Chhetri, Johnson, Anto win awards
Mumbai: Bengaluru FC defender John Johnson was named the Players' Player of the Season while skipper Sunil Chhetri finished as the highest scorer for the third year running as the I-league champions recognised top performers at the annual awards ceremony in Bengaluru on Friday night. Defender Rino Anto was named the Fan's Player of the Year, under 22 midfielder Malsawmzuala picked up the Young Player award and Eugeneson lyngdoh bagged the 'Goal of the Season' accolade for his spectacular header against East Bengal FC, a media release from the club said on Saturday.
Eight Russian athletes test positive
MOSCOW: Russia's Olympic Committee says eight of the country's athletes have registered positive in doping retests for the 2012 london Games. The brief statement from the ROC on Saturday did not give names or what disciplines the athletes were in, but said they came from three different sports. It said further information would not be released until so-called "B samples" were tested that would confirm or contradict the retests.
lahiri plays 12 holes in second round
Fortworth (US): Anirban lahiri completed his second round with a card of even par 70 and stayed at five-under 135 at the Dean & Deluca Invitational at the Colonial. The 28-year-old Indian, ranked 56th in the world had played 12 holes of his second round on Friday before fading light stopped play on a weather-hit day. Starting at one-under through 12 holes, lahiri erred on the 16th when he went into the greenside bunker on the par-3 hole. He came out into the intermediate but missed a 15-footer for par and ended with a bogey. But with a 65 in first round and 70 in second, he was Tied-eighth.
Spurs to play UCl games at Wembley
lONDON: Tottenham will play its home games in next season's Champions league at Wembley Stadium after reaching an agreement with the English Football Association. Under the deal, Spurs have the option of playing their EPl and domestic cup games at Wembley during the 2017-18 season. Next season will be Tottenham's last at White Hart lane, with work already begun on their new 400-million pound stadium that is scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2018-19 season.