Iran wrestler (l) playing against his opponent.

In the 8th University Students Wrestling Championship in Greece, Iran’s Greco-Roman team stood first by grabbing three gold and two bronze medals, Mehr News Agency said.
In the 74- kg category, Hamid Reiyhani defeated all his opponents and snatched gold. This is while in the 96-kg category Mojtaba Kababi ranked third.
In the first round, Mohammad Mehdi Kowsari in the 55-kg category defeated Belarus wrestler. In the second round Kowsari became third after he was defeated by the US wrestler.
In the 84-kg category, Habib Akhlaqi grabbed gold after beating American, Kazakh and Estonian wrestlers.
In the 120-kg category, Masoud Hashemzadeh defeated Hungary and Turkish wrestlers and advanced to final round. In the final round he beat Greek wrestler and took gold.
Meanwhile, in the Ziolkowski International Wrestling Championship in Lodz, Poland, Saeed Ebrahimi in 96-kg category beat Hungary, Ukraine and Venezuela wrestlers and advanced to the final round. In the Semifinal, Ebrahimi defeated Kazakh and in the final beat Ukrainian Wrestler and took gold. Technical committee of Iran Wrestling Federation named Ebrahimi as Iran Wrestlers in Olympic Games.
In the 55-kg category, Abbas Dabaghi grabbed bronze with one victory and one defeat.

File photo shows Iranian basketball players celebrating victory.

Following National Basketball Association (NBA) invitation for Iran’s basketball team, the team will fly to Utah, US. According to ISNA, Iran who qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games will take part in the 17-game event.
Its national team will be playing in its first Olympic men’s basketball tourney since 1948.
A game between the Jazz and the Olympic-qualified Iranian National Team highlight the schedule for this month’s Rocky Mountain Revue summer league.
The other is the Iranian team that qualified for the upcoming Summer Olympics in China by winning last year’s FIBA Asia Championship in Japan.
The Jazz-Iran game will be played on July 21. Iran will play one other Revue game, against Dallas on July 19.
It will mark the first time a non-NBA team will play in the Revue since 1996, when the schedule included a Jazz loss to the French national team in which now-retired Jazz center Greg Ostertag posted a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double.
Other NBA teams in the field: Atlanta, Golden State, New Jersey and San Antonio.
Utah’s first Revue game is scheduled for July 18 against San Antonio Spurs.

Frank Lampard

Italy under-21 coach Gianfranco Zola has said that Frank Lampard would be an excellent signing for league champions Inter Milan.
The pair played together for two years at Chelsea and having seen his quality at close quarters, Zola knows exactly what type of player the San Siro side will be buying.
“Frank is unique in the world,“ he told La Gazzetta Sportiva.
“A midfielder who can score 20 goals in the championship. The fans should know that he is not a spectacular player, but a winner.“
Should Lampard make the move to San Siro then Zola believes that he will be playing for one of the best coaches in the modern game in Jose Mourinho.
Whilst the ex-Napoli and Parma striker missed out by a year on playing under the Portuguese, he has heard enough first-hand reports to know that Mourinho can be a success in Italy.
“Mourinho loves messing around, but when it comes to work he is a bulldozer. With Mourinho you only work with the ball, which is loved by players,“ he said.
With the Beijing Olympic Games fast approaching Zola is hopeful that Italy, whose first match is against Honduras on August 7, can improve on the bronze medal they won in Athens four years ago.
To that end he has big hopes for former Manchester United and Newcastle United striker Giuseppe Rossi, who hit 11 goals to help Villarreal to second place in the Spanish league last season.
“Giuseppe Rossi is a phenomenon and our (Lionel) Messi. He has class, knows where the goal is and makes a difference. Plus he’s still young,“ he said.

Luis Aragones

Valencia’s new executive director Juan Villalonga has offered Spanish coach Luis Aragones, who earlier this month joined Turkish club Fenerbahce after leading Spain to victory in Euro 2008, a two-year contract, a newspaper reported on Monday.
An agreement between the two sides could be reached “over the coming hours“, Spanish sports daily Marca reported without citing sources.
Aragones, who is approaching his 70th birthday, signed a two-year contract with Fenerbahce but Marca said he can break it without paying a penalty.
The incumbent Valencia coach Unai Emery, who was appointed in May, will be fired, it added.
Aragones, a former Spanish international, became the oldest coach to win the European title when Spain beat Germany 1-0, clinching their second title after the first in 1964. He became national team coach in 2004.
Villalonga, a former president of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, took control of Valencia last week.
Valencia, the winners of the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004, finished in 10th place last season in La Liga, 34 points behind the winners Real Madrid but will take part in the UEFA Cup next season since they won the Spanish Cup.
The club had four coaches last year: Quique Sanchez Flores, Oscar Fernandez, Ronald Koeman and Salvador Gonzalez “Voro“.

Casey Stoner

MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner secured his third successive victory after winning a rain-soaked German Grand Prix on Sunday.
The Australian overcame sickness as well as the poor conditions to finish 3.708 seconds ahead of former champion Valentino Rossi of Italy, who regained the overall lead in the standings from Spaniard Dani Pedrosa who bowed out early in the race.
Australian Chris Vermeulen clinched third spot, 14.002 seconds behind Stoner after a tight race to the line with San Marino’s Alex de Angelis.
“I’ve been feeling sick since yesterday morning,“ a groggy-looking Stoner told the BBC. I was struggling with my concentration levels and it wasn’t getting any better today. Those conditions were very, very hard. I was losing it and aquaplaning in a lot of places so I was lucky to come out of that one on the bike, let alone win the race,“
Stoner started in pole position but was left trailing in the opening stages by Pedrosa.
Pedrosa appeared to make light work of the wet track to open up a gap of more than six seconds over the chasing pack before sliding off at the start of the sixth lap.
Stoner capitalized to retake the lead and hold off Rossi for the remaining 25 laps.
With eight races remaining, Rossi leads Pedrosa by 16 points with Stoner third, a further four points behind.