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van Ass exit imminent With the Hockey India deadline to return and submit his report long gone, chief men’s coach Paul van Ass is all set to bid adieu to the team barely six months ...

Why the old format? Some former India players were of the opinion that it would have been better had the tournament been played in the new format. Prior to the start of the all-India MCC-Murugappa ...

Army gets the measure of Railways Army’s confident march continued as it overcame a robust challenge from Railways to bring up its second win on the trot. Every match of the 89th all-India MCC-Murugappa Gold ...

Batra junks run-in reports Hockey India president Narinder Batra has rubbished reports of him being involved in any confrontation with Dutchman Paul van Ass. Amidst speculations about the future of Paul van Ass as coach ...

Indian team coach Paul van Ass had a spat with hockey boss Narinder Batra While Narinder Batra was in the middle of his address to the players, Van Ass intervened and asked Batra to leave ...

Karnataka holds defending champion IOC in opener A young and exuberant Karnataka team lit up the 89th all-India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium here on Thursday in a Pool A ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s field hockey team has been on the slide for years but the side’s failure earlier this month to qualify for the Olympics for the first time marks a calamitous new low. Former players ...

Fighting tooth and nail! Most of the rivalries in sports are way bigger than just the actual games themselves. Geopolitics, economic warfare and even religion play a role and lend to much of the hysteria ...

Free-falling Pakistan hockey plunge into ‘coma’ KARACHI: Pakistan’s field hockey team has been on the slide for years but the side’s failure earlier this month to qualify for the Olympics for the first time marks ...

Jitendra Nath Misra At World League, feisty Indian women show the way The Hockey World League Semifinals at Antwerp held no surprises, showing that the great powers of hockey will not easily yield their privileged ...