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The 2010 Open Championship is the 139th Open Championship and one of the best, one of golf's four major event, and is being played from 15–18 July over the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife in Scotland. It is being celebrated as the 150th anniversary of the founding ceremony of ... Full story

Canada's long cold snap ended finally. The clouds literally cleared over Cypress Mountain as a 22-year-old moguls skier from Montreal whisked down a meringue-topped hillside and into the books by winning the country's first-ever Olympic gold at home. Full story

Early Life Sachin Tendulkar was born on 24th of April, 1973 in Mumbai to a Marathi Novelist named Ramesh Tendulkar. Sachin got encouraged to play cricket from his elder brother Ajit, and started playing the game at an early on age in his school, Sharadashram Vidya Mandir. Under the guidance of his coach, Ramakant Achrekar, he learnt the basics of the game and showed his prowess along with his school mate and one more future batsman of the Indian team, Vinod Kambli. Full story

U.S. Open commonly known as United States Open Championship is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf and is on the official agenda of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. It is staged by the United States Golf Association (USGA) in mid-June, scheduled so that, if there are no weather delay, the final round is played on the third Sunday, which is Father's Day. From 2008, it will also be an authorized money event on the Asian Tour. The U.S. Open is staged at a variety of courses, set up in such a way that scoring is very hard with a premium placed on accurate driving. U.S. Open play is characterized by tight scoring at or around par by the leaders, with the winner emerging at around even par. Full story

The US Open, formally the United States Open tennis championships, is a tennis tournament which is the modern manifestation of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, with the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament every year. Full story

England superstar batsman Kevin Pietersen would miss the remaining three Ashes Tests  match against Australia later than undergoing surgery on his Achilles tendon and  the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)  had confirmed this matter on Wednesday. Full story

A string of England Test cricket stars are feared to have been targeted by Britain's 'Bernie Madoff- style' fraud gang, it emerge last night. Former captain Kevin Pietersen, who played in England's Ashes victory over Australia yesterday, was approach to invest in a get-rich-quick 'Ponzi' scheme which has since spectacularly collapsed. At least two other well-known players are feared to have been wedged up in the fraud scandal. The details emerged as the suspected brains of the £80million swindle were arrested for a second time by police. Full story

AC Milan coach Leonardo would welcome David Beckham back at the San Siro. The Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder impressed throughout a six-month loan spell with the Rossoneri last stage and speculation is rife that he will go back to Milan in January. Beckham went to visit his previous team-mates at their LA training earth ahead of a pre-season friendly sandwiched between the Galaxy and Milan. Full story

Merv Hughes will be left spluttering into his moustache and generations of fair dinkum competitors will be shaking their heads in dismay. Australia, the inventors of 'mental disintegration', have been banned from sledging. Cricket Australia have written to each member of their Ashes touring side to tell them to cut out the verbal assaults on opponents that have been part of the fabric of their game ever since Ian Chappell brought sledging into their game in the Seventies. Full story

There are though large soccer die hard fans, the cricket maniacs, and also these tennis freaks. As a matter you are one of them or not even you know one closely. They are always just everywhere around you. You eventually know the most popular movie star or hot model, or the top hottest Tennis star. Lets' find the most probable actual fact. Full story