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Jayakumar is Tamil Nadu’s shining star

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U. Jayakumar is the toast of Tamil Nadu at the moment. The 20-year-old striker, hailing from a little-known village called Melur near Minjur, has come of age at the ongoing national football champions

Kannan's double takes Kerala into Santosh Trophy semis crushing Maharashtra 3-1

Riding on Kannan’s double Kerala stormed into the semifinals of Santosh Trophy 2012, first time since 2006, crushing Maharashtra 3-1 on Tuesday.

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Drogba to visit India in June

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Chelsea striker Didier Drogba will make his maiden visit to India next month.

Drogba, who was instrumental in Chelsea's maiden Champion League triumph last week, is coming to India for the Grand Fina

Didier Drogba Tells Chelsea Team-Mates He's Off

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Ivory Coast great Didier Drogba has told his Chelsea team-mates he is leaving the newly-crowned Champions League winners because he doesn't fancy spending time on the substitutes bench, France Footbal

Euro 2012: Spain banished their demons in 2008

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“All good things come to those who wait,” so says the inimitable Robert De Niro in the movie Ronin. Well, in the case of World champions Spain this couldn’t have been any truer.

After having endured

Didier Drogba tells Chelsea teammates he's off: Report

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Ivory Coast great Didier Drogba has told his Chelsea teammates he is leaving the newly-crowned Champions League winners because he doesn't fancy spending time on the substitutes bench, France Football

Cheating in football is sin: Saudi scholars

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Football players who fool referees to score goals or to obtain penalties or fouls are committing a sin, two Saudi religious scholars have said.

"Cheating is deceiving and usurping other people's righ

Chelsea march into Champions League final beating Barcelona

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Ten-man Chelsea reached the Champions League final after drawing 2-2 with holders Barcelona in their semi-final final second leg clash here on Tuesday to progress 3-2 on aggregate.

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The just-concluded summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in Chicago leaves gaping questions about the viability and direction of the world’s largest military alliance.

If we rework Shankar’s cartoon with, say, Mahatma Gandhi riding a bullock cart of democracy in his dwija dress and Jawaharlal Nehru standing in his sanatan pundit’s dress, a thread across his body, an