2006-03-01 12:36
The World Cup countdown kicks off on Wednesday night as the competition's favourites begin their warm-up matches a little over three months before the start of Germany's football extravaganza. Brazil, Argentina, France, England, Germany and Italy are all in action on a night of international friendlies.
2006-02-24 11:05
Han Xiaopeng made history by becoming the first Chinese skier to win Olympic gold with his sensational victory in the men's freestyle aerials final on February 23, 2006. This is China's second gold at the ongoing event.
2006-02-08 10:03
The sliding sport received its name in 1892, when a new sled made mostly of metal was introduced. People thought it looked like a skeleton.
2006-01-28 09:32
It was the first time for China to win a Grand Slam final in any discipline and capped a breakthrough 12 months in which Yan and Zheng won two other doubles championships, at Hobart and Hyderabad last year.
2006-01-19 13:38
China's top football official has vowed to shut down the domestic Super League if rampant match fixing, gambling and bribery continues.
2006-01-13 11:19
Chinese top distance runner Sun Yingjie has finally been handed two-year suspension for doping and her coach Wang Dexian suffered a life ban on second violation of antidoping rules.
2006-01-10 11:00
The China Football Association (CFA) denied it was holding out for an 800,000-yuan (99,000-dollar) appearance fee to meet France in a soccer friendly, but said talks for a match were ongoing.
2006-01-04 10:32
There were goalmouth melees at both ends in the closing minutes while Arsenal had a penalty appeal waved away when Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas went down under a challenge by United's England defender Gary Neville.
2005-12-21 13:40
As Chinese swimmer Zhou Jie had been tested positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol, the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) officials claimed here Tuesday they will pay relentless efforts to fight against doping.
2005-12-12 11:08
"It has been processing and resulted in a much easier way than I expected," said Zhang, who had to enter the 240,000 US dollars event with a wildcard after playing less than enough games in this season's professional tour.
2005-12-07 10:12
That signal is relayed by up to 12 antennae positioned in the corners of the pitch to a computer which then sends a message to a watch worn on the referee's wrist in less than one second.
2005-12-06 10:13
Dominik Hrbaty had pulled Slovakia even at 2-2 by defeating an ailing Ivan Ljubicic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Ancic then downed Mertinak to clinch the best-of-five series between two first-time finalists.
2005-11-30 11:05
Houston Rockets' Tracy McGrady said after the morning shootaround that he remains a game-time decision Tuesday night against Atlanta, reports from Houston said.
2005-11-28 10:28
Yao scored 14 of his season-best 30 points in the final period, but fouled out and could not prevent the Rockets from taking their seventh straight defeat, a 94-89 loss to the Chicago Bulls.
2005-11-23 10:10
Trailing by 17 early in the fourth quarter, the Kings finally got going. Mike Bibby led the comeback with 14 of his 33 points in the fourth.
2005-11-21 10:15
Limping on an injured right foot, Federer managed tiebreaker wins from both of the first two sets, but obviously ran out of energy before losing it on decider, 6-7 (4), 6-7(11), 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (3) in four hours and 34 minutes.
2005-11-17 10:53
Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, Switzerland, Spain and the Czech Republic completed the 32-team lineup for the World Cup finals after a day of unrelenting drama and tension brought qualifying to a close on Wednesday.
2005-11-16 10:25
Federer squandered three match points at 5-3 and 5-4 in the third before sealing victory 7-4 on a tie-break to stay on course for a third straight Masters Cup title.
2005-11-14 10:31
Yao scored 10 points in the first 8 minutes of the game to help the Rockets take the lead for good. His dunk on a fast break tied the game for the final time at 13-13, and his free throw 15 seconds later gave Houston a one-point lead.
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