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National Women's Handball begins in Narail Tuesday
The Exim Bank National Women's Handball Championship will begin on Tuesday at the Bir Shreshtha Nur Mohammad Stadium in Narail.
Tokyo Olympics: Mori is leaving but gender issues remain
Yoshiro Mori resigned Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following sexist comments implying women talk too much.
UN team wins inaugural Bangabandhu Diplomatic Tennis Cup
The United Nations team has won the inaugural Bangabandhu Diplomatic Tennis Cup.
Serena Williams, Osaka drawn in same half at Australian Open
Majors are what matters at this stage for Serena Williams.
Williams withdraws from semifinals in Australian Open tuneup
Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury on Friday within hours of setting up a semifinal match against top-ranked Ash Barty.
MLB average salary fell for 3rd straight year
The average Major League Baseball salary dropped for an unprecedented third straight year, even before the shortened season caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tokyo Olympics chief Mori sorry for sexist comments, will not resign
The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee on Thursday apologized for his claim that women talk too much and tend to make meetings "drag on," remarks widely criticized as sexist, but insisted he has no intention of resigning.
Human rights, COVID at issue 1 year before Beijing Olympics
Building elaborate venues for Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics is the easy part for China, just as it was for the city’s Summer Olympics in 2008. The competition venues are ready, and non-competition sites will be completed this summer with the Games set to open one year from Thursday on Feb. 4, 2022.
Nadal sidelined; team Djokovic wins to open ATP Cup defense
Rafael Nadal didn’t make it for Spain’s ATP Cup opener because of a sore back, deciding it wasn’t worth the risk a week ahead of the Australian Open.
John Chaney, commanding Temple basketball coach, dies at 89
John Chaney’s raspy, booming voice drowned out the gym when he scolded Temple players over a turnover — at the top of his basketball sins — or inferior effort. His voice was loudest when it came to picking unpopular fights, lashing out at NCAA policies he said discriminated against Black athletes. And it could be profane when Chaney let his own sense of justice get the better of him with fiery confrontations that threatened to undermine his role as father figure to scores of his underprivileged players.