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B. League Abahani's
Dark clouds overhead and an expectedly muddy ground after daylong showers gave the Bangabandhu National Stadium a gloomy look but the conditions could not spoil Abahani's championship party as they lifted
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B. League
A sporting treble
Cruciani remembered
Amalesh Sen had done it before during his long association with Abahani as player and coach. He has done it again.
 
U-19 Cricket
Bangladesh face India in final today
Bangladesh under-19 cricket team take on their Indian counterparts in the final of the tri-nation tournament at the Colts Cricket Club ground in Colombo today.
 
Eng struggle in rain-hit 2nd Test
England were 94-3 at tea on the opening day of the rain-hit second Test at Trent Bridge on Friday after being put into bat by Indian captain Rahul Dravid.
 
Mali greets Twenty20
New International Cricket Council supremo Ray Mali hailed Twenty20 as the game of the future Thursday at the official launch for September's inaugural world championships in South Africa.
 
Get back, says Vaughan
England captain Michael Vaughan believes Marcus Trescothick may have salvaged some chance of playing international cricket again by making himself unavailable for the whole of the team's 2007-08 tourprogramme.
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AFC Asian Cup 2007
Samba behind it all
Brazilian coaches Jorvan Vieira and Helios dos Anjos have been through the grinder these past three weeks getting their Iraqi and Saudi Arabian teams through to Sunday's Asian Cup final here.
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Asia Trophy Pompey's
Goalkeeper David James was the hero as Portsmouth withstood a Liverpool barrage before snatching the Asia Trophy title 4-2 on penalties here on Friday.
 
MU end with a win
Manchester United new boy Nani wrapped up the club's Far East tour with a stunning goal in a 3-0 win against Guangzhou Pharmaceutical in China on Friday.
 
Formula 1
Ferrari furious at McLaren escape
Ferrari reacted with fury last night after an emergency hearing into the Formula One spy row resulted in McLaren Mercedes escaping without punishment.
 
Simao signs for Atletico
Benfica captain Simao Sabrosa, who had been targeted by Liverpool, was officially unveiled on Friday as a player of Spanish Primera Liga side Atletico Madrid for the next four seasons.
 
City rope in Petrov
Manchester City manager Sven Goran Eriksson vowed to carry on spending after signing Bulgarian international winger Martin Petrov for 4.7 million pounds from Atletico Madrid.
 
Partizan booted from UEFA Cup
UEFA decided on Thursday to ban Serbia's Partizan Belgrade from European competitions for a one-year period due to violence at last week's UEFA Cup qualifier in Bosnia, the club said in a statement.
 
Bayern sweat on Ribery
Bayern Munich face a race against time to have French midfield star Franck Ribery fit for Saturday's German League Cup final against Schalke 04, the German giants admitted on Thursday.
 
ICL gaining edge
The chatter is louder than Matt Prior in full flow: Brian Lara is on board, Shane Warne has expressed his desire to jump on and is that Glenn McGrath in the distance? There's a possibility that thesethree,
 
Blake makes another quarterfinal
James Blake reached his third quarterfinal in his past four events on Thursday with an efficient 6-4, 6-2 victory over Ricardo Mello at the Indianapolis tennis championships.
 
Lights on at Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground is to stage its first floodlit match in September, owners Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced on Friday.
 
Warne eager to sign
Shane Warne says he is keen to take part in the breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL), which has already signed Brian Lara for its inaugural multi-million dollar Twenty20 tournament.
 
Ireland make it to U-19 WC
Ireland qualified for the 2008 ICC U19 World Cup in Malaysia after beating Scotland by six wickets in Belfast to win the round-robin European qualifier.
 
Jr badminton from today
The junior and sub-junior badminton tournaments will begin at the Woodenfloor Gymnasium today.
 
Sania, Peer advance
Sania Mirza and Olga Govortsova posted upsets here Thursday to book their quarterfinal berths in the 600,000-dollar WTA Bank of the West Classic.
 

 
   
 
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