On Sunday evening Doordarshan gathered a viewership of around twenty nine million people who sat and watched the grand opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Earlier many people complained about the ad infested and delayed telecast of the program.

According to a study report, the Premier League football clubs have made a world record deal of 100 million euros for the shirt sponsorship for the upcoming soccer season. The report from a Sporting Intelligence says that the total value of deals of the top 20 clubs has been recorded at 99.75 million euros in this season which is up from 71.8 million euros of the last season.

The vast change for One Day Internationals that has been suggested by Cricket Australia few days before is not appreciated by Australian Star Batsman Mike Hussy and also International Cricket Council CEO Haroon Logart.

Indian billiard ace Pankaj Advani created history on Sunday as he defeated defending and nine time champion Mike Russell to lift the title of World Professional Billiards. Pankaj has become the second Indian to win this title in 139-year-old history of the game.

Pankaj, winner of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2005-06, outclassed Russell 2030-1253 in the final at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England.