Huang Qiang-Lomas bag Malaysia’s first ever medal at World Cup
Kim Swee ready to experiment and surprise Japan
WITH 12-time national champion Beh Lee Wei out of the picture, the Table Tennis Association of Malaysia (TTAM) has set a modest target of reaching the quarter-finals of the women's team event at the Asian Championships in Macau.
Porto can still be a stumbling block, warns Toure
Dane slams Martina for ‘stirring things up’
Azad University rider has no personal targets
Malaysian ace is top seeded in All England
BERLIN: Germany manager Joachim Loew has said he has a back-up plan in place for Euro 2012 despite the rising number of injuries which threaten to scupper his attempt to win June's European Championships.
AZLAN Iskandar shook off the cobwebs to make his 2012 PSA Tour debut in impressive fashion to reach the second round of the North American Open in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday.
MALAYSIA edged closer to promotion after a thrilling 27-run win over arch-rivals Singapore in a World Cricket League Division Five match at the Kallang ground in Singapore yesterday.
LONDON: For Stevenage goalkeeper Chris Day the FA Cup replay with Tottenham means he will finally get a chance to play a competitve match at White Hart Lane 21 years after signing with his childhood club.
IT has been nine years since Tom Danielson won Le Tour de Langkawi with the Saturn team, and he returns to lead the Garmin-Barracuda team at the start of the 17th edition of the race in Putrajaya on Friday.
S. THEIVIYA made a grand return to competitive tennis by winning the women's title in the first leg of the National Circuit in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Shuttlers have to improve if they are to have any chance in Wuhan
LONDON: Harry Redknapp is confident his Tottenham Hotspur side can go on to lift the FA Cup despite being held to a goalless draw away to League One Stevenage in the fifth round on Sunday.
ONLY goals will matter for Japan when they face Malaysia in tomorrow's Olympic Qualifying Group C match at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil.
Dalglish eager to field Gerrard, Suarez, Carroll in future matches
Q-final draw pits thrashed teams against their conquerors
OLYMPIC hopeful Mohd Farkhan Mohd Haron yet again highlighted the lack of quality opponents in the country when he easily won the Kuala Lumpur Mayor's Cup 75kg title with a comprehensive 33-11 win over Selangor's Arif Mohd Noh at the Titiwangsa Stadium on Sunday.
THE FA of Malaysia (FAM) has given Fifa's head of security Chris Eaton five days to give a detailed explanation of his statement in Singapore's Straits Times last week that implicated local football administrators to match-fixing in Southeast Asia.
ZULFADLI Zulkifli's outstanding campaign last year left no room for competition when the national junior shuttler was named the 2011 Sportswriters Association of Malaysia (SAM)-100Plus-Sports Ministry Young Athlete of the Year yesterday.
Call to ban brawlers after shameful show in public
Messi blitz keeps Barcelona in sight of Real
Probe takes backseat as procedures are reviewed
AN angry Anuar Manan cannot wait for the start of Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) on Friday and believes this year's race will be one for the fans to savour.
Hoy stars as Brits take positives from Games rehearsal
Villas-Boas knows defeat to Napoli could end his Chelsea reign
MALAYSIA have never performed so poorly in the women's singles in recent memory as they did in the Uber Cup qualifiers in Macau and a new coach must be appointed immediately.
Arsenal to give Wenger RM264m for summer spending spree
THIRTY-TWO teams from Perak, Penang and the Klang Valley will battle for the Liga 1MCC Under-12 title next month.
Rashid strongly feels an improved Malaysia can reach the Thomas Cup semis
ASIAN champion Nafiizwan Adnan clinched his first PSA Tour title in three years when he beat Ivan Yuen in an all-Malaysian final at the Hibiscus Gardens Open in Brisbane yesterday.
LONDON: Southampton manager Nigel Adkins backed Tadanari Lee to fire his side towards promotion as the Japan striker scored his first goal for the club in a 4-0 demolition of Derby.
BERLIN: Schalke 04 put themselves back in the Bundesliga title race yesterday with a 4-0 hammering of VfL Wolfsburg while leaders and defending champions Borussia Dortmund finished the weekend with a three-point lead.
MALAYSIA completed their Uber Cup campaign in eighth place after losing to Singapore 3-2 in Macau yesterday.
NEWPORT (Wales): China's Ding Junhui swept past England's Shaun Murphy 6-2 to reach the Welsh Open final on Saturday.
Vinokourov flies in with strong Astana team
NSI had warned parent body about hiring unlicensed foreign doctor
MARION Bartoli, the top seed at the WTA Tour BMW Malaysian Open which starts next Monday, may not be coming to Kuala Lumpur.
NEW DELHI: Former Olympic champions India began their campaign in the Olympic men's qualifying tournament with a 15-1 rout of Singapore on Saturday.
LONDON: Bolton manager Owen Coyle believes Ryo Miyaichi has a bright future after the Japan winger's first goal in English football inspired a 2-0 win against Millwall in the FA Cup fifth round.
BRISBANE: Ben Hilfenhaus took five wickets as Australia's pacemen ripped through India's top order to secure an emphatic 110-run victory in the one-day Tri-series on a steamy night at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday.
FIGHTING off illness, Azizulhasni Awang did just enough to tie break into the top 10 of the UCI World Cup keirin rankings after an eighth place finish in the final round in London on Saturday night.
CHINA won the Thomas Cup qualifying round in Macau by beating Japan 3-0 yesterday.
Naturalised Malaysian Huang Qiang and Lomas looking at qualifying for London
THE Westports Malaysia Dragons put in their best defensive performance of the season in an 86-71 rout of Singapore Slingers for their fifth win in seven Asean Basketball League matches at the Maba Stadium in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
KOO Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong have surprised even themselves in the Thomas Cup qualifying rounds but national doubles chief coach Tan Kim Her doesn't want fans to read too much into their progress in Macau.
SURESH Navaratnam played a sterling captain's role to lead Malaysia to a nine-wicket win over Cayman Islands in a World Cricket League Division Five match at the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday as Shafiq Sharif scored his second successive half-century.
Enough for SSTMI to capture crown
THEY partied, they came and they conquered.
Losing Briton held for questioning after post-fight brawl with Haye
ROME: AC Milan stormed back to the top of Serie A with a 3-0 win at lowly Cesena yesterday as they made light of the absence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
World No 1 eyeing title defence
Bribery allegations not a bother for Sundramoorthy’s side
Batsman needs a break, says coach Arthur
Women pairs given equal opportunity to seal berth
ROME Jarno Trulli has accused Italy of burying its head in the sand and failing to foresee or stave off the current situation that has left the country without a Formula One driver for the first time since 1969.
ZAMRI Salleh fought hard but had to admit defeat in what was Malaysia's best shot at a men's elite road race medal in the past 15 years in the Asian Cycling Championships in Putrajaya yesterday.
BEIJING Olympian Leung Chii Lin has quit the national swimming team, making her the third short distance freestyle swimmer to do so following the departure of Chui Lai Kwan and Low Xue Ting.
LONDON: Portsmouth went into administration on Friday for the second time in two years, leaving the former Premier League club facing a battle against relegation after also being docked 10 points.
Leaders Borussia Dortmund enjoyed a hard-fought 1-0 win at struggling Hertha Berlin yesterday to stay top of the German league thanks to a second-half strike from midfielder Kevin Grosskreutz.
PASSIONS run high whenever Malaysia clash with Singapore and it will be no different today when the Dragons host the Slingers in an Asean Basketball League match at the Maba Stadium in Kuala Lumpur.
DEFENDING champions Tunku Mahkota Ismail Sports School (TMISS) are expected to have a hard time hanging on to their title at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK) Premier Rugby Sevens this year.
WICKETKEEPER Shafiq Sharif led from the front to carry Malaysia to a 47-run win over Argentina for a bright start to their World Cricket League Division Five campaign in Singapore yesterday.
THESE are not good times for football -- in Malaysia and abroad.Today's Page 63 of the NST has it all -- from European clubs going into administration to China jailing the former deputy head of its football association for corruption.
FOR a player so synonymous with injury, Louis Saha seemed indestructible a year ago when he drove his Ferrari into a fencepost off a busy road in northwest England.
LONDON: Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp claims he has had one team on his mind all week -- and it hasn't been England.
NEITHER team were interested in winning a pointless third playing playoff, with Malaysia even fielding Koo Kien Keat as their third singles in a farcical 3-2 defeat to Indonesia in the Thomas Cup qualifiers in Macau yesterday.
AS teams in the southern hemisphere look to the start of the Super 15, sad news has come from New Zealand on the fate of rugby's global superstar.
Sports school primed to end UniKL’s reign
Knicks win streak over but ‘Lin-sanity’ rolls on
Britons set two world records at the London velodrome
ADIQ Husainie Othman staked his claim for one of the two Malaysian slots in the Olympics when he bagged a silver medal in the under-23 road race at the Asian Cycling Championships in Putrajaya yesterday.
A CONCENTRATED effort will begin immediately after the London Olympics for a Malaysian assault on the 2016 Thomas Cup.
BARCELONA hope that their midweek Champions League win at Bayer Leverkusen will provide the perfect platform in their desperate attempt to slash Real Madrid's 10-point Primera Liga advantage.
GLASGOW: Carlos Bocanegra has called on Rangers supporters to rally round the team against Kilmarnock today after what has been the most turbulent week in the club's 140-year history.
BIRMINGHAM: China's Liu Xiang will face Dayron Robles for the first time since their controversial clash at last year's world championships when they meet in the 60 metres hurdles here today.
LEVERKUSEN: After seeing his defenders thoroughly outclassed by Lionel Messi, Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Voeller was dismayed to hear they had been squabbling for his shirt.
BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp will reshuffle his midfield when the German league leaders travel to Hertha Berlin today after losing Japan winger Shinji Kagawa through injury.
AHEAD of this weekend's Italian Serie A matches it is the issue of penalties, predominantly those not given, that has dominated the build-up.
MALAYSIA'S toothless singles players failed to deliver against Hong Kong in the Uber Cup qualifying round in Macau yesterday.
Premier League heavyweights Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool will look to draw a line under a week to forget by booking their places in the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend.
LONDON: Andre Villas-Boas admits the Chelsea players are not all behind him -- but says the only man who matters is Roman Abramovich.
MANCHESTER United earned comfort in the unfamiliar surroundings of the Europa League with a 2-0 win at Ajax on Thursday while their English rivals Manchester City fought back against holders Porto to also take control of their round of 32 tie.
PORTO: Manchester City claimed on Friday that Mario Balotelli and Yaya Toure were racially abused during the Europa League clash against Porto, media reports said.
ARSENE Wenger is running out of patience with Theo Walcott and could sell the England forward in a summer clear-out.
THE FA Cup will provide a welcome distraction to several teams finding life a struggle in the Super League while FAM League sides will also be looking to claim a prized scalp in the opening round today.
CARLOS Boozer scored 23 points, pulled down 15 rebounds and handed out five assists on Thursday as the Chicago Bulls again overcame the absence of Derrick Rose to outlast Boston 89-80.
MALAYSIA captain Suresh Navaratnam believes the national team are in the best possible shape as they begin their World Cricket League Division Five campaign in Singapore today.
SYDNEY: Sri Lanka posted their biggest-ever one-day international win over Australia in Sydney yesterday with a crushing eight-wicket tri-series ODI victory with 101 balls to spare.
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has opened the door to possibly leading England at Euro 2012 this year in a caretaker capacity following last week's shock resignation of Fabio Capello.
LONDON: The Caterham Formula One team dropped Italian Jarno Trulli yesterday and replaced him with Russian driver Vitaly Petrov.
MALAYSIA were no match for Japan when Lee Chong Wei and Koo Kien Keat were rested for the Thomas Cup qualifying round semi-finals in Macau yesterday.
THE Malaysian Weightlifting Association (MWA) has told its athlete, Firdaus Abdul Razak, to follow proper procedures in defending himself after his B sample for a dope test at November's Sea Games was also confirmed to be positive.
UNIKL thrashed USM Juniors 7-1 to take the Milo-Junior Hockey League Division One title to the wire tomorrow at the Taman Daya Stadium in Johor Baru.
YOUNGSTERS Sonia Cheah and Yang Li Lian are tipped by coach Rexy Mainaky to be the future of Malaysian badminton but they must be groomed to the next level in women's singles if Malaysia are to do well in the 2014 Uber Cup.
PATTAYA: World number one Yani Tseng staged an impressive comeback on the second day of the US$1.5 million (RM4.57 million) Honda LPGA Thailand tournament yesterday before thunderstorms cut short play.
PHIL Mickelson chipped in for birdie at the final hole on Thursday to seize a one-shot lead in the wind-whipped first round of the US PGA Tour's US$6.6 million (RM20 million) Northern Trust Open.
MALAYSIA'S sole representative in the motorcycling world championships, Muhammad Zulfahmi Khairuddin, continued his promising start to the season when he placed sixth on day one of the second pre-season tests in Jerez, Spain on Thursday.
