ISLAMABAD- Brothers Cricket Club won the First POF Wah T20 Cricket Tournament title after beating Hafeez CC by six wickets at Oval Cricket ground Wah Cantt under the auspices of POF Sports Control Board. Atif Butt was named the man of the match of the final while M Jameel received the best player ...

LAHORE - Punjab University clinched the Pakistan Inter-varsity Archery title by collecting 328 points here on Monday at University of Lahore (UOL) Hall. The competition was participated by only three teams. Winners Punjab University demonstrated finer points of archery which is hardly popular among ...

NEW YORK - Bernard Hopkins, the oldest boxer to win a major world title, will defend his International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight belt against German Karo Murat on July 13 in Brooklyn. Hopkins broke his own world record by nearly two years in March when he won a unanimous decision over ...

SANTA ROSA - Tejay van Garderen, fifth in last year's Tour de France, captured the eighth Tour of California cycling race on Sunday, sealing his first career stage-race triumph in the final stage.Slovakia's Peter Sagan won the eighth and final stage, which took the riders out of San Francisco via ...

IRVING - South Korea's Bae Sang-Moon won his first US PGA title on Sunday, firing a one-under par 69 to win the $6.7 million Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes over American Keegan Bradley.In windy conditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, the 26-year-old South Korean finished on ...

LAHORE- Zafar Iqbal clinched young caddies’ title of Samson Memorial Golf Tournament for caddies at Lahore Gymkhana Golf Course Thursday. Shahzad Masih ended up as the runners-up. Both Zafar and Shahzad had similar scores of gross 74 and as per rules, the contest was decided after a sudden ...

ISLAMABAD- Army is all set to retain the 9th Korean Ambassador National Taekwondo Championship title with an overwhelming majority as they had won 17 gold medals, three silver and two bronze medals with only one day left in the championship currently under way here at the Liaquat Gymnasium. On the ...

  PONTEVEDRABEACH   Tiger Woods shook off a double bogey at the 14th hole Sunday and held on to win the US PGA Tour Players Championship, setting another career milestone in the process. Woods, who had a share of the lead with Sergio Garcia and David Lingmerth after completing the ...

  MADRID     Barcelonamarked their crowning as La Liga champions with a come from behind 2-1 win at third-placed AtleticoMadridon Sunday despite finishing the game with 10 men. RealMadrid’s 1-1 draw with Espanyol on Saturday meant that the Catalans, who now have four titles in ...

MADRID - Barcelona's fourth La Liga title in five seasons -- and the 22nd of their history -- was confirmed on Saturday after Real Madrid could only manage a 1-1 draw with Espanyol.Espanyol took advantage of Jose Mourinho resting a host of first team players in the first half ahead of Real's Copa ...

MADRID - Rafael Nadal sealed his fifth title in seven tournaments since returning from a seven-month injury layoff as he claimed a third Madrid Masters title with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Stanislas Wawrinka on Sunday.Nadal, who now holds a 9-0 career record over the Swiss, rolled through the first set ...

BARCELONA - Formula One returns home this weekend for the first European race of the 2013 season with a familiar scenario unfolding amid hopes of an upset to match last year's unexpected dramas at the Spanish Grand Prix. Defending triple world champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull, who was ...

LAHORE -Kinnaird Cricket Club defeated Shah Faisal Cricket Club by 73 runs in the final to win the All Pakistan Inter-Club T-20 Women Cricket Tournament. After winning the toss, the Kinnaird College decided to bat first and scored 175-5in the allotted 20 overs. Kanta Jalil and Sidra Amin were top ...

OSAKA - Japan’s Ryo Miyazaki stopped Mexican challenger Carlos Velarde by technical knockout to retain his World Boxing Association minimumweight title Wednesday. The scheduled 12-round contest ended two minutes and 22 seconds into the fifth round when the 24-year-old Japanese floored the ...

  LAHORE   Lahoreclinched the 2nd Motorway Police National U-16 Hockey title after beatingSialkot5-3 in a penalty shoot in the final here at National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday. Lahoreovercame spiritedSialkotwith much labour as the first half ended in a 1-0 in favour ...

ISLAMABAD- Khalid Bin Waleed Boxing Club won the 1st Islamabad Boxing Championship organised Islamabad Boxing Association (IBA) here at Liaquat Gymnasium. The championship was conducted by technical head Ittrat Nazir (KPK), Khalid Hussain (Punjab) and Shafqat from Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBA). ...

  MADRID   Lionel Messi came off the bench to moveBarcelonawithin two points of clinching the La Liga title with a 4-2 win over Real Betis atCampNouon Sunday. Dorlan Pabon and Ruben Perez had twice given the visitors the lead in the first-half either side of Alexis Sanchez’s ...

ISLAMABAD- Davis Cupper M Abid clinched men's singles title of Subh-e-Nau clay court tennis championship, which concluded at Islamabad Club on Sunday. Abid defeated Ahmed Chaudhry 6-4 and 6-4. Dr Sania Nishtar, Federal Minister for Information Technology, distributed prizes among players. A total ...

TIANJIN-Australian Brett Rumford romped to his second title in as many weeks at the Volvo China Open on Sunday. Rumford swept to victory with a four-under-par 68 in the final round, winning by four shots to take US$3.2 million prize. It followed his win at the Ballantine's Championship inKorealast ...

  LAS VEGAS     World Boxing Council champion Floyd Mayweather extended his perfect record to 44 victories Saturday, beating Robert Guerrero by unanimous decision in their welterweight title fight. Mayweather, who was defending his title for the first time since serving a jail term ...

  LAHORE   The heirs and relatives of the victims of bomb blasts by Indian spy agent Sarabjit Singh on Sunday strongly condemned the act of the Indian government through which it honored and called him a hero and one of the brave men of the country. The demonstrators, gathered at Bhatti ...

ISLAMABAD - Third seed Aman Atique shocked top seed M Muzammil to clinch the Subh-e-Nau Clay Court Tennis Championship U-14 title on Saturday. M Mudassar grabbed boys U-18 title after defeating Arham Atique after a good contest. Arham won first set but top seed Mudassar then bounced back and ...

  OEIRAS   Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beatSpain's Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5, 6-2 on Saturday to win the Portugal Open and claim her first trophy on clay. The third-seeded champion, coached by former Swiss great Martina Hingis, earned the fifth title of her career while leaving her ...

ISLAMABAD - Top seed Sara Mansoor clinched the Subh-e-Nau Clay Court Tennis Championship ladies singles title by routing Saba Aziz here at Islamabad Club on Friday. Sara played excellent strokes and won the first set by 6-1. In the second set, Saba played comparatively better tennis and scored five ...

LAS VEGAS- Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather returns to the ring after a year's absence that included a jail stint on Saturday, risking his World Boxing Council welterweight title against southpaw Robert Guerrero. Mayweather, 43-0 with 26 knockouts, went to jail last June for domestic violence and since ...

  ISLAMABAD   Shehzad Gugu lifted free class category of NLC Motocross Challenge held at Motocross track Wednesday. Director General Army Heritage Foundation Brigadier (retd) Wiqar Gul was the chief gues. Over 200 bikers got registered themselves for the competition out of which only 50 ...

    MARRAKECH   Former world number four Francesca Schiavone won her sixth career title on Sunday with a comfortable 6-1 6-3 victory over Lourdes Dominguez Lino in the final of the Marrakech Grand Prix. The Italian, now languishing just inside the world top 50 at 48, has struggled in ...

  BARCELONA     Rafael Nadal extended his record number of Barcelona titles to eight as he brushed off a slow start to beat Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday. Last weekend's Monte Carlo runner-up regained his accustomed position on an ATP winner's podium with his ...

ISLAMABAD- Aqeel Khan lifted the 32nd CAS Khyber Cup Open Tennis Championship - 2013 singles title in a rain-shortened final against younger brother Yasir Khan at Officers ‘Mess PAF Base’Peshawaron Friday. Aqeel was one set up and had a break in the second set serving at 2-1 when ...

  MANCHESTER   Robin van Persie hit a first-half hat-trick as Manchester United cantered to an unprecedented 20th English league title with an emphatic 3-0 victory at home to Aston Villa on Monday.ManchesterCity's 3-1 loss at Tottenham Hotspur a day earlier had handed United a chance to ...