Los Angeles - The Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship with a gritty defence, and they showed that down the stretch to knock the Houston Rockets from the unbeaten ranks.

Ray Allen scored 29 points, Kevin Garnett had 14 with 11 rebounds and the Celtics shut down the Rockets for a 103-99 road victory on Tuesday night, in an early season match-up of league powerhouses.

"I was really proud of our guys because it was a big game for them and for us," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said after his club improved their record to 3-1. "It was hard fought, physical game. Every time we got the lead they fought back."

London, Nov 5 : Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger has declared her love for her F1 lover Lewis Hamilton in a special video on the Internet.

The lead singer congratulated the 23-year-old world champion race car driver during a special video message posted on her girl group''s official website.

“I’m so excited I feel like I’m on top of the world right now,” the Sun quoted her, as saying in the video.

“Why? Because I want to congratulate my boyfriend Lewis Hamilton for being the official Formula One world champion!

“Congratulations baby - I love you, I love you, I love you,” she added.

The singer also took the opportunity to get racing fans into the Pussycat Dolls.

A fine opening partnership by Hamish Marshall and Deep Dasgupta led to an easy 9 wicket win for Royal Bengal Tigers against in-form Chennai Superstars in the ICL 20s Indian Championship match at Tau Devi Lal Stadium.

Chasing a victory target of 162 runs, the duo in an irresistible form, added 132 runs at a rapid pace. They toyed with the rival bowling attack as Bengal Tigers romped home losing just one wicket.

Washington, Nov 5: Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has split from his fiancee of three months.

The ex- fiancée of Becker has confirmed to People that she has split from the tennis legend.

The tennis ace earlier confirmed to the German magazine Bunte that he had broken off his engagement to Alessandra Meyer-Wolden.

Becker texted the publication''s Web site Tuesday and said, "Yes, it's true, unfortunately."

According to sources, the 40-year-old sportstar broke the news to his friends and family, including his ex-wife, Barbara, over the weekend.

He and the 25-year-old Meyer- Wolden – whom he''s known since she was a child – had announced their engagement in August.

London, November 5: English researchers have found that the wrists do not play a critical role in the perfect, long-distance golf swings.

Robin Sharp, an engineer at the University of Surrey, says that how and when the power develops is the key to distance.

His analysis is based on a computer model in which a golfer uses three points of rotation: the shoulders relative to the spine, the arms relative to the shoulders and the wrists relative to the arms.

The Nagpur Police Commissioner, Praveen Dixit, confirmed reports of JeM threat to ace cricket player Sachin Tendulkar stating, "The Central government has issued a high-alert for Sachin...They have information that the JeM has issued a threat to him."

However, keeping in mind the terror threats on the Aussies, he took a U-Turn and said, "There is no specific threat to any individual player and there is no threat input".

He further added that the security arrangements would be usual and uniform.