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V-Day is beyond me:SRK He is the eternal Rahul of Indian cinema, the lover who always gets the heroine in the end. But call him that and Shah Rukh Khan just throws up his hands and says resignedly, “People call me a lot of names; I don’t mind being called any! Then on a serious note, the King of Romance adds, “I have reached the giving stage of my Bollywood love affair. I want to give more and more love to my audience through my work. If you want to call it love... please go ahead!” But SRK is not the kind to straitjacket love in the confines of Valentine’s Day. “I have never really understood this day. According to me, love has so many facets. For instance, if you asked Don Juan, he would have said that loving 1700 women was the nicest thing in his life. And I think I would respect that also. The beauty of love is that it has no boundaries. For me, love means my children. I am in love with the undiplomatic and innocent stage of life that they are in,” he says. And isn’t it a little kid, Darsheel Safary, who is competing with Mr Khan for the Filmfare best actor award too? “Every year the competition keeps getting younger. Very soon, I will be nominated with an unborn baby,” he smiles.

Ajay Devgan and I are the two ugliest heroes around : SRK Deepika Padukone said to the media that she wanted to touch my body? Why? She should have talked to me! Do you want to touch my body? Mansoor Khan once told me, ‘Finally, we have some ugly faces becoming heroes.’ I told him, ‘Are you talking about Ajay Devgan?’ Jokes apart, I think Ajay and I are the two ugliest heroes around. You want to see my muscles? Let me tell you, I have muscles in all the right places.I want to start an academy; I don’t want to sit on my money. I am not saying that I am doing social work. It’s just that I have principles in life. If that can change anything, I’ll feel as if I fulfilled the purpose of my life. Hopefully, by the end of it, I will be able to change many youngsters’ lives. T20 is not a gamble – it is sheer passion. I wanted to start from the sport that is popular – cricket – and use the profits to help develop other sports as well. If I go to a cricket match, it is because I like to watch sports. I also enjoy badminton, tennis, or for that matter, kanche. Main kanche bahut acche khelta tha! Why should I have tried for the Delhi team? In any case, I would not have been able to afford them. But then, don’t regionalise the game. It is, after all, about India. I am not a businessman. I have reached that juncture in my life where I can give something back to the youth. I would like to provide the best infrastructure to the youth. I wanted to go to hockey matches, football matches. I don’t think I need any medium to promote my films. If not an actor, I would surely have been a sportsman. I used to play hockey and football in school and college. It was when I realised that I couldn’t be a sportsman that I came to Mumbai to be an actor. It’s strange that I am considered a youth icon. I believe that the youth likes me for the kind of person I am and not because I dance well or act well or look good. It’s been a 17-year-long career and they have seen the hard work I have put in. They see me and get motivated to go for the gold. Make your dreams come true, go to a town where nobody knows you and make a name for yourself there. (On smoking) Actually, people have more intelligence than you credit them with. I have also watched movies as a kid, but they never motivated me to copy them. Finally, what we do is what our heart tells us to do. There are very few people whom on screen characters can sway. Even in Don, I tell Kareena, ‘Don cigarette chodne ki koshish kar raha hai. It kills you…’ We want to convey the message subtly. Whenever I come to Delhi, people don’t say that he is drunk, vulgar and a smoker. Instead, they say that he is an educated, articulate and well-bred guy.

Ronaldo faces surgery on torn tendon ROME, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo was taken to Rome for surgery on a ruptured tendon in his right knee, an injury that threatened to end his career. Ronaldo was injured Wednesday while playing for AC Milan against Livorno. Ronaldo entered the game in the second half and fell while leaping for control of ball. "I heard a horrible sound, like a bang. It was a strange sound," Livorno goalkeeper Marco Amelia, who was near the play, told ANSA, the Italian news agency. Ronaldo was scheduled to have surgery in Rome by the same team that operated on a similar injury to his left knee in November 1999. Officials didn't offer a prognosis other than to say Ronaldo was in very good physical shape and medical advances since his previous tendon operation had greatly improved, ANSA said. Ronaldo, 31, was named the World Player of the Year in 1996, 1997 and 2002 and owns the World Cup record with 15 career goals in 19 games over three tournaments. He was on the Brazilian team that won the World Cup in 2002 and was the runner-up in 1998.

Ruptured knee tendon might end Ronaldo's career PARIS -- Ronaldo arrived in Paris on Thursday for an operation to repair the ruptured tendon in his left knee that could end his career. The three-time FIFA world player of the year was injured in AC Milan's 1-1 draw with Livorno in the Serie A on Wednesday. As his car pulled up to Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Ronaldo sat in the back seat with his leg in a brace and an ice pack on his knee. "He fears for his career," Milan president Silvio Berlusconi told Italian state RAI TV. "I called him last evening and told him to believe in himself. He has enormous physical potential.". "As a 31-year-old, he's very young," Berlusconi said. "He has an extraordinary physique, and I think within a few months he could return to being the champion that we all know him as." This latest injury occurred two minutes after Ronaldo entered the game during a play that earned Milan an equalizing penalty. The Brazilian was carried off the field crying. In Paris, Ronaldo is expected to see Gerard Saillant, the same surgeon who treated him for a similar injury to his right knee in 2000. "He will be operated on this evening or overnight by Eric Rolland, my successor at Pitie-Salpetriere. I will help him," Saillant told the Associated Press by telephone Thursday. "It appears that it is the same injury that he had previously. If this is the case, an operation is obligatory." After the previous operation, Ronaldo needed more than a year to return to competition, Saillant said. "Considering his age, with eight more years on him, it is hard to say" when he could return to play, Saillant said. Ronaldo has battled serious injuries throughout his career, and has played sparingly since joining Milan from Real Madrid in January 2007. Wednesday's match was only his fifth in Serie A this season after injuring his thigh during preseason training on July 31. He returned in November, but has been on and off the roster due to a series of recurring problems.

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ONLY RONIE The draw against Livorno, the standings, the next league games...wait a minute. Everything can and must wait. Today, in the head and hearts of all Milan fans, this is ONLY Ronie's day. MILAN - It cannot end like this. Legsnd don't end. Let's hope that last night a light has not been switched off. These are just some of the phrases re-grouped in the thousands of letters, mails and messages which are reaching the headquarters of Milan in via Turati, the Rossoneri's pres office and the editorial staff of Milan Channel and the Official Website. Amongst the numerous, warm, big demonstrations of affection from the 'Milanisti', there are those who were not able to sleep last night, those who wish that Ronie slept. There's also a blog, 'fenomenononmollare' (Fenomeno don't give up), which proves the impact that the small crater which opened in Ronaldo's knee in the penalty area of Livorno and his tears had on football lovers. Ronie, Ronie and again Ronie. Milan, who will remain very close to the Brazilian start as a club, and the official Rossoneri communication media will give space and voice to all fans who want to give their encouragement to Ronaldo. A Phenomenon. And the phenomenons never give up. This is what the fans and lovers of Milan told us. The word also of the fan who wrote to us, telling us he would have preferred if he had hurt himself...

RONIE WE ARE WITH YOU There was not much desire to talk about the match with Livorno. After the news of Ronaldo's kneecap injury all his team mates dedicated their thoughts to a true friend and an exemplary professional. MILAN - At the end of the match against Livorno here is what the Rossoneri said concerning the drama of Ronaldo. BONERA: "You could immediately see it was something serious, Ronie's expression was the same as when he got injured in Rome. Let's hope for the best, but I'm afraid it's serious. We are very disappointed, he's a golden lad, let's hope he still wants to react and rise again. Ronie is an important player who always makes decisive moves. From Milanello sometimes stories come out about him which are strange and untrue. He's always made himself available to the team, he's a great professional." KALAC: "I didn't even see who had fallen to the ground, but then I understood. I'm very sad, Ronie is a great person, he doesn't deserve this. It's hard to say what will happen now, when you break something in your knee it's very serious." KALADZE: "We are all very sad for Ronie, now we must all stay close to him. From the pitch you could see it was very serious. Too bad, when he jumped he felt this pain, it was really an unfortunate situation."

I wouldn't read anything into it says Coulthard Even though Mark Webber topped the timesheets at the Jeez circuit in Southern Spain yesterday, his Scottish teammate, David Coulthard, has warned fans of the Red Bull Racing team not to get too carried away as it definitely isn’t the lay of the land and he fully expects Ferrari and McLaren to be the ones leading the way when the season gets underway next month. "I've done lots of testing over the years and some of those tests have been fantastic and some of them have been shit," Coulthard told AAP. "I wouldn't read anything into it - I think that anyone who expects anything different than McLaren or Ferrari to be setting the pace at the beginning of the season, I would be extremely surprised.” However, while he fully expects the top teams to still be right up there, he is still unsure about exactly where Red Bull Racing fits into the picture and has warned that it may take a few races before it all pans out…. “What's not clear for us at the moment is where we fit into that mix, with BMW and Toyota and Renault and all those guys. And it might not even be completely apparent in Melbourne because it's a particular track. But I think by the time we're gotten through the first three grands prix, in Melbourne, Malaysia and Bahrain, we'll have a very clear picture of who are the pacesetters and what the pecking order is down the field."

Circuito Permanente de Jerez - Spain 14 February 2008 1 H. Kovalainen McLaren 01:17.974 96 2 D. Coulthard Red Bull 01:18.485 107 3 K. Nakajima Williams 01:19.117 90 4 L. Hamilton McLaren 01:19.429 83 5 R. Kubica BMW 01:19.535 129 6 S. Vettel Scuderia Toro Rosso 01:19.688 53 7 N. Piquet jr. Renault 01:19.817 134 8 S. Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 01:19.848 101 9 N. Heidfeld BMW 01:19.934 116 10 M. Webber Red Bull 01:19.980 107 11 G. Fisichella Force India F1 01:20.669 89 12 J. Button Honda 01:20.988 121 13 A. Davidson Super Aguri 01:21.010 103 14 N. Hulkenberg Williams 01:21.116 71 15 L. Di Grassi Renault 01:21.286 73 16 A. Wurz Honda 01:21.605 103

Circuito Permanente de Jerez - Spain 14 February 2008 1 H. Kovalainen McLaren 01:17.974 96 2 D. Coulthard Red Bull 01:18.485 107 3 K. Nakajima Williams 01:19.117 90 4 L. Hamilton McLaren 01:19.429 83 5 R. Kubica BMW 01:19.535 129 6 S. Vettel Scuderia Toro Rosso 01:19.688 53 7 N. Piquet jr. Renault 01:19.817 134 8 S. Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 01:19.848 101 9 N. Heidfeld BMW 01:19.934 116 10 M. Webber Red Bull 01:19.980 107 11 G. Fisichella Force India F1 01:20.669 89 12 J. Button Honda 01:20.988 121 13 A. Davidson Super Aguri 01:21.010 103 14 N. Hulkenberg Williams 01:21.116 71 15 L. Di Grassi Renault 01:21.286 73 16 A. Wurz Honda 01:21.605 103

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