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2 days ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
India vs Thailand at 6 PMThe Indian national football team (senior men's) take on Thailand away in Manolo Marquez's first game as full-time manager of the national team -- he quit the FC Goa gig right after this season ended -- and he'll be hoping for a winning start to this leg of his NT career. With Sunil Chhetri back from retirement and prominent in his plans for the near future, Manolo will look to the 40-year-old talisman to get India scoring some goals again.
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2 days ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
If you are a fan of a long-struggling sports team that has simply not won any silverware in quite some time (or ever), 2025 has been the year. From cricket to football and basketball, this year has seen some utterly remarkable first-time sporting triumphs. Here's a list of 11 teams that ended title droughts (of differing lengths) in 2025:Royal Challengers Bengaluru (M)Let's start with the most recent entrant to the list, Indian Premier League side RCB.
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3 days ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Key InfoEditor's PicksMarquez's India report card: 1W, 4D, 1L, Chhetri return and what it tells usIndia draw Bangladesh as Hamza and Chhetri turn back time... in worst possible waySunil Chhetri's replacement is... Sunil ChhetriMatch: Thailand vs India. Date: June 4, 2025. Kickoff time: 6:00 PM IST.
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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
The Asian Athletics Championships 2025 starts on Tuesday, May 27 and India will be looking to showcase their progress in track and field across the four-day tournament which will take place in Gumi, South Korea.
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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
What a weekend of football that was to close out the European domestic season. Scott McTominay and Napoli pulled off a clutch performance to win Serie A, while the battle for European slots went down to the wire in the Premier League, even as Liverpool and Crystal Palace gave each other a guard of honour. Across in Spain, Carlo Ancelotti signed off from Real Madrid with a solid win and Barcelona celebrated their league triumph with a big win themselves.
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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Kidambi Srikanth vs Li Shi Feng LIVE in the final of the Malaysia MastersFormer world number one Kidambi Srikanth will be in action in his first major final in four years (first BWF tour final in six!) as he takes on world number four and reigning Asian Games champ Li Shi Feng of China in the final of the men's singles event at the Malaysia Masters Super 500 in the Axiata Arena at Kuala Lumpur. Srikanth, currently world no.
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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
It's 9.41 PM in Italy. Two teams are playing simultaneously, and the fate of the Serie A title depends on their results. Inter Milan are leading in Como. Some 832 km away, down the A1, Napoli aren't against Cagliari. As it stands, the Scudetto stays in Milan. In the VIP box of the San Paolo, now known as the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, Antonio Conte (sent off the previous week, and hence banned from the touchline) can barely stand the tension of it all.
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Neeraj Chopra live at 9.45 PM ISTNeeraj Chopra is back in competition just a week after finally breaching the 90m barrier in the Doha Diamond League. Today he competes in Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, in Chorzow, Poland, with the throws starting at 9.45 PM IST. In Doha, Neeraj threw 90.23m but could only finish second after Germany's Julian Weber also made his debut 90m throw, hitting 91.06 in his last throw (and the competition's second last).
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2 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Two men sitting in the Crystal Palace end at Wembley during the FA Cup final were in tears before a ball had even been kicked. Their names were Dominic and Nathan Wealleans, south Londoners and lifelong season ticket holders, and right next to them the Palace fans had just unfurled a tifo that showed them as children, 14 years ago, hugging their dad, Mark.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon
Neeraj Chopra. 90.23m. There it was, the 90m throw. On his third attempt of his first proper competition of 2025, Neeraj Chopra finally scaled Mt. 90. Editor's PicksNeeraj Chopra breaks 90m barrier in 2025 Doha Diamond League, finishes secondNeeraj Chopra starts new era with old question: Will Zelezny give the 90m answer?
