Tag: Wins

LOS ANGELES - Rapper Jay-Z overshadowed Grammys front-runner Eminem as the music awards show got under way on Sunday, while two-time winner Lady Gaga made a grand red-carpet entrance encased in an egg. Jay-Z won three early awards including a pair for his duet with Alicia Keys on 'Empire State of Mind,' a love letter to New York that will compete for record of the year later in the ceremony.
The hip-hop star received six nominations in all. Eminem, who leads the field with 10

Australian Mark Renshaw landed his first stage race victory at the 10th edition of the Tour of Qatar here on Friday after the fifth and final stage, won by Italian tyro Andrea Guardini. HTC-Highroad's Renshaw took control of the race after Thursday's fourth stage to take a six-second lead over compatriot Heinrich Haussler of Garmin-Cervelo.
And the former track specialist, who is the key lead-out man to British sprint king Mark Cavendish during the hectic bunch sprints, kept an

LAHORE - NBP and WAPDA won their last league matches of the 58th National Hockey Championship on Thursday at the Faisalabad Hockey Stadium, with identical scorelines of 3-2. Meanwhile, the National Coaching Course, which was being conducted at the Faisalabad Hockey Stadium, has successfully concluded on the sidelines of the championship.
NBP beat SSGC 3-2 and WAPDA beat Steel Mill 3-2. Today is a rest day and the semi-finals of the event will be played tomorrow with the first

PARIS - Andrea Petkovic defeated Angelique Kerber 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 at the GDF Suez Open in Paris on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Yanina Wickmayer beat Elena Vesnina 7-6 (7/1), 6-2. Jelena Dokic posted a rare WTA tour victory as she renewed her bid to break back into the top echelon this year.
Dokic overcame Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and fired down 11 aces but lost her serve twice as she advanced to the second round. Dokic, who made the second round of the

DOHA - Belgian Tom Boonen, riding for the Quick Step team, won the first stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday, heading home a sprint finish ahead of Australian duo Heinrich Haussler and Mark Renshaw. Boonen, a three-time winner of the Tour - now with 18 stage victories under his belt, takes the race leader's golden jersey from Dutch rider Lars Boom, who won Sunday's opening prologue but who suffered during the first stage with stomach problems.
"This victory is my reward for all

LAHORE - Guard Rice-Diamond Paints clinched the Nurpur Polo Cup here at the Aibak ground of the Lahore Polo Club on Sunday. Hissam Ali Hyder-led Guard Rice and Diamond Paints prevailed over their rivals to win the title by eight goals to six-and-a-half.
Hissam in the presence of Argentinean Ambassador Rodolfo Martin Saravia, gave more than an impressive show to win the tournament. Taimur Ali Malik with his two and Raja Samiullah with one goal took their team to victory. And later

LAHORE - The second Chief Minister's Sports Competitions (intermediate, provincial level) phase II events started here on Sunday. In girls athletics Ms Najma Perveen of Faisalabad achieved 1st position in 200m race with 00:26:96 and won the title of long jump as well.
Ms Sadia Bibi from Bahalwalpur stood second in 200m race and long jump events. Faisalabad shone in 4X400m relay race were declared 1st, Sahiwal stood second and Multan was third. Faisalabad got 113 points in the

DOHA - Denmark's Thomas Bjorn reaped the reward for three rounds of consistent golf when he won the 2.5-million-dollar Qatar Masters by four shots from Spain's Alvaro Quiros at Doha Golf Club on Sunday. Bjorn posted a 69 in the final round for a total of 14-under-par 274.
It was his second win in the Middle Eastern desert, after his sensational victory over Tiger Woods at the Dubai Desert Classic in 2001. Quiros, who won in Qatar in 2009, suffered the heartbreak of finishing as

LAHORE - Aitchison Staff and Doctors XI won their matches in the 1st Lahore Cricket League here on Thursday. Aitchison Staff beat Chairman Foam by 70 runs at the former's ground. Aitchison made 225 for eight in 30 overs. Hammad 69, Maqsood 44, Amir 29 and M Riaz 24 were the main scorers.
Talha got four for 51 and Asif two for 26. Chairman Form made 155 runs in 25 overs. Dawood 32, Asif Abbas 23 and Fahad 22. Maqsood, Amir Razzaq, Aneeb shared two wickets each. In the other match,

LAHORE - Asfar Jutt and Mehmood Ahmed Khan were declared the 59th Mr and Junior Mr Punjab after a tough competition held in Rawalpindi. The 59th annual contest was held at Rawalpndi Arts Council under the supervision of the Punjab Bodybuilding Association.
According to PBA Secretary Muhammad Naeem Akhtar, the event was participated by more than 80 musclemen from nine zones of the province. They included zones of Lahore, Bahawalpuer, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Rawalpindi,

TOKYO - Akifumi Shimoda produced an array of counter-hooks for a unanimous decision victory to wrest the World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight title from Lee Retsuri on Monday. Three judges counted it 115-111, 118-109, 118-109 all in favour of the challenger.
The 26-year-old Japanese challenger, ranked sixth in the WBA, fought aggressively from the outset, staggering the Japan-based Korean defending champion in the first round. Shimoda sent Lee to the floor with a

PARK CITY - Love story "Like Crazy" and assisted suicide documentary "How to Die in Oregon" won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, putting both on the list of must-see independent movies for 2011. "Like Crazy," directed by Drake Doremus, picked up the jury prize for best drama with its tale of an American woman and British man who fall in love for the first time but move away from each other, testing their relationship.
Doremus, accepting his award, said it

LONDON - Colin Firth has won a best actor award for his role as King George VI in 'The King's Speech' at the Screen Actors Guild. His victory follows recent triumphs at the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Movie Awards for his performance of the stammering wartime monarch and boosts his chances of an Oscar next month. 'The King's Speech' took the prize for best ensemble cast, the guild's equivalent of the best picture Oscar.
'The King's Speech' triumphed over 'Black Swan',

LAHORE - Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Zakaullah clinched the coveted trophy of the CAS Veterans Golf Championship in an 18-hole contest. The Championship was held at Lahore Garrison Golf and Country Club.
Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force, was the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony of the championship and awarded trophies and prizes to the winners. In the seniors category, Air Vice Marshal Sohail Gul Khan, Air Marshal Athar

PONTIAC - Tim Bradley walked away with a pair of world light-welterweight boxing titles on Saturday, but the way he defeated Devon Alexander in the showdown of US unbeatens had the loser crying foul.
Bradley won by unanimous technical decision after the bout was halted in the 10th round on Saturday because of an accidental head-butt that left Alexander unable to see from his right eye because of a cut opened on his right eyelid. Referee Frank Garza stopped the fight two rounds

SCHLADMING - Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange completed a rare double on Tuesday winning the World Cup slalom here to add to his victory in Kitzbuehel last Sunday. Swedish duo Andre Myhrer and Mattias Hargin finished second and third respectively.
Just as two days earlier, Grange had been down in fourth place after the opening run with 0.85sec to make up on Myhrer. But he tore down the slope at the second time of asking to pinch a win by just four hundredths of a second. "It's

MELBOURNE - Roger Federer made hard work of reaching his 27th consecutive grand slam quarter-final at the Australian Open on Sunday but it looked like a short shift after Francesca Schiavone's titanic tussle with Svetlana Kuznetsova.
French Open champion Schiavone took a gruelling four hours and 44 minutes to edge her Russian friend 6-4 1-6 16-14 in a Hisense Arena thriller and claim a place in the last eight after the longest women's grand slam singles match in the modern era.