Cricket and Congress!
on Nov 12, 2009 in Indian Hockey Lalit Modi India in Olympics congress sports and Politics Sharad Pawar Cricket in India enjoys tremendous popularity. Cricket and Cricket administrators are often accused of thwarting the growth of other sports in India. While this is far from the truth, I find popularity of Cricket in India is strikingly similar to sup...

Are Medals More Important Than Morals?
on Nov 9, 2009 in WADA GDR drugs and sports 2016 Olympics doping The demon of doping is omnipresent all over the sporting world. Cheating the competitors and spectators is so prevalent, even today, WADA monitoring notwithstanding. But the revelation of the large scale 'state administered doping' by the former East...

Is it Worth Spending Rs 3000 Cr. on Commonwealth Games?
on Oct 22, 2009 in Commonwelth Games kalmadi Olympics The Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in New Dehi next year in October are embroiled in one dispute after another. After the environment related issues regarding construction of Games village, then comes the stand off between the Organising com...

T-20 bubble busted : No Indian Team in Semifinals of Champions League
on Oct 18, 2009 in Cricket IPL-2 Lalit Modi West Indies Twenty-20 Champions League IPL The on-going Champions League T-20 has put the popularity of shortest version of Cricket in India in right perspective. The competition was slotted so as to encash the Diwali festive season. But the tournament has truned into a damp squib both in ter...

Obama Gets IOC Snub : 2016 Olympics in Land of Samba - Rio de Janeiro
on Oct 6, 2009 in Beijing Olympics 2016 Olympics IOC India in Olympics Football Olympics IOA Brazil RIO de Janeiro Neither the charishma of Obamas nor Winfery could win Chicago the honour to host 2016 Olympics. Instead, an emtionally charged appeal by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva resulted in a historical decision by IOC delegates : Olympics goin...

Without Leander and Mahesh - India Reach World Group of Davis Cup
on Sep 21, 2009 in Yuki Bhambri Somdev DevWarman Bhupati Paes Tennis Davis Cup Most successful Indian Davis Cupper - Leander Paes - representing the country for two decades opts out of the team because of injury. Paes-Bhupati, one of the world's top doubles teams is not appearing. Bhupati unable to complete his match because of...

Truimph of Paes in Proper Perspective
on Sep 16, 2009 in doubles tennis grand slam Federer Bhupati Paes Tennis No Indian has ever gone beyond semifinals of Singles competition of any Grand Slam Tennis tournament. No Indian has ever been ranked in top 10 in Singles rankings. Currently, there is no Indian player in top 100 too. Lender Paes and Mahesh Bhupati, o...

Is Daniel Vettori an Allrounder?
on Sep 6, 2009 in Hadlee Imran Kapil Test Cricket Daniel Vettori All rounders Botham Earlier this month, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori earned the distinction of achieving a unique double of 3000 test runs and 300 wickets in tests. He thus joined an elite group comprising of Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, fellow countryman Si...

One Year after Beijing Olympics
on Aug 20, 2009 in London Olympics Indian Hockey Federer decline phelps Nadal Beijing Olympics Federer Ussain Bolt Saina Nehwal Abhinav Bindra Olympics Bejing Olympics 2008 witnessed spectacular performances. There were some disappointments too. Are the Heroes of Beijing living upto their billing? Here's the scenario One year after :Ussain Bolt, the Jamaica lightening, continues to strike. Having wo...

What is common between Chak De Girls and KKR Boys?
on May 2, 2009 in chak de india SRK KKR Twenty-20 IPL No prizes for guessing! SRK, who played the role of coach of India women’s Hockey team in the Bollywood movie Chak De India, is the franchisee owner of Kolkatta Knight Riders team in IPL Cricket league. While Chak De.. became a superhit film a coup...