Sept. 6: Gone are the days of Punjab’s stranglehold on Indian hockey. Sansarpur is a village of yore, but Orissa’s Sundargarh district is now the national game’s hotbed. “The ball is relayed from a Singh ...
Sept. 3: These are uncertain times for Indian hockey. Directionless and captainless, the country’s national game is doddering on choppy waters. Missing the Beijing Olympics is now history. It’s time to start the preparations for ...
Mumbai: Multi-sport official Ashok Lohar died suddenly yesterday. In his sixties, Lohar suffered a stroke when he was at the Mahindra Hockey Stadium in the afternoon to watch the inter-academy semi-finals. He was rushed to ...
Four-nation hockey tourney to start in Chandigarh NEW DELHI: A four-nation double leg hockey tournament involving hosts India, Germany, the Netherlands and Pakistan will be held in Chandigarh and Jalandhar in February 2009. The tournament ...
103 years ago, the genius Dhyan Chand was born. The simple soldier transformed Indian psyche with his stick. He mesmerized the world with his wizardry. He was mainly responsible for India winning the first ever ...
The ghost of KPS Gill comes to taunt Indian hockey again. He has called for an Annual General Meeting in New Delhi on the third week of September. Gill is never known to follow any ...
BEIJING: Hosts China entered the Olympic women’s field hockey semifinals after holding former champions Australia to a 2-2 draw in a crucial league match here on Monday. The Chinese, who needed a draw to qualify, ...
In a make believe Indian media world — where no sports exist other then cricket — Olympics sports manage to take the centre-stage. Despite a cricket series underway in Sri Lanka, the media for a ...
S2h finds out that two of the five Olympians in the Selection Committee will be making a jolly ride to Beijing. Indian hockey think tank’s inseparable part called Ajit Pal Singh and a selector Zafar ...
72 years ago Indian hockey obtained its third Olympic hockey gold at Berlin. The final between India and the hosts were scheduled to play in the evening of 14th, August 1936, but due to rain ...