Rajasthan basket titlesRajasthan won the 49th Junior National Basketball championship for boys after getting past Madhya Pradesh lads by a convincing 88-40 margin in the final played this evening. The lanky Rajasthan lads seemed well prepared to beat the rival team from the start of the match and played under a game plan. They kept consistent pressure on their opponents.French OpenAll the talk had been of the teenagers - the hair-beaded Williams sisters Venus and Serena, Anna Kournikova with her precocious talent and Hollywood looks, Martina Hingis hunting the only Grand Slam to elude her. But in the end two veterans stole the show at the 1998 French Open. Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario took her third title.Test drawnRain spoiled any chance of a result in the first cricket Test between England and South Africa at Edgbaston today. Play was abandoned due to persistent rain, resulting in a draw and preventing what should have been the most eventful day of the five-day match.Shiny retiresThe retirement of Shiny Wilson was by not a surprise. For quite some time now, the first Indian woman to break the two-minute barrier in the 800M, and also the first woman to reach the semi-finals of an Olympic event (800M, at Los Angeles in 1984), had been skipping most of the major meets, both domestic as well as international, citing one reason or other.Sporting loseAfter holding the fancied Mohun Bagan to a goalless draw in the first match of the McDowell Cup football tournament, Mohameddan Sporting ran out of gas against Bangladesh champions Mukti Joddha today. The team from across the border scored an emphatic 4-0 win over Sporting, netting twice in each half.
