March 6 2007: Satinder Sharma is not a run of the mill umpire. He is the only Indian to have umpired in the final of the elite Champions Trophy tournament. He is on the Olympic ...
“I know he committed the murder, but I cannot punish him for want of evidence”. This is what a Sessions Court judge C.P. Tareja observed in the now historic Priadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case. ...
The organizers of late call it a Sports Festival, which was somewhat incongruously known as Rural Olympics till now. The recently concluded razzmatazz at Kila Raipur, a vibrant village near Ludhiana in Punjab, where for ...
Statistical Highlights of PHL The two editions of PHL held so far, witnessed 43 matches (20 in 2005) 2006), which produced 147 goals (77 in 2005). Out of 43 matches, 30 produced outright results in ...
Wherever major hockey tournaments are held, you cannot miss him. He is a keen watcher and shrewd follower of the game. He just watches the matches, does not even hold a pad or fashionable lap ...
History has come a full circle for Indian hockey. South Korea stopped India’s first Asian Games gold in 1958. Down 48 years, the same Koreans are at it, throwing India outside medals zone at the ...
A pitched turf war is going on on the corridors of Consultancy Service Organization (CSO), an arm of Central Public Works Department, which has recently floated a tender (NIT No.2/EE-II/CSO/06-07) for providing and laying of ...
When the first ever All Asian Hockey Star XI was selected after the 1974 Teheran Asian Games, a match against Indian XI was allotted to Delhi, but it had no takers. Neither Indian Hockey Federation ...
Joginder Singh is not just a run of the mill NRI hockey fan. For about 30 years since 1981 Bombay World Cup, the leading medical practioner based in Schweinfurt in Germany, has been volunteering sports ...
How do we understand the battering of India at the Monchengladbach mega event? As a death knell for hockey, end of a tradition, flogging a dead horse, eye-opener or anything beyond? What should we do ...