Asian Cup Draw 2007 Kuala Lumpur, December 20, 2006 Holders Japan will be hoping to three-peat when the 2007 Asian Cup kicks off in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia next July. The July 7-29 championships will include newcomers Australia for the first time. Saudi Arabia were restricted to playing their opening games in Malaysia or Indonesia due to an ongoing political spat with Thailand. Group A Australia Oman Iraq Thailand Group B Japan UAE Vietnam Qatar

Ashes Cricket 4th Test Prediction by Anita Nigam Australia v England Dec 26-30, 2006 The beginning of the match will see early wickets falling. England will perform better than in the previous three games. After the first two hours the match will quieten. The match will be interesting for the first three days and on the final two days the stars are complicatred for both teams. The stars predict a draw with another excellent performance by the Australian players. Anita's Prediction Service

As the players take a deserved Christmas break, Soccerphile unpicks the happenings in Australia's A-League with four rounds of the regular season remaining. The new premiers All the Christmas cheer should be heaped on Ernie Merrick's Melbourne Victory who clinched their inaugural premiership just before the eight A-League clubs headed into the mid-season break. Melbourne's charge towards banishing the memory of last season's seventh-placed has been relentless. They have continued to top the charts in, well, every measure, even breaking Adelaide's season-old record of winning the title in just 17 rounds. Merrick's only dilemma ahead of the finals series is whether to rest a squad who started pre-season back in April ahead February's grand final.