The last time Shivaji Stadium hosted any match was way back in 2006, when the Nehru hockey tournament was held at the venue. Since then, it has been a sad story for a stadium that ...
Hockey India’s coffer increasingly richer, with two more franchise ready to join While the upcoming Hockey India League has already been making news for the people joining it backstage – including IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, ...
National championship without National Coach! When Michael Nobbs left India in mid-August for a short break back home with his family, he was expected to return in early September. In fact, Nobbs appeared very keen ...
Hockey India League: For what purpose the Brand Ambassadors are Hockey India on Tuesday unveiled not only the logo of its brand new league but also named Sardar Singh and Australian Jamie Dwyer as the ...
Stuart MacGill is an Australian cricketer who was perhaps unlucky to have play at the same time as the legendary Shane Warne. But the spinner is now trying to do his bit for hockey. MacGill, ...
Recent Lucknow Junior Nationals, a perspective Last week saw Lucknow hosting junior hockey national championships. Not too many people knew about it, since the national media in Delhi or elsewhere did not deign it important ...
Is Paul Lissek Hockey India’s HPM choice? Hockey India has announced the appointment of a High Performance Manager by the end of next month. Even though they have insisted that they are yet to shortlist ...
While the world’s first official franchise-based league, organized by Hockey India (HI) is being planned on a big level and scheduled to kickstart in early 2013, things may not exactly be all rosy — either ...
In July 2008, after the Olympic qualifiers disaster in Chile, Australian coach Ric Charlesworth, who had come as technical advisor to Indian hockey, was unceremoniously dumped by the ad-hoc committee running the sport. So unceremoniously, ...
Players concede lack of mental strength and need for psychologist For a long, long time now, Indian hockey’s travails have been considered more a problem of the mind than anything to do with skills. And ...