Los Angeles  - Newly-acquired Stephon Marbury went back to work and it worked out well.

Sharpshooting Ray Allen scored 30 points, and Marbury had eight, along with two assists off the bench in his Boston Celtics' debut Friday night, helping the reigning NBA Champions edge the visiting Indiana Pacers 104-99.

The Celtics signed Marbury earlier in the day after the two-time All-Star cleared waivers following a contract buyout agreement with the New York Knicks on Wednesday.

Lahore, Feb. 28 : The itinerary of the Australia-Pakistan one-day international series has been revised again.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced that the series, which is to be played at a neutral venue, United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be played from April 22 to May
7.

"Now the series will be played from April 22 to May 7 as we have pushed backed the date of the first match by two days," PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said.

Takes home the Karnataka Horserace Owners Trophy

It's two out of two for Classerville as this gelding went on to win the Karnataka Racehorse Owner's Association Trophy, the main event on the 3rd Extra day of Bangalore's Winter meetings, held at the Bangalore Turf Club, on Friday.

A property of Zavaray S Poonawalla and Behroze Z Poonawalla representing Poonawalla Racing & Breed. Ltd and Capt Jamshed J Appoo was one length ahead of Hatsuhaana in this six-furlong journey events.

The winner capped it up with the Managing Committee Cup (Div I) early this year with this one on Friday.

round 3,500 student are expected to participate in the eight-day fest which will be on till March 3

Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering (LTCOE), Koparkhairane is conducting a sports festival, Sportz Zephyrsm. The festival commenced on February 23 and will end on March 3. The eight-day event will have games like cricket, football, chess, volleyball, kabaddi, badminton, basketball, table tennis, carom, throwball, tug-of-war etc. About sixteen colleges are participating in the inter-collegiate and intra-collegiate tournament.

With their faces less than a foot away, the top seed and his challenger introduce themselves across the table. It’s the National Open Chess Tournament for the Blind and Srikrishna Udupa is one of the favourites. Udupa is expected to get through without trouble against Ajay Kumar of Kerala, but the two make small talk as they await the signal to start.

“What do you do?” asks Ajay, to which Udupa replies: “I’m a chess coach. I used to coach for free, but I ran into some financial trouble, so I had to do this full time.”

RCA chief miffed over recent raids on petrol pumps

The district supply officers (DSOs) of Bhilwara and Udaipur raided two petrol pumps owned by Bhilwara district cricket association secretary M Nahar and Udaipur district cricket association secretary Mahendra Sharma on Friday.

It is learnt that both the petrol pump owners are close to Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) president Lalit Modi, who later on alleged that the government was “harassing” the voters of the state cricketing body ahead of the elections which are scheduled for March 1.