It’s that time of the year Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone drops hints about next season’s calendar, issuing indirect ultimatums to struggling race promoters.

It’s that time of the year Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone drops hints about the following season’s calendar, issuing indirect ultimatums to struggling race promoters.

Recently-crowned Wimbledon champion Andy Murray may kickstart his 2014 campaign in Chennai. The big names in men’s tennis seem to be changing the pattern of their ATP season opener as Roger Federer has already confirmed he will compete in Brisbane for the first time in his career.

As expected Akhil Khushlani made a clean sweep of the Formula BMW class in the season-opener of the 2013 JK Tyre Racing Championship here at the Kari Motor Speedway on Sunday.

Akhil Khuslani stormed to a dominant triumph in the Formula BMW category race of the JK Tyre Racing Championship here at the Kari Motor Speedway on Saturday.

Even in a city known for its deep-rooted automobile heritage, this weekend’s motorsport fixture is more than a speed festival.

Within two years after the country’s maiden World Cup triumph, India went on to win another major trophy — the World Championship of Cricket (WCC) in 1985. As M.S. Dhoni-led Team India —who won the World Cup in 2011 — lifted the Champions Trophy on Sunday, a sense of déja vu proved overwhelming for Kris Srikkanth.

Beleaguered cricket administrator N. Srinivasan is getting ready for another battle as the 83rd annual general body meeting of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association is scheduled for June 23. It’s an open secret that Srinivasan & Co will make it a landslide victory if new office bearers are elected through voting, thus oppositions are banking on the state government to end his reign.

A deeply disappointed I.S. Bindra, former chief of the BCCI and current president of the Punjab Cricket Association, said that N.

The BCCI stuck to the rule book in not imposing a life ban yet on Indian cricket’s tainted trio — S.