Super Rugby League first round begins today

By AM Khan

LAHORE, Pakistan (TheSportsNEXT) September 29, 2012: The first round of 15-a-side Super Rugby League will begin today (Saturday) here at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) under the auspices of Pakistan Rugby Union (PRU).

Zaka Ashraf meets former Test captain Majid Khan

By AM Khan

LAHORE, Pakistan (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Chaudhry Zaka Ashraf held a meeting with former legendary player and Pakistan Test Captain Majid Khan at his residence on Friday.

Roger Federer in Dubai with wife Mirka Vavrinec, twin daughters

By Osama Tariq

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (TheSportsNEXT) September 29, 2012: Roger Federer arrived in Dubai Friday along with his wife Mirka Vavrinec and his twin daughters Myla Rose and Charlene Riva to spend some time with the family.

New Zealand, Sri Lanka win matches in ICC Women’s World T20

By Fathima Zanaida

GALLE, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: New Zealand and Sri Lankan women cricket teams won their respective matches at the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2012 at Galle International Stadium on Friday.

FA slaps four-match ban on John Terry

By Ashley Williams

LONDON, England (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: The English Football Association slapped a four-match ban on Chelsea captain John Terry on Thursday after finding him guilty of racial abuse in a four-day hearing.

All NHL 2013 preseason games scrapped amid lockout

By Lindy Rumer

The Los Angeles Kings celebrate after defeating the New Jersey Devils in Game Six of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final at Staples Center.

NEW YORK, United States (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: All the preseason games of the National Hockey League 2012-13 (NHL 2013) were cancelled Thursday by the NHL authorities after it failed to achieve common grounds with the NHL Players Association which resulted in the lockout.

All Time Best Cricketers By Category

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: All Time World XIs are often discussed. Since T20s are pretty new, and ODIs themselves are only 40 years old, for the purposes of this analysis, I am talking primarily about test matches, at least for people who played before the other two formats had international status.

ICC World T20 Super Eights Preview

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) September 28, 2012: A quirk of the scheduling system is that it is based on rankings from a year ago, not on who finishes 1st or 2nd in each group and hence we have a situation where all of the unbeaten sides (Australia, India, Pakistan and South Africa) are in the same super 8 group, with only 2 of them going to make the quarter finals, while the other group features the 4 sides that have all lost a match (England, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies).

New York to host next round of NHLPA-NHL talks

By Lindy Rumer

WASHINGTON, United States (TheSportsNEXT) September 26, 2012: The city of New York will be hosting the next round of negotiations between the NHL owners and the NHL Players Association (NHLPA) on Friday in what would be the first talks since the NHL lockout commenced.

Pakistan into WT20 Super Eights with 8wkts win over Bangladesh

By Jawad Hussain

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (TheSportsNEXT) September 25, 2012: It was one of those luckiest days when Pakistani batsmen raised their game to clinch victory for the nation and what a day they chose to steal the limelight as Pakistan needed their heroics badly enough to book a place in the Super Eights stage of the ICC World Twenty20 2012.