March 20th 2010
Sports Bites

Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport -- pigeon racing. The network this week announced a new reality show that will pit Tyson, a novice pigeon racer, against serious competitors. The show is currently titled "Taking on Tyson" and promises to bring audiences inside this "intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world." Tyson has raised pigeons all his life but will take to the rooftops as a racing rookie.

Gautam Gambhir won the toss and chose to bowl on the same Feroz Shah Kotla pitch that misbehaved and forced a one-day match between India and Sri Lanka to be abandoned a few months ago. The groundstaff would have been hard at work in the interim trying to get the surface match ready for this eagerly awaited clash. In fact, Delhi have won both their games so far chasing. Delhi were unchanged but Mumbai made a couple of changes, bringing in their two West Indies imports, Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo. Pollard is one of the most sought after Twenty20 players in world cricket at the moment and Indian audiences witnessed his big hitting for Trinidad and Tobago in the Champions League last year.

Tiger Woods has confirmed he will return to competitive golf at the Masters. “The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta,” Woods said in a statement released Tuesday morning. “The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be, even though it’s been a while since I last played.”
The Masters begins April 8.

The Premier League have confirmed a nine-point deduction for crisis club Portsmouth to take place "with immediate effect". The League's board met on Wednesday morning to impose the sanction after HM Revenue and Customs dropped their challenge to the club going into administration. The deduction virtually guarantees relegation for Pompey, whose total drops to just 10 points, 14 behind second-from-bottom Hull. The Premier League said in a statement: "Following the High Court's decision that Portsmouth FC's administration is valid, the Premier League board convened today to apply the League's rules and policies in relation to a member club suffering an event of insolvency.

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