The preparation of the national football team for September’s SAFF championship is expected to gather pace from today as Dutch assistant coach Rene Koster and fitness trainer Yamali Muhammet will arrive this morning, before conducting a training session in the…
Pakistani hockey coach Naveed Alam is scheduled to arrive here this afternoon to take charge of the national hockey team for at least six months during which he will guide them in the Asia Cup which will be held in…
The tenure of Bangladesh’s three-member selection committee came to an end yesterday following a two-year run at the helm. The future of the committee and possible changes to it will be discussed in the next board meeting. Former national captain…
The interim committee of the Bangladesh Hockey Federation yesterday postponed the scheduled inter-club players’ transfers (July 2-4), owing to the fact that the elected committee is yet to take over the office at the federation. “As soon as the elected…
Fresh dates are likely to be announced for the Dhaka Premier League as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon told reporters in London on Saturday that he had received a positive signal from the ICC and that the…
It was double bonanza for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as it would host the World Twenty20 for the first time in 2016 and its fourth 50-over World Cup in 2023. The BCCI was awarded the…
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Top seed and defending champion Serena Williams breezed into the Wimbledon fourth round but vowed to keep fighting for equal rights under the bright lights of the All England Club. World number one she may be, but the 31-year-old American…
Thursday night’s Confederations Cup semifinal proved a couple of things that most people already knew but some still deny. Firstly, that you don’t need goals to have a good time. Secondly, that penalty shootouts are a terrific way to determine…
Seven matches of the Kool-BSJA Media Cup Football Tournament took place at the official turf at BFF premises yesterday. Gazi TV beat Daily Sangram 2-0, Channel 71 beat BSS by the same margin, Dhaka Tribune defeated Manabkantha also by the…
Grand Master Niaz Murshed and International Master Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar got off to a winning start in the 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games, which is being held in Incheon, South Korea. In the Classical Chess of the men’…
Neymarmania has reached new heights as the mere sight of the 21-year-old is making fans pass out from overexcitement outside Brazil’s hotel. Neymar has surpassed the impossibly high expectations for him at the Confederations Cup — scoring in all three…
Novak Djokovic believes he is peaking at just the right time as the world number one prepares to step up his bid for a second Wimbledon title. Djokovic took the express route into the fourth round on Saturday as the…
Italy took third place at the Confederations Cup on Sunday after beating Uruguay 3-2 on penalties, the pair having been locked at 2-2 following extra time in Salvador. Although the eyes of 200 million Brazilians were fixed on an evening…
Inclement weather has caused indefinite suspension of the second round matches of the 33rd National Cricket Championship. A press release sent by the Bangladesh Cricket Board yesterday stated: “The matches of the National Cricket Championship have been suspended until further…
Arsenal are to compete with Roma and Fiorentina for the Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar, with Queens Park Rangers braced to receive a formal bid for his services in the coming week following the conclusion of the Confederations Cup. QPR have…
Nico Rosberg survived great late pressure to claim his second win of the season in Sunday’s thrilling and dramatic British Grand Prix. It was the Mercedes team’s first victory in Britain since Stirling Moss won in 1955 and Rosberg’s second…
The first indoor cricket tournament of Presidency University concluded yesterday with Six Devils emerging champions and team Dream Factory finishing as runners-up. The Six Devils beat Dream Factory by 30 runs in the final held at the Gulshan campus of…
Television audiences around the world have been watching the Confederations Cup in record numbers this month despite anti-government protests which has formed a violent background to the competition, FIFA said on Saturday. With two matches to play, the tournament has…
