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Commonwealth Games gold medallist grappler Rahul Aware has been chosen for the sportsman of the year award to be given by the Sports Journalists' Association of Mumbai (SJAM). Aware bagged the gold medal in 57 kg freestyle category during the CWG held at Gold Coast, Australia, earlier this year.

Lionel Messi beat Cristiano Ronaldo to take home the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award on Thursday. Handed out during the UEFA Champions League group stage draw, the Argentine superstar beat Ronaldo and Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez to take home the silverware. To decide the winner, 54 votes from European journalists were tallied up. Messi received 49 votes, while Suarez had 3 and Ronaldo 2. Messi had 58 goals and 28 assists last year for his club, while Ronaldo had 61 goals and 22 assists. It comes as no surprise that Messi won, as the attacking superstar led his club to the treble last season.

Now, Indian cricketers have surpassed retention process in Indian Premier League (IPL). Retention period has been a trend of IPL players from which no retained player can get off.

To live the dream of clinching the Australian Open title, the duo partners hailing from India and Romania namely Sania Mirza and Horia Tecau hasted to semis of Australian Open championship while defeating the rivals Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Julia Georges in Melbourne on Thursday. Just 63 minutes long battle quarterfinals held in tennis court came to an end with a swirl of smile on the faces of Indian as well as Romanian fans as the six seeded Sania and Tecau couple marked an edge over unseeded Aisam And Julia pair with 6-3, 6-4.

Despite taking lead by 2-0 over the rival hockey squad from Australia, Indian team raised the swirl of hopes that wanted assurance for the host team to storm into the semis on Wednesday in Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, New Delhi. But the hopes sank at the end when the rival team banged 7 goals at the net of Indian side.

Rafael Nadal showed Roger Federer the way out of the Australian Open Championship in Melbourne on Friday. However, Roger lodged his complaint against Rafael to the umpire as his slow play and grunting sound while striking the ball caused distraction to him.

Praising Yuvraj Singh's all rounder capabilities, Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bangalore is in favour of including him in his squad during upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL).

The masterstroke player and a stunning batsman Virender Sehwag put forth his urge to be included in Delhi Daredevils for being a part of astonishing upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL). However, Delhi has already started working on rejigging of the Delhi Daredevil squad.

Lionel Messi's four-year consecutive hold over the most prestigious trophy of the best player was snatched by Cristiano Ronaldo who was conferred with the title The FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the year 2013 as the world's best player.

Massive blow to the international career of Kevin Pieterson has come into limelight as his name is excluded from the list of the England squad leaving for tour of West Indies and World T20.

The tweeted message on twitter of Australia's legendary spinner Shane Warne conveyed that he is considering over the proposal of succeeding Andy Flower, who has been a coach of England cricket team. Andy is team director of England's cricket squad and the proposal has been offered to Warne for taking his place after his retirement since the team faced loss to Ashes by 5-0.

Aiming the motive of "Hot. Cool. Yours", the most thrilling and exciting winter event, i.e. 22nd Winter Olympics, has been kick-started amid hooting and howling of numerous spectators who witnessed the mesmerizing opening ceremony of it on 6th February 2014 in host city Sochi of Russia. Since division of the USSR took place, the nation is proud to be the host of the gigantic game event after long interval when1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.

The uncertain dismissal of PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has put on hold the announcement of the prospective Pakistan squad as well as the name of its new coach.

Making its way to the top three teams of the 'La Liga', Real Madrid is named as the third finalist to jump into the thrilling action on the football field sharing the place with Barca and Atletico. However, Cristiano Ronaldo was the missing beat in the Real Madrid team to tune for the exciting win after thrashing Getafe by 3-0 since he was suspended.

The dogfight among 8 franchises of IPL for winning the best deal via bids was called off without completion. The cut-throat auctioning will trigger the nerves as the exciting moment to see 'who will join whose camp in IPL7′ entered the second day for finishing the deal. The second day of the auctioning for IPL 7 began early this morning.

The biggest auctioning for the greatest cricket show IPL is taking place in Bangalore, Karnataka where many stalwarts of cricket and their buyers are bidding for the clever deal of purchasing players from every cricket playing nation.

South Africa sprint runner Oscar Pistorius has stated on Valentine's Day to remember his ex- sweetheart Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot and killed by Pistorius a year ago today.

Lebanese skier Jacky Chamoun has said sorry after the heated discussion about her nude pictures and a video that were taken three years ago and now they had been surfaced on the internet, which caused a disturbance in her Arab nation.