Former World champion Bobby Fischer remains one of the most enigmatic characters that world chess has ever produced. India’s first Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand had the opportunity of meeting the eccentric genius in 2006, a couple of years before the US-born player passed away.
Italy's top-flight soccer clubs have mandated Serie A to weigh private equity bids for its broadcast rights business as they look at ways to weather the financial storm triggered by the new coronavirus crisis.
While most other sports are limping back to life amid the pandemic, swimming has been one of the worst hit. The situation got worse this week with the Ministry of Home Affairs extending the lockdown on swimming pools until July 31.
The Moin Ud Dowlah Gold Cup tournament was one of the premier tournaments hosted in Hyderabad. Over the years, the tournament -- which saw teams from outside come and play -- underwent many changes in its format. The event, in the process, has surely lost its sheen in recent times.
La Liga -- before the season restarted around mid-June -- set out to find a way to fill those empty spaces and provide the television audiences a better viewing experience. Working and coordinating closely with the stakeholders, La Liga decided on having virtual supporters and sounds, something that can be experienced now.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta insists unhappy Mesut Ozil will not be selected just because he has a huge salary. Ozil is reportedly the highest-paid player in Arsenal history on a weekly salary of £350,000 ($433,000).
Novak Djokovic's intentions in organising the ill-fated Adria Tour were good but the world number one could have applied a bit more common sense to how the exhibition event was run, former ATP players' council head Vijay Amritraj has told Reuters.
Lionel Messi scored his 700th career goal but Barcelona suffered another blow to their La Liga title hopes after a 2-2 draw with Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.
The world champion provided a moment of magic in the $150,000 online Chessable Masters as he intentionally gifted rival Ding Liren a point in their high-stakes semifinal clash. It came after the Chinese No. 1 suffered an unfortunate disconnection at a vital moment during Tuesday's play.
England coach Chris Silverwood is confident "talisman" Ben Stokes will lead from the front in Joe Root's absence during next week's first Test against the West Indies.
American Chad Campbell is the sixth US PGA Tour player to test positive for COVID-19 as the tour heads into the fourth week of its restart after a three-month shutdown.
As much as the cricket-lovers are eagerly waiting for resumption of cricket, there will be quite a few anxious discerning eyes following how the cricket ball behaves next week onwards when international cricket resumes with the Test series between England and West Indies.
Bruno Fernandes scored two fine goals as Manchester United won 3-0 at Brighton and Hove Albion in the Premier League on Tuesday to stay in contention for a top-four finish.
Juventus maintained their four-point lead at the top of Serie A on Tuesday after strolling to a 3-1 win at Genoa that keeps chasers Lazio at bay despite their comeback triumph at Torino.
Aaron Finch said all players are expected to endure some bad time but players like Kohli, Steve Smith, Ricky Ponting and batting great Sachin Tendulkar are exceptions. Finch was impressed with Kohli's consistency as a batsman too.
Stylish India batsman Rohit Sharma is one of the greatest ever ODI openers, considering his ability to score daddy hundreds, says former captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
In the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy played from December 9-13, Team India gave a tough fight to Michael Clarke and his team. However, they were not able to cross the line despite Virat Kohli scoring twin centuries in both the innings of the Test match.
Aaron Finch, the limited-overs skipper for Australia, feels the two nations’ competitive spirit comes through each time they face each other irrespective of the format.
The friendship, which has hockey as the common factor, between former Pakistan captain Waseem Ahmed and India's former attacking midfielder Baljeet Singh Saini is full of anecdotes and interesting stories -- the warmest of which brings Peshawar crockery and Banarasi sarees into the mix.
Six Pakistani cricketers, who were found to be Covid-19 positive ahead of the team's departure for England last week, have now tested negative for the second time in three days making them eligible to join the squad in the UK.
Led by Quinton de Kock, South Africa's 44 cricketers, who are part of a men's high performance squad, have returned to training amid the Covid-19 pandemic after getting approval from the country's sports ministry.
Star all-rounder Ben Stokes says he won't change his playing approach even if he is handed England's captaincy in the absence of regular skipper Joe Root for the Test series-opener against the West Indies.
The Formula One season roars into action at the Austrian Grand Prix in Spielberg this weekend with "military-like", coronavirus-busting sanitary regulations.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says there has been improvement from young attacking trio Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood this season but he could bring in another forward to boost competition for places.
Stripping away South Korean baseball fans' rights to drink beer and savour fried chicken -- or even cheer -- while watching the country's most popular spectator sport would have been inconceivable in pre-coronavirus times.
Joe Root might be missing the first Test against the West Indies, starting on July 8, due to the birth of his child but the regular England Test captain says that he has been working on several aspects of his game during the lockdown.
Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has defended his Serbian compatriot Novak Djokovic for hosting the ill-fated Adria Tour where a number of players, including the world number one, tested positive for COVID-19.
As the 90,000-capacity Wembley held its first game without fans, the financial impact of the pandemic on English football was revealed by the national stadium's owners.
"It was a fortunate moment for me to get him out. I really cannot explain it in words. These are the kind of moments which you can just feel and cannot explain," Bhuvneshwar Kumar said while recalling the moment when he got Sachin Tendulkar out for his first duck in first-class cricket back in 2009.
The major weapon in pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar's armoury is his swinging deliveries. The pacer could be bowling at speeds of 133-138 kmph but he could trouble a batsman in any conditions with his immaculate control of the ball. While the 30-year-old is most adept in bringing the ball back into the right-hander, he could also get the ball to hold its line.
Having served Vidarbha with distinction as a player, Wasim Jaffer was hoping to do the same as coach. However, the lack of communication made his decision to move to Uttarakhand as a coach easier.
The NBA will use three arenas at the Disney site as 22 of the league's 30 teams conclude the regular season beginning July 30. The courts that will be used for games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida, will have 'Black Lives Matter' painted on them, according to a report.
Fifteen of the 26 tested positive after reporting to their team's practice facility for voluntary workouts in Phase 2, which began on June 8. More than 1,450 tests have been conducted for more than 250 players in Phase 2, according to the league's release.
Most of the coaches have returned to their countries of origin and are either unable to travel back - because of the ban on international flights - or unwilling to do so in the near future because of the rising number of coronavirus cases here. Others who are above 65 have been told by their respective National Sports Federations (NSFs) not to show up at training venues as per the government guidelines.
The PGA Tour said in a statement that English, who did not play last week in Connecticut, tested positive during the pre-tournament screening process in Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic that starts on Thursday.
Australia and Zimbabwe have agreed to postpone three one-day internationals in August because of the difficulty of putting on the series while the new coronavirus pandemic continues, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Tuesday.
The Premier League said on Monday that there was one positive result from the latest round of COVID-19 tests of players and staff conducted last week, taking the total number of cases to 19 since testing began last month.
India's Nitin Menon was on Monday included in the International Cricket Council's Elite Panel of Umpires for the upcoming 2020-21 season, replacing England's Nigel Llong.
Well-known club cricketer and former Delhi U-23 support staff Sanjay Dobal died on Monday morning after failing to recover from Covid-19 infection, a source close to the family said.
The tournament, which was originally scheduled for November 2-21 this year, was moved to 2021 due to COVID-19 and will now be held from February 17 to March 7 next year in Kolkata, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad and Navi Mumbai.
Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar holds numerous batting records across formats and on this day, 13 years ago, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score 15,000 ODI runs.
The Karate Association of India's (KAI) general secretary Ambedkar Gupta has said that the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra has threatened to throw Karate out of India.
The BCCI has made it clear that they are keeping a watch on Ravinder Dandiwal, an Indian man who has been identified by the Australian police as the alleged kingpin of a major international tennis match-fixing syndicate.
Nick Kyrgios let rip at "selfish" fellow tennis star Alexander Zverev on Monday after the German was seen partying despite promising to self-isolate following Novak Djokovic's coronavirus-hit Adria Tour.
Former Cricket West Indies (CWI) boss Dave Cameron has thrown his hat in the ring to succeed India's Shashank Manohar as the next ICC chairman.
Sixth-placed Napoli claimed their fifth consecutive Serie A victory when they easily beat relegation-threatened visitors SPAL 3-1 on Sunday.
Third-placed Inter Milan scored twice in the last six minutes through Stefan De Vrij and Alessandro Bastoni to snatch a 2-1 win at Parma in Serie A on Sunday despite a subdued display.
Former England and Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler's time as coach of Australian side Brisbane Roar ended on Monday, with the club blaming the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
India’s Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav spoke with Timesofindia.com in an exclusive interview and talked about the role he feels Kohli is playing in grooming youngsters, including him, in the team.
Just over half of Tokyo's residents don't think the postponed 2020 Olympics should be held next year, backing either a further delay or outright cancellation because of fears over the coronavirus, according to a poll published Monday.