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Victoria Azarenka won her first grand slam title and became the new world number one when she thrashed a disappointing Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open final on Saturday.

The third-seeded Belarusian overpowered the 2008 champion to win 6-3, 6-0 in 82 minutes to lift the trophy and become the fourth women’s first-time grand slam winner in a row.

“I can’t wait to be back next year, I’ve had an amazing month in Australia. It’s a dream true,” said Azarenka.

Azarenka came from 0-2 down in the first set to win 12 of the next 13 games for a comprehensive victory, as Sharapova’s game disintegrated in the face of all-out aggression from the Belarusian.

Sharapova made 30 unforced errors, while Azarenka played almost flawlessly at times with only 12 errors across the two sets.

Azarenka won the toss and chose to serve, but she started nervously and dished up two double-faults on her way to dropping the first game.

Azarenka, who won the girls’ singles crown in 2005, became only the third woman in the open era to win the junior and senior titles at the Australian Open after Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Chris O’Neil.

She is also the first Belarusian to win a grand slam title, going one better than Natasha Zvereva, who finished runner up at the French Open in 1998.

Rahul Dravid, the legendary Indian Cricketer nicknamed The Wall for his solid defense against the opponent, may retire after the Australian Test series, unconfirmed reports suggest.

Dravid, aged 39,  has supposed to have said to his fellow team mates that he may hang his boots pretty soon.

The sources also report that, Dravid had been disappointed after getting out to Australia in the 4th test match which is currently underway where India is looking into the face of defeat yet again.

Dravid, has scored more than 13,ooo thousand test runs. He has captained Indian cricket team from 2005- 2007.

Dravid stands second to Sachin Tendulkar as the highest run getter  in Test history and also he holds the record of taking most number of catches in Test history.

The readers should note that, late last year, Dravid announced his retirement from ODI and T20 Internationals.

We will update you, once Rahul Dravid, announces his retirement.

The Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died today at just 29. She crashed on Jan 10 during her training. Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality — a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it for her success on the slopes.

“Sarah was the one who, in a very positive way, stood in the face of adversity and asked, ‘Why not?’” said Peter Judge, the CEO of Canada’s freestyle team. “What she would have wanted was for her teammates and others in her sport to stand up and also say, ‘Why not?’ To benefit from the significant opportunities available to them, being able to compete in the Olympics and the X Games. Those were the things she wanted and cherished and fought for.”

A four-time Winter X Games champion, Burke crashed on the same halfpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce sustained a traumatic brain injury during a training accident on Dec. 31, 2009.

Tests revealed she sustained “irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest,” according to a statement released by her publicist, Nicole Wool, on behalf of the family.

Burke will be remembered as much for the hardware she collected as the legacy she left for women in superpipe skiing, a sister sport to the more popular snowboarding brand that has turned Shaun White, Hannah Teter and others into stars.

Australian cricket team has won the 3rd test match against India by an Innings and 37 runs thereby sealing the series with 3-0 with one more test match to be played yet.

Looks like India’s tour of Australia has turned into a disaster. Australia not only won the matches straight third time but also have secured a back to back Innings victory over India whereas India has lost 7 test in a row abroad.

Readers should know, India also lost 4 test in a row against England in England.

Aussies shows Whose the Boss here

Aussies are back to claim their dominion in the World Cricket which they lost 2 years ago to India. India has been enjoying the status of No 1 team quite some while now thanks to the heroics of a few.

Captain Marvel as they say to Indian Captain Dhoni has started to get bad audience among the Media who are not in mood to favor him anyway. I am glad that Dhoni is not buying into what Media says but its annoying that his control over the team has been scattered like a broken glass.

Disappointed Dhoni already hinted that he will retire from playing Test in 2013.

Coming back to the 3rd test match at Perth, the match started with a disaster as always Virender Sehwag failed to click with the bat and the entire team collapse.

Batting greats as they say to Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, failed in this entire series.

From the bowling end, Yadav showed the potential and hunger for Cricket but it was nothing for Aussies batsman who scored big hundreds throughout the series.

Man, Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus,  made India struggle to even hold the cricket bat properly.

Congrats Australia for the Heroics.

ICC is considering a bid to include T20 Cricket for the Olympics 2020 as Cricket is all set to return to the grand stage of  all sports “the Olympics” after 100 years since it was last played in a Olympic ground.

Every sportsman want to win a gold in Olympics for their country. But the dream of a cricketer to represent their country in Olympics were kept under bay.

Not until, when the International Olympic Committee decided to recognize International Cricket Council as a legitimate board of Cricket did the dream turned into a reality.

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said, the strong emergence of the Twenty20 format has the ICC considering a bid to have cricket return to the Olympics after more than a century

Speaking on radio at the third Test between Australia and India in Perth, Lorgat said Twenty20 was the first international cricket format suitable for the Olympics.

“We have never had a format that would lend itself to playing in the Olympics until Twenty20 came to the fore,” he said. “We are starting to have a look at that.”

“In the strategic plan the board approved in 2011, we will evaluate properly what the benefits are for Olympic participation. There are pros and cons to that decision.”

“We would need to see what the implications would be on the Cricket World Cup.”

Lorgat said the biggest hurdle facing cricket’s return to the Olympics was the already packed playing schedule.

“If we were to introduce cricket into the Olympics, that is another extended period of time taken out of the calendar,” he said.

Lorgat added that the ICC was keen to limit the amount of Twenty20 cricket played at international level.

Argentina’s Lionel Messi has won the FIFA best player of the year 2011 award for the straight third time thereby registering his name as the only player in the history of FIFA to get three back to back awards.

Messi won the award beating his club teammate Xavi Hernandez and Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid to the game’s most prestigious individual honor.

Messi known for his heroics in the field said, “It’s a huge pleasure for me”, after accepting the trophy from another three-time winner, former Brazil forward Ronaldo. “It’s the third time I get this award, and it’s a huge honor.”

Messi received 47.88 percent of the points in votes cast by national team coaches and captains plus invited journalists. They chose from an original shortlist of 23 players.

Cristiano Ronaldo finished second with 21.6 percent and Xavi got 9.23 percent to finish third for the third straight year.

“This one is very special because I want to share this with my friend and teammate Xavi . He deserves it,” Messi said.

The only other three-time winners are Ronaldo (1996-97 and 2002) and Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2000 and 2003)

Australian Captain Michael Clarke made a brilliant triple hundred against India in the on going test match against India thereby joining the list of cricket most valued legends to score a triple hundred.

Scoring a Triple Hundred in test matches is never easy at all! No matter against which opposition you play Triple Hundred counts.

Congrats Clarke this is an exceptional show of brilliance

Australian team were considered out of form and cricketing legends expected Indian team to walk over with historic win in Australian soil.

But the youngster James Pattinson and the roaring legend Ricky Pointing gave India run for the money.

Michael Clarke is currently the 25th Batsman in Cricketing History to score triple hundred in test matches.