Jose Mourinho resigns as Chelsea manager. The Club has confirmed the reports and made an official statement on its website at around 2 am. The Chelsea statement says, "Chelsea Football Club and José Mourinho have agreed to part company today (Thursday) by mutual consent". Mourinho's departure will definitely send shockwaves through English football, although people were expecting him to leave Chelsea this summer. -- Avram Grant all set to take over as new Chelsea Manager -- According to different sources, Mourinho sent text messages to John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba wishing each of them "good luck in the rest of your career" and saying that he was leaving the club this morning. The former Porto Manager, who ...

Gary Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs, and now Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj Singh smashed six sixes in an over for the first time in Twenty20 cricket as India scored an impressive 18-run victory over England in their Twenty20 World Championship Super Eights match in Kingsmead. Yuvraj Singh's savage assault on Stuart Broad made him the first batsman to hit six sixes in an over in Twenty20 internationals and the fourth in senior cricket. Garry Sobers and Ravi Shastri did it in first-class matches, Herschelle Gibbs in the ODI (World Cup) and now Yuvraj who has done it in Twenty20 During that assault Yuvraj Singh reached fifty from just 12 balls to broke the record of fastest 50 of all the format (Test, ...

The wait for an F1 race in India just got longer. It is now going to make its debut in India in 2010, and not in October 2009 as announced earlier in June. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) said on Monday it was on course to stage a Formula One grand prix after an inspection of possible sites around New Delhi. Two sites, Sohna in Gurgaon and Greater Noida have been identified for the race - both sites are in the National Capital Region. The sites were shortlisted after F1 chief architect Herman Tilke's recent visit to India. IOA President Suresh Kalmadi said,   The race could be held in March 2010, as the first race of the season, ...

    Karun Chandhok became the first Indian driver to win a GP2 Series event. Karun Chandhok has taken an emotional victory in Spa-Francorchamps for Durango, the first indian ever in the GP2 Series and Durango’s first win since Nurburgring 2005. A clearly overwhelmed Karun wept on the podium as the Indian national anthem rang out for the first time at a Grand Prix. Karun won the race with a stunning pass on Andy Soucek who finished second top take DPR’s first podium of the season, with Lucas di Grassi third for ART Grand Prix. This win has pushed the 23-year-old up five places from 19th to 15th in the standings with 15 points. A most delighted Chandhok, who started second on the grid ...

  McLaren have been stripped of their points and disqualified from the 2007 Formula One constructors’ championship. What is Formula One Spygate?  The Formula One Spygate is all about whether McLaren had confidential information that details exactly how the Ferrari team were running their season; the car, the tactics, and what they were going to do. The suggestion is that Nigel Stepney, a very senior engineer at Ferrari, passed a dossier of data plus other bits and pieces to McLaren's chief designer, Mike Coughlan. According to CNN, Mike Coughlan's wife, Trudy Coughlan, had taken the document for duplication at a copy shop near McLaren's Woking headquarters. An employee of the copy shop, suspicious that confidential data was being copied, blew the whistle to Ferrari. ...

McLaren have been stripped of their points in the 2007 Formula One constructors' championship. The FIA World Motor Sport Council has disqualified McLaren from the 2007 constructors' championship and fined the team $100 million, which is a biggest fine in motorsport history. After a day of discussions and considerations at the hearing in Paris, the governing body decided to punish the team for possessing the confidential Ferrari data. The decision to exclude Mclaren, who were leading the Constructors' Championship with 166 points results in handing over the title to Ferrari who has got 143 points.  However, McLaren's drivers have not received any penalty. Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso's battle for the world championship will therefore continue unaffected in the remaining four rounds. History and Timeline ...

The war between Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and rival Indian Cricket League (ICL) has taken a new twist with anti-monopoly watchdog Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) initiating an investigation against the cricket board for threatening players with a life-term ban on joining the Subhash Chandra-promoted league. On the basis of the reports published in newspapers, MRTPC has directed its investigative arm, the Director General of Investigation and Registration (DGIR), to look into threats by the BCCI to players who join ICL. DGIR may inquire into the BCCI's action like : Expulsion of some former cricket players by the BCCI on joining ICL. BCCI Statement - ICL players will not be considered for Indian Cricket Team ...

Sri Lankan first-class player Dhanuka Pathirana entered record books on sunday, when he scored a remarkable 277 off 72 balls in a Twenty20 match in Lancashire's Saddleworth League to steer his Austerlands side to 366 for 2 and an easy win over Droylsden. Pathirana smashed 29 sixes and 18 fours in a devastating display of batting to stun the hosts Droylsden. Pathirana's innings of 277 produced a new Saddleworth and District Cricket League individual batting record as he eclipsed the previous best of 260 set by Peter Hutchinson, also of Austerlands, six years ago. Pathirana said, Everything seemed to hit the middle of the bat, I was seeing it like a football. It was like a dream, I think I did ...

Mr. Cristiano Ronaldo had fun last weekend, I mean lots of Sharab, Shabab and Kebab. After a much controversial kiss which we still are not sure, if happened or not with Bipasha Basu, the hot hunk is back in news. MANCHESTER United star striker Cristiano Ronaldo invited 5 hookers at his home on the outskirts of Manchester for a poolside orgy. The five girls travelled 60 miles by taxi from Leeds to Ronaldo’s home, who were celebrating United’s first victory of the season against Spurs this week. The girls spent around six hours romping with Ronaldo, his team-mate Anderson and several other men in the pool, Jacuzzi and changing rooms. The girls took a series of photos inside the house on ...

The Liquor Baron, Vijay Mallya, chairman and CEO of Kingfisher Airlines and Dutch entrepreneur Michiel Mol look set to become the new owners of the Spyker Formula One team, which was bought from the Midland Group only a year ago by sportscar makers Spyker Cars. Strongwind, Mol’s investment arm, and Watson Limited – owned by Mallya – have made the offer. Spyker F1 is owned by Dutch sportscar maker Spyker Cars, who acquired the Formula One team from Midland (MF1) for $106.6 million last year. Midland owned the team before Spyker for two years before selling it. Before that, the Formula One Team was originally called Jordan and run by Eddie Jordan. If the takeover goes ahead, it means the formula 1 team may go one more ...