LNP - Top athletes to vie for Olympic qualifying standards

2020-12-23   |   Sports

More than half a dozen top national athletes will have tough Olympic qualifying marks or achieving better world rankings as their prime targets when t...

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LNP - Puttalam Zahira FC wins Soccer Tournament

2020-12-22   |   Sports

Puttalam Zahira FC Qatar has become the champions of Ozee Soccer Seven Tournament beating Mawanella Zahira FC. The 2020 Edition of the Ozee Soccer Sev...

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LNP - SJB rakes up dubious track record of Indian conglomerate selected by govt. to run ECT

2020-12-22   |   Sports

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) yesterday said that the proposed handing over of the Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal to India’s Adani Grou...

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LNP - Sports Sri Lanka Badminton brings on Li Ning – Lanka Shuttle Challenge 2020

2020-12-15   |   Sports

All year long, most of the national athletes have been training without a goal in sight. As in most sports, Badminton too had its fair share of miss...

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LNP - Herschelle Gibbs suspended by Colombo Kings, Rangana Herath appointed new coach

2020-12-11   |   Sports

Herschelle Gibbs has been suspended as a coach by Colombo Kings, it is reliably learnt here.  The 46-year-old South African opener came to Sri La...

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LNP - Await ten team IPL in 2021

2020-12-07   |   Sports

The BCCI has signalled the likely addition of two new teams to the IPL for the 2021 edition. That, along with the “discussion” on including cric...

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LNP - Pandemic forces Sri Lanka Athletics to take unprecedented steps

2020-12-04   |   Sports

The current pandemic situation has forced Sri Lanka Athletics to take an unprecedented step in including two track athletes, who are currently serving...

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LNP - Diego Maradona – Argentina’s flawed football icon

2020-11-27   |   Sports

Dazzling, infamous, extraordinary, genius, outrageous. Diego Maradona. A flawed football icon. One of the game’s most gifted players, the Argentine ...

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LNP - 2002 world medals that Sugath and Rohan never received

2020-11-20   |   Sports

It was a time when Sri Lanka had in possession some of Asia’s best sprinters. Sri Lanka was so strong in the men’s 400 metres from mid 90s to earl...

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LNP - Left-arm quick from Hungama could be next big thing in cricket

2020-11-13   |   Sports

Left-arm quick Dilshan Madushanka has suddenly become the talk in cricket circles after he was drafted into the Sri Lankan squad that will tour South ...

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