all stories on this topic » RBS 6 Nations

Saracens vow to give Farrell time at 10 for England Rugbyweek.com Saracens coach Mark McCall has promised that he will play Owen Farrell at fly half ahead of England's Six Nations campaign which starts in February. Twenty-one-year-old Farrell started for Saracens against Northampton Saints off the bench and played at ... See all stories on this topic »

2013 World Cup holds key to rugby league's future success BBC Sport The Rugby Football League's chief executive Nigel Wood may have his critics, but when he labels 2013 as "rugby league's most important year since Super League began" it is impossible to disagree. A hugely popular sport with the converted, the battle ... See all stories on this topic » BBC Sport

Prediction time for 2013 ESPNScrum.com However, we also thought Nick Mallett would get the England job, the Melbourne Rebels would rip it up on the Super Rugby stage and Saracens would claim the Premiership crown so we clearly have some work to do. So, what does the rugby world hold for ... See all stories on this topic » ESPNScrum.com

Rugby: Phil Smith happy after Heriot's have Currie at Malleny Park Scotsman Despite difficult conditions, the sides served up an entertaining encounter that featured several passages of excellent rugby and a glimpse into the future, with a clutch of youngsters and peripheral players staking a claim for selection when the ... See all stories on this topic » Scotsman

SA rugby heralds new era - SuperSport - Rugby The South African rugby season was highlighted by the rise of young stars, with up-and-coming talent making their presence felt at all levels. www.supersport.com/rugby/sa.../SA_rugby_heralds_new_era

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Austin Healey on his magic rugby union moments of 2012 - Telegraph The former England star looks back on the stand-out performances of the last 12 months. www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Austin-Healey-on-his-magic-rugby-u...

Rugby league star who lost testicle leaves wife and moves in with ... EXCLUSIVE: WARRINGTON'S Paul Wood - injured in the 2012 Super Leage Grand Final - walked out on Boxing Day and then moved in with Mario Balotelli's ... www.thesun.co.uk/.../Rugby-league-star-who-lost-testicle-leav...

England's rugby stars light up my Premiership team of 2012 | Shaun ... Shaun Edwards: England's rugby stars have formed the backbone of my Premiership XV of 2012 from Mike Brown to Ben Morgan. www.guardian.co.uk/.../shaun-edwards-premiership-team-201...