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Thursday Sports Round Up For July 21: Paraguay Enter Finals Beating Uruguay In Penalty Shoot Out

| July 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

Paraguay beat Venezuela 5-3 in a penalty shoot out after playing out a goalless draw in the semi-finals of the Copa America. In the shoot out to break the deadlock, Origoza, Barrios, Rey, Martinez and  Veron scored for Paraguay while Maldonaldo, Riveros and Miku did it for Venezuela, even as Southgate failed to score for [...]

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Thursday Sports Round Up For July 14, 2011: Mcllroy Targets British Open Golf Title

| July 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

US Open champion Rory Mcllroy is the undisputed favourite at the British Open that tees off at 06:30 BST, on Thursday. The Northern Irishman has a post-Tiger following, and the pressure of expectation will be huge as he tees off at 09:09 BST on Thursday, in an attempt to top a field of 156 golfers [...]

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Timings Of Matches, For All International Sporting Fixtures, For Every Country

| June 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

At Sporting Attitude, we aim to publish match times for almost every International sporting fixture, including starting times for every country. In case, you do not find the fixture you are looking for, or want your country included, please drop us an email [email protected] Please bookmark our Match Time category page:http://sportingattitude.com/category/match-time-2/

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SportingAttitude: Top 7 Football Controversies of 2010

| December 30, 2010 | 0 Comments
SportingAttitude: Top 7 Football Controversies of 2010

Football and controversy are best friends. And they continued to be friends throughout 2010. Here are the best seven football controversies we wrote about during the year: Maradona Vs Pele: A Perennial Rivalry When Argentina had beaten Nigeria and were about to take on South Korea, Maradona decided to stake everything on his team winning [...]

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SportingAttitude: Top 5 Cricket Controversies of 2010

| December 30, 2010 | 0 Comments
SportingAttitude: Top 5 Cricket Controversies of 2010

There was no shortage of cricket controversies in 2010, and at SportingAttitude, we covered the best of them. And here, according to us are the top five: Spot Fixing Video: Trio Confess They Took Money For Sponsorship Three Pakistani Cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Aamir, have admitted to taking money from the alleged [...]

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SportingAttitude: Our Top 10 Blogs Of 2010

| December 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

As 2010 draws to a close, the curtain comes down on an enthralling year of sports action. In our inaugural year, we at Sporting Attitude had many delightful stories to tell, and picking the top 10 was hard. But we finally managed to russle up this list of our top 10 blogs for 2010: Cricket [...]

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Modern Pentathlon: Laser Guns Not To Replace Pistols

| November 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

An earlier plan to replace pistols with laser guns in the modern pentathlon event at the London Olympic Games in 2012 has been trashed, after the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) vetoed it. The proposal was based on the premise that such a move would bring make the game safer allowing it to be hosted [...]

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2015 World Athletics Championships To Be Hosted By Beijing

| November 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

The IAAF, the world governing body for athletics, has awarded the 2015 World Championships for hosting to China. The event will take place at the Birds’ Nest stadium which became the icon of the 2008 Olympics hosted in the same city. Laime Diack, the head of the IAAF, said he thought it was a great [...]

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Darts World Grand Prix Preview: Nine Times Champion Phil Taylor Is Favourite

| October 4, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Citywest Hotel Convention Centre in Dublin will be the venue of the Bodog.com World Grand Prix Darts tournament , beginning on Monday night. Thirty two players will compete for £350,000 prize money in the double-start competition that will end on September 10. Phil Taylor who has won the event a record nine times is [...]

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Video: Tomas Berdych and Lucie Safarova, the Romantic Tennis Couple

| August 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

There have many tennis couples, such as Steffi Graf and Agassi, and Evert and Connors, but no other pairing has captured the romantic imagination of tennis fans, as Tomas Berdych and Lucie Safarova have done. A major reason for this is that this lovey dovey couple played mixed doubles for many years, and celebrated their [...]

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