Mumbai XI face IA for title
Indian Airlines set up title clash with Mumbai XI when they notched up an emphatic 3-0 win over Tamil Nadu XI in the second semifinal of the 76th MCC Murugappa all India hockey tournament on Friday evening. Mumbai XI scored twice in the last three minutes to dash the hopes of Air India 4-2. In the Air India-Mumbai XI semi-final, involving the top two teams of the tournament, the rivals played open hockey and shared two goals at the break.Anand beats Rebel
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of India salvaged pride for the humans when he conquered Dutch computer programme Rebel in the final classical game of the eight-match exhibition series on the Ischia Islands on Thursday.
Upset wins
Neelotpal Das and Rahul Shetty scored upset wins over GMs K Mowsziszian and Spassov to join three other Indian on six points, just half-a-point adrift of the leaders after the eighth round of the third Belaguer Open International Chess tournament in Belaguer.
National Games
The Sports Movement Committee of Manipur (SMCM), a body formed to promote sports activities, has urged the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to initiate steps for postponement of the fifth National Games scheduled for October in the state.
Bhupathi moves up
Top seeded Mahesh Bhupathi and Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who had a first round bye, made the quarter-finals of the $ 915K Stuttgart Mercedes Cup after beating the Argentinian pair of Lucas Arnold and Luis Lobo in the second round, 6-2, 7-5.
Korea beat India
India went down to DPR Korea by a solitary goal while Kazakhstan and Pakistan played out a one-all draw on the opening day of the four-team Group `D' round robin league of the eighth Asian Youth under-16 football championship at Hyderabad on Friday.
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