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BARCELONA - A spectacular lob from the half-way line by Ruben Cani helped Villarreal to a 4-2 victory over Osasuna on Saturday which kept them in third place in La Liga and maintained their push for a place in Europe. Villarreal went into the game with several important players missing but Marco Ruben took advantage of a rare start with the opening goal.
Osasuna drew level from a corner with Krisztian Vadocz heading home but they were soon behind again when Cani spotted keeper

LONDON - Birmingham goalkeeper Ben Foster's embarrassing blunder gave 10-man West Ham a 2-1 win in the League Cup semi-final first leg at Upton Park on Tuesday.
Avram Grant's Hammers were on the rack after Liam Ridgewell's second half goal cancelled out Mark Noble's first half opener.
The Hammers then had Nigerian striker Victor Obinna sent off for a petulant kick at Sebastian Larsson. But Foster made a hash of saving Carlton Cole's weak shot in the closing stages and West

Lahore - Singolane overwhelmed Winder Gaddani 3-1 on Tuesday in Group B - of the PFF-KESC Lyari Football League at Kalakot's Shaheed Abdul Rehman Park, Lyari Town, Karachi. The winners were 2-0 up at interval. Before the match, one-minute silence was observed for Murad Bakhsh alias Pencil (Kalakot Union), a known player in his hey day who died just three hours before the kick off.
Singolane gave no room to visitors from Balochistan and striker Idriss Rehman collected a hat-trick

LAHORE - Government College for Women Township, GCW Wahdat Road and Sheikhupura won their respective matches of the Punjab University Inter-collegiate Volleyball Tournament being played here at the PU Sports Department.
Government College for Women Township beat Fatima Jinnah College for women Chuna Mandi 2-0.
Government College for Women Wahdat Road defeated Government College for Women Kot Khawaja Saeed 2-0 while Government College for Women Sheikhupura moved past Queen

LAHORE - National Bank, Rijas and Guard Group/Diamond Paints won their matches on the opening day of The Cool & Cool Lahore Open Polo Cup that began here at the LPC ground on Monday. National Bank defeated Master Paints 8-7 with goals coming from Shiraz Qureshi, Shahid Hayat and Ahmed Ali Tiwana while the scorers from the losing side were Sufi Muhammad Haris and Ahmed Nawaz Tiwana and Sufi Muhammad Aamir. Rijas defeated Frontier Scouts 6-3 with Saqib Khan Khakwani playing the major

LAHORE - Lahore district's combined team will represent the city in the athletics and badminton competitions of the Punjab Inter-division Tournament of high school category of the second Chief Minister Sports Cup.
The events will be held from January 13 to 18 in Lahore. Lahore division won the boys and girls badminton and athletics competitions of the Chief Minister Cup, Inter-district phase III, played among various districts while Sheikhupura clinched the volleyball title of

LAHORE - Master Paints edged out Diamond Paints in the Literacy Exhibition Charity Polo March here at the Lahore Polo Club on a chilly Sunday. Masters got six goals and allowed Diamond five goals.
Bilal Haye Mehta, Sufi Haris, Taimur Malik and Shamyl Alam were the real Masters to make the most of the opportunities. Diamonds' Omar Asjad Malhi, Atif Yar Tiwana and Hassan Ali Farrukh thwarted moves from Masters Paints.

LAHORE: Sialkot on Friday stunned Faisalabad by 44 runs on the eighth day of the National Women's Under-19 T20 Cricket Championship 2010-11, being played at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke. Batting first, Sialkot managed 110 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs. Iqra Rehmat and Nida Naseem shone with bat for Sialkot.
Faisalabad's Marriam Shafiq and Sherish Arif took three and two wickets, respectively. Later, Sialkot restricted Faisalabad to just 66 runs and sent eight of their

ROME: Fabio Quagliarella suffered a Frank Lampard moment on Sunday when he had a perfectly good goal ruled out in Juventus's 3-1 win at Catania when officials failed to spot his shot had crossed the line.
Quagliarella unleashed a 43rd-minute drive from a Milos Krasic pass which crashed against the crossbar before bouncing behind the line and back into play in a replay of Lampard's effort in England's World Cup defeat to Germany.
Juventus had already opened the scoring in

LAHORE: Pakistan hockey team, winner of Asian Games hockey event, was on Sunday awarded Rs10 million in a reception hosted by Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, at the CM House.
The Chief Minister presented cheques of Rs 500,000 each to all the members of the hockey team and also promised his full support to PHF President Qasim Zia in the team's preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Mian Shahbaz Sharif termed the hockey players as the shining stars of the

LAHORE: Lahore Lions beat Lahore Blues by 20 runs in the opening match of the 3rd National Veterans cricket tournament that rolled into action on Saturday. Batting first, Lahore Lions scored 149 for 4 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Imran Bucha 59, Sarfraz Azeem 29 and Ali Zia 22 were the main scorers. Javed Zaman took 2 wickets for 37 runs. In reply, Lahore Blues scored 129 for 9 wickets with Arshad Khan 52, Imran Sheikh 18 and Shaukat Ali 14 being the prominent batsmen.