MY LAST WORD 2: Many opportunities presented Indian hockey to come up and stay counted in 2018 but it did not grab them. Very sadly, across gender, genre, and age groups, India lost all the ...
The World Cup is over. A million eyeballs watched 20 days of action in Bhubaneswar. The extravaganza witnessed new happenings as Hockey India and the provincial government of Odisha combined well, pooling resources and wisdom ...
My Last Word: Indian players failing us last four Decades Tell me a single match in which Indian men’s hockey team snatched a win from the claws of defeat in any mega tournaments (Olympics or ...
MY LAST WORD: Will we consolidate the Incheon Success MY LAST WORD: This is what a noted hockey official wrote in the mid 1960s. “…it cannot be denied that today hockey in India is no ...
Afro Asian Games is a good concept. The Games aims at amalgamating the spirit of two continents – Asia and Africa – through sports. Expectedly, lot of enthusiasm marks the unfolding of a new genre ...
Michael Nobbs: Part I: Nobbs completes two years in office, does it bring any change Michael Nobbs, technically the third foreign coach to train our national hockey team, completes his two years today. He was ...
MY LAST WORD: So, a foreign coach for our men’s Junior national team. Is it a good move or otherwise? South Africa’s senior national team’s chief coach Clarke is our Junior India’s chief coach. It ...
The Hockey India League hype has died down. Its time to ask one vital question: Whether the commercial entity has fulfilled one of its objectives – of spotting new talents. If an unbiased opinion is ...
EDITORIAL: In 1998 when necessarily the opposition party won the parliamentary election, the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee — who had just a couple of hours before took the office — chose a hockey match ...
Indian hockey of late is operating in a complex situation. And it is becoming more complex each passing day. Cases from sessions court to Supreme Court, a chaotic administration at top to top it all, ...