Lahore—Chairman, Pakistan Cricket Board, Ijaz Butt said here on Monday that it is unfortunate that people are criticizing the Board over the out of court settlement with International Cricket Council which has guaranteed income to PCB. Chairman PCB said “ We must understand and accept the ground realities which are that teams are not prepared to visit Pakistan at this stage. Under these conditions, it was imperative for us to protect our

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Tulsa (Okla)—Byeong-Hun An moved to the United States in pursuit of a better golf game. He left his life and his mother half a world away and moved to a country where he didn’t speak the language to learn the game he’d first tried out by chance one day while his father was hitting balls at the driving range. At 17, he entered the 109th U.S. Amateur in hopes of making it through the stroke-play qualifying portion and into match play. He left with the trophy, the youngest ever to do so. It was a good decision, I think. Thanks to my dad telling me to

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London—Just when Australia thought they had a chance for a modicum of Ashes revenge, rain thwarted a fiery start by Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson at Old Trafford. The pace pair ripped out England’s latest Twenty20 opening duo - Joe Denly first ball on debut and Ravi Bopara - to reduce them to 4 for 2 in the second over chasing 146. Australia’s total was better than it appeared on a tricky, two-paced surface where only Cameron White excelled with a powerful 55 from 36 balls. However, after seven balls of the run chase, rain, which

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Honolulu—Brian Viloria saved a little for a “Rocky-like” ending for the hometown crowd. Viloria didn’t get the Hollywood knockout he was hoping for, but earned a 12-round, unanimous decision over Jesus Iribe to retain the IBF light flyweight championship on Saturday night. Viloria, nicknamed “The Hawaiian Punch,” controlled the fast-paced bout in front of his hometown crowd, starting and ending with a flurry of punches. The bigger Iribe broke his right hand in the second round, but the Mexican still slugged it out the entire fight.

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New York—Roger Federer and Serena Williams will begin the defense of their U.S. Open titles at Flushing Meadows on Monday, while Kim Clijsters returns to grand-slam tennis for the first time in two years. World number one Federer, chasing a modern-day record sixth straight title at Flushing Meadows, plays American wild card Devin Britton in the first round in his first grand-slam event since the birth of his twin daughters last

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