If you can’t be bothered to organise a football match but want to play more often then you’re in luck.
Sporting Events Company, Play London will be holding a 5-A-Side football tournament in East London this Sunday (2).
Players can either enter in groups of five or individually, in which case they will be placed into a team. There will be a cup and plate competition and winners will be awarded with trophies, medals and tickets to the London Legends Cup at Upton Park on May 30.
The event aims …

YOU can’t blame bolly filmmakers for wanting to make a movie about Sania Mirza because her story just keeps getting more and more interesting. It has been reported that Sonam Kapoor will play the tennis champ in Anees Bazmee’s forthcoming romantic comedy, ‘Thank You.’ She is due to start shooting for the film in mid-april in Canada, where she will be professionally trained by a tennis coach.
“Sonam does play a tennis champ, and Akshay Kumar plays a guy who’s seeing 30-35 girls at the same time, until he meets …

AMIR KHAN will get a chance to show the Americans what he is made of when he takes on Paulie Malignaggi in New York on May 15.
The Bolton boxer will be defending his WBA Light-welterweight title at Madison Square Garden in Malignaggi’s home town.
Having dreamt of fighting in the States ever since he turned professional in 2005, it is a long time coming for Khan to prove himself at one of the spiritual homes of boxing in America.
Both fighters are confident of victory in the fight, with Khan saying he …

SHOULD boxing be a male sport only? According to Amitabh Bachchan, ‘The ladies do not care much for it. Too brutal for them they say.’ That’s what he wrote on his blog after his recent meeting with British boxer Amir Khan. An old fashioned stereotypical understanding some would say. But even boxer Amir Khan has said before that he felt uneasy about the idea of women boxing. Just before the International Olympic Committee announced that women will be allowed to box in the 2012 Olympics – for the first time …

COLOURFUL cricketing carnivals around the world will be bringing the game to life as the first ever global Twenty20 cricket brand is born. The Indian Premier League’s most popular team, the Rajasthan Royals, plan to take over five teams in different countries and unite them under the Royals brand. English county Hampshire, who will be branded the Hampshire Royals, are one of the teams who have been included in the plans for a Twenty 20 tournament festival. Teams in South Africa, Australia and Trinidad and Tobago will also be part …

Boxing sensation Amir Khan along with ten other budding sports stars are celebrating today, following their success at the biggest ever Asian sports awards in the country.
The winners of the prestigious Change4Life British Asian Sports awards were revealed at a star-studded ceremony at the Grosvenor House hotel in Park Lane last night. Hosted by ‘Eastender’ Nitin Ganatra and ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Laila Rouass, the awards show once again recognised the contributions and achievements of the best in British Asian Sporting talent.
BASA awards ambassador Amir Khan …

IT was a mixed night for Usman Ahmed and Akaash Bhatia, who featured on the undercard of Ian Napa’s unsuccessful British Bantamweight title defence against Jamie McDonnell on Friday night.
Both boxers had significant fights for different reasons. For Ahmed, he was fighting for the chance to win his first professional title, the English flyweight belt.
Bhatia meanwhile was making his first appearance in the ring since losing on points to Jamie Arthur in a British featherweight title eliminator bout last June.
Ahmed was first up in the ring, taking on Ashley Sexton …

CRICKET  fans in the UK are in for a treat because they will now be able tune in live to all the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket Matches via You Tube. Internet giant Google will have exclusive online rights of the content for two years and it is reported that it will only stream live to countries that do not have TV deals with the IPL. Since Setanta Sports closed last year, the UK broadcast rights are yet to be sold on, meaning that it will qualify for the live …

The best of Britain’s Asian sporting talent are battling it out to be crowned winners at the Change4Life British Asian Sports Awards on February 6. The short-listed nominees from each of the ten categories are counting on your votes for a chance to win a British Asian Sports Award.  So if there’s someone who you think deserves to win, show your support by calling the relevant voting number below, before midnight on Thursday February 4.
AWARD CATEGORIES & NOMINATIONS
HSBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
* Aadam Syed – To vote for Aadam, …

YOUR race, religion, class, gender or age – which identity is more likely to put you at a disadvantage? This is the question that has caused much debate and controversy over the past week. It follows a speech by communities secretary Mr Denham, who claimed that racial discrimination was no longer the only cause of disadvantage and it was now more linked to poverty and social class. But a documentary on channel 4 this Friday is about to add some more fuel to fire and shake up the debate by questioning …