Bangladesh Army emerged champions in the ATN Bangla Gold Cup 31st National Hockey championship defeating Bangladesh Navy in a hard fought final by 8-7 in the tie- breaker after the regulation 70 minutes game ended in 3-3 draw. Held at the Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium, in the high voltage final the…

Afeez Oladipo and Udoka Alison struck one goal each as Chittgaong Abahani Limited bagged their successive second win defeating Arambagh KSA by 2-1 in…

AFP, COLOMBO: Sri Lanka leaves for the Champions Trophy in England Thursday after intense training and with the team hoping for an upset, coach Graham…

Bangladesh will meet Nepal in the boys’ team final in the ITF Asian Inder-12 Team event Tennis Tournament in Kathmandu today. Bangladesh boys qualified for the final after beating Bhutan 3-0 in the semifinal yesterday. Nepal toppled favourite India in the other semifinal. By virtue of winning…

Bangladesh Junior & Cadet teams left Dhaka yesterday to participate in the South Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championship. The tournament will be held in Colombo from May19 to 21. A ten-member team will represent Bangladesh team. Bangladesh will take part mostly in boys’ events as…

AFP, SYDNEY: National coach Darren Lehmann admitted Thursday a bitter pay dispute will be a distraction for Australia at next month's ICC Champions Trophy, but played down a boycott of this year's Ashes series. Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association are locked in a…

AFP, MADRID: Real Madrid moved to within one point of winning La Liga as Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice to beat Celta Vigo 4-1 on Wednesday. The European…

AFP, ROME: Dani Alves and Leonardo Bonucci struck one apiece as treble-chasing Juventus secured a record third successive Italian Cup with a 2-0 victory over Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday. Juventus, who won a league and Cup double the past two seasons, can clinch a record sixth consecutive…

AFP, MONACO: Teenage star Kylian Mbappe helped Monaco secure their first Ligue 1 title in 17 years with his 15th goal of the season in Wednesday's…

AFP, BERLIN: Germany's head coach Joachim Loew on Wednesday named seven uncapped players for next month's Confederations Cup in Russia as the…

AFP, SEOUL: The FIFA Under-20 World Cup kicks off in South Korea on Saturday and looks wide open after the 2015 champions Serbia and beaten finalists Brazil both failed to qualify. Some of the world's top young footballing talent will be on display with more than 500 players in 24 teams taking part,…

AFP, MOSCOW: Newly-crowned champions Spartak Moscow stretched their winning streak in the Russian league to five matches with a 3-0 victory over Terek Grozny on Wednesday. A brace by skipper Denis Glushakov and a goal from Dutchman Quincy Promes at a packed Otkrytie Arena fired the 10-time Russian champions…

AFP, KIEV: Shakhtar Donetsk won the Ukraine Cup for the 11th time on Wednesday, beating bitter rivals Dynamo Kiev 1-0 in the final played in the eastern city of Kharkiv. Brazilian international midfielder Marlos scored the only goal 10 minutes from time to beat Dynamo who also won a record 11th cup…

AFP, STOCKHOLM: The Swedish Football Federation postponed Thursday's top-flight game between Gothenburg and AIK following a match-fixing attempt. “This is a very serious attack against Swedish football and we will never, never accept this,” Hakan Sjostrand, secretary general of the federation,…